February 2025's edition of BLUES TIME.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 Tommy Castro and The Painkillers - Closer to the bone - Can't Catch a Break.

2 Jimmy Vivino - Gonna be 2 of those days - Blues In The 21st.

3 The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Honeysuckle - Honeysuckle.

4 Geoff Aarsenault - Hired Hand - Bullet Won't Stop.

5 Travellin' Blue - Take The Edge Off - Take The Edge Off.

6 Cristina Vane - Hear My Call - Do You Want To Lose.

7 Anthony Geraci - Tears In My Eyes - Tears In My Eyes.

8 No King - Roadside Rhythms - Spacetime Rock 'n Roll.

9 Ed Alstrom - Flee Though None Pursue - Be Nice.

10 Tomislav Goluban With Crooked Eye Tommy - Nashville Road - Rock Dog.

11 Vaneese Thomas - Stories In Blue - When You Were My Man.

12 Samantha Fish - Paper Doll - Sweet Southern Sounds.

13 Heavy Drunk and Watermelon Slim - Bluesland Theme Park - Little Bighorn.

14 Dean Zucchero - Song for Sinners - Shine.

15 Geoff Aarsenault - Hired Hand - Already Gone.

16 Anthony Geraci - Tears In My Eyes - Owl's Nest.

Size: 158 MB (165,804,846 bytes)

Duration: 1:09:02

February 2025's edition of Roots Rendezvous.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 Olivia Wolf - Silver Rounds - Cosmic Appalachian Radio.

2 Furlined - Kill Devil Hills - Kill Devil Hills.

3 The High Hawks - Mother Nature's Show - Temperature Is Rising.

4 Drew & Ellie Holcomb - Memory Bank - Memory Bank.

5 Peach & Quiet - Beautiful Thing - Save Me Tonight.

6 The Heavy Heavy - One of a Kind - One of a Kind.

7 Nefesh Mountain - Beacon - Milestoned.

8 Kiely Connell - My Own Company - Coming Up Empty.

9 Kelley Mickwee - You Used to Live Here - You Used to Live Here.

10 Hayes & The Heathens - You Can't Stay Here.

11 American Aquarium - The Fear of Standing Still - Messy as a Magnolia.

12 MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks - Joker Lips.

13 Kimmi Bitter - Old School - Billy Hill.

14 Pure Prairie League - Back on Track - Skipping Stones

15 Rose City Band - Sol Y Sombra - Lights on the Way.

16 The Delines - Mr Luck & Ms Doom - The Haunting Thoughts.

Size: 150 MB (157,442,048 bytes)

Duration: 1:05:33

February 2025's edition of BLUES TIME.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 David Ronaldo - Six String Preacher -Too Blind to see.

2 Larkin Poe - Bloom – Bluephoria.

3 Ed Alstrom - Flee Though None Pursue - Blues Ain't Alright.

4 Dan Patlansky - Movin On - Free Wheelin'.

5 Brave Rival - Fight Or Flight - Five Years On.

6 Chris Berardo - Wilder All The Time - Broken Hearted Man.

7 Bywater Call - Shepherd - Roll.

8 HeavyDrunk & Watermelon Slim - Bluesland Theme Park.

9 Midnight Sky - White Heat.

10 Travellin' Blue - Come Hell or High Water.

11 The Twangtown Paramours - Double Down On A Bad Thing - Comin' Back.

12 Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Dirt on My Diamonds, Vol. 2 - Watch You Go.

13 Mike Goudreau Band - Don't Want To Go To Work.

14 Robbert Duijf - First Train Out.

15 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down - Won't Give Up.

16 Brave Rival - Fight Or Flight - Bad Choices.

Size: 147 MB (155,109,271 bytes)

Duration: 1:04:35

Forget the divisiveness about Australia Day and indulge in some classic Oz Rock.

Playlist: Artist - Track.

