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Both Dave Raven and Hambone have podcasts out recently and both of them feature a tribute to the recently deceased Koko Taylor.

Raven ‘n’ Blues

• Strange Woman    Carey & Lurrie Bell    Harpslinger
• Smoke Stack    Valvetones    mp3
• Dirty Mother For You    Memphis Minnie    Divas Sing The Blues
• Wang Dang Doodle    Koko Taylor    Blues Masterpieces
• Evil    Koko Taylor    Queen Of The Blues
• Don’t Go No Farther    Koko Taylor    Old School
• Can’t Hold Out Much Longer    The Barcodes    With Friends Like These
• Letter To A Lover    The Cedars    Little Copper Still
• Stop Rocking That Train    Ivory Joe Turner    Woo Wee
• Good Thang    Eugene Hideaway Bridges    Born To Be Blue
• Love Gotcha    Coco Montoya    Dirty Deal
• You Can’t Judge A Book    Hans Theessink    Visions

http://raven.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=488162

http://www.raven.dj/rnb/

Hambones’ Blues Rumshack

• David Rotundo Band - Don’t Lie To Me from No Looking Back on Stone Pillar Productions
• David Rotundo Band - I Don’t Need No Body from No Looking Back on Stone Pillar Productions
• Stephen Dale Petit - Alexis Korner Says from Guitararama on 333 Records
• Honkeyfinger - Running on Empty from Running on Empty EP on Hoarse Records
• Brixton Boogie - Nobody But You from Urban Blues
• Ramon Goose Band - Rude Mood from Journey Into The Blues on Tekni Records
• Ramon Goose Band - Travellin’ South from Journey Into The Blues on Tekni Records
• Homemade Jamz Band - Who Your Real Friends Are from Pay Me No Mind on Northern Blues
• Po’ Girl - Bloom from Deer In The Night on Po’ Girl Music
• Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done from What Have You Done, My Brother? on Daptone Records
• Koko Taylor - What Kind Of Man Is This from Wang Dang Doodle - The Blues Collection on Orbis
• Koko Taylor - I’d Rather Go Blind from Live From Chicago - An Audience with the Queen on Alligator Records
• Koko Taylor and B B King - Something You Got on Blues Summit from MCA Records

http://www.therumshack.com/

The great DJ and podcaster Dave Raven this week features Hans Theessink in session live from the houseboat on the Thames.

Here’s the link to the Theessink special.

http://raven.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=473594

and here’s the link where you can listen or download all shows….

http://raven.libsyn.com/

or just add http://raven.libsyn.com/rss to your favourite newsreader or into iTunes

The Hambone’s Blues Rumshack Podcast is back.

http://www.therumshack.com

You can listen online at the website above or you can subscribe in you favourite Podcast application e.g iTunes using the following URL

http://rumshack.libsyn.com/rss

In iTunes click Advanced - Subscribe to podcast and enter the URL above.

This week’s playlist features amongst others this years IBC Grammy and IBC winners and northwest favourite Alan Nimmo’s new band King King.

King King sounding very good.

BB King - Three O’Clock Blues from One Kind Favour
Dr John and the lower 911 - Time For A Change (featuring Eric Clapton) from City That Care Forgot
Monkey Junk - Tiger In Your Tank
Ty Curtis Band - Bluer Than Blue
JP Soars and the Red Hots - Born in California Raised in Arkansas
King King - Broken Heal from the Broken Heal EP
Aynsley Lister - Time’s Up from Equilibrium on Manhaton Records Aynsley Lister - Crazy from Equilibrium on Manhaton Records
Dave Arcari - No Easy Way from I Got Electric on Buzz Records
King Bees - I Wonder from Weekender
Dan Auerbach - I want Some More from Keep It Hid on Nonesuch Records
Thorbjørn Risager - All I Want from Here I Am on Cope Records
NO Blues - hard Killing Floor from Yo Dunya on Rounder Records Davey Graham - Rock Me Baby from Folk Blues and All Points In Between on See For Miles Records
Davey Graham - No Preacher Blues from Folk Blues and All Points In Between on See For Miles Records

Last week’s Raven ‘n’ Blues podcast featured an interview and live performance by the fabulous Ian Siegal.

As ever with Dave Raven’s shows, he records an inteview of about 45-60 mins then edits a 20min portion into the final show.  Both files are always available for download or listening online.

You can hear he whole interview at http://www.bfbs2.com/rnb.html - simply click Ian’s name for the MP3

The final broadcast show featuring the segment on Ian along with tunes from Sue Foley, Diamond Dave & the Doodaddies and Grayson Capps amongst others is available at http://www.bfbs2.com/listen/rnb.html

I first heard of Blind Pig records when I bought my first Walter Horton CD.  Here’s a good short article about the history of Bling Pig Records followed by a BluePower podcast.

BluePower.Com: Blind Pig Celebrates 30th Anniversary!

The excellent podcast Raven ‘n’ Blues this week features a live session with Doug MacLeod. Like with many other of his guests, Dave Raven has uploaded the whole conversation that he had with Doug. A subset of the session will be part of the regular radio show at the weekend.

So here’s what you should do…..

1. Pop over to the MP3 podcast page on the Raven ‘n’ Blues LibSyn site and download the full version - or you can listen online.

2. Listen regularly to the full radio show - it’s available on the same link as above.

If anyone needs a bit of technical assistance in how to download, subscribe and listen to podcasts then give me a shout.

Last week’s Raven and the Blues podcast started with a bouncy, retro, shuffly little tune from a band that I had not heard of before. The Lazy Jumpers from Spain (I’m not exactly sure where - I remember it was the lovely East coast).

