BLUES radio program on 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHZ, Warrnambool VIC, Australia. Presented by Lazy Lester - Tuesdays at 8.30pm. A century of blues music & culture.
12/11/2024
It's the "little" blues program that could! Tonight Lazy Lester spins a bracket of tracks by various "Littles" - think Little Walter, Little Axe, Little Hatch, Little Mike, Little Whit, Little Charlie, etc.
But that's not all - tune in for fabulous blues by JB Hutto, Doug Sahm, Salty Dog, Lynwood Slim and more. We'll wind the clock back to 1930 for some hillbilly blues from the Allen Brothers.
Catch JuzBlooz at 8:30pm on 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHz Warrnambool or play it whenever you damn well like from www.3wayfm.org.au
29/10/2024
Just some of the Blues hand-picked by Lazy Lester for your groovin’ pleasure on JuzBlooz tonight.
Tune in at 8:30pm on 3WAY-FM 103.7 in Warrnambool or listen to JuzBlooz anytime at www.3wayfm.org.au
13/08/2024
Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia's premier and most awarded music festival in Australia ever, proudly announces that the 2025 edition will be its final curtain call.
09/04/2024
Jelly Roll often crops up in the Blues. No more so than when listening to Frank Frost, Big Jack Johnson and Sam Carr - the Jelly Roll Kings! Lazy Lester gives them a big spin tonight, on the 21st anniversary of Sam Carr's last (and only ever?) gig in Melbourne. If that doesn't tickle your little blues fancy, there will be a big swag of tracks from Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones, with and without Dennis Gruenling and Kim Wilson on harp, plus Terry Garland, Samuel James and Big Boy Crudup. And more. There's always more! Tune in to JuzBlooz tonight on 3WAY-FM 103.7 in Warrnambool or stream this program and others from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
02/04/2024
You like boogie woogie blues piano, huh? Lazy Lester serves up lashings of it tonight, going back to the '20s, with Cow Cow Davenport, Mike Kindred, Honey Piazza, Roosevelt Sykes and Big Joe Duskin.
Add in some Elmore James, Paul Orta, Dave Hole, Backsliders and more, and we got us a show!! You can listen to JuzBlooz at 8:30pm Tuesdays on 3WAY-FM 103.7 Warrnambool VIC, or whenever you damn well feel like it at https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
26/03/2024
Josh White was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names Pinewood Tom and Tippy Barton in the 1930s. Lazy Lester is spinning a little set from Josh tonight, including a VERY Australian non-blues tune from his "folk" era, for interest! On a more hardcore front, expect to hear tracks from Henry Townsend, The Love Dogs, father and son Son and Pat Thomas (separately) and Lynwood Slim. It's all happening tonight on JuzBlooz. Tune your radio at to 3WAY-FM 103.7 in Warrnambool at 8.30pm Tuesdays, or play the show anytime from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
05/03/2024
Two men, each with a guitar - c.1936 and c.2023. Hear both Oscar "Buddy" Woods and Nick Wade on JuzBlooz tonight, along with blues in a range of styles from across the years. Billy Boy Arnold, Paul deLay, Paul Orta, Anne McCue, CW Stoneking, Tampa Red, Eddy & the Exciters, Adrianna Marie and her Groovecutters, Bob Margolin, .... Got it?
Tune in to JuzBlooz with Lazy Lester at 8.30pm tonight on 3WAY-FM 103.7 or listen at your leisure at https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
27/02/2024
Moorhead, deep in the Mississippi Delta, where the Southern (Railway) crosses the Dog (Yazoo Delta Railroad), a place steeped in Blues history. Hear the story and W.C. Handy's song recorded by Bessie Smith, on JuzBlooz tonight. Bessie will be up against her mentor, Ma Rainey in a pair of 1925 recordings.
What else? Beth Hart tackles Billie Holiday, Richard Johnston sings with Jessie Mae Hemphill and covers Junior Kimbrough, which brings us inevitably into Fat Possum territory and back to Mississippi.
Join Lazy Lester for this blues journey, full of great music, on JuzBlooz at 8:30pm tonight on 3WAY-FM 103.7 Warrnambool, or listen later at your leisure right here: https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
20/02/2024
It's the Arnolds! Kokomo, Billy Boy and Little Mac get together for a set on JuzBlooz tonight. So do Kerri Simpson, Salty Dog, James T & The Last Volunteer’s and The Backsliders for some home-grown talent. And did I say Canned Heat?
Lazy Lester has a curated tonight's JuzBlooz playlist purely for your listening pleasure, so tune in to 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHz Warrnambool tonight at 8:30pm, or listen on your device at https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
13/02/2024
Some nostalgic Aussie blues gets a run on JuzBlooz tonight when Lazy Lester breaks out a run of tracks from local band Blue Heat (did you know they supported BB King?) and The Continental Blues Party, Robert Susz's follow-up band to The Mighty Reapers.
