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The Roadhouse is "the finest blues you've never heard" - the best in independent blues bands from garageband.com. Produced weekly on Saturdays. Primary Format : Blues Language : English Also Listed as: Blues City : Iowa City State/Province : IA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Roadhouse Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Roadhouse Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Roadhouse 217 The 217th Roadhouse takes a turn down a narrow gravel road to ... a roadhouse. The selections in this virtual roadhouse would fit perfectly in any real roadhouse anywhere in the world. Walter Trout, Cyril Neville, Keb Mo, Muddy Waters, and W.C. Clark headline the bill in the 217th Roadhouse with a full slate of other great artists in support. It's an hour of blues bor and best experienced in the dark, hot, crowded little club we call The Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 216 Rising temperatures, longer days and the upcoming baseball season opener mean it's spring - and time for spring training. That little pile of songs that didn't get used in other shows perfectly fits the flow of the 216th Roadhouse. Junior Wells, Bobby Jones, Rod Price, Michael Bloomfield, Tad Robinson, and listener comments make for a great spring cleaning and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 215 New music and new listeners define the 215th Roadhouse. The hour is full with several blues label releases this week and the addition of another radio station to The Roadhouse Blues Network. Ronnie Earl&The Broadcasters, Mitch Kashmar, Bennie Smith, Billy Boy Arnold, Floyd Dixon, and several other great cuts from both new and old releases make for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 214 The Roadhouse stretches out a bit this week. We dig deeper than the usual 3- to 4-minute cut to uncover some great blues jams. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Damon Fowler, Howlin' Wolf, Bobby Parker, and Eric Lindell fill the hour, alongside listener comments. We stretch it out and mix it up in the 214th Roadhouse - another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 213 88 keys fill the 213th Roadhouse with true roadhouse blues. The tradition of piano in the blues stretches from the Delta to St. Louis, Chicago and beyond. We bring the beat-up old upright to center stage in this edition with Champion Jack Dupree, Big Maceo, Otis Spann, Speckled Red, and James Booker. The 213th Roadhouse lights up the blues by tickling the ivories for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 212 The 212th Roadhouse Podcast puts a tap in your toes with a selection of upbeat blues cuts. Duke Robillard, Eric Lindell, Jimmy Dawkins, Lightning Hopkins, and Michael Burks lead the hour. If you're new to The Roadhouse and a little unsure of what to expect, this edition reflects the founding philosophy of the show. It's a cutting-edge hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 212th Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 211 The tiny bandstand in the Roadhouse lights up with a range of blues broad enough to suit everyone. Big Jack Johnson&The Oilers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kelly Joe Phelps, Sugarcane Collins, and John Nemeth take the stage as the bartender pours shots, scowling at anyone who leaves the bar without leaving a tip. Before the waitresses put the chairs up on the tables, you'll have no doubt you've experienced another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 211th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 210 The 210th Roadhouse Podcast takes on a medicinal quality. Super Chikan, John Nemeth, Robert Lockwood, Bobby Jones, and Mitch Kashmar bring sunshine and warm temperatures to The Roadhouse even as the snow continues to fall outside. It's a perfect cure for late winter cabin fever - another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 209 The fifth year opens for The Roadhouse with a great variety of blues. Joanne Shaw Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Rishell&Annie Raines, and Rod Piazza&The Mighty Flyers peg the meters in the 209th Roadhouse Podcast. And, they'll keep you chair-dancing with another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 208 208 shows, 2000 songs, 175 hours of music, 33 hours of talk, 1400 hours of show preparation, 1,463,000 downloads, 90 gigabytes of shows. It all adds up to the 4th anniversary edition of The Roadhouse. Candye Kane, Rod Piazza, Watermelon Slim, Siegel-Schwall, and Marie Knight are among the favorites in this special edition. Their music and your words comprise the 208th Roadhouse - 4 years of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 207 The 207th Roadhouse is a good mix of past and future. I dig into the vault of the early shows, warming up for next week's anniversary show, and come up with some real gems. There are also four tracks from new releases and requests from Twitter and Facebook, the future of Roadhouse interaction. Joanne Shaw Taylor, Paul Rishell&Annie Raines, Ian Siegel, Toni Price, and Lonnie Brooks crank things up for the 207th Roadhouse Podcast, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 206 Though I often mix blues styles in a show, I don’t often mix blues eras. The 206th Roadhouse brings in a few more pre-war blues cuts, mixing them with artists who are clearly influenced by these early blues. Sparks Brothers, Bo Carter, Muddy Waters, Kim Wilson, and Willie Kent highlight the hour. We’re sticking a few pre-war milemarkers in the ground to mark our passage up the long road of the blues in the 206th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 205 We've got the sawdust on the dance floor, the spots shining on the little stage in the corner, the bartender pouring drafts and mixing drinks, and everyone dressed to the nines. It is Saturday night in The Roadhouse and we're going back to the roots of the show. Albert Collins, Elmore James, Jr., Jimmy Burns, Mighty Joe Young, and Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women headline the bill from that little stage in the corner, inviting you one by one to get up and dance in the 205th Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 204 In this edition of The Roadhouse, we go completely green, eschewing alternative fuels for a full hour of acoustic blues. Orville Johnson, Dion, Freddie King, Carey & Lurrie Bell, and Mississippi Fred McDowell power the hour - an hour of green blues, if you will - completely unplugged and acoustic in the 204th Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 203 The 203rd Roadhouse welcomes 2009 with a mix of blues from both the center and the edges. Frank Morey, The Holmes Brothers, Ryan Reardon & The Levee Breakers, Delbert McClinton, and Sleepy John Estes provide some great tracks. It's all in a year's work - a new year and a new hour of the finest blues you've never heard: the 203rd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 202 The 202nd Roadhouse Podcast closes out the year on a high note. Johnny Dyer, Canned Heat, Kinsey Report, Sue Foley, and Chris Cain lead the charge out of 2008 and into 2009. And, everyone gets an ad-free version of the show, as has been the tradition for the past few years. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 202nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 201 As the end of the year rolls closer, the mood of The Roadhouse shifts to one that's completely laid back. Aaron Morre, Mel Brown & The Homewreckers, R&B Bombers, Koko Taylor, and Shannon Boshears lead us through this edition with piano, guitar, harp, and great vocals. That makes for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 201st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 200 The 200th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast marks a strong year in the blues, with a look at my top 10 blues releases of 2008. We hold the milestone show celebration for the 4th anniversay in February and, instead, keep the spirit festive with more great blues Christmas cuts. It’s a celebration of the holidays and the best of 2008 in the 200th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 199 We mark the passing of a musical treasure in the 199th Roadhouse. In style and substance, we're making connections to Odetta. We also pick up the December Roadhouse tradition of holiday blues music. We feature Braithwaite & Whiteley, Frank Morey, Scrapper Blackwell, Sue Foley, and Charlie Musselwhite in this edition. Folk blues and Christmas blues make for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 199th edition of The Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 198 After two weeks of blues rock shows, The Roadhouse returns to basics this week with a strong hour of pure blues. Mighty Lester, Paul Rishell, Dave Fields, Cedric Burnside, and Aaron Moore are all part of the big broad picture of the blues and make for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard: the 198th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 197 The response to last week’s blues rock edition was so strong, I’ve got a follow-on this week. With some warm leftovers from last week and a few additional cuts from the library, the 197th Roadhouse is another strong blues rock edition. Omar and the Howlers, Bernard Allison, Robin Trower, Stephen Dale Petit, and Webb Wilder and the Beatnecks will propel you through 60 minutes with hardly any room to take a breath. Blues had a baby, you know, but it’s pretty much grown up into the music in th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 196 It's a blues rock edition of The Roadhouse, complete with some great harder cuts from Jason Ricci, Elvin Bishop, Tommy Castro, Oli Brown, Time Bomb. This is about as rock as we're ever gonna get in The Roadhouse, but it does make for an upbeat and pretty powerful hour of the finest blues -- rock -- you've never heard - the 196th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 195 It's been a big week in the US. The election of a new president would put smiles of surprise and joy on the faces of many of the artists who laid the foundation of our favorite musical genre. With new music from Dave Gross, Super Chickan, Paull Reddick, and Shannon Boshears, the 195th Roadhouse is a celebration of the musical form that's truly and originally American, but played and loved throughout the world. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The Roadhouse Podcast. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 194 The 194th Roadhouse Podcast is another high-variety edition, with a full hour of new and interesting blues. Son Seals, Matt Schofield, Super Chickan, Scrapper Blackwell, and Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater mark the diversity of this edition. It features artists who are new to The Roadhouse as well as a few old friends. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 194th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 193 The 193rd Roadhouse Podcast is one solid groove; a show that came together as if struck by a muse. With Elvin Bishop, Byther Smith, Smokey Wilson, Cedric Burnside, and Marie Knight, the pieces all fit together seamelssly for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 192 The 192nd Roadhouse features blues that transcends a region or a specific time. Consistently popular and continuously updated, swing blues was the early basis for The Roadhouse. This edition features some of the best, including Big Joe Turner, Jackie Payne, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, The Paladins, and Jay McShann. Just like me, you'll be grinning like a fool and chair-dancing throughout as the 192nd Roadhouse Podcast swings another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 191 The 191st Roadhouse is another edition featuring the physics of wire and wood. Elvin Bishop, Otis Rush, Ronnnie Earl, Paul Reddick, and Guitar Shorty pour pure physics into pure blues and, like alchemists, create pure gold. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 191st Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 190 The 190th Roadhouse features music from Canada to San Francisco, from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Chicago to Arkansas. Also, quite a bit of new blues - including 5 cuts that were either released in the past two weeks or have actually yet to be released. Keep you right out at the cutting edge of the blues. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 189 With the equinox occurring in the past week, The Roadhouse moves into its sixteenth season. And, consistent with years past, autumn and spring seem to bring the most new blues releases. Chris Juergensen, Magic Slim, Glen Terry, Elvin Bishop, and Rory Block supply new tracks to a show that's nearly all new tracks. Another season rolls in and The Roadhouse rolls on with the 189th hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 188 After a trip to Chicago, The Roadhouse takes on a nice relaxed feeling. Albert Cummings, Carlos Del Junco, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Big Jack Johnson & The Oilers, and Curtis Salgado reflect a certain distance from the world and a nice revitalization. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 188th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 187 The Roadhouse takes on the feel of a smooth shuffle beat like a steady guitar with a little harp for coloration. No big bumps and no sharp edges. We've got Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, new music Albert Cummings and Eddie Turner, Corey Stevens, Sean Costello. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 187th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 186 This week, we dig back into the vault for music from early editions of The Roadhouse. Artists from Garageband.com (now iLike) take a prominent role and prove to be as strong as ever. David Rotundo, Steve Johnson, Carlos Del Junco, Son House, and Eric Bibb propel us through this edition. Some old, some new but all blue in the 186th Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 185 As summertime in the US winds down and the presidential election season gears up, we build a little shelter from the world in the 185th Roadhouse. Jay McShann, Elvin Bishop, Lil Ed, JJ Grey, and Carlos Del Junco are the mortar between those bricks in that shelter, helping to hold together a solid hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Come on in - the blues will protect you in the 185th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 184 This hour of The Roadhouse is chock full of great blues by artists you've heard of and artists you haven't. It's music from Chicago and Dockery Farms, from St. Louis and Dallas, from the 1920s and 2008. Sometimes the essence of a thing is so clear it needs no further explanation or exploration. That's the deal in the 184th Roadhouse - it's blues, unaffected, pure and simple. Big George Jackson, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Magic Sam, Charley Patton, and EG Kight paint the deepest shades o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 183 The 183rd Roadhouse Podcast is an hour of brand new music. Music from the past few months and the months ahead make up a nice snapshot of the state of blues during four months in 2008. The hour includes Walter Horton, Alexis P. Suter Band, Carlos Del Junco, Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue, Big Dave McLean and some other surprises, including a few pre-release cuts from the Roadhouse family of participating blues labels. It's an hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 183rd Roadhouse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 182 We hop on a train in Chicago's Union Station this week, heading for points west. Crossing through the plains, the mountains and the desert, we arrive at the place where the Pacific meets the land, and blues meets jazz. West Coast blues fill the hour of the 182nd Roadhouse Podcast, with Jimmy McCracklin, Lowell Fulson, Johnny Otis, T-Bone Walker, and Sonny Rhodes welcoming us to the fine tradition of show blues. It's an hour of the coolest blues you've never heard on the California Zephyr - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 181 There's a full range of styles in this edition of The Roadhouse. Travis "Moonchild" Haddix, Percy Strother, Liz Mandeville, Erja Lyytinen, Holmes Brothers. It's all the marbles - the cat's eyes, the aggies, the jaspers, the steelies. Though you had to be a marbles player as a kid to understand from those terms, you'll certainly understand the variety of blues in this edition of The Roadhouse. