Raven And Blues

This week, a very Manx feel with Backdoor Slam, Simon Cambell and Marc Tyley. There's lots of 'backs' too! Title Artist CD Back Home Blues Jimmy Dawkins Fast Fingers Backdoor Man Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson Beauty 'n the Beast Second Time Around Robin Rogers Back In The Fire Come Home Back Door Slam Roll Away Eyes Of A Child Walter Trout Common Ground Blues For Mama Marc Tyley Live No More Whisky Louisiana Red Memphis Mojo Gold Dust Sandi Thom Gold Dust Back Back Train Aerosmith Honkin On Bobo Backstabber Virgil & The Accelerators The Radium Backstroke Ronnie Earl Spread The Love Island Of Rust Simon Campbell Thirty Six Big Change Is Gonna Come Paul Cox & Charlie Fabert That's What We Were Born For

The Sky Is Crying Etta James Blues To The Bone You Can't Hurt Me Anymore Candye Kane Sister Vagabond Drinking & Sinking Bob Corriveau Future In The Blues Instrumental 2 Stumps The Clown I Miss My Soul Boogie Chillen Fogdan Boogie Chillen Somethin' Funny Goin' On Amanda Broadway Me Without You St James Infirmary Chris Thomas King Rise St James Infirmary Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk Back In The Doghouse Seasick Steve You Can't Teach A Dog New Tricks Reverendos Plays The Blues The Reverendos Preachin' Love & Happiness Billy Price & Fred Chapellier Night Work Chicken Wants Corn Fiona Boyes Lucky 13 Hear The Hills North Mississippi Allstars Keys To The Kingdom

Title Artist CD Wine, Women & Whiskey Mainline Reel Masters XXV Six Cold Feet Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk Tribute To Jimmy Reed Miss Blues Reminiscence Of The Blues Shake Blues Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley Deltaphonic Your So Fine Cinqui A Long Way To Go Yours Is The Love Chrissi Poland Songs From The Concrete Ain't Doing Nobody No Good Tony Joe White The Shine Scratch My Back Taj Mahal Maestro Lead Me Daddy Straight To The Bar Sam Price & His Texas Blusicians Sam Price & His Texas Blusicians Juke Joint Mose Stovall Single One Look Matt Schofield Anything But Time Slide Harp Shuffle Paul Orta & the Kingpins Shake It

Title Artist CD Runaway Life Lil Band Of Gold The Promised Land Baptized in Dirty Water Chris Thomas King Rise Bye Bye Baby Ted Gerrits Acoustic Mud No More Armadillo Blues Swamp Music Go Ahead On Dr John Cut Me While I'm Hot Breadline Jonathan Stanford King Canute Lonely Avenue Connie Lush Send Me No Flowers Nothin' But The Blues Samantha Gray Bad Girl Now Drive Dana Fuchs Love To Beg You Might Know Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan Okiesippi Blues Mr Lucky Harry Manx & Kevin Breit Strictly Whatever Voodoo Chile Angelique Kidjo Lightning In A Bottle Nobody But You Junior Kimborough All Night Long

Title Artist CD Road Runner Aerosmith Honkin On Bobo I'm A King Bee Slim Harpo The Early Swamp Blues Classics Rolling & Tumbling Erja Lyytinen Grip Of The Blues Koss Gerry Jablonski & The Electric Band Life At Captain Toms Don't Let The Door Hit You Arthur Adams Stomp The Floor Do I Move You Kyla Brox Coming Home I've Been Lonely For So Long Hazmat Modine Cicada Don't Drink & Drive Boo Boo Davis Undercover Blues Living Like A Yo-yo David Sinclair Trio Take Me There Lazy Dog Ben Andrews Stones In My Passway Let Me Up I've Had Enough Bryan Lee My Lady Don't Love My Lady Leaving Blues Steve Forbert Young Guitar Days Shoot My Baby Tracy Nelson Victim Of The Blues Stand By Your Man Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugar Daddy's Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddies Down The Road Van Morrison Down The Road

Title Artist CD Washing Clothes Homemade Jamz Blues Band The Game 24 Ways To My Baby's Door B J Estares Full Time Student Of The Blues Set It On Fire Dana Fuchs Love To Beg Dead Man's Shoes Low Society High Time You Don't Know Me Danny Click Life Is A Good Place I'd Rather Be Sad In Las Vegas Deanna Bogart Timing Is Everything The Rules Don't Apply The Motives Single Birds In The Rafters Hokie Joint The Music Starts To Play Bad Bad Whisky Jimmie Vaughan More Blues, Ballads & Favourites Woke Up This Morning Rory Block Shake 'Em Down Good Liquor Poplar Jake Riding The Blinds I Like It Like That Simon Campbell Thirty Six Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday Warren Haynes Man In Motion Ju Ju Cocktail Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers Live At BB Kings

