1. Bettye Lavette / Vanthology / Real, Real Gone
2. Van Morrison / Pay the Devil / Things Have Gone to Pieces
3. Etta James / the dreamer / In the Evening
4. John Mayall / The Turning Point / So Hard to Share
5. Tab Benoit / Medicine / Nothing Takes the Place of You
6. Aretha Franklin / Boxset / Day Dreamin’
7. Shaun Murphy / Livin’ the Blues / (title track)
8. Jason Isbell / Sirens of the Ditch / Hurricanes & Hand Grenades
9. J.B. Lenoir / Chess Blues Classics / Eisenhower Blues
10. Mike Zito / Greyhound / Judgment Day
11. Robert Randolph / Warren Haynes Benefit Concert Vol. 4 / Looking Out My Window
12. Neville Brothers / Yellow Moon / A Change is Gonna Come (Aaron Neville)
13. Sam Cooke / The Best of… / Twisting the Night Away (Sam Cooke)
14. Everly Brothers / Essential Cadence Singles / Brand New Heartache
15. Big Brother and the Holding Company / Monterey Pop Festival / Ball and Chain (Janis Joplin)
7. Mitch Gettman / Worn / Where Are You Now
8. Mitch Gettman – Live performance
9. Mitch Gettman – Live performance
10. Robin Trower / The Playful Heart / Maybe I Can Be a Friend
11. Muddy Waters / Folk Singer / Long Distance
12. Slim Harpo / Excello Singles / I Got Love if You Want It
13. Pinetop Perkins, Rusty Zinn, Ronnie Baker Brooks / Sweet Emotion / Walk this Way
14. Gary Clark Jr. / The Bright Lights e.p. / Don’t Owe You a Thing
15. Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials / Heads Up! / Four Leaf Clover
16. Smoove & Turrell / Eccentric Audio / Hard Work
17. Kenny Wayne Shepherd / How I Go / Show Me the Way Back Home
18. Rolling Stones / Exile on Main Street / Stop Breaking Down Blues
19. George Thorogood / 2120 South Michigan Ave / Let It Rock
20. Roy Trevino / (self titled) / Trinidad
21. Dave Keller / Where I’m Coming From / The Things We Do
On Monday, January 23rd Gettman plays Omaha's Slow Down Club. This will be Mitch's going-away celebration. Mr. Gettman is moving to the big city in search of his fortune - a journey of common experience across generations.
19. Omar Coleman / West Side Wiggle / She’s Too Fast for Me
20. Smoove & Turrell / Eccentric Audio / Slow Down
21. Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials / Heads Up! / Black Night
22. Roy Trevino / (self titled) / Trinidad
23. Colin James & Andrea Re / Exile on Blues Street / Tumbling Dice
24. Ana Popovic / Unconditional / Summer Rain
25. Robert Randolph & the Family Band / Warren Haynes Benefit Concerts, Vol. 4 / Looking Out My Window
26. Jim Stapley / Live / Love is Surrender
27. Joanna Connor & Crystal Talliefero / Dream On / Dude Looks Like a Lady
28. Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons / The Skinny / Moonshine Minnie
29. Tab Benoit / Medicine / Sunrise
30. Mitch Gettman / Worn / Where Are You Now
31. Mike Zito / Greyhound / Motel Blues
32. Jason Isbell / Sirens of the Ditch / Hurricanes and Hand Grenades
33. Robin Trower / the playful heart / find me
1. Johnny Winter / Roots / Bright Lights, Big City (feat. Susan Tedeschi)
2. Fiona Boyes / Blues for Hard Times / God & the Devil
3. Howlin’ Wolf / Chess sampler / Smokestack Lighting
4. Shaun Murphy / Livin’ the Blues / Taking Up Another Man’s Place
5. Aretha Franklin / Boxset / Don’t Play that Song (You Lied)
6. Son Seals / Vanthology / Queen of the Slipstream x
7. Quintus McCormick Blues Band / Put it on me! / Lady Blue
8. Fenton Robinson / Alligator 25th / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
9. Willie Nelson / A Vision Shared / Philadelphia Lawyer
10. Indigenous / Broken Lands / Let It Rain
11. Big Brother and the Holding Company / Monterey Pop Festival / Down on Me (feat. Janis Joplin)
> Birthdays
12. Bruce Springsteen / Born to Run / Night (Clarence Clemons)
13. Slim Harpo / Excello Singles Anthology / I’m a King Bee (Slim Harpo)
14. Rolling Stones / Exile on Main Street / Hip Shake (Mick Taylor, Slim Harpo)
15. Steely Dan / Best of… / Deacon Blues (Donald Fagen)
16. Long John Baldry / boxset / Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie (Baldry)
17. Lynyrd Skynyrd / Street Survivors / I Know a Little (Ronnie Van Zant)
18. Jimmy Reed / 60 Great R n B Classics / Baby What You Want Me to Do
Loads of new blues including music by; Sean Costello, Roy Trevino, Toronzo Cannon w/ Carl Weathersby and more. Heavy celebration of music by legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
Please note: the original tape for the opening version of 'Brown Sugar' starts and stops repeatedly. My fault..let it ride - you are getting what the band got after the original recording. Consider it a brand of authenticity. And no, this is not the Eric Clapton w/ Al Kooper jam version.