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 181st Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 180 There's no particular place to go in this edition of The Roadhouse - no real plan or theme. There is, however, a solid hour of blues with a surprise around every corner. I've got Lonnie Brooks, Hubert Sumlin, Dave Gross, Bo Ramsey, Erja Lyytinen - just an indication of the variety of artists in the 180th Roadhouse. They may be diverse, but the artists all fit together nicely to form another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 180th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 179 It's the tiny instrument that most closely resembles the human voice in range, timbre and emotion. The harmonica takes center stage in the 179th Roadhouse, and it's an hour of hot blues harp. Watermelon Slim, Mississippi Heat, Big Dave McLean, Junior Wells, and Mannish Boys takes center stage as the backbone of the blues. It's an hour of fine harp playing, and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 178 We top off the tank this week to provide the necessary fuel for the upcoming 7 days. But don't worry - it's not nearly as expensive as the gas pump. We're pumping Jimmy Burns, Carol Fran & Clarence Holliman, Junior Wells, Jolly Jumper & Big Moe, and Robin Rogers into the tank of the '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues. It's a 98 octane edition of The Roadhouse and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 177 The 177th Roadhouse maps new territory – new artists to the show and blues styles I’ve not included in previous shows. JD & The Straight Shot, Steve James & Del Rey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, JJ Grey & Mofro, and a little Professor Longhair take us off in those different directions. Though the styles are different, the feel is the same – another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 176 As blues festival season gears up in the US, we create a festival of our own. Long days and bright sunlight create a perfect mood for Bluesiana Hurricane, Buddy Guy, Elmore James, Jr., Robin Rogers, and Oli Brown. In anticipation of my own trip to the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, the 176th Roadhouse is a festival all its own, and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 175 We shift up a gear in this edition of The Roadhouse, back to the hallmark of the show – the upbeat, uptempo blues that will keep you moving in your chair. Susan Tedeschi, Downchild Blues Band, Watermelon Slim & The Workers, Oliver Buck, and Rosco Gordon keep the pace moving, with some surprises along the way. It’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 175th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 174 In the face of a 500-year flood in Iowa City, we ratchet up the defiance of Mother Nature with an hour of great blues. Songs about floods, rain, rivers, and water fill the hour, bringing a sense of determination and resolve. Cuts from Bernard Allison, Big Mama Thornton, The Holmes Brothers, Toni Lynn Washington, Kansas City Joe and Memphis Minnie allow us to stare straight into the water this week and resolve that we will not be defeated. In defiance of Mother Nature - the 174th Roadhouse P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 173 The 173rd Roadhouse provides a little shelter from a tough old world. And, it's a lively shelter this week with Kenny "Blue" Ray, Big Jack Johnson, Joe Louis Walker, Eric Bibb, and Michael Burks. Throw in a little blues knowledge, a little conversation with that stoic man behind the bar, and a new member of The Roadhouse family of permissions-based labels, and you've got the perfect hour-long weekly escape. It's truly the finest blues you've never heard - the 172nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 172 The 172nd Roadhouse Podcast features new music from Homemade Jamz Bues Band and Janiva Magness, public domain music from Sister Rosetta Tharp, and great cuts from Elvin Bishop and John Hammond. With a groove from start to finish, it's truly another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 172nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 171 The 171st Roadhouse is a free-for-all of blues, featuring new music by Homemade Jamz Blues Band and Janiva Magness. Albert Castiglia, Duke Robillard and John Nemeth round out an hour of blues that will have you busy in your chair. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 171st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 170 The Little Blue House on the Wetlands is swathed in perfect summer sunshine this week. As a result, The Roadhouse takes a turn toward the youth and carefree attitude of the season. JW-Jones, Dani Wilde, Homemade Jamz Blues Band, Mike Zito, and John-Alex Mason provide a view of where the blues might be in the next few decades. It's a summer youth edition of The Roadhouse, and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 169 The 169th Roadhouse looks back at this week's Blues Music Awards, held in Tunica, MS on Thursday. Tab Benoit, Bubby Rush, Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Mike Zito, and Koko Taylor take the stage. Some new artists also get to share the spotlight with the legends and 2008 BMA winners. It's an award-winning edition of The Roadhouse and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 168 New blues reverberate throughout The Roadhouse this week. Unlike last week's edition, the 168th Roadhouse is primarily new blues releases. With new music from Eden Brent, Dani Wilde, Doug MacLeod, Julian Fouth, and JW-Jones, it's a good hour-long ride of cutting-edge blues music. And, it's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 167 For this edition of The Roadhouse, I've got an hour of introductions for you - a show full of artists who have never been featured. They're not necessarily new artists, but they're all brand new to The Roadhouse, and they're a good indication of the big broad world of blues lying out there on the horizon. Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings, Kevin Gordon, Grayson Capps, Darell Nulisch & Texas Heat, and Joe Calicott set the stage for another great hour of blues - an hour of introductions to artists ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 166 The 166th Roadhouse is a mess o' blues. It's pretty heavy on guitar and harp. It features youngsters and veterans, artists previously featured in The Roadhouse, and some new to the show. Sue Foley, Jason Ricci, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Sugar Blue, and a moving track from the final Sean Costello CD. It's an hour packed with blues - a mess o' blues - the 166th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 165 After a week away, The 165th Roadhouse starts at the beginning, runs through the middle, and ends at the end. It's a puzzle of blues that fell together seemingly on its own, including King Biscuit Boy, Sean Costello, Marcia Ball, Eric Bibb, and Cold Blue Steel. Those are just the milemarkers, though, in an hour-long trek through the finest blues you've never heard: the 165th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 164 While I take care of some family business in Colorado, we rewind one of the most popular Roadhouse shows posted. Enjoy the big guitars, and I'll be back to new shows next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse Announcement A brief announcement about show number 164 for April 5, 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 163 We roll into the streets of Chicago for a one-city edition of The Roadhouse. In the city where electric blues was born, we grab Johnny Shines, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Buddy Guy, and Koko Taylor to lead the show, with ten more great cuts from legendary Chicago blues artists. It's all about Chicago in the 163rd Roadhouse, and it's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 162 The Little Blue House on the Wetlands moves officially into spring this week, and the music in this edition reflects the volatility of spring in the Midwestern US. Johnny Nicholas & Little Walter, Cold Blue Steel, Michael Burks, Johnny Winter, Odetta are the featured artists. We're in little clubs, big studios, acoustic, electric, male, female. The perfect selection of music to match the wild moods of spring. Seasons may change, but the 162nd Roadhouse is another hour of the finest blues yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 161 There's plenty more new music in the 161st Roadhouse Podcast. Two more new releases from Alligator, a couple of tracks released in the past few weeks, and cuts from upcoming Northern Blues. Slick Ballinger, Marcia Ball, Samuel James, Jason Ricci, Michael Burks - a full picture of the blues, and much of it brand new. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 161st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 160 The 160th Roadhouse Podcast is a veritable showcase of new blues music. Fully one-third of the cuts in this edition are pre-release, or released only in the past week. Eddy "The Cheif" Clearwater, Roman Carter, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King, Bob Brozman, and Samuel James put the sawdust on The Roadhouse dance floor to good use: you'll want to move and dance for the full hour. It's an hour of the finest new blues you've never heard - the 160th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 159 The 159th Roadhouse Podcast is an upbeat affair. You might call it jump, you might call it swing, you might call it boogie. There's even a liberal sprinkling of West Coast blues. But if you follow the walking bass, you'll know that's it clearly a jumpin' edition of The Roadhouse. Mark Hummel, Jay McShann, Ana Popovic, William Clarke, and Rick Holmstrom will make you move and groove for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 159th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 158 The Roadhouse takes a twisy road this week. It's one of those editions where I started screening music and just let it lead wherever. Ivory Joe Hunter, Curtis Salgado, Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Ian Siegal and Matt Schofield, and Joe Louis Walker take the driver's seat to no place in particular. Destination or not, the 158th Roadhouse is yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 157 The Roadhouse 157 is chock full of new music, catching up on new releases from the past few months. Taking us deep into the Roadhouse atmosphere, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, Ian Siegal, Honeyboy Edwards, Rick Holmstrom, and Charlie Musselwhite encourage plenty of chair-dancing. It's the first edition of the fourth year of The Roadhouse, an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 156 The 156th edition of The Roadhouse celebrates three years of the finest blues you've never heard. The focus is on artists you probably heard first in The Roadhouse; some great music from Garageband.com, some artists who have taken the blues world by storm in the past three years, and some who had a great reputation among their peers but not a wider following. Artist, listeners and fellow podcasters participate in the celebration, as well. It's the third anniversay of The Roadhouse - the fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 155 923 miles straight south of Iowa City lies the biggest party in the country this week. We're heading to Mardi Gras in New Orleans for a celebration of all things zydeco, cajun, swamp, and boogie. Beau Jocque, Katie Webster, Clifton Chenier, Professor Longhair, and James Booker are part of the revelry of Fat Tuesday in New Orleans. Come on along for the king cake on Bourbon Street, the Krewe of Trucks parade on Canal Street, dubloons, beads, and total immersion in another hour of the finest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 154 The 154th Roadhouse investigates the mystery of a number pair: 6 and 3. It lies at the heart of the blues, but it's simplicity is deceptive. Son Seals, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Robert Johnson, Michael Bloomfield - all have mastered the essence of the blues that lies in these numbers: 6 strings and 3 chords. It's a mystical blues guitar edition of The Roadhouse, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 153 The 153rd Roadhouse slips off into the no temp zone. Temperatures in beautiful Iowa City, IA are hovering at 0 degrees Farenheit, with temps in The Roadhouse Studios at 58 F. But I've found few better ways to warm up the room than an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. This week, those cuts include Big Jack Johnson with Kim Wilson, Joe Pitts, Mason Casey, John-Alex Mason, and Carlos del Junco. New and old, hot and cool - it's the 153rd hour of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 152 The 152nd Roadhouse heads down the road to destinations unknown, stopping at every little greasy spoon along the way. The blue plate special this week includes Big George Jackson, Hubert Sumlin, Bee Houston, Z-Da, and Bo Ramsey. Of course, a great meal doesn't happen with morsels alone. There's plenty of other sustenance on the plate to fill you up in this, the 152nd hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 151 The 151st Roadhouse starts 2008 with an eclectic mixture of blues. Artists of all ages, from all regions, and representing many styles make for a solid mix of the finest blues you've never heard. Harmonica Red, Eli Cook, Doug MacLeod, James "Thunderbird" Davis, and Roman Carter represent the broad range of the blues in this edition - the 151st hour of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 150 It's the last show of 2007 and the 150th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. We merge those two milestones in this edition: a party feel to close out the year comprised of some of my favorite artists from the first 149 shows. As an added gift, subscribers to the ad-supported version of The Roadhouse get the ad-free Premium edition to ring in the new year. Kevin Mark, Billy Jones, Janiva Magness, Marie Knight, Mavis Staples - they're all important threads in the tapestry of The Roadhouse, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 149 The 149th Roadhouse falls into a time warp, with the clock moving through the hour with surprising speed. Joe Pitts, Son House, Mike Morgan & The Crawl, Roomful of Blues, and Memphis Minnie will leave you wanting more at the endo of another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 149th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 148 Purchase Mean Gene Kelton and the Die Hards' "Going Back To Memphis: A Biker Band Tribute To Elvis". Proceeds benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and Bikers Against Child Abuse The breadth of blues in the 148th Roadhouse Podcast might come as a surprise to new listeners, but the regulars know just what to expect. A great mix of music from David Wilcox, Watermelon Slim, Magic Sam, The Rounders, and Carey Bell. Plus, two new pre-release cuts from our friends at Alligator Records. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 147 Purchase Mean Gene Kelton and the Die Hards' "Going Back To Memphis: A Biker Band Tribute To Elvis". Proceeds benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and Bikers Against Child Abuse The 147th Roadhouse speaks the global language of the blues. Liquid Groove Mojo, Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Grady Gaines and the Texas Upsetters, Shemekia Copeland, and Chris Michie Band provide great blues music that everyone can appreciate and understand. We're counting down the shows remaining in 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 146 In the midst of a typically nasty snow and ice storm, The Little Blue House on the Wetlands heats up with a near-full slate of independent artists. B.C. Read, Bluesman Tom, Chainsaw Dupont, Chris Bell, and Long John Baldry are but a few of the great artists featured in this edition. It’s another hot hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard - the 146th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 145 The 145th Roadhouse mixes it up between new artists and old. The Rounders, Big Maceo, Big Bill Broonzy, Delbert McClinton, and Angela Strehli represent a full scope of blues. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 145th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 144 After a few weeks of tearing it up with electric guitars and jump blues, The Roadhouse slows down a bit. This edition is more acoustic, less electric. Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets, Kenny Neal and Billy Branch, Doug MacLeod, Mississippi John Hurt, and the Joanna Connor Band bring a mixture of the blues to the 144th Roadhouse Podcast that will carry you straight through another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 143 Blues doesn't have to be about an old guy on his front porch. Just to prove the point, this edition of The Roadhouse is chock full of upbeat jump and boogie blues. Lil' Cliff and the Cliffhangers, T-Bone Walker, Mighty Lester, Nappy Brown, and Peppermint Harris provide some of the best upbeat blues from yesterday and today. It's an uptempo hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 143rd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 142 The 142nd Roadhouse is an hour of big blue guitars. Acoustic, electric, uptempo, laid back, hard, soft - it's all here. Albert Cummings, Tommy Castro, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Robert Cray, Peter Green - some of the finest blues guitars you'l ever hear in another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, the 142nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 141 Some small format changes in this edition of The Roadhouse - all intended to keep me out of the way of the music. But that doesn't diminish the fine quality of the music. Johnny Laws, Mofro, Memphis Minnie, Long John Hunter, and Susan Tedeschi lead the way in another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, the 141st Roadhouse Pod cast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 140 This edition of The Roadhouse returns, in part, to the roots of the show. More than half the artists featured are truly independent. They’re the artists that are out every night, gigging in your local clubs, and scraping to put together the funds to finance the next CD. With Harrison Kennedy, J.D. and The Straight Shot, Brad Wilson, Paul Reddick, and The Deb Rhymer Band on tap, it’s truly independent’s day in the 140th Roadhouse - another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 139 This edition of The Roadhouse is served up as a series of seemingly unconnected threads. Step back, though, and it all starts to make sense. A little blues rock, some acoustic blues, some jump blues, a couple of cuts with a gospel tinge to them, maybe a little R&B. I can’t really pick out a theme, but they do seem to fit together pretty well under the ramshackle roof of The Roadhouse. James Harman, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Marie Knight, Hound Dog Taylor, Albert King - all great artists the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 138 You can ride the blues highway all week long, but the regular Saturday stop is a little dive with a small stage, a friendly barkeep and sawdust on the dance floor. You know that when the houselights go down, the temperature comes up and the opening chords fill the air, you’re in for another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. That little dive is The Roadhouse. Johnny Copeland, Buckwheat Zydeco with Sonny Landreth, Roman Carter, Roxanne Potvin, Mavis Staples crowd the little bandsta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 137 The 137th Roadhouse is one of those editions that starts on high and never lets up. Great blues music is a tough taskmaster. And the toughest taskmasters leave no mercy. So, brace yourself, because the hour ahead is driven by the merciless pace of the music. Henry Butler, Big Jack Johnson, Roman Carter, Louisiana Red, and James “Thunderbird” Davis show no mercy and take no prisoners as we roll through another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – The 137th Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 136 With the final summer colds invading The Roadhouse Studios, it’s time to call on the music to cure all ills – blues, blues, blues. Mason Casey, Kim Wilson, R.L. Burnside, Marie Knight, and Solomon Burke provide such a great motivation for chair-dancing that you might just anything that’s ailing you. It’s blues medicine in the 136th Roadhouse Podcast – the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 135 The Roadhouse takes on an international flavor in the 135th edition. Artists from Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and The Netherlands take center stage, proving that the great road of the blues is worldwide. Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, Kate Meehan, Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, Mike Andersen Band, and Angela Strehli lead the pack in an international hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 135th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 134 As we roll into September, baseball rolls into the final divisional races of the season. September in The Roadhouse always reminds me of the 7th inning stretch: a time when you hunker down for the final few innings of the game. September in Iowa is the time when you really become aware that hunkering down for the remainder of the year is just around the corner. This week, we prepare for the final months of the calendar with R.L. Burnside, Walter “Shakey” Horton, Larry McCray, Rory Block, Do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 133 This edition of The Roadhouse celebrates some big events in the past week. A new Roadhouse version (The Roadhouse Deluxe), the addition of M.C. Records to The Roadhouse Family, and a new terrestrial radio station pickup in KPVL, Postville, IA. To follow the big events, I’ve got big blues. Big Jack Johnson, Teresa James, Kim Wilson, Marie Knight, and The Bluesbusters will keep you rolling along for a full hour, completely immersed in yet another week of the finest blues you’ve never heard. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse Announcement An Roadhouse announcement, and general cleanup of items on my desk that I'd love to tell you about, but hate taking time in the show with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 132 I can’t really put a single frame around the mood of this edition of The Roadhouse, so let’s just say we’re diving into the cool deep pond of the blues. Nick Curran and the Nightlifes, Omar Kent Dykes and Jimmy Vaughan, Stacy Mitchhart, High Octane, and The Insomniacs provide the perfect backdrop to crack open a cold one, sit back and enjoy another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 132nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 131 It's another boogie blast edition of The Roadhouse. While some don't think of it right away, boogie blues are as integral to the genre as a lone man on his porch with an acoustic guitar. Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, Pee Wee Crayton, James Solberg Band, George Smith, and Jimmy Yancy give you the perfect opportunity to scuffle the sawdust on The Roadhouse dance floor. The 131st Roadhouse Podcast will leave you with no reason to act anything but the fool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 130 It's time to open up the vault in The Roadhouse, and feature classic blues. This edition features classic artists, classic cuts and classic styles, all while still providing the musical motivation to keep your toes tapping. Big Mama Thornton, Fenton Robinson, Freddie King, Memphis Minnie, and Son Seals throw the classic vault wide open for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 130th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 129 A Roadhouse perfect for chair-dancing is also the ideal accompaniment to your cardio routine. This upbeat edition features great cuts from Maurice John Vaughn, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Roxanne Potvin, Slick Ballinger, and R.L. Watson. A two-and-a-half-year labor of love rolls on with another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 129th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 128 I do love it when we get to introduce new labels to The Roadhouse family. This is one of those weeks, with the addition of Arhoolie and Fuel 2000. Both have great traditional and acoustic blues catalogs, and the 128th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast follows that trail. The tough tradition of the blues is showcased with Earl Hooker, Mance Lipscomb, Chris Bell, Etta James and Reverend Gary Davis. They were and visionaries, as are the newest labels to The Roadhouse family. It’s a tough tradit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 127 The hoppin’ little juke joint we call The Roadhouse is full of customers dressed to the nines. The crowded bandstand will keep you dancing on the sawdust dance floor for another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. As the bartender pours a steady stream of draws and shots, you’ll be entertained by North Mississippi Allstars, Memphis Minnie, Arthur Adams, Tinsley Ellis, and Sam Myers with Anson Funderburgh. There are just enough slow blues to pull that special person close for a danc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 126 A crossroads is a place where traffic can be pretty heavy, and where diversity converges. Traffic in The Roadhouse crossroads this week was heavy enough to bring down the database for a few days. The 126th Roadhouse is a real crossroads – a place where musicians from all over the world have converged for another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. New music from Mem Shannon, Ana Popovic, Elvin Bishop, and Matt Schofield. Plus some great cuts from Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Earl King ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 125 Only three words can describe the weather in Iowa this week: hot, hot, hot. Temperatures in 90s F have definitely influenced the 125th Roadhouse Podcast. Though I spent the morning pulling music in the air-conditioning with a huge glass of sun tea on the desk, the heat crept into the musical selections. Jimmy Witherspoon, Snooks Eaglin, Junior Wells, Chris Cain, and Curtis Salgado provide the weekly blues fix you’ve come to expect from The Roadhouse. A little guitar, a little harp, some big ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 124 We’re following the mood of the music in this edition of The Roadhouse. Twelve great contemporary blues cuts that blaze a path all their own. And, it’s a fine chair-dancing mood from start to finish. Tommy Castro, Duke Robillard, West of Memphis, Shemekia Copeland, and Charlie Wood lead the way in a show that’s filled with new blues music. Don’t let your co-workers look at you too funny when they catch you rocking in your own world to another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 123 If you’ve ever become a regular in any eating or drinking establishment, you’ll understand the underlying theme in this week’s edition of The Roadhouse. It’s all about the atmosphere that draws you in and keeps you coming back. Though it happens for a bunch of reasons, music is the most important element of the atmosphere in a roadhouse. And, the 123rd edition of The Roadhouse is all about that atmosphere. Patrick Vining, Maria Muldaur, Koko Taylor, Walter “Shaky” Horton, and Harper set a c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 122 Sometimes a mood just falls together as I’m pulling the music for The Roadhouse. That’s the case this week. Every cut I pulled was hard with guitars and bordering on the blues rock side of the crossroads. So, I followed what was clearly a mood in the 122nd Roadhouse Podcast, the “Rock You Right” edition. Omar and the Howlers, Tinsley Ellis, Louisiana Mean Tooth Grin, Popa Chubby, and Tracy Conover are gonna have you at the edge of your seat with devastatingly tough takes on the blues. This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 121 Sunshine fills The Roadhouse this week - summer sunshine. Inspired by an XM Radio set while driving home from work on Friday, I pull out the stops in this edition. Alex Wilson, Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Charles Avery, Eric Hughes Band, and The Mighty Lester fill the 121st Roadhouse Podcast with a definite summer feel. Some new summer releases add to all-out pursuit of summer fun. It's the 121st hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 120 In the first full week after the Memorial Day weekend in the US, we’re full-on into unofficial summer, full of sunny skies, long days, and a generally pretty upbeat mood. And, we break out the ‘57 Cadillac convertible of the blues for a long full-speed road trip down Highway 61. Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Robert Ward, Mark Hummel, Roy Rogers, and Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers are going to make it nearly impossible to avoid moving around in your seat. It’s a good the the ‘57 has hu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 119 Don't let anyone tell you that the blues is dead. The 119th Roadhouse Podcast provides ample proof that great labels continue to release great blues music. Whether they're pushing the blues off into new directions or sticking close to the roots, these new releases provide ample evidence of a thriving genre we call our favorite. E.C. Scott, Anders Osborne, Roxanne Potvin, Rick Holmstromm, and Smokin' Joe Kubek and B'Nois King provide both traditional and new blues in the 119th Roadhouse Podc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 118 We return the freewheelin' feel of The Roadhouse this week, with the Blues Music Awards shows behind us. Dave Hole, Hamilton Loomis, Anson Funderburgh, Roosevelt Sykes, and Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women are just some of the artists you'll love in this edition. It may be a tough genre to pin down, but you're sure to find each and every artist in the 118th Roadhouse Podcast deeply rooted in the blues - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 117 This week, we’re focused on the winners of the 2007 Blues Music Awards, though not exclusively. We pull the major winners into The Roadhouse, include some additional new music received this week, and say goodbye to a Chicago blues legend. Any way to you look at it, it’s another fine hour from The Roadhouse Studios in beautiful Iowa City, Iowa – the 117th Roadhouse Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse Spotlight: Candye Kane In the first edition of The Roadhouse Spotlight, who better to turn the spotlight on than an old friend of The Roadhouse, Candye Kane. With a new CD out in two weeks, it's a good time to take a look at the life and career of this blues dynamo. It's a new weekly feature in The Roadhouse - The Roadhouse Spotlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 116 It's a tailgate party for this week's Blues Music Awards in the 116th Roadhouse Podcast. This hour features artists nominated for the prestigious awards, including Ronnie Baker Brooks, John Mooney, janiva Magness, Slick Ballinger, and Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers. It may not be the finest blues you've never heard, but it is the finest of past year - much of which you heard first here in The Roadhouse. The 116th Roadhouse Podcast - celebrating the best of the best with a tailgate party f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 115 The 115th Roadhouse Podcast is a mish-mash of styles, including some overflow from Roadhouse 114. With just a few exceptions, this edition is less jump and a bit more serious than your normal Roadhouse. Some would call it a bit more blues, but I'd just call it another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Carey Bell, Hamilton Loomis, Rory Block, Luther Allison, and Roscoe Gordon take center stage in this hour, with several other great cuts rounding out the hour. Overflow or not, you' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 114 The 114th Roadhouse Podcast provides shelter from the storms of life in a world that seems to get tougher by the day. And, isn't the blues all about a little shelter? The walls of The Roadhouse are strong and the foundation firm with Billy Jones, Solomon Burke, Earl King, Watermelon Slim, and Anders Osborne. You can step right inside, pull up a chair at a table with some friends, and shed the cares of the world for another hour - the 114th hour - of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 113 With the grass getting greener, the temperatures rising and Major League Baseball into its third week, the things of most importance come to the forefront in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands. I call them the four Bs: blues, baseball, bikes, and my babies. Closing the gap on all four brings a very upbeat mood to The Roadhouse Studios. And that mood is refected in this edition of The Roadhouse. Roy Rogers, Lady Bianca, Henry Gray, Brad Wilson, and Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters all lif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 112 The 112th Roadhouse Podcast is all of a style - a rough edge to the blues. Whether it's music from old sources or new, it's all got that edge. Holland K. Smith, Koko Taylor, Kansas City Joe and Memphis Minnie, Kokomo Arnold, and R.L. Burnside take the lead with a handful of other great artists included. It's another hour of the finest - and toughest - blues you've never heard: the 112th Roadhouse Podcdast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 111 Old, new, it’s all blue in the 111th Roadhouse Podcast. This hour is chock full of fine blues, including some overlooked classics and cuts that have yet to be released. It’s also got some big names, including Solomon Burke, Johnny Copeland, Johnny Shines, Curtis Salgado, and John Hammond. Whether it’s new music to The Roadhouse or just plain new, these great cuts make for another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 111th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 110 It's been a huge week in The Roadhouse. With the addition of five more visionary blues labels to the permissions-base family of Roadhouse labels, the catalog of available music has increased by roughly 2,500 songs. That also means a boatload of music in this edition that I haven't been able to play until now, including Freddie King, Mike Morgan&The Crawl, Slick Ballinger, Dr. John, and