This week's playlist:

• Loretta by the Quarter Draw Band, from For Sale By Owner (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit the Quarter Draw Band's MySpace page for more information.

• Swing Tiger Swing by Mem Shannon, from I'm From Phunkville (2005), available from NorthernBlues.com and the iTMS. Visit MemShannon.com and Mem's MySpace page for more information.

• Side To Side by Detroit Women from Sassitude (2007), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit DetroitWomen.org and their MySpace page for more information.

• All For Business by Byther Smith, from his album Throw Away The Book (2004), available from Black & Tan Records. Visit Byther's page at TheBlueHighway.com for more information.

• Break This Time by Alejandro Escovedo, from The Boxing Mirror (2006), available from the store connected to Alejandro's site and the iTMS. Visit AlejandroEscovedo.com for more information.

• Velvet Guitar by Alejandro Escovedo, from Room of Songs (2006), available from the store connected to Alejandro's site and the iTMS. Visit AlejandroEscovedo.com for more information.

• Break This Time by Alejandro Escovedo, from The Boxing Mirror (2006), available from the store connected to Alejandro's site and the iTMS. Visit AlejandroEscovedo.com for more information.

• You'll Never Change by Bettye LaVette, made available as a single at the Podsafe Music Network by her label, Anti.com. You can buy Bettye's albums from the store at her site. Visit BettyeLavette.com and her page at the Anti- Records site for more information.

• I Wanna Talk About You by EB Davis & the Superband, from I Wanna Talk About You (1999). EB sells his own CDs through his online store. Visit EB Davis.com and at his MySpace page for more information.

• Black Water by Watermelon Slim and the Workers, from The Wheel Man (2007), available from Slim's site, NorthernBlues.com and the iTunes Music Store. Visit WatermelonSlim.com for more information.

• Rocket In Your Pocket by Blue Plate Special, from Can You Dig It (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit BluePlateSpecialBand.com for more information.

Mentioned during this show: Drive-By Truckers; Tulare, CA; Jamestown, NY.

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 #89 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, the PROMONET program of the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Download.com or Garageband.com)

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