Throw in some new releases from Lone Star Mojo, The Hitman Blues Band and Brothers Brown, and we got us a show!
JuzBlooz - 8.30pm Tuesdays on 3WAY-FM 103.7 Warrnambool Victoria, and at your convenience from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
See ya there!
06/02/2024
Rev Gary Davis, Rev Robert Wilkins, Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson all knew what it was to live a blues life AND explore their spiritual side, including becoming a preacher for two of them. This is the music that Lazy Lester explores tonight on JuzBlooz. Expect to hear from these guys plus Ry Cooder, Son Lewis, The Heritage Blues Orchestra, Dave Diprose, Pops Staples (and family) and more!
JuzBlooz, 8:30pm on 3WAY-FM Warrnambool 103.7 MHz or listen when it suits you at https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
30/01/2024
Tonight on JuzBlooz, expect to hear lots of the great Son House! Triggered by the recent passing of his rediscoverer, Dick Waterman, Lazy Lester will serve up some of Son's earliest (1930) and last (1970) recordings. If that don't float yer boat, listen out for Ruthie Foster, Bonnie Raitt, Big Joe Duskin and Paul Oscher. JuzBlooz goes to air on 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHz Warrnambool, Tuesdays @ 8.30pm, or play it at your leisure from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
23/01/2024
The raucous slide of Hound Dog Taylor storms the airwaves on JuzBlooz tonight, as Lazy Lester lets loose with a set from the Houserockers as well as some great tributes to the man with six fingers! Not only that, but Big Bill Morganfield, Gina Sicilia, Nick Wade, Ben Rice and much more. Tune in for another night of pure blues on 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHz Warrnambool, VIC or at your leisure, right here: https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
16/01/2024
It's Chicago Blues Birthday Party Time, circa January 1956!! Lazy Lester stumbled across this poster and wondered just who else might have been at Elmo's party? This event, almost exactly 68 years ago, inspires tonight's JuzBlooz program. Think Muddy, Wolf, the Walters (Big and Little), but what about the second tier Chicago bluesmen like Morris Pejoe, Johhny Rogers and Jo Jo Williams?
Tune in to JuzBlooz and find out - 8:30pm Tuesday on 3WAY-FM 103.7 Mhz Warrnambool VIC or play anytime it from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
09/01/2024
BIG ROAD BLUES! Warrnambool and Port Fairy both have a big motoring weekend coming up. (Get on down to Lake Pertobe or Southcombe Park on Sunday!) What better way is there for petrol heads to warm up to such a delight than listening in to a whole program of motoring blues? On JuzBlooz tonight, Lazy Lester spins blues tracks about all the cool old cars - Fords, Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Chevies, Holdens, Caddies, Jaguars and more. Hell, he's even got tracks about motor scooters and dumpsters! Listen in to JuzBlooz on 3WAY-FM 103.7 at 8:30pm, or play it at your leisure from https://3wayfm.org.au/programs/juzblooz/
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BLUES radio program on 3WAY-FM 103.7 MHZ, Warrnambool VIC, Australia. Presented by Lazy Lester - Tuesdays at 8.30pm. A century of blues music & culture.
First of all, Lazy Lester acknowledges the appropriation of his radio name from the REAL Lazy Lester, Leslie Johnson (with apologies if neccesary). It started out as a joke, and just kinda stuck! There, I've said it.
Lester was turned on to the blues via contemporary artists of the late 1960s / early 1970s when he was an impressionable teenager. Your Claptons and Mayalls, etc. British invasion stuff. Always liked the Stones too, but weren't they Rock 'n' Roll?
However, his life was changed forever by two events around that time:
Watching Brownie McGhee lurch onto the stage at Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne. Close behind him, with one hand on Brownie's shoulder, trailed the blind Sonny Terry. Brownie helped Sonny into his chair and for the next 90 minutes, the two of them mesmerised their audience with the powerful simplicity of their music. No speaker stacks. No gimmicks. Real music.
Buying a copy of the Great Blues Men double album (Vanguard VSD 25/26) on 24th April 1973 (the date is scrawled inside the sleeve of the LP), opening his ears to the likes of Rev Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Sleepy John Estes, Big Bill Broonzy....
Who were the men that sang and played this powerful music? What strange names they had! Why was a minister playing the devil's music? What was the real meaning behind those lyrics? And there were women doing this too? And what connection does contemporary blues have to this era?
Discovering the answers to these questions has become Lester's passion! As a result, JuzBlooz the radio program is about more than just blues music - it explores the context in which the blues arose, blues themes, influences on contemporary artists, and airs the scratchiest Charley Patton 78s hard up against the highly produced (well, sometimes!) music of today.
