Ruta 61

Además de la música de Samantha Fish y Eric Gales, cuyas respectivas giras internacionales pasan por España estos días, repasamos temas de los grupos que han representado a España en las diez ediciones del Concurso Europeo de Blues (European Blues Challenge). Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Good Mornin' Little School Girl – The Suitcase Brothers; Got To Go – Mingo & the Blues Intruders; Your Love Is Dynamite – Chino & the Big Bet; Paraphilic Way of Love – A Contra Blues; Magnolia Route – Travellin' Brothers; Ten Minute Boogie – Wax & Boogie Rhythm Combo; Fuego Cruzado – Los Mambo Jambo; I Can't Leave Right Now – Johnny Big Stone & the Blues Workers; Don't Let Nobody – Big Yuyu; Just Keep Loving Her – Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros; He Did It, Chills & Fever, Crow Jane, It's Your Voodoo Working – Samantha Fish; Swamp – Eric Gales.

Enhorabuena a Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros., que se quedaron con el tercer puesto en el 10º Concurso Europeo de Blues, celebrado este mes en Suecia. Y bienvenidos a Will Jacobs & Marcos Coll, que vuelven a subir a los escenarios de verano. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Just Keep Lovin' Her – Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros.; Come On In My Kitchen – Cassandra Wilson; Come On In My Kitchen – Robert Johnson; It Ain't Safe; Goin' To Berlin, What U Doing, C. J.'s Bounce, Stranded, Hey Baby, One Too Many Times, Goin' To Berlin (en directo) – Will Jacobs & Marcos Coll; Hell Hound On My Trail – Robert Johnson; Hellhound On My Trail – Cassandra Wilson; Cross Road Blues – Robert Johnson.

Mucha m. para Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros., la banda de blues que saldrá al escenario en Malmö, Suecia este viernes, 3 de junio, para representar España en la 10ª edición del Concurso Europeo de Blues. El evento, organizado por la Unión Europea de Blues, tendría que haberse celebrado cerca de Amsterdam en la primavera de 2020, pero en eso llegó ese diablo llamado Pandemia.... Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; About To Make Me Leave Home, Runaway – Bonnie Raitt; Fight, Airport Blues – Frankie Chavez; Wildcat Tamer, Blues For P II, Stay Away – Mingo-Sanpa & Bárez Bros.; Million Miles – Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo', Alan Darby; Catfish Blues, Next Door Neighbor Blues, When My Train Pulls In – Gary Clark Jr.; Guindilla's Boogie – Lluís Coloma & Sax Gordon.

El veterano bluesman de Chicago Tail Dragger vuelve a España en una gira con paradas esta semana en Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, y Huesca. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Don't Start Me Talkin', Bought Me A New Home, American People, You Gotta Go, My Woman Is Gone, Louise, Baby Please Don't Go, She's Worryin' Me – Tail Dragger; Wander – Tail Dragger, feat. Jimmy Dawkins.

El maestro catalán del boogie-woogie, el pianista Lluís Coloma, nos presenta varios temas de su nuevo álbum, "Trip To Everywhere," un fascinante viaje musical a todas partes grabado durante una pandemia que dejaba a todos sin poder viajar casi a ninguna parte. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Libertyville Blues, Nuk Orleans, Trip To Everywhere, Nashville Suite, Libertyville Blues - Lluís Coloma & His Musical Troupe; Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, No Special Rider Blues, Shreveport Farewell, Michigan Water Blues - Little Brother Montgomery; My Baby's Arms - Blas Picón & The Junk Express; Terrassa Stomp - Sax Gordon & Lluís Coloma.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Devil Got My Woman, Sickbed Blues, Special Rider Blues, I'm So Glad, Crow Jane – Skip James; Poor Black Mattie, No Angels, It's Your Voodoo Working, Crow Jane – Samantha Fish; I'mma Make You Love Me, Player Blues, Wait, I Don't Need It – Amanda Fish Band; Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues – Skip James.

Dos grandes del blues acústico, Taj Mahal y Keb' Mo', hacen de productor ejecutivo y productor/músico invitado, respectivamente, del segundo álbum de Jontavious Willis, un joven bluesman que está dando que hablar y que acaba de visitar España. Esta semana disfrutamos de los diez temas del segundo álbum de Willis, "Spectacular Class," nominado a un premio Grammy, más unos temas estupendos de estos dos padrinos de lujo. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Blue Light Boogie – Taj Mahal; Am I Wrong – Keb' Mo'; Low Down Ways, The Blues Is Dead?, Resting On My Mind, Daddy's Dough, Friend Zone Blues, Jon's Boogie, Take Me To the Country, Liquor, Long Winded Woman, The World Is In A Tangle – Jontavious Willis; Dirty Low Down and Bad – Keb' Mo'; Stagger Lee, Dust My Broom, Blues With A Feeling – Taj Mahal.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Golden Girl Blues, If Your Phone Don't Ring, Live With Yourself, Heartache Is A One Way Street – Trudy Lynn; Life Goes On, Trouble With Love – Trudy Lynn, feat. Anson Funderburgh, gtr.; Trouble So Hard – Vera Ward Hall; Hello, San Francisco (Part I) – Sugar Pie Desanto; I Found the Lions – Carolyn Wonderland; The Devil Is An Angel, Too – Janiva Magness; Hound Dog – Big Mama Thornton; Eyes On the Prize – Mavis Staples, feat. Ry Cooder, gtr.; God's Mighty Hand – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Fine and Mellow – Nellie Lutcher; Voodoo Chile – Trudy Lynn, feat. Eric Gales, gtr.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; When the War Was On – Blind Willie Johnson; The Army Blues – David "Honeyboy" Edwards; Army Blues – Bukka White; Masters of War – Odetta; War Time Blues – Mississippi Joe Callicott; War Pains – Mike Vernon; War Headed Woman – Little John Chrisley; Back From Korea – John Mayall; Vietnam Blues – J. B. Lenoir; Vietnam Blues – Champion Jack Dupree; American Defense – Son House; Cause of War – Robben Ford; War – Maria Muldauer, The Women's Voices for Peace Choir, Free Radicals.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Downtown With the Devil – Ilana Katz Katz; Shake It Baby – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; Won't Pass Me By – Ilana Katz Katz; Lost Souls – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; Woman, Play the Blues – Ilana Katz Katz; Boogaloo, Silver Spoon – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; Bad Child – Ilana Katz Katz; Fever – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; In My Mind – Ilana Katz Katz; Jukin' – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; Nine Souls – Ilana Katz Katz; You Don't Deserve Me – Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18; It's Time to Go – Ilana Katz Katz.