At 69 hours of the finest blues you've never heard, it sounds like a marathon. That's 2.875 continuous days of the blues. Or a work-week and a three-quarters. Or, about the number of hours it would take to drive straight through from New York to Los Angeles and back to Chicago, averaging 69 mph. Larry McCray, Kenny Neal and Billy Branch, Tony Deziel, Luther Allison, and Rod Piazza are just some of the 13 artists ahead. As promised, I'll also announce the winner of the Chris Juergensen CD. There's another Roadhouse Rewound segment and, in general, just a little club full of fun. So, crank up the headphones, crack open a brew and chair-dance to your heart's content - we're top down and rolling.

Blue skies, brilliant sunshine, brand new artists, outstanding new labels - all converge right here, in a little dotpoint on the blues-time continuum that I like to call an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Like a theoretical physicist searching for the beginning of time, you've managed to stumble across the singularity known as the 68th Roadhouse Podcast. It's a refreshing summer breeze in the form of the Backalley Blues Band, Blues Caravan, the Siegel-Schwall Band, Eric Lindell, and Tommy Castro. So, whether you see blues as universal, or something very, very personal, I think we've got it covered in this edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - the Summer Sunshine edition.

It’s a holiday weekend in the US - the Memorial Day weekend. Marking the unofficial start of summer, The Roadhouse 067 definitely has the summertime blues – with no desire whatsoever to cure them. If you mashed up your images of summer with a great batch of blues, you might come up with Michael Burks, Memphis Gold, Chumslick Nick and The Sharks, Chris Juergensen, and Sam Cox and Doug Hurrie. It’s a little BBQ, a little travel, and another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 67th Roadhouse Podcast.

Like a sweatin' Southern Baptist preacher, this edition comes at you full throttle. If you've never visited The Roadhouse, you'll quickly find that it's about more than crying in your beer and bemoaning the sad state of your life. With artists like Mel Brown and the Homewreckers, Clifford Bivens, Shy Guy Douglas, The Holmes Brothers, and Tab Benoit, this edition is really about getting up off the barstool, dancing up a sweat, socializing, and celebrating the fact that we've all made it through another week. It is, indeed, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The 66th Roadhouse Podcast.

This edition is a tip of The Roadhouse snap-brim to the 2006 Blues Music Awards and the friends of the podcast who won them. Where we features the indies last week, this week we look to the big time in the bright lights of Memphis. And, that's not to say that these award-winning artists are the only great blues artists around. The entire hour is a solid selection of blues. Throw in a Roadhouse Rewound segment and a new Roadhouse contest, and you're standing at the front edge of another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 65th Roadhouse Podcast.

The 64th Roadhouse Podcast is a return to the roots of the show, powered primarily by truly independent blues artists. While a few big blues labels pepper this week's edition, the bulk of the music is collected from online independent music sources and from the submissions of artists themselves. As such, there are a few names you've not heard of in this edition: Michael Packer Blues Band, Sandy Carroll and Gianfranco Segatto, for example, along with old favorites like Matt Schofield and The Paul Wood Band. Open your chair-dancing beverage of choice and enjoy another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, the 64th Roadhouse Podcast.

On a cold and rainy Saturday at the Roadhouse Studios, I bring the music that'll keep you warm and chair-dancing. It's music you'd expect on any bandstand in any roadhouse in the world, from Hubert Sumlin, The Billy Gibson Band and Saffire, to Glamour Puss and Greg Martinez. Round it all out with a Roadhouse Rewound segment and listener comments, and you've got the perfect reason to stay inside and take another step closer to blues nirvana. It's the 63rd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard.

This edition of The Roadhouse Podcast definitely has a Friday night feel - a little tougher, a little harder-edged. Even at that, the balance between tough and smooth is pretty even. Rollin' and tumblin' in this week's edition: Michael Burks, Carolyn Wonderland, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, Dave Hole, and Candye Kane. Roll up your sleeves, watch your back and break a sweat on the sawdust dance floor. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 62nd Roadhouse Podcast.

This edition ends a week of big events in The Roadhouse. Between a tornado on Thursday and day five of life without cigarettes, it's a good time to hide away from the world and get lost in an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Gene Hardy, Back Alley Blues Band, Bobby Parker, Blind Slim, and Diego Garcia take the independent lead. I've also got a Roadhouse Rewound segment in the queue that's 100% listener-requested. All in all, we're 14 cuts deep this week - pushing right on past an hour. It's the 61st Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard.

There's definitely a theme to this edition - let's just call it road music. It's the perfect blend of upbeat uptempo blues cuts to make your drive - wherever that may be - a little bit more sane and enjoyable. Percy Strother, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Nicholas, Candye Kane, and Holland K. Smith lead us down the road, with seven other great artists and another Roadhouse Rewound bringing up the rear. So, let's put the troubles in the rear-view mirror, even if only for an hour of the finest blues you've never heard.