Ruta 61

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; My Babe – Little Walter; A Chance To Breathe – Sista Monica Parker; Dimples – John Lee Hooker, Elvin Bishop, Van Morrison; Back Water Blues – Bessie Smith; Don't Call No Ambulance – Selwyn Birchwood; Million Miles – Bonnie Raitt; Devil Got My Woman – Skip James; Gone For Good – Samantha Fish; Fine Little Mama – John Primer; Backstreet Baby – Dana Fuchs; Like Sonny Did – Guy Davis; Too Much – John Primer; Poor Black Mattie – Samantha Fish, Lightnin' Malcolm.

El bluesman de Florida Selwyn Birchwood edita a finales de este mes de enero su tercer álbum con el sello de Chicago, Alligator Records, que lleva por título "Living In A Burning House" (viviendo en una casa en llamas). En el programa de esta semana escuchamos temas del nuevo disco y cerramos con un tema del bluesman Buddy Guy, cuya actuación cuando Birchwood contaba unos 17 años le convenció de que "¡tenía que hacer esa música!" Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; I'd Climb Mountain, I Got Drunk Laid and Stoned, Living In A Burning House, You Can't Steal My Shine, Revelation, Searching For My Tribe, She's A Dime, One More Time, Mama Knows Best, Freaks Come Out At Night, Through A Microphone, Rock Bottom, Trial By Fire – Selwyn Birchwood; Damn Right I've Got the Blues – Buddy Guy.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Every Day (I Have the Blues), Sweet Little Angel, It's My Own Fault, How Blue Can You Get, Please Love Me, The Thrill Is Gone, Peace To The World – B. B. King; Born Under A Bad Sign, Crosscut Saw, Kansas City, Oh Pretty Woman, Down Don't Bother Me, The Hunter, Personal Manager, Laundromat Blues, As The Years Go Passing By – Albert King; I'm Tore Down – Freddie King; Wang Dang Doodle – Koko Taylor y Willie Dixon.

Al son del bluesman Watermelon Slim decimos adiós al maldito 2020 y qué se vaya con viento fresco. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Merry Christmas, Baby – McKinney Williams; Tax Man Blues, Smokestack Lightning, Wolf Cry, Saint Peter's Ledger, Mni Wiconi . The Water Song, Me and My Woman, Pick Up My Gideon, Dark Genius, Northern Blues, Mean Streets, That Ole 1-4-5, Too Much Alcohol, Post-Modern Blues – Watermelon Slim.

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.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Things About Comin' My Way, Please Baby, Livin' In A Strain, Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down – The Mississippi Sheiks; Please Baby – Madeleine Peyroux; Livin' In A Strain – Kelly Joe Phelps; Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down – Bruce Cockburn; Unhappy Blues, Church Bell Blues – The Mississippi Sheiks; He Calls That Religion – The Sojourners; Somebody's Gotta Help You – Bob Brozman; Bootlegger's Blues – Oh Susanna; Jailbird Love Song – Jim Byrnes; Lonely One In This Town – Steve Dawson.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Georgia Bound, West Coast Blues – Blind Blake; Gonna Stop You From Giving Me The Blues – Ann Rabson; Kansas City – Albert King; Change With The Times – Whitney Shay; She's Fine – A.C. Reed, Bonnie Raitt; This Mess – Tim Woods; Killing Floor – The BC Combo; Black Dress – Mark Telesca; Things About Comin' My Way – Ndidi Onukwulu; The Devil's Gonna Lie – Otis Taylor; Awesome Sauce – Patty Reese; Lie To Be Loved – Neal Black.

Esta vez nuestra ruta pasa, entre otros, por los dos nuevos álbumes del veterano bluesman y poseedor de conocimiento enciclopédico del folklore Andy Cohen, "Tryin' To Get Home" y "Small But Mighty" (Earwig Music), y el último álbum de la joven y dinámica blueswoman de California, Whitney Shay, "Stand Up!" (Ruf Records). Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Windy and Warm, Step It Up And Go, Pea Vine Blues – Andy Cohen; Boob-I-Lak – Andy Cohen, Moira Cohen-Meltzer; Chicken, West Coast Blues – Andy Cohen; Trying To Make One Hundred – Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton; The Lowdown – Marcia Ball; Roses From The Graveyard – The Guy Forsyth Band; Boy Sit Down, Equal Ground, Tell The Truth, Stand Up! – Whitney Shay; Far Apart (Still Close) – Whitney Shay, Guy Forsyth; Getting In My Way – Whitney Shay.

Nuestra ruta blusera va desde el veterano bluesman sevillano Mingo Balaguer hasta los hermanos bilbaínos que integran los Travellin' Brothers, con paradas en el camino para escuchar temas del EP debú de Itziar Yagüe y del álbum en directo del bluesman de Louisiana Lil' Jimmy Reed grabado en 2019 durante su primera gira española. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; My Little Girl, Down To The Liquor Store, Sputnik Boogie, Party Animal – Mingo Balaguer; Delicious, Daddy's Gone For Good – Itziar Yagüe; We Make A Good Team – Itziar Yagüe, Emilio Arsuaga; Not A Doll – Itziar Yagüe; Down In Virginia, Please Love Me, The Things That I Used To Do, Big Boss Man – Lil' Jimmy Reed; Payback Time – Travellin' Brothers Big Band.

El blues en directo de Luther Allison contra la fatiga del COVID-19. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Cancel My Check, Living In The House Of Blues, Will It Ever Change, You Can You Can, There Comes A Time, (Watching You) Cherry Red Wine, Low Down And Dirty - Luther Allison.