Ruta 61

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes, Corinna, What Am I Living For?, I Need Your Loving –Taj Mahal; Waking Up the Dead, Count Your Chickens, Blue Mirror, Root Down, You Got Me Whipped – Joe Louis Walker; That's What Love Will Make You Do, I Need A Man, I'm Glad You're Mine, Slipped Tripped and Fell In Love – Janiva Magness; (You've Got To) Love Her With A Feeling – Taj Mahal.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Everyday I Have the Blues, Standing At the Crossroads, You Never Can Tell – A Contra Blues; State Street Rag, Honey Bee, Mean Red Spider – Quique Gómez & Curro Serrano; She Belongs To Me, Time Out, Whole Lotta Rosie – The Blind Lemons; Howling Blues, Someday Baby, I Want To Do Something For You – Ñaco Goñí & Xulián Freire; Stick Around, After All – Cotton Gang.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Hombre rural, Yo canto blues, John soy minero – La Rural Blues Band; Amor amor, Bla bla bla, Julito – Flaco Barral; Key to the Highway, Diez cervezas, Solo quiero ser bluesman – Anomia Blues Band; How Can You Be So Mean, Wild Cat Tamer, Just Keep Lovin' Her – Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros.; What's Going On, Cissy Strut, I Just Wanna Make Love to You – Miguel Talavera Power Trio.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Come Back To Me – Will Jacobs; Happy New Year – Lightnin' Hopkins; Katie's Blues, Goldfish Blues, Grooving With You, I Wish, Dirty Dog, One Day At A Time, Funky Woman, You Do You, Don't Burn Down The Bridge – Will Jacobs; La mujer del capitán – Stefano Ronchi, Marcos Coll; Before I Say Goodbye – Stefano Ronchi, con Will Jacobs y Marcos Coll.

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Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Mojo Blues, Stranger Blues, Johnny B. Good [sic] – Johnny Winter; Smokestack Lightning, Down in the Dumps, Bad Avenue, Love Don't Love Nobody – Valerie Wellington; Howling Wolf Blues, Milk Cow Blues, Welfare Blues, Black and Evil Blues – Josh White; Eyesight To the Blind, Nine Below Zero, I Can't Do Without You – Sonny Boy Williamson II; You Can't Have My Monkey – Valerie Wellingston.

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Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Merry Christmas – Lightnin' Hopkins; Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt; Christmas Date Boogie – Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson & His Orchestra; Boogie Woogie Santa Claus – Mabel Scott with Les Welch & His Orchestra; Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree – Lou Ann Barton; Jesus's Coming Soon – Blind Willie Johnson; Jesus Is Here To Stay – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Good Morning School Girl – Sonny Boy Williamson; Good Morning Schoolgirl – Junior Wells; Hard Time Killing Floor – Pura Fé with Danny Godinez; Son's House – The Guy Forsyth Band; Archetypal Blues No. 2 – Watermelon Slim; Love Again Blues – Leyla McCalla; If You Love Me – Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish; Crow Jane – Samantha Fish; Crow Jane – Skip James; St. Louis Blues – Eartha Kitt.

Esta semana nos inspiramos en dos nuevos y muy interesantes libros sobre el blues y las músicas negras: "Blues – La Novela Gráfica," de Manuel López Poy y Pau Marfà y editado por Ma Non Troppo, y "Al compás del vudú (religión, represión y música)," de Héctor Martínez González, editado por Allanamiento de Mirada, y que incluye dos CDs con 48 temas comentados en el libro. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Why Don't You Do Right – Carolina Chocolate Drops; Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground – Blind Willie Johnson; Congo Square – Tom Principato; St. James Infirmary – Allen Toussaint; Heebie Jeebies – Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; Junker Blues – Champion Jack Dupree; Cajun – Roy Buchanan; Calinda – Clifton Chenier; I Just Want To Make Love To You – Muddy Waters, Spoonful – Howlin' Wolf; Big Boss Man – Koko Taylor; Juke – Little Walter; Messin' With the Kid – Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band; Low Down Ways – Jontavious Willis.

Disfrutamos del blues de Chicago de uno de los últimos bluesmen de los que llegaron a la ciudad del viento después de haber trabajado en los campos del sur. John Primer, que nació en Mississippi en 1945 y llegó a Chicago hace 50 años, sigue en activo y este mes edita un nuevo álbum, "Hard Times," que hoy escuchamos (casi) entero. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; You Got What I Want, Hard Times, Don't Wait Too Long, Blues Blues Blues, I Won't Sweat It, Chicago, My Sugar Mama, You Mean So Much To Me, Try To Make You Mine, Hot Meal – John Primer and The Real Deal Blues Band; Tough Times – Aliya Primer, John Primer and The Real Deal Blues Band.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Damn Right I've Got the Blues – Buddy Guy; Early in the Morning – Buddy Guy, feat. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck; Before You Accuse Me, Malted Milk, Layla – Eric Clapton; Ten Long Years, Days of Old – B. B. King, Eric Clapton; Every Day I Have the Blues, The Thrill is Gone – B. B. King; Done Got Old, Baby Please Don't Leave Me – Buddy Guy; Dimples – John Lee Hooker; Dimples – James "Blood" Ulmer.

El nuevo álbum "Mississippi Son" (Alligator Records) del gran bluesman Charlie Musselwhite, nacido en ese estado sureño en 1944, nos ocupa en esta edición del programa. También charlamos con el cantante y guitarrista de California afincado en Madrid, Jeff Espinoza, que nos comenta varios temas de su nuevo álbum "Breathe" (Paella Records), que ha editado hace poco con su banda The Gypsy Runners. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Betrayal Blues, Heartless One, The Blood – Jeff Espinoza & The Gypsy Runners; Blues Up the River, Hobo Blues, In Your Darkest Hour, Stingaree, When the Frisco Left the Shed, Remembering Big Joe, The Dark, Pea Vine Blues, Crawling King Snake, Blues Gave Me A Ride, My Road Lies In Darkness, Rank Strangers, A Voice Foretold – Charlie Musselwhite.