Lo and behold they are over here on tour - if you are within striking distance go and check them out.

They have a website, a MySpace and some YouTube presence.

Apr.11 THE LIMELIGHT CLUB, 1-7 Hightown, Crewe, Chesire,CW1 3BP CREWE
Apr.12 SOUTH HOLLAND CENTRE, Spalding
Apr.13 ROADHOUSE, Birmingham
Apr.14 SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY, Firth Hall, Stephenson Hall, 7 Oak Holme Road SHEFFIELD
Apr.15 ESCAPE BAR, The Old Fire Station, Hales Street, Coventry COVENTRY -
Apr.16 ARTRIX - School Drive, Bromsghrove, Worcs, B60 1AX
Apr.17 MILLFIELD THEATER, London
Apr.18 PIZZA ON THE PARK, London
Apr.19 JAM HOUSE, Birmingham
Apr.20 CARMEL RIBBON HALL, Carmel Technology College, Darlington
Apr.21 TOLBOOTH, Stirling
Apr.22 TRAQUAIR VILLAGE HALL, Traquair
Apr.23 THE OLD TRAMSHED, 199 Bingley Road, Saltaire, Shipley

The Shetland podcaster has started up again for 2007. His first show of the year….

Featuring tracks from Kevin Borich, The Hiptones, Baudelaire Brothers, Jim Byrnes, JW-Jones Blues Band, Mel Brown, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley and kicking off the show a little known American band.

You can download from here.

This week’s Raven ‘n’ Blues broadcast and podcast featured Derrin Nauendorf.

The way that Dave Raven organises his shows is that he records about an hour of chat and music of his featured guest then edits this down to about 15 mins in the final show.

You can download the hour long Derrin Nauendorf interview from here or the regular show (including Derrin, Bob Margolin, Dr. John, Ian Parker, BB King and others) from here.

The playlist for the latest Bandana Blues podcast - Show 171 - looks very harp orientated this week, especially Spinner’s Section. I haven’t downloaded it yet but the show kicks off with the super hot, dynamite and rocking Jason Ricci and New Blood - the guy who is taking the harmonica community by storm. In balance to all this modern frippery Spinner’s Section consists of the following…..

George Smith: California blues (1956) (oopin’ doopin’ doopin’, Ace, 1982)

Sonny Boy Williamson: cross my heart (Down And Out Blues, Chess, 1959)

Walter ‘Shakey’ Horton: good moanin’ blues (The Soul Of Blues Harmonica, Chess, 1964)

Little Walter: just your fool (Boss Blues Harmonica, Chess, 1972)

Junior Parker: blue shadows falling (You Don’t Have To Be Black To Love The Blues, Groove Merchant, 1974)

You can read all about Beardo and Spinner at www.bandanablues.com.

There is an excellent interview and live songs from Dave Kelly on the excellent Podcast Raven’n'Blues. Dave joined Dave on the top deck of the houseboat in the Thames for about an hour of conversation and live acoustic songs. The session will be edited down to a shorter segment in the main show that will get posted at the weekend. You can download all the MP3s from the RnB Libsyn site or this link will take you straight to the Dave Kelly MP3.
I highly recommend Raven’n'Blues it’s a great weekly programme - if you are debating whether to enter the digital age and buy an MP3 player for Christmas then I heartily recommend that decision and heartily recommend this radio programme.

Remember, podcasts are not just for your iPod you can play them on your computer.

I took a look through the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour website. They have an archive of the video and audio podcasts going back a few years. There are diamonds on those archives; I found two great video podcasts.

Show 169 features superb performances by Kim Wilson and Otis Taylor. Two fantastic blues singers with expressive soulful voices. Wilson is backed by the incredible Gene Taylor on Piano. For the encore the three of them play together.

Show 265 features Kim Wilson again, but this time backed by the very talented Troy Gonea on guitar.

The shows are quite long but very worth the download. Due to the size (about 150MB each) I would not recommend playing online. Kick off the download while you nip into the wine cellar to select a fine vintage, by the time you have chosen a wine, dusted off the bottle and allowed it to breathe for 10 mins the video wil be sitting there on your hard drive.

Right click the links to allow saving to your local drive.  If you are still on dialup then forget it. Broadband only, my friends.

When Dave Raven of Raven n Blues on BFBS Radio2 interviews a guest for his weekend blues radio show and podcast, he records about an hour of interview then makes an edited version to include in the main show. The genius idea is that he also makes the whole unedited interview available as a podcast.

I know that there are many Bonamassa fans in this region so pop on over to the download page to hear the interview with Joe Bonamassa and to hear him sing and play a few acoustic tunes.
Dave Raven’s Podcasts

Beardo and Spinner present a weekly podcast of blues. Click the banner to download or listen online.

Dave Raven on BFBS Radio 2 presents an excellent podcast Blues show each week.  For me the highlights are often the live sessions recorded on the houseboat.

Click here to go to the Raven’n'Blues website where you can listen, download or even subscribe.

JimmyC emails to announce the launching of his brand new Podcast, Jimmy says….

Hambone’s Blues Rumshack will concentrate on playing and promoting British Blues bands and internet sites for bands like Podshow, Garageband and MySpace.

Episode one featured tracks from Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Cephas and Wiggins, MG James, Dave Arcari, Lazy Poker and Shetland’s very own and the program house band the Rumshack Blues band.

I’m looking for bands to get in touch if they want to be played by supplying CD’s of their music, so if you could give me a mention on your blog and pass the word around of the podcasts existence I would very much appreciate it.

The link is at http://www.shetlandpodcaster.co.uk