The Blacklight Blues Show - WQUD 107.7 FM Vintage Radio

02/19/2025

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02/16/2025

Here's the playlist from February 9th.
Big George Brock & the Houserockers- M for Mississippi
The Wesley Jefferson Blues Band- The Wolves Are Howling
T-Model Ford- Bad Man
Shiva's Headband- Homesick Armadillo Blues
Homesick James- She May Be Your Woman
Little Walter- I Hate to See You Go
Brother Cane- Got No Shame
Charlie Musselwhite- Takin' My Time
The Siegel-Schwall Band- Hey, Billie Jean
Teddy Williams- Down Home Blues #2
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes- Slow Down, Slow Down
Goree Carter & His Hepcats- Rock Awhile
Buddy Guy- My Time After Awhile
The Mississippi Marvel- Evil
Blaze Foley- New Slow Boat to China (Live at the Austin Outhouse, 12/27/88)
R. L. Boyce & Lightnin Malcolm- Over the Hill
Odell Harris- Before You Accuse Me
Muddy Waters- Key to the Highway (London Sessions)
Miss Gladys & the Wesley Jefferson Blues Band- Walking the Back Streets
Jimmy Dawkins- Back Street Blues
Bobby Charles- Street People
Scott Dunbar- Little Liza Jane
Cadillac John Nolden & Bill Abel- Hard-Headed Woman
Terry “Harmonica” Bean- I'm Going Down South
R. L. Burnside- Goin' Down South (Live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1/24/01)
Freddie King- Going Down (Live in the '70s)
Vanessa Collier & Laura Chavez- Love Me Like a Man/Whiskey & Women (Live at Don Odell's Legends, Palmer, MA, 2019)
The Blues Brothers- Peter Gunn Theme
Alvin Lee- Detroit Diesel
Mississippi Fred McDowell- You Gotta Move
The Two Gospel Keys- You've Got to Move
Robert Bilbo Walker- Bring It On Home to Me
John Lee Zeigler- Hey Mr, DJ (Having a Party)/One Day
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes- Mr. Lucky
Roosevelt Sykes- Lucky Blues
L. C. Ulmer- When I Was in Trouble
Pink Anderson- In the Jailhouse Now
Lightnin' Hopkins- Jail House Blues
J. T. “Funny Paper” Smith (The Howling Wolf)- County Jail Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Locked Up in Jail (Prison Blues)
B.B. King- Sixteen Tons
James Davis- Harold
Billy F Gibbons- Desert High
Big George Brock- M for Mississippi (The Front Porch Version)

02/13/2025

Vintage Freddie King pic

02/11/2025

Here's the playlist from February 2nd.
John Lee Ho**er- Ground Hog Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson I- Groundhog Blues
Gladys Bentley- Ground Hog Blues
Ramblin' Thomas- Ground Hog Blues No. 2
Willie Reed- Some Low Down Groundhog Blues
The Groundhogs- Groundhog Blues (Live at Leeds University, 4/13/71)
Spirit- Ground Hog
Bob Dylan- Maggie's Farm (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 7/25/65)
Johnny Winter- Mean Town Blues
Delbert McClinton- Blues as Blues Can Get
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Come On, Pt. III (1984 Version)
John Lee Ho**er- Ground Hog (Alternate Version)
Cow Cow Davenport- Dirty Ground Hog Blues
Big Joe Williams- Rootin' Ground Hog
Blind John Davis, Eddie Taylor and Armand “Jump” Jackson- Ground Hog Blues (Live 1982)
Mojo Buford- Groundhog Blues
Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond and Dr. John- Ground Hog Blues
Billy F Gibbons- Livin' It Up Down in Texas
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Keep On Chooglin' (Live at Woodstock, 8/17/69)
Buddy Holly- Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
Odell Harris- Train I Ride
John Lee Ho**er- Love Blues
Sonny James- Groundhog Blues
T. S. McPhee and Dick Heckstall-Smith- Groundhog Blues
Porter Grainger's Three Jazz Songsters- Ground Hog Blues
Blind Mack- Rootin' Ground Hog Blues
Lil' Son Jackson- Groundhog Blues
John Németh and Jad Tariq- BRI Memphis Session (Live at the Blues Music Awards, Memphis, 5/6/22)
The Siegel-Schwall Band- I Think It Was the Wine (Live at the Vic Theater, Chicago, 1987)
Victor Wainwright and the Train- Mississippi (Live at Bluesapalooza, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 8/7/21)
Johnny Jenkins- Bad News
Carey & Lurrie Bell- Key to the Highway
Houston Stackhouse- Mean Old World
John Lee Ho**er- Dirty Ground Hog
Texas Alexander- Some Low Down Groundhog Blues
Super Chikan- Groundhog Blues
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton- Groundhog (Blind Lemon's Version) (Live in Greenwich Village, 1962)
The Groundhogs with Steve Rye- Early in the Morning
Mance Lipscomb- Captain, Captain
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Freight Train Blues
Lee Hunter- Back to Santa Fe
Little Hat Jones- Bye Bye Baby Blues
Big Mama Thornton- Walking Blues
Elizabeth Cotten- Shake Sugaree
John Lee Zeigler- Rollin' and Tumblin'/Nobody Else But You
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Terry “Harmonica” Bean- Raise That Window
Hot Tuna- Day to Day Out the Window Blues
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band- Deep Elem Blues (Live at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, 12/5/87)
Charlie Parr and Friends- Deep Elem Blues (Live at the Turf Club, St. Paul, MN, 1/3/16)