Title Artist CD Shake Your Boogie Reverend Raven Shake Your Boogie Still The Rain Karen Lovely Still The Rain Nobody's Fault Connie Lush Send Me No Flowers Trucking Blues Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan Okiesippi Blues I Rolled A Nickel Doug Macleod Brand New Eyes Burnin' Up Seasick Steve You Can't Teach A Dog New Tricks Rock & A Hard Place Eugene Hideaway Bridges Rock & A Hard Place There Was A Girl Harry Manx & Kevin Breit Strictly Whatever How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live Nightshift Trio Is You Is Southbound Train Paul Wassif Looking Up Feeling Down This A'Way North Mississippi Allstars Keys To The Kingdom

Paul Lamb, Joey and Layla visit the boat, not to play live this time but to talk about the new album "Tales From The Gravel"

Cherry Lee Lewis is our live guest and we look at some of the nominees in the 2011 Blues Blast Music Awards Title Artist CD It Feels So Good Pinetop Perkins Joined At The Hip They'll Do It Every Time J P Soars More Bees Wuth Honey Funky Feelin' John Nemeth Name The Day Face Up The Sugar Prophets The Sugar Prophets Shotgun Blues Rich Del Grosso Time Slips On By Time Is Up Matt Hill On The Floor Man Overboard Cherry Lee Mewis Live All You Need Cherry Lee Mewis Live Water Risin' Chris O'Leary Band Mr Used To Be Subprime Mortgage Blues The Legendary Gentlemen In Your Face Thank You Baby The Vincent Hayes Project Reclamation

Cherry returns to the boat with Max Milligan on guitar and Robbie Stewart-Mathews on bass and plays a fabulous set and talks about the past year.

Title Artist CD Night Work Billy Price & Fred Chapellier Night Work Looking For A Plan Harry Manx & Kevin Breit Strictly Whatever Kokomo Blues Rory Block Shake 'Em Down A Place In The Sun Gina Sicilia Can't Control Myself Bubbleguts Kilborn Alley Blues Band Better Off Now Music Came Dr John & The Lower 911 Tribal Nineteen Tears Old Nighthawks Last Train To Bluesville My Angel Blues King Rollo My Angel Blues Sick Of My Shadow Warren Haynes Man In Motion Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Jimmie Vaughan More Blues, Ballads & Favourites Right Next Door Robert Cray Cookin' In Mobile Jack Of Diamonds Corey Harris Crucial Slide Guitar Blues Bo Diddley Tribute Dr Wu' & Friends Texas Blues Project Vol 2

Little Miss Higgins in session plus Title Artist CD That's It Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers Almighty Dollar I'm A Little Fish Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan Okesippi Blues Morning Blues Connie Lush Send Me No Flowers Stud Spider Ian Siegal The Skinny You Can't Win For Losing Arthur Adams Stomp The Floor Takes A Real Man Back Door Slam Roll Away Midle Of Nowhere Little Miss Higgins Live Ferry Boat Blues Little Miss Higgins Live New Home Eric Bibb Troubadour Live Ain't Gonna Do It Jimmy Thackery Feel The Heat Aeroplane Hokie Joint The Music Starts To Play Mr Blues Eddie Turner Miracles & Demons

Together with Foy Taylor on guitar, Little Miss Higgins fresh from two nights at the Royal Festival Hall with K D Lang, talks about her career and plays four numbers live.

This week - Title Artist CD I Don't Know Why She Love Me Seasick Steve You Can't Teach A Dog New Tricks Skunk Shuffle Billy Price & Fred Chapellier Night Work One Eyed Owl Doug Macleod Brand New Eyes Buzz Me Babe Slim Harpo The Early Swamp Blues Classics No Use Knocking Jimmy Vaughan More Blues, Ballads & Favourites Johannesburg Gil Scott-Heron From SA to SC Breathin' Asylum Street Spankers It's All Connected Lead A Horse To Water Tracy Nelson Victim Of The Blues Let It Roll North Mississippi Allstars Keys To The Kingdom Sink Or Swim Alan Black Happy As A Monkey Derry Down Will Scott Keystone Crossing I Can't Be Satisfied Gregg Allman Low Country Blues Buddy Hazmat Modine Cicada Men Are Just Like Street Cars Natalie Cole Lightning In A Bottle