Reverend Gary Davis. The 110th Roadhouse is, in fact, almost completely music new to the show from great n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 109 The 109th Roadhouse Podcast pays tribute to the visionaries - the labels who have made The Roadhouse possible by providing permissions, and the artists who make the music. Bernard Alliison, Carey Bell, Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor, and George "Harmonica" Smith are among a full slate of both contemporary and classic blues artists. It's visionaries all around - both labels and musicians - in the 109th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 108 Once again, we brush up against what might actually be a theme show in the 108th Roadhouse Podcast. It's a boogie blast, full of rolling piano, growling harps and all the uptempo jump blues you'll need to get through the week. This week's edition features Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo, Charlie Wood, John Long, Charlie Musselwhite, and The Twisters. Chair-dancing and steering-wheel-pounding is encouraged for this hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 108th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 107 The music of the 107th Roadhouse Podcast came as a series of small surprises throughout the week - cuts that popped up in the iPod and just stayed with me. They lead us down a bit mellower path than the past few shows, diverting us away for a week from the harder edge of recent shows. Sunset Travelers, Sue Foley, Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie, Dave Gross, and Harry Manx take the lead in yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 107 The music of the 107th Roadhouse Podcast came as a series of small surprises throughout the week - cuts that popped up in the iPod and just stayed with me. They lead us down a bit mellower path than the past few shows, diverting us away for a week from the harder edge of recent shows. Sunset Travelers, Sue Foley, Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie, Dave Gross, and Harry Manx take the lead in yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 106 A brutal winter storm sweeps into the Midestern US this weekend, leaving The Roadhouse Studios encased in a solid block of ice. But, the music keeps the place hot an hopping. Luther Allison, Rory Block and Bob Margolin lead the way, with additional new music from Billy Jones, Tommy Castro and JJ Grey and Mofro. If you're in a cold clime, stay inside and chair dance. If it's warm where you live, take it outside and think of the frozen Roadhouse Studios when you do. It's another hour of the f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 106 A brutal winter storm sweeps into the Midestern US this weekend, leaving The Roadhouse Studios encased in a solid block of ice. But, the music keeps the place hot an hopping. Luther Allison, Rory Block and Bob Margolin lead the way, with additional new music from Billy Jones, Tommy Castro and JJ Grey and Mofro. If you're in a cold clime, stay inside and chair dance. If it's warm where you live, take it outside and think of the frozen Roadhouse Studios when you do. It's another hour of the f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 105 The 105th Roadhouse Podcast starts year three with a broad view of the blues. Those broad stylings start with great cuts from Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s, Blind Willie McTell, Tommy Castro, Snooky Pryor, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. Strong and lean from that starting point, the 105th Roadhouse Podcast is a little more than an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 105 The 105th Roadhouse Podcast starts year three with a broad view of the blues. Those broad stylings start with great cuts from Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s, Blind Willie McTell, Tommy Castro, Snooky Pryor, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. Strong and lean from that starting point, the 105th Roadhouse Podcast is a little more than an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 104 Two years on, the Roadhouse rolls on with an edition that rolls back the calendar. The two-year anniversay of The Roadhouse is an hour of some of my favorites fro the previous 103 editions, but certainly not all. Some of the great artists include Joe White, Susan Tedeschi, Kelly Richey Band, Shannon Boshears, and Johnny Nicholas. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed, listened, mentioned, or written about The Roadhouse since its inception. It's not the finest blues you've never heard, but i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 104 Two years on, the Roadhouse rolls on with an edition that rolls back the calendar. The two-year anniversay of The Roadhouse is an hour of some of my favorites fro the previous 103 editions, but certainly not all. Some of the greatartists include Joe White, Susan Tedeschi, Kelly Richey Band, Shannon Boshears, and Johnny Nicholas. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed, listened, mentioned, or written about The Roadhouse since its inception. It's not the finest blues you've never heard, but it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 103 A chance meeting this week provides strong motivation to smoke the place up this week. We’re rolling with Formerly Brothers, Double Trouble, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, and new music from Tommy Castro and JJ Grey & Mofro. The next to last show of the second year of The Roadhouse is the 103rd hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 103 A chance meeting this week provides strong motivation to smoke the place up this week. We’re rolling with Formerly Brothers, Double Trouble, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, and new music from Tommy Castro and JJ Grey&Mofro. The next to last show of the second year of The Roadhouse is the 103rd hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 102 Temperatures in beautiful Iowa City, IA are headed toward single digits Farenheit. That means we need fuel for the blues furnace. And, we've got it this week in the form of Koko Taylor, Eddie C. Campbell, Billy Boy Arnold, Smokey Wilson, and Lowell Fulson. I've got details on a Roadhouse event upcoming this week, as well. You can easily participate, so listen closely. Hot blues and a great community - it's the stuff of another hour of the finest blues you've never heard: the 102nd Roadhouse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 102 Temperatures in beautiful Iowa City, IA are headed toward single digits Farenheit. That means we need fuel for the blues furnace. And, we've got it this week in the form of Koko Taylor, Eddie C. Campbell, Billy Boy Arnold, Smokey Wilson, and Lowell Fulson. I've got details on a Roadhouse event upcoming this week, as well. You can easily participate, so listen closely. Hot blues and a great community - it's the stuff of another hour of the finest blues you've never heard: the 102nd Roadhouse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast Things are still winding down in The Roadhouse from the excitement of the 100th edition. Since we just can't maintain the pace of that edition in every show, I'm mixing it up in the 101st edition with more variety in tempo and style. Pee Wee Crayton, Tom Doughty, Otis Taylor, E.C. Scott, and Chris Beard set the varied pace. Mixin' it up in the 101st Roadhouse Podcast, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 101 Things are still winding down in The Roadhouse from the excitement of the 100th edition. Since we just can't maintain the pace of that edition in every show, I'm mixing it up in the 101st edition with more variety in tempo and style. Pee Wee Crayton, Tom Doughty, Otis Taylor, E.C. Scott, and Chris Beard set the varied pace. Mixin' it up in the 101st Roadhouse Podcast, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 100 The 100th Roadhouse Podcast is a party. Hop in as we roll the '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues, top down and full speed, straight down highway 61. Double Trouble, Tommy Castro, Roscoe Chenier, and Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials headline the party, without so much as a break in the pace. It's the 100th party in The Roadhouse - 100 hours of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 100 The 100th Roadhouse Podcast is a party. Hop in as we roll the '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues, top down and full speed, straight down highway 61. Double Trouble, Tommy Castro, Roscoe Chenier, and Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials headline the party, without so much as a break in the pace. It's the 100th party in The Roadhouse - 100 hours of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 099 The 99th Roadhouse Podcast digs up some blues gems to fill your hour. Deborah Coleman, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Mitch Kashmar, Frankie Lee, and John Jackson lead us through another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Be sure to leave your comments on the show at (501) 588-2251 for inclusion in the upcoming 100th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 099 The 99th Roadhouse Podcast digs up some blues gems to fill your hour. Deborah Coleman, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Mitch Kashmar, Frankie Lee, and John Jackson lead us through another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Be sure to leave your comments on the show at (501) 588-2251 for inclusion in the upcoming 100th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 098 The 98th Roadhouse Podcast puts 2006 to rest with a review of some of the great music you've heard over the past twelve months. Eddie Turner, Johnny Nicholas, Rory Block, Candye Kane, and Guitar Shorty help user out the old year. It's a party in the 98th Roadhouse Podcast - a full hour of the finest blues ... you've heard in 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 098 The 98th Roadhouse Podcast puts 2006 to rest with a review of some of the great music you've heard over the past twelve months. Eddie Turner, Johnny Nicholas, Rory Block, Candye Kane, and Guitar Shorty help user out the old year. It's a party in the 98th Roadhouse Podcast - a full hour of the finest blues ... you've heard in 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 097 As I'm off work for two weeks, I've had plenty of time in the past few days to dig up some great music for the year-ending 97th Roadhouse Podcast. Billy Boy Arnold, Kelly Pardekooper, Kirk Fletcher, Coco Montoya, and The Holmes Brothers lead the finest blues you've never heard. It's the usual broad mix and, as always, the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 097 As I'm off work for two weeks, I've had plenty of time in the past few days to dig up some great music for the year-ending 97th Roadhouse Podcast. Billy Boy Arnold, Kelly Pardekooper, Kirk Fletcher, Coco Montoya, and The Holmes Brothers lead the finest blues you've never heard. It's the usual broad mix and, as always, the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 096 The Christmas edition of The Roadhouse Podcast rolls from The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week. 096 Is a mixture of Christamas music, rewound cuts, brand new music, and listener requests. The lineup includes W.C. Clark, Dave Gross, Carey Bell, Candye Kane, and Calvin Owens, among other great artists. Enjoy another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, and have a safe and happy holiday week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 096 The Christmas edition of The Roadhouse Podcast rolls from The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week. 096 Is a mixture of Christamas music, rewound cuts, brand new music, and listener requests. The lineup includes W.C. Clark, Dave Gross, Carey Bell, Candye Kane, and Calvin Owens, among other great artists. Enjoy another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, and have a safe and happy holiday week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 095 The mixture of blues styles in this week's Roadhouse Podcast might just qualify it as a blues mashup. Eddie Turner, Big Bill Morganfield, Chris Juergensen, Lonnie Brooks, and Muddy Waters lay the foundation that lets you escape from the big world for another hour of mystical musical therapy. It's the finest blues you've never heard - the 95th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 095 The mixture of blues styles in this week's Roadhouse Podcast might just qualify it as a blues mashup. Eddie Turner, Big Bill Morganfield, Chris Juergensen, Lonnie Brooks, and Muddy Waters lay the foundation that lets you escape from the big world for another hour of mystical musical therapy. It's the finest blues you've never heard - the 95th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 094 There's nothing like a little technical adversity throughout the week to bring out a full appreciation of the musical part of The Roadhouse. After a hosting change, we're back on track to deliver another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. This week's headliners include Phantom Blues Band, Billy Boy Arnold, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Curly Bridges, and Lowell Fulson. Tap your foot, snap your fingers, nod your head, or chair-dance wherever you might be - it's the 94th edition of The Roadh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 094 There's nothing like a little technical adversity throughout the week to bring out a full appreciation of the musical part of The Roadhouse. After a hosting change, we're back on track to deliver another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. This week's headliners include Phantom Blues Band, Billy Boy Arnold, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Curly Bridges, and Lowell Fulson. Tap your foot, snap your fingers, nod your head, or chair-dance wherever you might be - it's the 94th edition of The Roadh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 093 The 93rd Roadhouse Podcast is full of blues of all shapes and sizes. But the cuts are tied together by one common color: electric blue. If they're not full electric blues cuts, they're definitely electrifying. Michael Burks, The Teague Stefan Band, Duke Robillard, Walter Trout, and Boo Boo Davis put a drain on the local power company and leave your mp3 player gasping for juice. It's the Electric Blue edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 092 A boogie mood sweeps over the 92nd Roadhouse Podcast, punctuated by the occasional approving squeals of my daughter. Gary Primich, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, and Ronnie Earl set the tone. We also welcome a new label to The Roadhouse family - Stony Plain Records. Be prepared to boogie in the 92nd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 092 A boogie mood sweeps over the 92nd Roadhouse Podcast, punctuated by the occasional approving squeals of my daughter. Gary Primich, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, and Ronnie Earl set the tone. We also welcome a new label to The Roadhouse family - Stony Plain Records. Be prepared to boogie in the 92nd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 091 With the cold weather of an Iowa winter starting to set in, Saturday afternoons mean a hot pot of coffee and some of the hottest blues around. This week’s heat: Shane Pruitt, Dave MacKenzie, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Shemekia Copeland, James Solberg, and other great blues artists. Whether or not you live in a cold-weather area, this edition will keep you warm and dancing in your chair. It’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 91st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 091 With the cold weather of an Iowa winter starting to set in, Saturday afternoons mean a hot pot of coffee and some of the hottest blues around. This week’s heat: Shane Pruitt, Dave MacKenzie, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Shemekia Copeland, James Solberg, and other great blues artists. Whether or not you live in a cold-weather area, this edition will keep you warm and dancing in your chair. It’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 91st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 090 It's time to just tune out the world for an hour, and the 90th Roadhouse Podcast provides the perfect opportunity. Toni Lynn Washington, Bernard Allison, Buddy Guy&Junior Wells, North Mississippi Allstars, and the Billy Gibson Band provide a perfect escape from politics, strife - even the boss. It's a little more than an hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 90th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 090 It's time to just tune out the world for an hour, and the 90th Roadhouse Podcast provides the perfect opportunity. Toni Lynn Washington, Bernard Allison, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, North Mississippi Allstars, and the Billy Gibson Band provide a perfect escape from politics, strife - even the boss. It's a