Come along for the ride as Tony Nielsen celebrates the music of blues legends
Show 49 - Big Bill Broonzy. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 48 - Junior Wells. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 47 - Midge Marsden. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 45 - Blind Willie Johnson. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 44 - Fleetwood Mac - featuring Peter Green. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 41 - Slim Harpo (James Moore). Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 40 - Paul Butterfield Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 39 - Mississippi John Hurt. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 36 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 2 - We continue to pay homage to Alec Miller or Sonny Boy Williamson. Last week I talked about Sonny Boy's early years in the South, meeting and learning from bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. His career took a leap forward in 1949 when he moved to West Memphis and scored a regular gig on Radio KWEM and lived wth Wolf. Sonny Boy brought some of his blues acquaintances to his radio show, names like Elmore James, Robert Nightyhawk and Arthur Big Boy Crudup. And he began his recording career with Trumpet Records. This in turn brought Sonny Boy to Chicago as the Chess Brothers bought the remnants of Trumpet's library when they went broke. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 35 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 1 - This is Episode thirty five, the first of two programmes dedicated to the harp player who called himself Sonny Boy Williamson, although his given name was Alec Miller, and he borrowed the name from John Lee Williamson, who recorded prolifically in the early 1940's as Sonny Boy Williamson. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 32 - Howlin Wolf (Chester Burnett) - Part 1. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 31 - Charley Patton. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 29 - Taj Mahal. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 25 - Led Zeppelin - Part 1. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 24 - Elmore James. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 23 - John Mayall. 'Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 21 - Skip James Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 20 - Otis Spann Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 17 - Memphis Minnie Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 15 - Magic Sam. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 13 - Bessie Smith Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 12 - Blind Lemon Jefferson. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 11 - Muddy Waters - Part 2 Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
BB King - Part 2. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 08 - BB King - Part 1. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 06 - Eric Clapton - I'm checking out the long and illustrious career of Eric Clapton. In fact I am spreading his story over this week's and next week's episode. After starting out in a bunch of local bands sixty years ago in 1963 Eric became part of a trio of ace guitarists who spent time in the Yardbirds, along with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and the recently departed Jeff Beck. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 05 - Bo Diddley - aka Elias Bates McDaniel was born in Mississippi in December 1928, but was adopted and then moved with his adoptive mother to the South Side of Chicago in 1934. His music chops started in his local Baptist church where he became proficient on the violin. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 04 - Slim Harpo - was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day".He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in blues circles as a "harp". His most successful and influential recordings included "I'm a King Bee" (1957), "Rainin' in My Heart" (1961), and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966), which reached number one on Billboard. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 03 - Little Walter - Marion Walter Jacobs, known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations ofwhat was possible on blues harmonica. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 02 - Albert King. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Show 239 - Diving deep into the band that Muddy Waters formed in 1946 not long after he arrived in Chicago. Leonard and Phil Chess started out with a label called Aristocrat. Muddy surrounded himself with the cream of the crop. It wasn't long before some of these sideman recorded their own songs once their session with Muddy had been completed. So today the music of Jimmy Rogers, Otis Spann, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Bob Margolin, Buddy Guy, James Cotton and bass player Willie Dixon.
Show 238 - Little Walter, Shemekia Copeland and Some Kiwi Blues - On this week's programme a mix of new music from Shemekia Copeland and “You shocked Me”, the latest Vizztone album by Bob Corritore and friends. I've discovered some great Kiwi blues bands. More from Tauranga's Kokomo, and introducing Aucklands The Flaming Mudcaps. Our classic blues double play heads to MississippiJohn Hurt's early recordings and ace guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
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