If you enjoy these online only special editions of Pacific St Blues & Americana - tell your friends.
Thanks for listening.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
1. Matt Schofield / Heads, Tails & Aces / Stranger Blues
2. Robin Trower / Playful Heart / The Turning
3. Koko Taylor / Alligator 25th Anniversary / Evil
4. Dr. Feelgood / Singles / Milk and Alcohol
5. Omar Coleman / West Side Wiggle / Crazy Mixed Up World
6. Muddy Waters / Chess Chicago Blues Classics / I Just Want to Make Love to You
7. Bo Keys / Got to Get Back / Catch This Teardrop
8. Smoove & Turrell / Eccentic Audio / Slow Down
9. Dave Keller / Where I’m Coming From… / If I Ever Got You Back
10. 112 North Duck / Gone Fishin’ / The Day I Lost You
11. Louisiana Red & Little Victor’s Juke Joint / Memphis Mojo / So Long, So Long
> Birthdays include; Jimmy Page, Syd Barrett, Donny Hathaway, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Robbie Kreiger (The Doors)
12. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway / Atlantic RnB, Vol 8 / Where is the Love
13. Elvis Presley / In Memphis / I’m Movin On
14. Rod Stewart / Reason to Believe / Gasoline Alley
15. David Bowie / Live in Philadelphia / Knock on Wood
16. Led Zeppelin / Live at the BBC / You Shook Me
17. The Doors w/ William S. Burroughs / Stoned Immaculate / Road House Blues
18. Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here / (title track)
19. Michael Powers / Revolutionary Boogie / Honey Bee
20. Sean Chambers Band / Live, Blues Warehouse / Dust My Broom
21. James Armstrong / Blues at the Border / High Maintenance Woman
22. Duke Robillard Band / Low Down and Tore Up / Do Unto Others
23. Sean Costello / At His Best…Live / You’re Killing My Love
24. Syl Johnson / Vanthology / Jackie Wilson Said
25. Lou Ann Barton / Sweet Emotion / One Way Street
26. Lucinda Williams / The Village / Positively 4th Street
27. Etta James / the dreamer / Welcome to the Jungle
28. Van Morrison / Pay the Devil / There Stands the Glass
29. Solomon Burke / 60 Greatest Classics / Hold On, I’m Coming
30. Mitch Gettman / Worn / Where Are You Now
31. Trombone Shorty / For True / (title track)
32. Toronzo Cannon / Leaving Mood / (title track)
33. Roy Trevino / (self titled) / Trinidad
34. Alastair Greene / Through the Rain / Stoneroller
35. Savoy Brown / Voodoo Moon / Natural Man
36. Carolyn Wonderland / Peace Meal / Two Train
1. Chris Thomas King / Atenbellum Postcards / How Does It Feel
2. J.B. Lenoir / Chicago Blues Classics / Eisenhower Blues
3. Louisiana Red & Little Victor’s Juke Joint / Memphis Mojo / No More Whiskey
4. Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons / The Skinny / Devil’s in the Detail
