This week's playlist:

• I Got No Reason (Live) by Mitch Kashmar, from Live At Labatt (2008), available from Delta Groove Productions.com. Visit this page at Delta Groove Productions.com for more information.

• Pontiac Blues (Live) by Magic Dick, from Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowouts (2008), available from Electro-Fi.com. Visit MagicDick.com and MarkHummel.com for more information.

• Wouldn't Know Where to Start by Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, from Ricochet (2008), available from HeadRecords.com and CDUniverse.com. Visit HeadRecords.com for more information.

• I Will Vanish, Every Temptation and Block Of Wood, all by Paul Reddick, and all from SugarBird (2008), available from NorthernBlues.com and the iTunes Music Store. Visit PaulReddick.ca for more information.

• Follow That Sound by Sharon Little, from Perfect Time For A Breakdown (2008); available from Amazon.com and the iTunes Music Store. Visit SharonLittle.com for more information.

• Deep in the Night by Lil' Dave Thompson, from Deep in the Night (2008), available from ElectroFi.com and the iTMS. Visit LilDaveThompson.com for more information.

• Cruisin' by Tommy Dardar, from Blues Fool (2008), available from TommyDardar.com. Visit TommyDardar.com for more information.

• Brown Angel by Nerak Roth Patterson, from the forthcoming album Brown Angel on the Blues Leaf Records label. Visit Nerak's MySpace page for more information.

Mentioned during this episode: Studs Terkel and his book Division Street: America; Roger Ebert's remembrance of Studs, To Studs: With love and memories and two other columns - Happy 95th, Studs! and How Studs helps me lead my life; and James T. Farrell and the Studs Lonigan Trilogy.

Excellent resources for more information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues; BluesRevue.com, the online home of Blues Revue magazine; BigCityBluesMag.com, the online home of Big City Blues magazine; BluesCritic.com.

Be sure to read Today's Chicago Blues by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago.

For up-to-the-minute news about things to do in Chicago: TheLocalTourist.com.

(Music on Murphy's Saloon #144 courtesy of the artists and IODA PROMONET, the Podsafe Music Network, Download.com or Garageband.com)