1 Midnight Oil - Short memory.

2 The Dingoes - Way out West.

3 Icehouse - Great Southern.

4 Goanna - Solid Rock.

5 Divinyls - Pleasure and Pain.

6 The Sports - Don't Throw Stones.

7 The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over.

8 Baby Animals - One Word.

9 Daddy Cool - Daddy Who.

10 The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes.

11 Australian Crawl - Reckless.

12 Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons - Shape I'm in.

13 The Triffids - Wide Open Road.

14 The Black Sorrows - Chained to the Wheel.

15 Russell Morris - Walk My Blues Aaway.

16 The Detonators - Can't wait to see you.

Size: 149 MB (156,429,350 bytes)

Duration: 1:05:09

January 2025's edition of BLUES TIME.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down - Struck Down By The Blues.

2 Jovin Webb - Drifter - Save Me.

3 Bywater Call - Shepherd - Everybody Knows.

4 Brave Rival - Fight Or Flight - Stand Up.

5 Dan Patlansky - Movin On - Who I Am.

6 Davy Knowles - The Invisible Man - Tell Me What You Want Me to Be.

7 Ed Alstrom - Flee Though None Pursue - Screwed.

8 Elles Bailey - Beneath the Neon Glow - If This Is Love.

9 Jontavious Willis - West Georgia Blues - Rough Time Blues.

10 Eddie 9V - Saratoga -Cry Like a River.

11 Tab Benoit - I Hear Thunder - Bayou Man.

12 Free World - More Love - Heart On The Table.

13 Innes Sibun - The Preacher - I Found Your Letter.

14 Elmore James Jr & The Broomdusters - Old School Lover - Greenville Smokin'.

15 Voodoo Ramble - In the Heart of The City - 4000 Years Old.

16 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down - Payback Time.

Size: 166 MB (175,029,854 bytes)

Duration: 1:07:56

The apostropheJanuary Journalapostrophe delves into some of the rock, roots and blues events that occurred in the month of January in years gone by.

Playlist: Artist - Song.

1 Ted Hawkins - Bring it on home to me.

2 Amos Milburn - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

3 Big Joe Turner - Flip Flop Fly.

4 Buddy Holly - That'll be the day.

5 Daddy Cool - Eagle rock.

6 Walter 'Furry' Lewis with Everybodys blues.

7 Joe Hill Louis - We All Gotta Go Sometime.

8 Sam & Dave - Hold On. I'm A Comin'.

9 Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.

10 Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets - Talk to You by Hand.

11 Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues.

12 The Yardbirds - Boom Boom.

13 Pink Floyd - Breathe.

14 Samantha Fish - Faster.

15 Batman - TV Theme.

16 Village People - YMCA.

17 Taylor Swift - Marjorie.

18 Steely Dan - FM.

19 Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back.

20 Dixieland Jazz Band - The Darktown Strutters' Ball.

21 Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues.

22 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes.

23 Hugh Masekela - Send Me.

24 Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4.

25 The Ronettes - Be my baby.

26 Cranberries - Zombie.

27 Long John Hunter - Border Town Blues.

Size: 164 MB (172,447,432 bytes)

Duration: 1:11:49

December's edition of Roots Rendezvous. Top Roots albums and tracks of 2024.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers - American Dreaming.

2 The Coal Men - Everett - Love This Town.

3 Heather Little - Buy Now - Five Deer County.

4 Heather Little - Buy Now - Transistor Radio.

5 Blue Pills - Birthday - Don't You Love It.

6 Blue Pills - Birthday - Holding me back.

7 John Craigie - Pagan Church - Viking Sex.

8 John Craigie - Pagan Church - Damn My Love.

9 Lori Yates - Matador - Matador.

10 Lori Yates - Matador - Time After Time.

11 Charm City Junction - Salt Box - Roll on John.

12 Cinder Well - Cadence - Two Heads Grey Mare.

13 Kaitlin Butts Roadrunner - Road Runner - Hunt You Down.

14 Leslie Stevens - Leslie Stevens - Big Time Sucka.

15 Leslie Stevens - Leslie Stevens - Taken.

16 Rainy Eyes - Lonesome Highway - Misty Mama.

17 Pi Jacobs - Soldier On - Too High Too Low.

18 Bonny Light Horsemen - Keep Me on Your Mind - Lover Take It Easy.

Size: 178 MB (187,177,643 bytes)

Duration: 1:17:57

December 2024's edition of BLUES TIME.