little more than an hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 90th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 089 The Roadhouse Studios are infused with joy this week at the World Series win of the St. Louis Cardinals. That joy makes for an upbeat show, with little room for slow blues. New music from Inside Sounds leads the way with Charlie Wood, The Billy Gibson Band and The Daddy Mack Blues Band. Professor Longhair & Jimmy Thackery with The Cate Brothers also take the bandstand with loads of great music to follow. It's a home run in the 89th Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 089 The Roadhouse Studios are infused with joy this week at the World Series win of the St. Louis Cardinals. That joy makes for an upbeat show, with little room for slow blues. New music from Inside Sounds leads the way with Charlie Wood, The Billy Gibson Band and The Daddy Mack Blues Band. Professor Longhair&Jimmy Thackery with The Cate Brothers also take the bandstand with loads of great music to follow. It's a home run in the 89th Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 088 Boosted by a prime placement on the front page of the iTunes podcast directory, The Roadhouse listenership is taking off like a rocket. Fueled by great artists like Eric Burdon, Katie Webster, Creighton Lindsay, Arthur Adams, and Plainfield Slim, we'll just call this "The Rocket 88 Edition." To the thousand-plus new Roadhouse listeners, welcome. It's the 88th hour of The Roadhouse Podcast - yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 088 Boosted by a prime placement on the front page of the iTunes podcast directory, The Roadhouse listenership is taking off like a rocket. Fueled by great artists like Eric Burdon, Katie Webster, Creighton Lindsay, Arthur Adams, and Plainfield Slim, we'll just call this "The Rocket 88 Edition." To the thousand-plus new Roadhouse listeners, welcome. It's the 88th hour of The Roadhouse Podcast - yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 087 There's been a cold snap in beautiful Iowa City, Iowa this week. But that only marks the passage of the calendar and the start of the baseball playoffs. With my beloved St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series, I stack The Roadhouse lineup card with Lonnie Brooks, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, The Teague Stefan Band, Erskine Oglesby, and Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. It's a lineup that makes for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 87th Roadhouse Podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 087 There's been a cold snap in beautiful Iowa City, Iowa this week. But that only marks the passage of the calendar and the start of the baseball playoffs. With my beloved St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series, I stack The Roadhouse lineup card with Lonnie Brooks, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, The Teague Stefan Band, Erskine Oglesby, and Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. It's a lineup that makes for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 87th Roadhouse Podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 086 The home of The Roadhouse Studios, beautiful Iowa City, Iowa, really is beautiful this time of year. The temperatures are perfect and the foliage is alive in reds and greens and golds. The foliage in this edition of The Roadhouse is great, as well, with Guitar Shorty, Teresa James, Hubert Sumlin, Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, and Mem Shannon.The seasons are changing but, as always, The Roadhouse delivers another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 086 The home of The Roadhouse Studios, beautiful Iowa City, Iowa, really is beautiful this time of year. The temperatures are perfect and the foliage is alive in reds and greens and golds. The foliage in this edition of The Roadhouse is great, as well, with Guitar Shorty, Teresa James, Hubert Sumlin, Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, and Mem Shannon.The seasons are changing but, as always, The Roadhouse delivers another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 085 No theme shows, here, but this one could be. It's loose and light - built to roll and tumble right on through an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Ronnie Baker Brooks, Rory Block, Steve Arvey, Mean Gene Kelton, and Lonnie Mack will keep you dancin' in your chair. It's the 85th Roadhouse Podcast - the 85th consecutive week of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 085 No theme shows, here, but this one could be. It's loose and light - built to roll and tumble right on through an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Ronnie Baker Brooks, Rory Block, Steve Arvey, Mean Gene Kelton, and Lonnie Mack will keep you dancin' in your chair. It's the 85th Roadhouse Podcast - the 85th consecutive week of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 084 It's a good time to be a blues fan. With 84 editions of The Roadhouse, satellite radio channels dedicated to the blues, and new blues podcasts coming online every month, you're likely to hear more blues in a week than in any time in the past 40 years. But this is the week that will make you crank up the iPod, crack open a brew and chair-dance to your heart's content. The Teague Stefan Band, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Doug MacLeod, Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, and Larry Garner will make you g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 084 It's a good time to be a blues fan. With 84 editions of The Roadhouse, satellite radio channels dedicated to the blues, and new blues podcasts coming online every month, you're likely to hear more blues in a week than in any time in the past 40 years. But this is the week that will make you crank up the iPod, crack open a brew and chair-dance to your heart's content. The Teague Stefan Band, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Doug MacLeod, Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, and Larry Garner will make you g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 083 With fall on the way in the midwestern US, the landscape is about to reveal its amazing diversity of foliage and colors. Likewise, I roll out a colorful diveristy of blues styles in the 83rd Roadhouse Podcast including Roy Rogers, Tommy Castro, Cephas and Wiggins, Janiva Magness, and Mike Andersen Band. It's electric and acoustic, traditional and contemporary, male and female, smooth and rough. All in all, it's a full hour of a converging diversity of styles and sound, but it's all blue - t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 083 With fall on the way in the midwestern US, the landscape is about to reveal its amazing diversity of foliage and colors. Likewise, I roll out a colorful diveristy of blues styles in the 83rd Roadhouse Podcast including Roy Rogers, Tommy Castro, Cephas and Wiggins, Janiva Magness, and Mike Andersen Band. It's electric and acoustic, traditional and contemporary, male and female, smooth and rough. All in all, it's a full hour of a converging diversity of styles and sound, but it's all blue - t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 082 It's a monumental edition of The Roadhouse - the official unveiling of The Roadhouse Premium. In celebration, we climb into the unofficial '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues and make a coast-to-coast road trip. Leading the way: Oscar Jordan, Boo Boo Davis, Rita Chiarelli, Marcia Ball, and the JW-Jones Blues Band. The scope of styles is breathtaking, but it's all part of the fabric of the blues. It certainly makes for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 082 It's a monumental edition of The Roadhouse - the official unveiling of The Roadhouse Premium. In celebration, we climb into the unofficial '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues and make a coast-to-coast road trip. Leading the way: Oscar Jordan, Boo Boo Davis, Rita Chiarelli, Marcia Ball, and the JW-Jones Blues Band. The scope of styles is breathtaking, but it's all part of the fabric of the blues. It certainly makes for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 081 It's the Labor Day Weekend in the US. In The Roadhouse, we're celebrating the labor of love of some top-notch blues musicians. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Shemekia Copeland, Sleepy John Estes, The Smokehouse Ramblers, and Larry Garner take the stage for the benefit of your mental health. There's new sawdust on the dance floor and cold beverages for your enjoyment. It's the 81st Roadhouse Podcast - the 81st hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 081 It's the Labor Day Weekend in the US. In The Roadhouse, we're celebrating the labor of love of some top-notch blues musicians. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Shemekia Copeland, Sleepy John Estes, The Smokehouse Ramblers, and Larry Garner take the stage for the benefit of your mental health. There's new sawdust on the dance floor and cold beverages for your enjoyment. It's the 81st Roadhouse Podcast - the 81st hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 080 I've taken a long weekend to sail Lake Michigan off Racine, Wisconsin. But, you know I'd never leave you without The Roadhouse. I'm the blues pusher-man who fixes your weekly jones. And, this week, it's the high-grade stuff. Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, Charlie Musselwhite, Lightnin' Hopkins, Luther Allison, Elvin Bishop and nine other artists fill out the hour. Fourteen cuts, one full hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 080 I've taken a long weekend to sail Lake Michigan off Racine, Wisconsin. But, you know I'd never leave you without The Roadhouse. I'm the blues pusher-man who fixes your weekly jones. And, this week, it's the high-grade stuff. Jimi "Prime Time" Smith, Charlie Musselwhite, Lightnin' Hopkins, Luther Allison, Elvin Bishop and nine other artists fill out the hour. Fourteen cuts, one full hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 079 The 79th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast is tough and loose. Let's just say we're chair-dancing on the ragged edge in this edition. Alvin Youngblood Hart, Stephen Dale Petit, Big Bill Broonzy, John Long, and The Love Dogs step out front and center. I've also got some news about The Roadhouse for you. Tough and loose, old and new, show news - it really is another week in The Roadhouse. Another week of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 078 The 78th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast provides a little shelter from the storm - the storm of a tough old world that seemed to get even tougher and colder in the past week. Though The Roadhouse might be a little rundown shack at the end of the street, the roof doesn't leak and the wind doesn't race through the windows. That's because it's built on a foundation of great blues, including Ronnie Baker Brooks, Son Seals, Ian Siegel, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Stephen Dale Petit. We re-glaze ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 078 The 78th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast provides a little shelter from the storm - the storm of a tough old world that seemed to get even tougher and colder in the past week. Though The Roadhouse might be a little rundown shack at the end of the street, the roof doesn't leak and the wind doesn't race through the windows. That's because it's built on a foundation of great blues, including Ronnie Baker Brooks, Son Seals, Ian Siegel, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Stephen Dale Petit. We re-glaze ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 077 This edition of The Roadhouse Podcast is like a solid wooden floor: every tongue fits perfectly into the groove next to it, and it all provides a solid foundation to keep your weekly blues jones satisfied. Quite a few artists who provided the solid foundation for blues into the 21st century participate this week, including Hubert Sumlin, Dave MacKenzie, Luther Allison, Mavis Staples, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. While you've heard of the artists, you might not have heard the cuts in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 077 This edition of The Roadhouse Podcast is like a solid wooden floor: every tongue fits perfectly into the groove next to it, and it all provides a solid foundation to keep your weekly blues jones satisfied. Quite a few artists who provided the solid foundation for blues into the 21st century participate this week, including Hubert Sumlin, Dave MacKenzie, Luther Allison, Mavis Staples, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. While you've heard of the artists, you might not have heard the cuts in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 076 For the fourth week in a row, the temperatures outside The Roadhouse Studios are well into the 90s, with no less than 80% humidity. In fact, the entire US is gripped in a heat wave that just won't stop. But, the 76th Roadhouse Podcast is like the ice cubes in your sweet sun tea. Bo Ramsey, Boogie Woogie Red, W.C. Clark, Coco Montoya, and Glamour Puss are the cool oases in the heat. With opressive and unchanging weather around The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, the summer plan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 076 For the fourth week in a row, the temperatures outside The Roadhouse Studios are well into the 90s, with no less than 80% humidity. In fact, the entire US is gripped in a heat wave that just won't stop. But, the 76th Roadhouse Podcast is like the ice cubes in your sweet sun tea. Bo Ramsey, Boogie Woogie Red, W.C. Clark, Coco Montoya, and Glamour Puss are the cool oases in the heat. With opressive and unchanging weather around The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, the summer plan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 075 It's the 75th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - the diamond edition. And, diamonds are a fitting analogy. The world outside The Roadhouse creates great pressure, pushing out all but the purest blues carbon. The result is music that's as tough and beautiful as the world's hardest mineral. This week, the carbon is comprised of Debbie Davies, Bo Ramsey, Steve Arvey, Henry Gray, and Gonstermachers. The Roadhouse Rewound segment will definitely have your toes tapping. And, for the second week i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 075 It's the 75th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - the diamond edition. And, diamonds are a fitting analogy. The world outside The Roadhouse creates great pressure, pushing out all but the purest blues carbon. The result is music that's as tough and beautiful as the world's hardest mineral. This week, the carbon is comprised of Debbie Davies, Bo Ramsey, Steve Arvey, Henry Gray, and Gonstermachers. The Roadhouse Rewound segment will definitely have your toes tapping. And, for the second week i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 074 After a 60-hour work week, it's great to be back in The Roadhouse Studios. Though life can be a tough road, The Roadhouse offers a bit of shelter from the world and a way to relax after your own trying week. I did manage to bring a bit of that tough edge into the show, though. Hard urban blues by folks like Pete Cornelius, Roy Buchanan and Walter Trout are counterbalanced by Watermelon Slim and Archie Edwards. A listener comment, another Roadhouse Rewound and a little useful information rou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 074 After a 60-hour work week, it's great to be back in The Roadhouse Studios. Though life can be a tough road, The Roadhouse offers a bit of shelter from the world and a way to relax after your own trying week. I did manage to bring a bit of that tough edge into the show, though. Hard urban blues by folks like Pete Cornelius, Roy Buchanan and Walter Trout are counterbalanced by Watermelon Slim and Archie Edwards. A listener comment, another Roadhouse Rewound and a little useful information rou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 073 The 73rd Roadhouse Podcast is as hot as the July summer weather in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands. The sun is beating down and the blues are just cooking. From the brassy pipes of Candye Kane and Janiva Magness, to the hard-edged grit of Bob Kirkpatrick, to the fat wall of sound of Chris Cain's horns, this edition is squarely under the sun-drenched skies of blues heaven. It's the 73rd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 073 The 73rd Roadhouse Podcast is as hot as the July summer weather in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands. The sun is beating down and the blues are just cooking. From the brassy pipes of Candye Kane and Janiva Magness, to the hard-edged grit of Bob Kirkpatrick, to the fat wall of sound of Chris Cain's horns, this edition is squarely under the sun-drenched skies of