Song of the Day: This remarkable number from Bob’s 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways plays with the idea of the many ways to perceive and be perceived, parodying his various personas with the Frankenstein metaphor
Read moreBlind Willie Johnson – The Soul Of A Man / Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945)
Song of the Day: Following Solomon Burke and The Blind Boys of Alabama, let's take it way back to the great blues and gospel singer and bottleneck guitarist who was raised in Marlin, Texas
Read moreRotary Connection – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun
Rotary Connection, featuring Minnie Riperton and Charles Stepney (right).
Song of the Day: How to move from bluesy road tunes to this elaborate jazz-soul number at the peak of the psychedelic movement? Partly because this band also backed Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters
Read moreCanned Heat - On The Road Again / Going Up The Country
Canned Heat
Song of the Day: Leaping back out of Springsteen's Pink Cadillac, we continue our road journey with two 1968 hits by the Los Angeles blues band – a cover of a cover a cover – and also go back down the dusty track to see where it all came from
Read moreThem – Gloria / I Can Only Give You Everything / My Lonely Sad Eyes
A youthful Van Morrison and Them in the mid-60s
Song of the Day: A triple Sunday treat from the early days of Van Morrison and his fellow Belfast boys, showing his raw, powerful voice, anger, lust, and in the final song, the tenderness yet to come
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