02/08/2025

The Blacklight Blues Show will be live from 5-9 on Sunday. I'll be playing some songs from the soundtrack of M for Mississippi, a compilation of 21st century Mississippi blues musicians put together by Broke & Hungry Records. Send a message or call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

02/07/2025

Here's the playlist from January 26th.
Mountain- Crossroader
The Blues Brothers- Sweet Home Chicago
West, Bruce and Laing- Why Dontcha
Bo Diddley with Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Joe Cocker, Corky Laing, Albert Lee, Roger McGuinn, Daniel Moore and Matthew Moore- Ride the Water (Part 1)
Bo Diddley with Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Corky Laing, Albert Lee, Daniel Moore and Matthew Moore- Not Fade Away
Mountain- Nantucket Sleighride
Cocodri- L'autre rive
Walk That Walk- The Daydream
Pat Travers- Daydream (Your Blues Away)
The Rolling Stones- Sweet Black Angel
Mountain- Stormy Monday (Live at New Canaan High School, New Canaan, Connecticut, 12/23/69)
The Allman Brothers Band- Stormy Monday (Live at A&R Studios, New York City, 8/26/71)
Savoy Brown- I Can't Get Next to You
The Climax Blues Band- Insurance
The Amboy Dukes- Hibernation
Ten Years After- I'm Going Home (Live at Woodstock, 8/17/69)
Tinariwen- Ahimana
Mountain- Swamp Boy
Bo Diddley with Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Joe Cocker, Corky Laing, Albert Lee, Roger McGuinn, Daniel Moore and Matthew Moore- Ride the Water (Part 2)
Father's Children- Everybody's Got a Problem
Bobby Keys- Steal from a King
The Son Seals Blues Band- Hot Sauce
Canned Heat- On the Road Again
James Harman- It's All Right Now
Jason Ricci & New Blood- I'm a New Man
West, Bruce and Laing- Love Is Worth the Blues
Mountain- Better Off with the Blues
Bobby Keys- Key West
The Doobie Brothers- I Been Workin' on You
Etta James- That's Alright
Peter Green- Slabo Day
ZZ Top- Que Lastima
Point Blank- Moving
West, Bruce and Laing- The Doctor
UFO- Boogie for George (Live at Hibiya Park, Tokyo, 9/25/71)
Masters of Reality- Ants in the Kitchen/Goin' Down (Live at the Viper Room, Los Angeles, 9/22/96)
Mountain- The Great Train Robbery

