Ruta 61

Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Front Door Man, I Love the Blues – Dennis Jones; He Loves My Biscuits, Poor Robert Johnson – Liz Mandeville; I Need A Friend, Lightning Bolt, We're On the Road, San-Ho-Zay – Luther Allison; Rise Up – Shemekia Copeland; Hard Time Killing Floor – Pura Fe; She Makes Me Earn My Money – Watermelon Slim; Got My Mojo Working – Muddy Waters; Down By the Riverside – Mahalia Jackson.

Hace 25 años se editó "Big Mama's Door," el álbum debú de uno de los gran renovadores del blues de nuestro tiempo, Alvin Youngblood Hart. En la edición de Ruta 61 de esta semana escuchamos, por completo, ese álbum tan alabado por la crítica, para el que el joven Alvin Youngblood Hart pudo contar con un músico invitado de lujo de la talla de Taj Mahal. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Illinois Blues, Big Mama's Door, Joe Friday, Them Fair Weather Friends, France Blues, Gallows Pole, Pony Blues, Amazed 'N' Amused, Things 'Bout Comin' My Way, When I Was A Cowboy (Western Plains), Rest Your Saddle, If Blues Was Money, Hillbilly Willie's Blues, Livin' In A Strain, That Kate Adams Jive – Alvin Youngblood Hart.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Time To Forget You – Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam; I Can See Your Love Light Shine – John Németh; Surrender – Clarence Spady; I Need A Man – Laura Tate; Nothin' But the Blues – Steve Howell, Dan Sumner, Jason Weinheimer; Can't Eat That Stuff No More – C. D. Woodbury; The End of the Blues – Dudley Taft; I Can't Leave – Benny Turner; One More 1 & 1 – Matt Lomeo; Shoulda Been – Kirsten Thien; Nag Nag Nag – Blind Lemon Pledge; Diggin' My Potatoes – Reverend Shawn Amos.

Kelly Zirbes es la vocalista y fundadora de Kelly's Lot, una banda de Los Angeles con unos 15 álbumes editados. Aunque el blues siempre ha estado presente en su música, el nuevo álbum acústico de Kelly's Lot, titulado "Where and When," es el primero de la banda que está dedicado al blues al cien por cien. Esta semana escuchamos varios temas de este álbum, y también temas de varios álbumes del gran Alvin Youngblood Hart, en plan acústico y también enchufado. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Big Mama's Door (Might Return), Big Mama's Door - Alvin Youngblood Hart; Stronger, Nature, Lost, Heaven, Jealous Hearted Blues, Where and When - Kelly's Lot; Electric Eel, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Necessary Roughness (A Power Move), Shoot Me A Grin, Big Mama's Door - Alvin Youngblood Hart.

Era una de las mejores cantantes de Kansas City de los 30 y 40, se acompañaba magistralmente al piano, y debería ser mucho más conocida por los aficionados al blues y al jazz de hoy. Se llamaba Julia Lee y nuestro penúltimo programa del año está dedicado a ella y su música. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Come On Over To My House, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, Julia's Blues, Mama Don't Allow It, Cold Hearted Daddy, Young Girl's Blues, That's What I Like, Gotta Gimme What'cha Got, Decent Woman Blues, Show Me Missouri Blues, King Size Papa, Do You Want It?, Trouble In Mind, Tonight's The Night, The Spinach Song (I Didn't Like It The First Time), A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid, Out In The Cold Again, Snatch And Grab It - Julia Lee

Buen blues europeo de la mano de dos bluesmen británicos y una blueswoman belga. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Help Me – Pat Fulgoni; Long Grey Mare, Shake Your Moneymaker, Hellhound On My Trail – Fleetwood Mac; Hell Hound On My Trail, Dead Shrimp Blues, Come On In My Kitchen – Peter Green with Nigel Watson Splinter Group; Loving Me Is A Full Time Job, Last Minute Packer, Espiritu Papago, Can't Escape – Ghalia Volt; Crossroads, Who Is He And What Is He To You, Think Twice Before You Go – Pat Fulgoni.

Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues – Skip James; Two-Fisted Mama – Katie Webster; Diving Duck Blues – Taj Mahal; Pussycat Moan – Sista Monica Parker; Big Boss Man – Omar Kent Dykes, Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson; Dirty No-Gooder's Blues – Valerie Wellington; Shakedown – Popa Chubby; Tell the Truth – Whitney Shay; Mean Old World – Wallace Coleman; You Don't Love Me No More – Victoria Ginty; Freight Train – Vin Mott; New Orleans – Fiona Boyes; Who's Knockin' – Zac Harmon; Hard Time Killing Floor – Pura Fé.

Dedicamos el programa de esta semana al gran guitarrista catalán desaparecido Amadeu Casas, a quien también están dedicados el festival Primavera In Black de Hospitalet de Llobregat, una exposición fotográfica en la Biblioteca Tecla Sala de la ciudad, y la canción con la que empieza esta edición de Ruta 61. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Hard To Say Good-bye – Víctor Puertas y amigos de Amadeu; Take Time Out / I've Got News For You, Breaking Up Somebody's Home, If You Love Me Like You Say, Hey Bartender, Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now, St. Louis Blues, I Don't Want You / Ain't That Dandy, Stop, Here I Am, Sweet Home Chicago – Big Mama & The Blues Messengers, feat. Amadeu Casas.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Harlan County Line – Dave Alvin; What's Up With Your Brother? – Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin; Gary Indiana 1959, Johnny Ace Is Dead – Dave Alvin; About To Make Me Leave Home – Bonnie Raitt; Creepin' Blues, Them Jelly Blues, Hoodoo Lover, Swamp Jukin', Haints In My House – Smokehouse; P-Man, Howlin' For My Darling, I'm Tired – Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Baroque & Blue – Claude Bolling & His Jazz Piano Trio, feat. Jean-Pierre Rampal; Regret?, Blues in B Flat, Rise Up in the Morning, Blues in A Minor, Precious Joy, Blues in C Minor, Don't Stop This Train, Blues in H (B), Tears From the Children – The Modern Jazz Quartet; Crossroads – Barbara Hendricks & Her Blues Band.