blues heaven. It's the 73rd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 072 The 72nd Roadhouse Podcast is another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. But, what does that really mean? The Beat Daddys, Dave Gross, The Gonstermachers, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, and Rich DelGrasso for starters. But they're just five of the thirteen artists in this edition, nearly half of whom are truly independent. We'll roll those right in with great artists from blues labels that have provided permissions to The Roadhouse. Your mission in this edition? Crack open a brew, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 072 The 72nd Roadhouse Podcast is another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. But, what does that really mean? The Beat Daddys, Dave Gross, The Gonstermachers, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, and Rich DelGrasso for starters. But they're just five of the thirteen artists in this edition, nearly half of whom are truly independent. We'll roll those right in with great artists from blues labels that have provided permissions to The Roadhouse. Your mission in this edition? Crack open a brew, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 071 We're running the rainbow in this edition with a full view of all the hues of the blues. Blues Rock, jazzy blues and, of course, the traditional sound of this amazing musical form. If you're new to The Roadhouse, you might be a bit surprised by the range of styles. But it's all blues - the finest blues you've never heard. You'll hear great cuts from The Beat Daddys, Tommy Castro, Fat Vinnie and the Wiseguys, Larry McCray, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. We'll flash back on a couple of cuts pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 071 We're running the rainbow in this edition with a full view of all the hues of the blues. Blues Rock, jazzy blues and, of course, the traditional sound of this amazing musical form. If you're new to The Roadhouse, you might be a bit surprised by the range of styles. But it's all blues - the finest blues you've never heard. You'll hear great cuts from The Beat Daddys, Tommy Castro, Fat Vinnie and the Wiseguys, Larry McCray, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. We'll flash back on a couple of cuts pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 070 Let's just call this the cool blues edition of The Roadhouse. It's a little slower with a few less horns and a few more harps and acoustic guitars. Maybe it's just my way of pulling in and slowing down a bit in the sweltering heat of June at the little blue house on the wetlands. In any case, it's the perfect mix of blues to settle in with a cool drink and let the world roll by. This week, we invite in West of Memphis, Gianfranco Segatto, Chris Beard, Ryan Reardon and the Levee Breakers, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 070 Let's just call this the cool blues edition of The Roadhouse. It's a little slower with a few less horns and a few more harps and acoustic guitars. Maybe it's just my way of pulling in and slowing down a bit in the sweltering heat of June at the little blue house on the wetlands. In any case, it's the perfect mix of blues to settle in with a cool drink and let the world roll by. This week, we invite in West of Memphis, Gianfranco Segatto, Chris Beard, Ryan Reardon and the Levee Breakers, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 069 At 69 hours of the finest blues you've never heard, it sounds like a marathon. That's 2.875 continuous days of the blues. Or a work-week and a three-quarters. Or, about the number of hours it would take to drive straight through from New York to Los Angeles and back to Chicago, averaging 69 mph. Larry McCray, Kenny Neal and Billy Branch, Tony Deziel, Luther Allison, and Rod Piazza are just some of the 13 artists ahead. As promised, I'll also announce the winner of the Chris Juergensen CD. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 069 At 69 hours of the finest blues you've never heard, it sounds like a marathon. That's 2.875 continuous days of the blues. Or a work-week and a three-quarters. Or, about the number of hours it would take to drive straight through from New York to Los Angeles and back to Chicago, averaging 69 mph. Larry McCray, Kenny Neal and Billy Branch, Tony Deziel, Luther Allison, and Rod Piazza are just some of the 13 artists ahead. As promised, I'll also announce the winner of the Chris Juergensen CD. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 068 Blue skies, brilliant sunshine, brand new artists, outstanding new labels - all converge right here, in a little dotpoint on the blues-time continuum that I like to call an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Like a theoretical physicist searching for the beginning of time, you've managed to stumble across the singularity known as the 68th Roadhouse Podcast. It's a refreshing summer breeze in the form of the Backalley Blues Band, Blues Caravan, the Siegel-Schwall Band, Eric Lindell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 068 Blue skies, brilliant sunshine, brand new artists, outstanding new labels - all converge right here, in a little dotpoint on the blues-time continuum that I like to call an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Like a theoretical physicist searching for the beginning of time, you've managed to stumble across the singularity known as the 68th Roadhouse Podcast. It's a refreshing summer breeze in the form of the Backalley Blues Band, Blues Caravan, the Siegel-Schwall Band, Eric Lindell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 067 It’s a holiday weekend in the US - the Memorial Day weekend. Marking the unofficial start of summer, The Roadhouse 067 definitely has the summertime blues – with no desire whatsoever to cure them. If you mashed up your images of summer with a great batch of blues, you might come up with Michael Burks, Memphis Gold, Chumslick Nick and The Sharks, Chris Juergensen, and Sam Cox and Doug Hurrie. It’s a little BBQ, a little travel, and another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 67 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 067 It’s a holiday weekend in the US - the Memorial Day weekend. Marking the unofficial start of summer, The Roadhouse 067 definitely has the summertime blues – with no desire whatsoever to cure them. If you mashed up your images of summer with a great batch of blues, you might come up with Michael Burks, Memphis Gold, Chumslick Nick and The Sharks, Chris Juergensen, and Sam Cox and Doug Hurrie. It’s a little BBQ, a little travel, and another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 67 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 066 Like a sweatin' Southern Baptist preacher, this edition comes at you full throttle. If you've never visited The Roadhouse, you'll quickly find that it's about more than crying in your beer and bemoaning the sad state of your life. With artists like Mel Brown and the Homewreckers, Clifford Bivens, Shy Guy Douglas, The Holmes Brothers, and Tab Benoit, this edition is really about getting up off the barstool, dancing up a sweat, socializing, and celebrating the fact that we've all made it thro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 066 Like a sweatin' Southern Baptist preacher, this edition comes at you full throttle. If you've never visited The Roadhouse, you'll quickly find that it's about more than crying in your beer and bemoaning the sad state of your life. With artists like Mel Brown and the Homewreckers, Clifford Bivens, Shy Guy Douglas, The Holmes Brothers, and Tab Benoit, this edition is really about getting up off the barstool, dancing up a sweat, socializing, and celebrating the fact that we've all made it thro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 065 This edition is a tip of The Roadhouse snap-brim to the 2006 Blues Music Awards and the friends of the podcast who won them. Where we features the indies last week, this week we look to the big time in the bright lights of Memphis. And, that's not to say that these award-winning artists are the only great blues artists around. The entire hour is a solid selection of blues. Throw in a Roadhouse Rewound segment and a new Roadhouse contest, and you're standing at the front edge of another hour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 065 This edition is a tip of The Roadhouse snap-brim to the 2006 Blues Music Awards and the friends of the podcast who won them. Where we features the indies last week, this week we look to the big time in the bright lights of Memphis. And, that's not to say that these award-winning artists are the only great blues artists around. The entire hour is a solid selection of blues. Throw in a Roadhouse Rewound segment and a new Roadhouse contest, and you're standing at the front edge of another hour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 064 The 64th Roadhouse Podcast is a return to the roots of the show, powered primarily by truly independent blues artists. While a few big blues labels pepper this week's edition, the bulk of the music is collected from online independent music sources and from the submissions of artists themselves. As such, there are a few names you've not heard of in this edition: Michael Packer Blues Band, Sandy Carroll and Gianfranco Segatto, for example, along with old favorites like Matt Schofield and The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 064 The 64th Roadhouse Podcast is a return to the roots of the show, powered primarily by truly independent blues artists. While a few big blues labels pepper this week's edition, the bulk of the music is collected from online independent music sources and from the submissions of artists themselves. As such, there are a few names you've not heard of in this edition: Michael Packer Blues Band, Sandy Carroll and Gianfranco Segatto, for example, along with old favorites like Matt Schofield and The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 063 On a cold and rainy Saturday at the Roadhouse Studios, I bring the music that'll keep you warm and chair-dancing. It's music you'd expect on any bandstand in any roadhouse in the world, from Hubert Sumlin, The Billy Gibson Band and Saffire, to Glamour Puss and Greg Martinez. Round it all out with a Roadhouse Rewound segment and listener comments, and you've got the perfect reason to stay inside and take another step closer to blues nirvana. It's the 63rd Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 062 This edition of The Roadhouse Podcast definitely has a Friday night feel - a little tougher, a little harder-edged. Even at that, the balance between tough and smooth is pretty even. Rollin' and tumblin' in this week's edition: Michael Burks, Carolyn Wonderland, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, Dave Hole, and Candye Kane. Roll up your sleeves, watch your back and break a sweat on the sawdust dance floor. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 62nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 062 This edition of The Roadhouse Podcast definitely has a Friday night feel - a little tougher, a little harder-edged. Even at that, the balance between tough and smooth is pretty even. Rollin' and tumblin' in this week's edition: Michael Burks, Carolyn Wonderland, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, Dave Hole, and Candye Kane. Roll up your sleeves, watch your back and break a sweat on the sawdust dance floor. It's another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 62nd Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 061 This edition ends a week of big events in The Roadhouse. Between a tornado on Thursday and day five of life without cigarettes, it's a good time to hide away from the world and get lost in an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Gene Hardy, Back Alley Blues Band, Bobby Parker, Blind Slim, and Diego Garcia take the independent lead. I've also got a Roadhouse Rewound segment in the queue that's 100% listener-requested. All in all, we're 14 cuts deep this week - pushing right on past a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 061 This edition ends a week of big events in The Roadhouse. Between a tornado on Thursday and day five of life without cigarettes, it's a good time to hide away from the world and get lost in an hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Gene Hardy, Back Alley Blues Band, Bobby Parker, Blind Slim, and Diego Garcia take the independent lead. I've also got a Roadhouse Rewound segment in the queue that's 100% listener-requested. All in all, we're 14 cuts deep this week - pushing right on past a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 060 There's definitely a theme to this edition - let's just call it road music. It's the perfect blend of upbeat uptempo blues cuts to make your drive - wherever that may be - a little bit more sane and enjoyable. Percy Strother, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Nicholas, Candye Kane, and Holland K. Smith lead us down the road, with seven other great artists and another Roadhouse Rewound bringing up the rear. So, let's put the troubles in the rear-view mirror, even if only for an hour of the finest blues yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 060 There's definitely a theme to this edition - let's just call it road music. It's the perfect blend of upbeat uptempo blues cuts to make your drive - wherever that may be - a little bit more sane and enjoyable. Percy Strother, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Nicholas, Candye Kane, and Holland K. Smith lead us down the road, with seven other great artists and another Roadhouse Rewound bringing up the rear. So, let's put the troubles in the rear-view mirror, even if only for an hour of the finest blues yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 059 The Roadhouse 059 is as broad a range of blues styles as you'll find. This edition features JoAnne Redding, Lister, Lyytinen and Parker, Mavis Staples, Doug MacLeod, and Candye Kane in a full hour of total blues diversity. The dark months are nearly at an end and the mood is giddy in The Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 059 The Roadhouse 059 is as broad a range of blues styles as you'll find. This edition features JoAnne Redding, Lister, Lyytinen and Parker, Mavis Staples, Doug MacLeod, and Candye Kane in a full hour of total blues diversity. The dark months are nearly at an end and the mood is giddy in The Roadhouse Podcast - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 058 New sources, new artists and new music bring a fully chair-danceable feel to the 58th Roadhouse Podcast. This edition features Chicago Blues Reunion, Ana Popovich, Bobby Parker, Sean Costello, and Algia Mae Hinton. A very diverse Roadhouse Rewound segment and a little talk about "Conversations in The Roadhouse" round out another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 58th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 058 New sources, new artists and new music bring a fully chair-danceable feel to the 58th Roadhouse Podcast. This edition features Chicago Blues Reunion, Ana Popovich, Bobby Parker, Sean Costello, and Algia Mae Hinton. A very diverse Roadhouse Rewound segment and a little talk about "Conversations in The Roadhouse" round out another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 58th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 057 t's another week in The Roadhouse Podcast, featuring upcoming music, new music, cuts from artists who've never been in The Roadhouse, and some music from artists we haven't heard from in awhile. The combination of Watermelon Slim, Daddy Mack Blues Band, The Whiskey Imperials, Ian Siegal, and William Clarke make for, possibly, the most chair-danceable edition of The Roadhouse ever. Plus, I've got an annoucement about an addition to your Roadhouse feed starting this week. Crank up the player ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 056 It's unseasonably warm in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, and it's lifted the spirits in The Roadhouse Studios. I think the 56th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast will lift your spirits with The Billy Gibson Band, Matt Schofield, Precious Bryant, Carlos del Junco, and Shemekia Copeland. There's so much music in this edition that plowed right on through this week's listener comments just for the sake of getting it all in. There is a Roadhouse Rewound segment featuring Norther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 055 The 55th Roadhouse Podcast ignores the speed limits for a fast hour-long cruise of the blues. Like a '57 Cadillac convertible, we roll with Watermelon Slim, Sue Foley, Shannon Boshears, West of Memphis, and The Mike Andersen Band. Plus, a little spring cleaning means The Roadhouse is feeling more spacious and sounds even better. More indie artists and you suggestions make for a fun hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 55th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 