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02/05/2025

The Muddy Waters band playing on a flatbed truck - © William Koechling pic

02/04/2025

Here's the playlist from January 19th.
Janis Joplin- As Good As You've Been to This World
Charles Caldwell- Hadn't I Been Good to You
Jimmie Gordon- Good As I Been to You
Washboard Sam- Jesse James Blues
John Lee Ho**er- I'm Bad Like Jesse James (Live at Cafe Au Go Go, New York City, 8/20/60)
The James Gang- Yadig?
Roy Buchanan- Hey Joe
Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen- Hesitation Blues (From the Typewriter Tape, Jorma's House, Santa Clara, CA, 6/25/64)
Big Brother and the Holding Company- Intruder
Furry Lewis- Creeper's Blues
Little Sonny- The Creeper Returns
Cinderella- Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams
Big Mama Thornton- Ball and Chain (Live on the Midnight Special, 8/30/74)
John Hammond- She Moves Me
Janis Joplin- One Good Man
Muddy Waters- Honey Bee (After the Rain Version, 1969)
AC/DC- Ride On
Big Brother and the Holding Company- Call on Me
Bobby “Blue” Bland- Call on Me
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band- Call on Me
Willie Dixon- You Shook Me
Sonny Boy Williamson II- Nine Below Zero (Live at Großer Kursaal, Baden-Baden, Germany (American Folk Blues Festival Tour), 9/29/63)
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers- Help Me (Live in Germany, April 1987)
Carey Bell- Low Down Dirty Shame
Cream- Spoonful
Jimmy Dawkins- Me, My Guitar and the Blues
Walter Trout- Turn and Walk Away
Janis Joplin- Dear Landlord
Faces- Wicked Messenger
John Hammond- You'll Be Mine
Monster Mike Welch and Mike Ledbetter- Down Home Girl
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos- Too Rude (Live at the Hollywood Palladium, 12/15/88)
B.B. King- When I'm Wrong
Toronzo Cannon- Strength to Survive
Big Brother and the Holding Company- Women Is Losers
Lonnie Johnson- Too Late to Cry (Live on the American Folk Blues Festival Tour, Manchester, England, 10/22/63)
Lazy Lester- I'm a Lover Not a Fighter
Janis Joplin- Maybe
Morris Pejoe- Maybe Blues
Georgia Tom- Maybe It's the Blues
Johnny Shines- My Love Can't Hide
Big Brother and the Holding Company- Turtle Blues
The Siegel-Schwall Band- Hush Hush (Live at the Quiet Knight, Chicago, 1971)

02/01/2025

The Blacklight Blues Show will be live tomorrow from 5:15-9:15 PM. We'll be celebrating Groundhog's Day with music from John Lee Ho**er, John Hammond, Spirit and the Groundhogs. Send a message or call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

01/31/2025

Here's the playlist from January 12th.

01/29/2025

A great shot of Stevie Ray holding Lucille & B.B. King holding Stevie Rays guitar.

01/28/2025

Here's the playlist from January 5th.

01/26/2025

Corky Laing is the artist of the day on today's show. I'll be live from 5-9 PM, playing bluesier songs by Mountain and West, Bruce and Laing, as well as Bo Diddley and Ten Years After. Send a message or call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

