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This week In One-Off Collaborations 09/52

Snoop Dogg & Gorillaz, Ed Sheeran, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Bonnie Raitt & Bo Diddley, Johnny Cash & James Taylor, Grace Slick & Hot Tuna, Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield, Rachelle Ferrell & Jennifer Hudson, Robert Glasper & Lalah Hathaway, Mary J Blige, Brandy, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Kahn, Cece Winans & Whitney Houston, Billy Joel & Roger Daltrey, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder & Tom Morello, Cody Jinks & Jamey Johnson

We Remember Louis Jordan. ‘Father Of R&B, King of the Jukebox’

This day (February 4, 1975), in Los Angeles, California, died Louis Jordan, a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and bandleader

Tracklist :

1 . Fish Fry(1966)

2 . Let The Good Times Roll

3 . w/ His Tympany Five - Buzz Me

4 . Five Guys Named Moe

5 . Fuzzy Wuzzy

6 . Rationblues

7 . Beware

8 . Caldonia (1946)

Tracklist :

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby . Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens . Choo Choo Ch'boogie . Caldonia . Saturday Night Fish Fry . Let The Good Times Roll . Knock Me a Kiss . Five Guys Named Moe . Run Joe . Stone Cold Dead In The Market .

This week In One-Off Collaborations 40/52

Toni Braxton & Michael Mcdonald, Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand, Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa, R.E.M. & Bruce Springsteen, Nelly Furtado & Dave Stewart, John Mellencamp & Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Sting & Stevie Wonder, Craig David & Sting, Tom Petty & Bo Diddley, Chris Cornell & Cat Stevens, Elvis Costello & The Police, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Gary Moore

Booze In Blues

From 'Beer drinkin' woman' to 'Youll Never Miss The Water Till the Wells Gone Dry' , we have mixed 15 'Blues Only' tunes around the theme of 'Beverages'. It has Jimmy Gordon , Tommy Johnson , Lightnin' Hopkins , Brownie McGhee and many more.

Boys Get The Blues, Girls Too

From 'Blues Boy s Tone' to 'Little Girl Won't Quit', we have mixed 18 'Strictly Blues' tunes around the theme of 'Boys & Girls'. It has Johnnie Taylor, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Minnie, John Primer and many more.

Singing (and playing) With Chuck Berry

John Lennon, Johnnie Johnson, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen , Tina Turner, Etta James, Sha Na Na, Keith Richards, Little Richard, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood, Bo Diddley

This month In Blues Legends 06/12

Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Bobby Rush, Johnnie Taylor, Gary Moore, Albert Collins, Lurrie Bell, David Bromberg, Albert King, Sippie Wallace, John Mayall, The Bluesbreakers, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Magic Slim, The Teardrops, Koko Taylor, Bo Diddley

We remember Chuck Berry. ‘Ageless Rocker & Bluesman’

This day (March 18, 2017), in St. Charles County, Missouri, died Charles Edward Anderson 'Chuck' Berryan American guitarist, singe, songwriter and rock and roll pioneer

Tracklist :

1 . Johnny B. Goode (1958)

2 . You Never Can Tell

3 . Roll over Beethoven (1972)

4 . Maybellene (1958)

5 . Sweet Little Sixteen

6 . No Particular Place To Go

7 . w/ Tina Turner – Rock n roll music

8 . Carol

9 . w/ Robert Cray – Brown Eyed Handsome Man

10 . w/ Keith Richards – Too Much Monkey Business

11 . w/ T-Bone Walker – Everyday I Have The Blues

12 . Hoochie Coochie Man

13 . w/ Eric Clapton, Keith Richards And Johnnie Johnson – Wee Wee Hours

14 . No Money Down

15 . Mean Old World (1972)

16 . Mean Old World (1986)

17 . Beer Drinking Woman(1972)

Tracklist :

Johnny B. Goode . You Never Can Tell .Roll Over
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This week In Soul Artists 33/52

Maxwell, Sly and The Family Stone, Grover Washington Jr., Tower Of Power, The Crusaders, King Curtis and The Kingpins, Ohio Players, Booker T and The MG's, Joe Tex, The Voices Of East Harlem, Larry Graham, Maceo Parker

His Wish List

From 'Give Me The Moonlight, Give Me The Girl' to 'Give Me A Break' , we have mixed 14 'Men Songs' tunes around the theme of 'His Christmas List'. It has Frank Galan , Bo Diddley, Noro Morales & His Orchestra, Ernie Johnson and many more.

Crossroads

Starting and ending with 'Crossroads' made famous by Cream, we made a playlist powered by Hittin'Around. It has The Nashville Teens, The Doors, Will Bradley Trio, The Doors and many more.

Africanisms

From 'Para Africa Traigo Mi Son' to 'Ritmo Africano' , we have mixed 18 'Tropical Rhythms' tunes around the theme of 'Africa meets Jazz meets Latin'. It has Tabu Ley Rochereau, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Eubie Blake and many more.

The Oedipus Complexity

From 'I'm Man' to 'Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut Oil' , we have mixed 19 'Jazz, Blues and More' tunes around the theme of 'Mothers & Sons'. It has Bing Crosby, Milton Brown, Neal Hefti, Mance Lipscomb and many more.

Ne Me Leave “Pas”

From 'It's nobody's fault but mine' to 'Please Don t Go', we have mixed 19 'Strictly Blues' tunes around the theme of 'Break-Ups'. It has Lightnin' Hopkins, Floyd Dixon, Popa Chubby, B.B.King and many more.

Harmonicating The Blues

Featuring Sonny Boy Williamson . Your Funeral And My Trial . Junior Wells . The Hoodoo Man . Hound Dog Taylor . Little Walter . Sonny Terry . Brownie Mcghee . Hootin' The Blues . Snooky Pryor . How'D You Learn To Shake It Like That? . Big Walter Horton . Shakey'S Blues . Lazy Lester . Lynwood Slim . Charlie Musselwhite . Gone Too Long . Jason Ricci . Harmonica . Solo . Corky Siegel . Hey Billie Jean . Powell St. John . San Fancisco Bay Blues . Kim Wilson . Blues Harmonica Blowout . Mark Wenner & The Nighthawks . Boogie . Ronnie Shellist . Gerry Hundt

This week In ’90s Throwback’ 17/52

Blur, Counting Crows, Sonic Youth, Pink Martini, The Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Luther Vandross, Barbra Streisand, Vince Gill, Peter Gabriel, Natalie Merchant, Michael Stipe, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Vega, Jewel