Ruta 61

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Divin' Duck Blues – Sleepy John Estes; Diving Duck Blues – Taj Mahal; If the River Was Whiskey (Divin' Duck Blues) – Rising Sons; Goin' To Brownsville, Dark Is the Night – Ry Cooder; Never Goin' Back to Memphis – Shemekia Copeland; Me and My Chauffeur Blues – Memphis Minnie; Nobody But Me – Rip Lee Pryor; When It Don't Come Easy – Vanessa Collier; Come Love Come – Rhiannon Giddens; Knocking At Your Door – Larry Taylor; Crow Jane – Skip James; Crow Jane – Samantha Fish; Why Don't You Do Right? – Carolina Chocolate Drops; Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground – Blind Willie Johnson.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Blue and Lonesome – Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues; Party Town – Marcia Ball; What You See Is What You Get – Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials; In A Roomful of Blues – Roomful of Blues; Outside of This Town – Christone "Kingfish" Ingram; Clotilda's On Fire – Shemekia Copeland; The Longer That I Live – Curtis Salgado; Living In A Burning House – Selwyn Birchwood; Midnight Hour Blues – Charlie Musselwhite & Elvin Bishop; Ain't No Fun (When the Rabbit's Got the Gun) – The Cash Box Kings; Make It Back To Memphis – Tommy Castro & The Painkillers; A Woman – JJ Grey & Mofro; I'm Running – Rick Estrin & The Nightcats.

Las dos recomendaciones de esta semana son: ver el documental musical "Summer of Soul" y escuchar "662," el segundo álbum del joven bluesman de Clarksdale, Mississippi, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; 662 – Christone "Kingfish" Ingram; I Want To Take You Higher – Sly & The Family Stone; Why I Sing the Blues – B. B. King; She Calls Me Kingfish, Long Distance Woman, Another Life Goes By, Not Gonna Lie, Too Young To Remember, My Bad, I Got To See You, Your Time Is Gonna Come, That's What You Do, Something In The Dirt – Christone "Kingfish" Ingram.

Disfrutamos de temas de "Resurrection," el contundente nuevo álbum de Mike Zito, un bluesman de San Luis afincado en Téjas. El álbum se ha editado hace unos pocos días en Gulf Coast Records, el sello pequeño pero potente fundado por el propio bluesman. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; I'll Make Love to You, Make Blues Not War, Don't Bring Me Down, Dreaming of You, In My Blood, When It Rains, You Don't Have Me, Damned If I Do, Running Man, Evil, Crazy Legs, I'll Make Love to You – Mike Zito.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Soul Fixin' Man – Luther Allison; Got My Mojo Working – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; Sloppy Drunk – Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women; That Did It – Roy Buchanan; Keep On Lovin' Me, Baby – The Paladins; Love Disease – Michael Burks; I'm A Blues Man – Kenny Neal; Run Myself Out Of Town – The Holmes Brothers; Jump Start – Little Charlie & The Nightcats; I'm Still Leaving You – Katie Webster; Don't Lose My Number – Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King; Corner Of The Blanket – The Kinsey Report; There's A Devil On The Loose – Mavis Staples.

Disfrutamos de temas de dos excelentes nuevos álbumes de blues: "Surrender," de Clarence Spady (Nola Blue Records) y "Alafia Moon," de Damon Fowler (Landslide Records). Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Down Home Blues, Surrender, K-Man, Addition Game, Jones Falls Expressway – Clarence Spady; Hip To Your Trip, Leave It Alone, I've Been Low, Make the Best of Your Time, The Guitar, Some Things Change – Damon Fowler.

Nos despedimos del gran guitarrista catalán, Riqui Sabatés, en una edición del programa que también incluye la música del bluesman de Mississippi, Zac Harmon, y la de Crystal Thomas, cantante de Louisiana que dejó boquiabierto al público del Festival Internacional de Blues de Madrid celebrado en la Plaza de Colón hace justo dos años, los días 14 y 15 de junio de 2019. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Mimí Bobó, La Boheme – Riqui Sabatés y los Obstinados; Can't You See What You're Doing To Me, I Don't Worry Myself, I'm A Fool For You Baby, Take Yo' Praise, The Blues Ain't Nothing But Some Pain, No Cure For the Blues – Crystal Thomas; Smoke and Mirrors, Honey Pleez, Lord Save Me From L. A., Sunday Morning After Saturday Night – Zac Harmon.