01/25/2025

Here's the playlist from December 29th.
JD Simo & Luther Dickinson- Do the Rump Louise
Junior Kimbrough- Do the Romp
Mercy Dee- Romp and Stomp Blues
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers- What'd I Say
Mildred Bailey- Arkansas Blues
Big Bill Broonzy- It's Your Time Now/Going Back to Arkansas
Lucinda Williams- West Memphis
Tony Joe White- They Caught the Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas
Tab Benoit- I Hear Thunder
Seth Lee Jones- Mr. Evil
Sam Gopal- Back Door Man
Warren Haynes- Go Down Swinging
Charlie Parr- Boombox
Little Feat- Boom Box Car
Little Milton- Tin Pan Alley (Long Version)
Albert Castiglia- The Dollar Done Fell
Clarence Gatemouth Brown- Dollar Got the Blues
Funkadelic- Funky Dollar Bill
Johnny Dollar- J. D.'s Blues
Clutch- One Eye Dollar
Strange Highways- Atomic Rebel
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Riviera Paradise
Joe Filisko & Eric Noden- Angry Woman
Cephas & Wiggins- Burn Your Bridges
Tommy Emmanuel with Bob Littell- Workin' Man Blues (Live at Center Stage, The Big Room, Sierra Nevada Brewery, Chico, CA, October 2007)
Charley Crockett- America
Brother Dege- Where the Black Flowers Grow
Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy- When the Levee Breaks
Terry “Harmonica” Bean- Boogie with Me People
Slash with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler- Killing Floor
Earl Ho**er- Wah Wah Blues
Led Zeppelin- You Shook Me
White Dog- Double Dog Dare
Lead Belly- Black Betty
Jerron Paxton- Oxtail Blues
Sierra Ferrell- Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County
Cedric Burnside- I Know
Muddy Waters- Catfish Blues (Live on the American Folk Blues Festival Tour, Bremen, Germany, 10/13/63)
Little Sam (Sammy) Davis- 1958 Blues
Avey Grouws Band- Beck and Call Girl
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Chitlins con Carne
Kenny Burrell- Chitlins con Carne
Dennis Jones- Six Feet Off the Ground
John Mayall with Eric Clapton and Harvey Mandel- Goodbye December

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01/22/2025

a grainy, but rare pic of BB, Robin Williams and Neil Young

01/20/2025

Here's the playlist from December 22nd.
Elzadie Robinson- Santa Claus Crave
Blind Blake- That Lovin' I Crave
Jelly Roll Morton- The Crave
Bo Carter- Pig Meat Is What I Crave
Ethel Waters- Craving Blues
Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield- One Way Out (Live at the Fillmore East, 12/13/68)
G. L. Crockett- It's a Man Down There
Jimmy Reed- I'm the Man Down There
Pat Travers- (I Just Wanna) Live It My Way
Elvis Presley- Blue Christmas
Tedeschi Trucks Band- I Pity the Fool (Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, 12/4/21)
ZZ Top- Just Got Paid
Simon McBride- Show Me How to Love
The Doobie Brothers- Don't Start Me to Talkin'
Ten Years After- Turned-Off TV Blues
The Climax Chicago Blues Band- A Stranger in Your Town
Elmore James- Stranger Blues (Alternate Version, Fire or Enjoy! Records)
Big Red McHouston (Mickey Baker)- Stranger Blues
James Carr- You've Got My Mind Messed Up
Big Brother and the Holding Company- I Need a Man to Love
Henry Gray- You Messed Up
Harold Burrage- Messed Up
Son Seals- Going Back Home
John Lee Ho**er- Long, Long Way from Home
Ray Charles- Busted
Elvin Bishop- Old School (Live at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Seattle, 12/3/14)
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers- Roll Your Moneymaker
Chuck Berry- Run Rudolph Run
Fleetwood Mac- I'm Worried/Like It This Way (Live at Njardhallen, Oslo, Norway, 11/3/69)
James Cotton feat. Gregg Allman- Midnight Train
T-Model Ford- Take a Ride with Me
Koko Taylor- Fire
Barrelhouse Buck McFarland- St. Louis Fire Blues
Howlin' Wolf- The Natchez Burnin'
Otis Spann- Burning Fire
Billy F Gibbons- She's on Fire
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Texas Flood (Live at the Spectrum, Montreal, 8/17/84 (First Show))
B.B. King- Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
Ivory Joe Hunter- High Cost Low Pay Blues
Brownie McGhee- High Price Blues
Lloyd Price- Mailman Blues
Sippie Wallace- The Mail Train Blues
Robert Nighthawk- Return Mail Blues
Fleetwood Mac- The World Keep On Turning/Rattlesnake Shake (Live at Njardhallen, Oslo, Norway, 11/3/69)
Elester Anderson- Shake, Rattle and Roll/Black and Tan
Muddy Waters- Piney Brown Blues
Nathan Abshire- Pine Grove Blues
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes- Cypress Grove
Fleetwood Mac- Albatross
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River
Charley Patton- Green River Blues

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01/19/2025

Tonight's show will be live from 5:30-9:30.

01/19/2025

Here's the playlist from December 15th.