057 It's another week in The Roadhouse Podcast, featuring upcoming music, new music, cuts from artists who've never been in The Roadhouse, and some music from artists we haven't heard from in awhile. The combination of Watermelon Slim, Daddy Mack Blues Band, The Whiskey Imperials, Ian Siegal, and William Clarke make for, possibly, the most chair-danceable edition of The Roadhouse ever. Plus, I've got an annoucement about an addition to your Roadhouse feed starting this week. Crank up the player ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 057 t's another week in The Roadhouse Podcast, featuring upcoming music, new music, cuts from artists who've never been in The Roadhouse, and some music from artists we haven't heard from in awhile. The combination of Watermelon Slim, Daddy Mack Blues Band, The Whiskey Imperials, Ian Siegal, and William Clarke make for, possibly, the most chair-danceable edition of The Roadhouse ever. Plus, I've got an annoucement about an addition to your Roadhouse feed starting this week. Crank up the player ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 056 It's unseasonably warm in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, and it's lifted the spirits in The Roadhouse Studios. I think the 56th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast will lift your spirits with The Billy Gibson Band, Matt Schofield, Precious Bryant, Carlos del Junco, and Shemekia Copeland. There's so much music in this edition that plowed right on through this week's listener comments just for the sake of getting it all in. There is a Roadhouse Rewound segment featuring Norther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 056 It's unseasonably warm in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, and it's lifted the spirits in The Roadhouse Studios. I think the 56th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast will lift your spirits with The Billy Gibson Band, Matt Schofield, Precious Bryant, Carlos del Junco, and Shemekia Copeland. There's so much music in this edition that plowed right on through this week's listener comments just for the sake of getting it all in. There is a Roadhouse Rewound segment featuring Norther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 055 The 55th Roadhouse Podcast ignores the speed limits for a fast hour-long cruise of the blues. Like a '57 Cadillac convertible, we roll with Watermelon Slim, Sue Foley, Shannon Boshears, West of Memphis, and The Mike Andersen Band. Plus, a little spring cleaning means The Roadhouse is feeling more spacious and sounds even better. More indie artists and you suggestions make for a fun hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 55th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 055 The 55th Roadhouse Podcast ignores the speed limits for a fast hour-long cruise of the blues. Like a '57 Cadillac convertible, we roll with Watermelon Slim, Sue Foley, Shannon Boshears, West of Memphis, and The Mike Andersen Band. Plus, a little spring cleaning means The Roadhouse is feeling more spacious and sounds even better. More indie artists and you suggestions make for a fun hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 55th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 048 Saturday finally rolls around at the end of a busy week. That means my favorite part of the week - the time I spend putting together another Roadhouse Podcast. 048 is yet another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, assembled with care just for you. Harrison Kennedy, Dan Treanor, Buddy Buy, Johnny Rawls and The Rays, and Johnny Hoy and The Bluefish set a pretty crisp tempo that will surely help you burn calories without ever leaving your chair. Enjoy this week and feel free to send ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 047 Sunshine rolls into The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, foretelling the mood and spirit of the 47th Roadhouse Podcast. Like the broad blue Iowa sky, this edition is bright and wide and expansive. Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, Kenny Traylor, Paul Wood Band, Son Lewis, and James Booker provide only some of the highlights in a show that's 14 cuts deep. It's all about the breadth of the blues, the music and the musicians – and, of course, the sunshine, too. The Roadhouse Podcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 046 It's standing room only in the final Roadhouse Podcast of 2005. 3,000 subscribers have packed the place to the rafters for a year-end celebration of some great cuts from The Roadhouse this year. Call this show one big Roadhouse Rewound. It's not a "best of" or a favorites show. Instead, it's built purely for effect - as the party show that will take out 2005 with a bang. If you danced the first time around, you'll surely dance again. It's an even hour ending an odd year, and even if you've ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 049 The Roadhouse 049 is more fun with ones and zeroes than humans should be allowed. Dan Treanor, Mem Shannon, Hubert Sumlin, Roomful of Blues, and The Holmes Brothers trace the clear blue line from the early 20th century to the early 21st. If W.C. Handy and Robert Johnson were here right now, they'd be wearing earbuds. The 49th Roadhouse podcast is another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 050 The blues is in the house and that house is the point of departure for the 50th Roadhouse Podcast. Slide behind the wheel, point the grill to the south and let the tail-fins leave the turbulence behind. We're rolling down Highway 61 with the top down and the music cranked. With more to cover than an hour will allow, we roll out with Ian Siegal, Byther Smith, Sean Costello, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Matt Schofield, and seven other great artists. And, the Podshow deal comes up so you'll know jus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 052 It's a year-ending edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - 52 consecutive editions of the finest blues you've never heard. I'll look briefly in the rear-view mirror at some of the highlights, then roll on forward with Hubert Sumlin, The Teague Stefan Band, Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Eddie Turner, and Marcia Ball. The Roadhouse Rewound features two cuts from Roadhouse 001, and the listener comments provide a place to fill in some backstage details from this week. So, celebrate your role in kee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 053 A frigid winter blast sets in on the Midwestern US, but the 53rd Roadhouse Podcast will help generate enough body heat to keep you warm. Omar and The Howlers, Rory Block, Erskine Oglesby, Ruthie Foster, and Mike Anderson easily outpace the overworked Roadhouse furnace. Six other artists keep the fire going alongside a hot Roadhouse Rewound segment, some very warm listener comments and the addition of yet another outstanding blues label to the cookin' Roadhouse roster. It may be cold outside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 054 The 54th Roadhouse Podcast is the number edition. Divide 2,340 by 52 weeks and you’ll know the birthday I’m celebrating today. Michael Burks, Matt Schofield, Dan Treanor, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, and Holland K. Smith provide the music. Listener comments, a Mardi Gras Roadhouse Rewound, and an update on the HART Fund contributions provide the potables. It’s an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard, in the making since 1961 – the 54th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 054 The 54th Roadhouse Podcast is the number edition. Divide 2,340 by 52 weeks and you’ll know the birthday I’m celebrating today. Michael Burks, Matt Schofield, Dan Treanor, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, and Holland K. Smith provide the music. Listener comments, a Mardi Gras Roadhouse Rewound, and an update on the HART Fund contributions provide the potables. It’s an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard, in the making since 1961 – the 54th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 054 The 54th Roadhouse Podcast is the number edition. Divide 2,340 by 52 weeks and you’ll know the birthday I’m celebrating today. Michael Burks, Matt Schofield, Dan Treanor, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, and Holland K. Smith provide the music. Listener comments, a Mardi Gras Roadhouse Rewound, and an update on the HART Fund contributions provide the potables. It’s an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard, in the making since 1961 – the 54th Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 053 A frigid winter blast sets in on the Midwestern US, but the 53rd Roadhouse Podcast will help generate enough body heat to keep you warm. Omar and The Howlers, Rory Block, Erskine Oglesby, Ruthie Foster, and Mike Anderson easily outpace the overworked Roadhouse furnace. Six other artists keep the fire going alongside a hot Roadhouse Rewound segment, some very warm listener comments and the addition of yet another outstanding blues label to the cookin' Roadhouse roster. It may be cold outside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 053 A frigid winter blast sets in on the Midwestern US, but the 53rd Roadhouse Podcast will help generate enough body heat to keep you warm. Omar and The Howlers, Rory Block, Erskine Oglesby, Ruthie Foster, and Mike Anderson easily outpace the overworked Roadhouse furnace. Six other artists keep the fire going alongside a hot Roadhouse Rewound segment, some very warm listener comments and the addition of yet another outstanding blues label to the cookin' Roadhouse roster. It may be cold outside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 052 It's a year-ending edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - 52 consecutive editions of the finest blues you've never heard. I'll look briefly in the rear-view mirror at some of the highlights, then roll on forward with Hubert Sumlin, The Teague Stefan Band, Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Eddie Turner, and Marcia Ball. The Roadhouse Rewound features two cuts from Roadhouse 001, and the listener comments provide a place to fill in some backstage details from this week. So, celebrate your role in kee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 052 It's a year-ending edition of The Roadhouse Podcast - 52 consecutive editions of the finest blues you've never heard. I'll look briefly in the rear-view mirror at some of the highlights, then roll on forward with Hubert Sumlin, The Teague Stefan Band, Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Eddie Turner, and Marcia Ball. The Roadhouse Rewound features two cuts from Roadhouse 001, and the listener comments provide a place to fill in some backstage details from this week. So, celebrate your role in kee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 051 The Roadhouse 051 is a puzzle of diverse styles, moods and artists. As a whole, they make up a perfect picture of the diversity of the blues from modern to traditional, electric to acoustic, upbeat and downtempo. Musical pattern recognition rules the day as we piece this puzzle together to produce an hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 51st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 051 The Roadhouse 051 is a puzzle of diverse styles, moods and artists. As a whole, they make up a perfect picture of the diversity of the blues from modern to traditional, electric to acoustic, upbeat and downtempo. Musical pattern recognition rules the day as we piece this puzzle together to produce an hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 51st Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 050 The blues is in the house and that house is the point of departure for the 50th Roadhouse Podcast. Slide behind the wheel, point the grill to the south and let the tail-fins leave the turbulence behind. We're rolling down Highway 61 with the top down and the music cranked. With more to cover than an hour will allow, we roll out with Ian Siegal, Byther Smith, Sean Costello, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Matt Schofield, and seven other great artists. And, the Podshow deal comes up so you'll know jus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 050 The blues is in the house and that house is the point of departure for the 50th Roadhouse Podcast. Slide behind the wheel, point the grill to the south and let the tail-fins leave the turbulence behind. We’re rolling down Highway 61 with the top down and the music cranked. With more to cover than an hour will allow, we roll out with Ian Siegal, Byther Smith, Sean Costello, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Matt Schofield, and seven other great artists. And, the Podshow deal comes up so you’ll know jus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 045 It's a code blue in the 45th Roadhouse Podcast, full of heart-stoppingly good blues music. Teresa James, Johnny Nicholas, Steve Cohen and Jim Liban, Chicago Kingsnakes, and George Fletcher and Bourbon Renewal lead the way, with seven other great artists bringing up the rear. Add in a couple of interesting comments from listeners and a fun, fun Roadhouse rewound, and you've got the makings for blues defibrilation. Sourcing music from all over the web and from permissions-based blues music la ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 042 The Christmas lights are up and the tree’s ready to trim in this edition of The Roadhouse. The gift-giving season starts with Harpdog Brown, Tommy Z, Don’t Harass Betty, Pat Coast and Out Of the Blue, and C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. Other trimming include seven other great blues cuts, another Roadhouse Rewound segment and some great thoughts from Roadhouse listeners. Escape from the long lines of shoppers, the parking hassles and the overworked store clerks with an hour of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 040 It's the Thanksgiving holiday week in the US, but you don't have to be a US listener to be thankful for great music and a great medium from which to enjoy it. So, join in the Thanksgiving feast of great blues music served up by the 40th Roadhouse podcast. The main course includes John Hammond, Margarette Evans, Tinsley Ellis, Byther Smith, and Susan Tedeschi. That's just the turkey and stuffing. I've also got side dishes and desserts galore in the form of a Roadhouse Rewound segment, listen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 049 The Roadhouse 049 is more fun with ones and zeroes than humans should be allowed. Dan Treanor, Mem Shannon, Hubert Sumlin, Roomful of Blues, and The Holmes Brothers trace the clear blue line from the early 20th century to the early 21st. If W.C. Handy and Robert Johnson were here right now, they'd be wearing earbuds. The 49th Roadhouse podcast is another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 049 The Roadhouse 049 is more fun with ones and zeroes than humans should be allowed. Dan Treanor, Mem Shannon, Hubert Sumlin, Roomful of Blues, and The Holmes Brothers trace the clear blue line from the early 20th century to the early 21st. If W.C. Handy and Robert Johnson were here right now, they'd be wearing earbuds. The 49th Roadhouse podcast is another hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 047 Sunshine rolls into The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, foretelling the mood and spirit of the 47th Roadhouse Podcast. Like the broad blue Iowa sky, this edition is bright and wide and expansive. Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, Kenny Traylor, Paul Wood Band, Son Lewis, and James Booker provide only some of the highlights in a show that’s 14 cuts deep. It’s all about the breadth of the blues, the music and the musicians – and, of course, the sunshine, too. The Roadhouse Podcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 047 Sunshine rolls into The Little Blue House on the Wetlands this week, foretelling the mood and spirit of the 47th Roadhouse Podcast. Like the broad blue Iowa sky, this edition is bright and wide and expansive. Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, Kenny Traylor, Paul Wood Band, Son Lewis, and James Booker provide only some of the highlights in a show that’s 14 cuts deep. It’s all about the breadth of the blues, the music and the musicians – and, of course, the sunshine, too. The Roadhouse Podcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 046 It's standing room only in the final Roadhouse Podcast of 2005. 