PLAYLIST: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 Billy Jeter - Delta Traces - Hambone Stomp.

2 Mike Badger - Keep 'em Busy.

3 CW Ayon - Bounce Boogie & Bump - Bounce Boogie & Bump.

4 Doctor Velvet - New Breed - Road to nowhere.

5 Ethan Askey & the Elevators - Clarksdale.

6 Vanessa Collier - Do It My Own Way - Do It My Own Way.

7 Pepper Creek Revival - Sunshine In My Pocket.

8 The Weekend Blue Band - Misunderstood.

9 Beth Hart - You Still Got Me - Saviour with a Razor.

10 Amythyst Kiah - Still Bright - Die Slowly Without Complaint.

11 Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience - Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven.

12 Little Georgie & The Shuffling Hungarians - Wrong Set Of Horses.

13 JP Reali - Blues Since Birth - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.

14 William Lee Ellis - Mighty Storm.

15 Eva Carboni - Blues Siren - Walking a Tightrope.

16 Steven Troch Band - Live at Mind Your Head - Bad Taste.

17 The Cold Stares - The Southern - Coming Home.

Size: 155 MB (163,122,526 bytes)

Duration: 1:07:56

November's edition of Roots Rendezvous.

ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.

1 Loose Cattle - Someone's Monster - Not Over Yet.

2 The Clearwater Swimmers - The Clearwater Swimmers - Valley.

3 JD McPherson - Nite Owls - Just Like Summer.

4 JD McPherson - Nite Owls - Dont Travel Through the Night Alone.

5 The Wood - Days - Let It Loose.

6 Dandelion Highway - Home - Home.

7 Hattie Webb - Wild Medicine - Wild Medicine.

8 Bone Idle Bros - Bone Idle Bros - Sometimes.

9 Jen Lush - Hum of the Mettle - Small Birds Flown.

10 Fleur Wiber - Orderves - Till The Day No One Knows.

11 Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir - Scooter Blues.

12 Amythyst Kiah - Still Bright - Empire Of Love.

13 Elles Bailey - Beneath the Neon Glow - Leave the Light On.

14 Erin Ross - The Wind Will Lead Me Home - Southern Song.

15 Loose Cattle - Someone's Monster - Crescent City.

16 Sarp Keskiner & Kemal Begtas - Saguaro.

Size: 159 MB (166,927,523 bytes)

Duration: 1:09:25

Not sure what is going on but there is a wide spread and catastrophic melt down going on. Some sort of change has occurred out there and it has led to many people losing it. Well it is time for the good Blues Doctor to step up because in times of stress and strain what is needed is some blues therapy and what better way to lift you out of your misery than to expose you to a whole lot of songs about LOSERS.

Playlist: Artist - Track.

1 Albert Collins - Don't lose your cool.

2 Kaz Hawkins - Losers Weepers.

3 Brother Dege - Loser's Blues.

4 Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective - Bad Loser.

5 Lil Ed and The Blues Imperials - Born Loser.

6 Christina Taylor - Loser.

7 Clark Hutchinson - Bad Loser.

8 Noella Hutton - Loser.

9 Eddie C. Campbell - Tears Are for Losers.

10 JJ Cale - Losers.

11 Rick Holmstrom - I'd Rather Be a Loser.

12 Tim Matson - I'm a Loser.

13 Glorietta - Loser's Lament.

14 Doug Kershaw - I'm a Loser.

15 Post Malone with Jelly Roll - Losers.

16 Big Sandy & his Fly Rite Boys - The loser's blues.

17 Albert King - Nobody wants a loser.

Size: 140 MB (146,843,016 bytes)

Duration: 1:01:09