5. Dave Keller / Where I’m Coming From… / Too Weak to Fight
6. Soul of John Black / Good Thang / How Can I
7. Eugene Hideaway Bridges / Rock and a Hard Place / I’m HoldingOn
8. Toronzo Cannon / Leaving Mood / Do I Move You?
9. Indigenous / Broken Lands / Just Can’t Hide
10. Terry Reid / Superlungs / (title track)
11. Led Zeppelin / Live at the BBC / Since I’ve Been Loving You
12. John Rouse / Presenta El Tourista / Sweet Elaine
13. Bo Diddley / Chicago Blues Classics / I’m a Man
14. Kinks / Village Green Preservation Society / Picture Book
15. Pinetop Perkins, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Rusty Zinn / Sweet Emotions / Walk This Way
16. Aerosmith / Get Your Wings / Same Old Song and Dance
17. Jimi Hendrix / Axis, Bold as Love / Bold As Love
18. Rob Stone / Back Around Here / No Strings Attached
Like seemingly everything else, with the blues; the more it changes the more it stays the same. The on-going stigma of adding to the blues versus preserving the art form is in full force. Despite the anchor of history and the rigidity of the familiar, the albums which received the most airplay on Pacific St. Blues and Americana this year includes;
1. Tab Benoit, Medicine 2. Tedeschi – Trucks Band, Revelator 3. Quintus McCormick Blues Band, Put it on me! (True soul meets Chicago Blues) 4. Roy Gaines and his Orchestra, Tuxedo Blues 5. Robin Trower, the playful heart, and (His best effort since ‘Bridge of Sighs’ 6. Damon Fowler, Devil Got His Way
Blues song of 2011; Hadden Sayers, ‘Back to the Blues’ (featuring duet w/ Ruthie Foster)
Runner Up; 1. Roy Trevino, ‘Sin Ella’ 2. Smoove & Turrell, ‘Hard Work’ 3. Robin Trower, ‘Find Me’
Eye on the Horizon; 1. Gary Clark Jr. 2. Trombone Shorty 3. Russ Tippins Band, 4. Roy Trevino
Unsigned bands of significant note; 1. Smoove and Turrell, Eccentric Audio – New millennium Northern Soul (England) 2. Jim Stapley, Live – Paul Rogers (Free/ Bad Company) fronts Humble Pie (Steve Marriott / Peter Frampton) 3. Mitch Gettman, Worn 4. The Poorboys – (self titled) – “Englishicana” at its finest (Americana with a melody.)
Blues come-back records of 2011; 1. Hadden Sayers, Hard Dollar 2. Johnny Winter, Roots 3. Savoy Brown, Voodoo Moon
Playlist: An audio tour of 2012 Year in the Blues… 19. Roy Trevino / (self titled) / Trinidad 20. Savoy Brown / Voodoo Moon / Look at the Sun 21. Johnny Winter / Roots / Got My Mojo Working 22. The Jayhawks / mockingbird time / Hey, Mr. Man 23. Matt Schofield / Heads Tails & Aces / Not Raining Now 24. Gary Clark Jr / Bright Lights ep / (title track) 25. Robin Trower / Playful Heart / Find Me 26. Damon Fowler / Devil Got His Way / After the Rain 27. Roy Gaines & his Orchestra / Tuxedo Blues / Rats in My Kitchen 28. Mitch Gettman / Worn / Where Are You Now 29. Smoove & Turrell / Eccentric Audio / Hard Work 30. Jim Stapley / Live / Love is Surrender 31. Quintus McCormick / Put It On Me / Talk Baby 32. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Revelator / Until You Remember 33. Tab Benoit / Medicine / Nothing Takes the Pace of You
Podcast Summary
Pacific St Blues and Americana is Omaha’s roots music authority. We are a radio program that can be heard via' FM broadcast, online or as an archival podcast.
Broadcasting Sunday's 9 - Noon, 89.7 fm (Omaha market, CST -6 GMT) or online at www.897theriver.com.
• Musings and reviews at www.KIWRblues.blogspot.com.
• Playlists at www.OmahaBlues.com forum section.
Pacific St. Blues & Americana uses a wide playlist for historical reference (Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters) as well as contemporary blues (Joe Bonamassa, Keb Mo’) juxtaposed against Americana tracks (Lyle Lovett, Dave Alvin).
We also include up to three local or unsigned tracks per week in homage to Omaha’s powerful live music scene (Thanks Terry O!)
Catch all the latest new blues releases amid deep Classic Rock tracks (Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan). And hear about upcoming concerts.
In the first half of the second hour we celebrate the week’s birthdays.
Pacific St. Blues & Americana entertains and informs listeners while providing a Sunday morning soundtrack to coffee, newspapers and waking up. If you enjoy the show, “please tell your friends.”
Pacific St. Blues & Americana – “Omaha’s Roots Music Authority since 1989.”
• Recipient of the prestigious 2009 ‘Keeping the Blues Alive Award’ Public Radio.
• Awarded recognition by the Omaha Blues Society.
• Nominee, Nebraska Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
• Promoter of Record, ‘Indigenous Jam.’ (defunct)
• Co-founder and developer, ‘Playing with Fire’ concert series. (defunct)
• Dues paying member; Blues Foundation, Blues Society of Omaha, NETV, KIWR, KIOS, KVNO.
• Writer, Blueswax.com and others.
• Nomination Committee: Blues Music Awards 2011.
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In January 2010 this radio program, 'Pacific Street Blues & Americana' was the recipient of the Blues Foundation's 'Keeping the Blues Alive' award in the Public Radio category.
I am grateful for the friendships and recognition.
PS Blues started in 1989 and is now in its 23rd year.
Our show consists of a highly entertaining approach to roots music including blues. We know it is not a show that everyone will enjoy.
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