3,000 subscribers have packed the place to the rafters for a year-end celebration of some great cuts from The Roadhouse this year. Call this show one big Roadhouse Rewound. It's not a "best of" or a favorites show. Instead, it's built purely for effect - as the party show that will take out 2005 with a bang. If you danced the first time around, you'll surely dance again. It's an even hour ending an odd year, and even if you've ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 045 It's a code blue in the 45th Roadhouse Podcast, full of heart-stoppingly good blues music. Teresa James, Johnny Nicholas, Steve Cohen and Jim Liban, Chicago Kingsnakes, and George Fletcher and Bourbon Renewal lead the way, with seven other great artists bringing up the rear. Add in a couple of interesting comments from listeners and a fun, fun Roadhouse rewound, and you've got the makings for blues defibrilation. Sourcing music from all over the web and from permissions-based blues music la ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 044 The 44th edition of The Roadhouse Podcast shovels a wide swath through the landscape, a picture-perfect Christmas postcard of the best the blues has to offer. Rita Chiarelli, Junior Wells, Guitar Shorty, The Curbfinders, and Ross Neilsen are the bulbs on The Roadhouse Christmas tree. And the power source to light those bulbs? It's definitely alternative power. No, it's not bio-diesel, or solar, or wind, or methanol. It's one of the strongest power sources on the planet, guaranteed to make y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 043 Come on in, brush off the snow, take of your coat and hat and gloves, and sit right down in the 43rd edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. It's been a cold, cold week at The Little Blue House on the Wetlands. But, there's no shortage of heat in our little virtual Roadhouse. Whether you've been good this year or not, this edition packs your stocking full of gifts, including Chris Beard, Steve Cohen Blues Band, Homegrown Blues, Lonnie Brooks, and Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers. With another Roa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 042 The Christmas lights are up and the tree’s ready to trim in this edition of The Roadhouse. The gift-giving season starts with Harpdog Brown, Tommy Z, Don’t Harass Betty, Pat Coast and Out Of the Blue, and C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. Other trimming include seven other great blues cuts, another Roadhouse Rewound segment and some great thoughts from Roadhouse listeners. Escape from the long lines of shoppers, the parking hassles and the overworked store clerks with an hour of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 041 A virtual cornucopia of blues awaits you in this week’s Roadhouse – a full range of styles from hard-edged to sweet acoustic, and every note the blues. Front and center: Bernard Allison, Jimmie Bratcher, The John Baldwin Group, Toni Lynn Washington, and P. W. Fenton and The Second Ward. Six other cuts, listener comments and a look back at some great music from previous shows fill out that horn-shaped basket of plenty on this long weekend. The waitresses are clearing the tables, the bartende ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 040 It's the Thanksgiving holiday week in the US, but you don't have to be a US listener to be thankful for great music and a great medium from which to enjoy it. So, join in the Thanksgiving feast of great blues music served up by the 40th Roadhouse podcast. The main course includes John Hammond, Margarette Evans, Tinsley Ellis, Byther Smith, and Susan Tedeschi. That's just the turkey and stuffing. I've also got side dishes and desserts galore in the form of a Roadhouse Rewound segment, listen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse Announcement An odd, unprecedented addition to the feed early in the week -- in which your humble host asks that you make a small change to your feed subscription. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 039 It's all about cool in the 39th edition of The Roadhouse: cooler weather in the Little Blue House on the Wetlands and a raft of cool blues. With music from Stingray, Michael Heyman, Ryan Reardon, Harrison Kennedy, and Mavis Staples, you'll want to don your coolest Wayfarer sunglasses and turn up the volume. The story of a great blues encounter from a listener and another Roadhouse Rewound segment make this edition just that much cooler. Nearly an hour, The Roadhouse 039 is the finest - and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 038 The 38th Roadhouse Podcast is a road trip that covers nearly the entirety of the North American continent – from Canada to Texas, the Great Northwest to California, Chicago, the Upper Midwest, New Orleans and all the way back to the East Coast. Like any good road trip, it’s full of surprises, but the known itinerary includes Johnny Nicholas, The Holmes Brothers, King Robbie, Mick Sterling, and James Booker. The Roadhouse Rewound and listener comments provide plenty of room for the unexpecte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 037 There’s a certain bounce to this week’s Roadhouse Podcast. It finds a groove and stays there right on through to the end. With artists like Mike Dugan, The Siegel-Schwall Band, Danny Eyer, J. B. Hutto, and Johnny Hoy and The Bluefish, it’s impossible to refrain from chair-dancing, snapping your fingers, and generally annoying your co-workers. Seven other artists round out the show along with a wild Roadhouse Rewound and an audio comment from a terrestrial listener. The Roadhouse 037 is just ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 037 There’s a certain bounce to this week’s Roadhouse Podcast. It finds a groove and stays there right on through to the end. With artists like Mike Dugan, The Siegel-Schwall Band, Danny Eyer, J. B. Hutto, and Johnny Hoy and The Bluefish, it’s impossible to refrain from chair-dancing, snapping your fingers, and generally annoying your co-workers. Seven other artists round out the show along with a wild Roadhouse Rewound and an audio comment from a terrestrial listener. The Roadhouse 037 is just ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 035 As close to a theme show as we ever come in The Roadhouse, this edition features great guitar cuts from heavy overdive to sweet slide. It's a reminder of the amazing emotion to be coaxed from a slab of wood and six strands of wire. Guitar Shorty, Kelly Richey, Janiva Magness, Rita Chiarelli, and Edwin Holt take the wheel, bringing along seven other artists on the tour bus. The Roadhouse Rewound and a little commerce talk round out the show as we fuel the trip with wire and wood. 35 editions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 035 As close to a theme show as we ever come in The Roadhouse, this edition features great guitar cuts from heavy overdive to sweet slide. It's a reminder of the amazing emotion to be coaxed from a slab of wood and six strands of wire. Guitar Shorty, Kelly Richey, Janiva Magness, Rita Chiarelli, and Edwin Holt take the wheel, bringing along seven other artists on the tour bus. The Roadhouse Rewound and a little commerce talk round out the show as we fuel the trip with wire and wood. 35 editions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 034 This is the show the doctor ordered, providing your minimum weekly requirement of golden guitars, hip horns and happenin' harp. Byther Smith, The Mitchell Blues Band, Tab Benoit, Glamour Puss, and Johnny Nicholas stop out from the pack this week. But, don't fool yourself - any of the other seven artists are fully capable of stealing the show. Throw in listener comments and a snappy Roadhouse Rewound segment, and you've got one full hour of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 033 We’re taking our radio back from the suits this week with Robin Sylar, Chainsaw Curtis and The Creepers, Brian Blain, Otis Taylor, Jim Suhler and much more. I’ve also got a nice story about The Roadhouse and Rita plus lots of information about the world of blues podcasting. The 33rd edition of The Roadhouse is guaranteed to entertain and enlighten with the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 033 - October 1, 2005 We’re taking our radio back from the suits this week with Robin Sylar, Chainsaw Curtis and The Creepers, Brian Blain, Otis Taylor, Jim Suhler and much more. I’ve also got a nice story about The Roadhouse and Rita plus lots of information about the world of blues podcasting. The 33rd edition of The Roadhouse is guaranteed to entertain and enlighten with the finest blues you’ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 032 - September 24, 2005 We get back to the full sound of big guitars, big horns and big beats this week. Thanks to NorthernBlues, Alligator and Vanguard, there's new music aplenty in this edition. Kenny Traylor, Charlie Musselwhite, Toni Lynn Washington, Guitar Shorty, and The Holmes Brothers take the fore, while seven more great blues artists bring up the rear. We're having a ball this week in The Roadhouse - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 031 Upbeat, backbeats and big beats dominate the 31st edition of The Roadhouse. James Booker, Chumslick Nick and the Sharks, Michael Burks, Stingray, and Edwin Holt should provide more than enough variety for your blues tastes. From Chicago to New Orleans, New York to the Left Coast - it's still the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 031 - September 17, 2005 Upbeat, backbeats and big beats dominate the 31st edition of The Roadhouse. James Booker, Chumslick Nick and the Sharks, Michael Burks, Stingray, and Edwin Holt should provide more than enough variety for your blues tastes. From Chicago to New Orleans, New York to the Left Coast - it's still the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 030 - September 10, 2005 Twelve cuts strong, The Roadhouse 030 is a bit more acoustic than the norm. Credit that to the dog days of summer at The Little Blue House On The Wetlands. Billy Jones, The Turnarounds, Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, Susan Tedeschi, and Johnny Nicholas lead the music. Listener comments, best wishes to Derek and thoughts on Katrina round out the 30th edition of The Roadhouse ? the finest blues you?ve never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 029a - September 4, 2005 This version replaces the original post. If you've already downloaded the original erroneous version, your podcaching client should see this as a new show. Thanks for your patience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 029 An even dozen fits the bill this week, as we move toward a full hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the best independent blues artists from around the world. Kenny Traylor, The Will Derryberry Band, Hubert Sumlin, Mike Dugan, and Fabulous Thunderbirds lead the charge. I've also got listener comments and information on how you can help the survivors of the devastation in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It's another wide-ranging edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 029 - September 3, 2005 An even dozen fits the bill this week, as we move toward a full hour of the finest blues you?ve never heard ? the best independent blues artists from around the world. Kenny Traylor, The Will Derryberry Band, Hubert Sumlin, Mike Dugan, and Fabulous Thunderbirds lead the charge. I?ve also got listener comments and information on how you can help the survivors of the devastation in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It?s another wide-ranging edition of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 027 - August 30, 2005 The second phantom podcast - vacation, week 2. That won't stop the music, though, with Roomful of Blues, BlueShot, Tinsley Ellis, Mike Dugan,and Harrison Kennedy. While the vacation rolls on, you get the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 026 - August 13, 2005 An absent host. That's how powerful the blues are - the shows roll on even when the host is on vacation. This vacation edition is powered by Louisiana Bob Kirkpatrick, The Whiskey Imperials, Stingray, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Marcia Ball and more. The studio may be empty, but it's a full show of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 025 - August 6, 2005 This week, it’s an official party to celebrate the 25th show of The Roadhouse. I’ve selected some of my favorite music from the first 25 show, and we’ve got guests galore. Bring your noisemakers and party hats, because we’re kicking up our heels in celebration of the finest blues you’ve … heard and loved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 024 - July 30, 2005 It's the body heat edition, guaranteed to raise your temperature with Stingray, The Paul Wood Band, Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps, The Dare Ya Blues Band, and Boo Boo Davis. Listener comments, blues news and podcasting news allow your heart rate to drop below aerobic levels. Don't tell the fire marshall, but we might be nearing capacity. It's The Roadhouse - the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 023 - July 23, 2005 Roadhouse 023 serves up Blue Steele, Big George Jackson Blues Band, Danny Eyer, Lil Charlie and the Nightcats, and The Guzzlers. Listener comments, blues news and a load of news about The Roadhouse. It's 50 (ok, 57) minutes of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 022 - July 16, 2005 The 22nd edition of The Roadhouse provides cool shade from a hot summer day. The Blues Persuaders, Blue Steele, Mark David Group, Suspects, and Carol Camille lead the cool-down edition. Also, listener comments, blues news and podcasting news. Help celebrate the upcoming 25th edition - leave your comments at 214-594-1301. It's 50 minutes of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 021 - July 9, 2005 This week, you get all the ingredients for the perfect blues cocktail - shaken, not stirred, of course. Roscoe Chenier, Janet Ryan, The Curbfinders, Danny Eyer, and Daddy Long Legs make a great blend of blues. If a pearl onion's your thing, listener comments, blues news and podcasting news should do just fine. It's fifty minutes of the finest blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 020 - July 2, 2005 It's independence weekend. We celebrate with the best independent blues artists from GarageBand.com. The Kelly Richey Band, Pat Coast and Out Of the Blue, The Skyla Burrell Band, Papa Kreak, and Big Steve and The Trainwreck lead the fireworks. It's the finest independent blues you've never heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 019 - June 25, 2005 It’s officially summer in the US - time to go fishing for the biggest fish in the big pond of blues. The catch o’ the week includes Kimbel Street, Red Hot Blues Sisters, Kisen, Farkle, Nuthin’ Special and many more. We roll it all in a deep beer batter, fry ‘em up and serve them with heaping side dishes of listener comment, contact information, podcasting news, and blues news. A veritable feast of the finest blues you’ve never heard - the best independent blues artists from garageband.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 018 - June 18, 2005 Sample the home-brewed blues from Roadhouse 018. There's a big variety to choose from. King Robbie, Slop House, David Rotundo and the Blue Canadians, Thirsty Blues Band, and Spoonful James are cold from the tap. I also provide some palate-cleansing mushrooms in the form of listener comments, contact information, podcasting news, and blues news. A new member of the Association of Music Podcasting, The Roadhouse has a barstool reserved just for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 017 - June 11, 2005 The 17th edition of The Roadhouse is pure butt-shakin' music. Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Brother Chunk and the Chicken Funk, Joe White, Nobby Reed Project, and Juke House Kings sit at the very front edge of the musical wave. A little talk, a little information and the finest blues you've never heard - that's edition 17 of The Roadhouse Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 016 - June 4, 2005 The Curbfinders, KingRobbie, Naked Soul, Suspects, and Secret Agents head up this week's edition of The Roadhouse. We peer beyond the horizon to listener comments, blues news, contact information, and podcasting news. As always, it's the finest blues you've never heard - the best independent blues artists from garageband.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 015 - May 28, 2005 It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the US, time to hit the road and welcome the unofficial start of summer. This week features music perfect for road-tripping. Steve Pierson, BB Chung King and the Buddaheads, Kelly Bell Band, Billy V and the Smoking Section, and Delta Chuck lead us down the highway. Listener comments, contact information, podcasting news, and blues news serve as the mile markers. It's the finest blues you've never heard - the best independent blues artists from garage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roadhouse 028 - August 27, 2005 In a return to The Roadhouse Studios, Roadhouse 028 is an eclectic mix of acoustic, electic, jump, old-time, and borderline roots rock tunes. Ryan Reardon and the Levee Breakers, Michael Heyman and The Powerhouse, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Johnny Nicholas and the Texas All-Stars, and Jim Suhler set the mood. It's a full hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The Roadhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website