This week's playlist:

• Man Size Job by Detroit Women, from Sassitude (2007), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit DetroitWomen.org for more information.

• Sweet Home New Orleans by Phillip Walker, from Going Back Home (2007), available from DeltaGrooveProductions.com and the iTMS. Visit PhillipWalker.com for more information.

• Mean Streets by Watermelon Slim, from Up Close and Personal (2004), available from Slim's site, NorthernBlues.com and the iTMS. Visit WatermelonSlim.com for more information.

• Thinkin and a Drinkin by Mark Kerr from One Drink Away From The Blues (2005), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. For more information, visit MarkKerrLtd.com.

• Green Thing by The Hitman Blues Band from Blooztown (2000), available at their online store, CD Baby and the iTMS. For more information about the band, visit HitmanBluesBand.com or their MySpace page.

• Hammer Down by The Hitman Blues Band, from Angel in the Shadow (2003), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit HitmanBluesBand.com and their MySpace page for more information.

• Prodigal Son by Billy Goodman, from Blues From The Gospel (2006), available from ItsAboutMusic.com and the iTunes Music Store. Visit BillyGoodman.com for more information.

• Badlands by Ross Neilsen, from Where I'm From (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit RossNeilsen.com for more information and other tracks.

• Wound Up Tight by Hal Newman and The Mystics Of Time, from an album called America's Party Band. Contact Hal's son Cody, whose power pop trio has their own Web site at Codaphonic.com and a MySpace page, for more information.

• Go Fast by Humdinger, from Humdinger (2007), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit HumdingerLive.com and their MySpace page for more information.

Mentioned during this show: Rick Kaempfer and his satirical novel $everance; and the Cara's Basement podcast Web site and in the iTunes Music Store.

Excellent online resources for more information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; and be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues. Be sure to read Today's Chicago Blues by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago.

(Music on Murphy's Saloon #86 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, the IODA PROMONET, Download.com or Garageband.com)