A tribute to Bob Dylan on his 70th and loads of new releases  Title Artist CD Coming Home Bonnie Raitt Lightning In A Bottle I Pity The Fool Shemekia Copeland Lightning In A Bottle On The Road Again Bob Dylan Bob Dylan It Takes A Lot To Laugh Ray Bonneville Nod To Bob 2 House Of The Rising Sun Guy Davis Nod To Bob 2 Forever Young & Free PAUL Tales From The Gravel Force Of Habit Hokie Joint The Music Starts To Play Take A Breath Tommy Lee Cook Outside Looking In Sing Chrissi Poland Songs From The Concrete Wrapped Up In Love Matt Schofield Anything But Time Pirates! The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band Year Of The Rabbit On A Real Lonely Night Warren Haynes Man In Motion Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Cliff Eberhardt Nod To Bob 2

Mud Bee Crosscut Saw Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know I Need To Be'd With Bob Corritore Harmonica Blues Down In The Swamp Samantha Fish Runaway There's This Hurricane Coming MOTU Time Runs Faster Twenty Gallons Of Muddy Water Giles Robson & The Dirty Aces Crooked Heart Of Mine Do Not Stand At My Grave & Weep Harry Manx & Kevin Breit Strictly Whatever There Is Something On Your Mind Arnold McCuller Soon As I Get Paid Hi Heel Sneakers Alexis Korner To Whom It May Concern Darkness In The Delta Eden Brent It's All Connected What We Are Worth Robin Rogers Back In The Fire Grindin' Man Pinetop Perkins Joined At The Hip Sweet Loving Krissy Matthews Hit The Rock Midnight Walking Larry Smith mp3

Lost In The City Eric Johnson The Way It Goes That's How It Goes Marcia Ball Roadside Attractions Give Me A Reason Simon Campbell Thirty Six The Sun Is Shining Down JJ Grey & Mofro Alligator 40th Anniversary Collection A Place In The Sun Dr John Tribal Sack Of Wine Ben B Beckendorf Voodoo Moon Too Much Alcohol Poplar Jake Riding The Blind Stealin' Gasoline Bullfrog Willard McGhee & Tad Walters Stealin' Gasoline Jack & Jill Gina Sicilia Hey Sugar Beatrice Beatrice Phillip Walker Big Blues From Texas You Cried For Me Roxy Perry In My Sweet Time The Skinny Ian Siegal The Skinny Cicada Hazmat Modine Cicada

Crossroads Cream Q The Blues Milkcow's Calf Blues Robert Lowery Playin Out In The Street Me And The Devil The Groundhogs Hogs On The Road 32-20 Blues Alexis Korner To Whom It May Concern Come On In My Kitchen Cassandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn They're Red Hot Todd Rundgren Todd Rundgren's Johnson Tuta Stanote Paltan Blues band Tuta Stanote Travelling Riverside Blues Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Terraplane Blues Johnny Shines & Snooky Pryor Back To The Country Dead Shrimp Blues Crosscut Saw Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know Little Queen Of Spades Robert Lockwood Ramblin' On My Mind Crossroads Mountain Eruption

This week, a Robert Johnson Special to commemorate his birth on 8th May 100 years ago - and watch out for Part 2 within 24 hours Title Artist CD Sweet Home Chicago Blues Brothers Blues Brothers Steady Rollin' Man Robert Johnson Steady Rollin' Man Stop Breakin' Down Aynsley Lister Supakev n Pilchards Walking Blues Muddy Waters The Blues Archives Crossroad Blues Rory Block Best Blues & Originals Me & The Devil Blues Eric Clapton Me & Mr Johnson Hell Hound On My Trail Peter Green Hot Foot Powder Travelling Riverside Blues Dave Arcari Something Old, Something Borrowed Love In Vain Rolling Stones Let It Bleed Come On In My Kitchen Keb Mo Keb Mo Kindhearted Woman Blues Robert Johnson Steady Rollin' Man If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day Steve Arvey Pass The Hat Phonograph Blues Ben Andrews Journey Dust My Broom Taj Mahal The Collection Malted Milk Mikey Jr The 420 Sessions 32-20 Blues John Hammond At The Crossroads Stop Breakin' Down Robert Johnson Steady R

This week Plaything Steve Marriner Going Up Shake A Leg Garrett Mason Love & Sound At Last Phoebe Snow New York Rock & Soul Revue Stuck Inside Of Mobile North Mississippi Allstars Keys To The Kingdom Merchant Of Soul Gerry Jablonski & The Electric Band Live At Captain Toms Bad As You Wanna Be Richard Ray Farrell I Sing The Blues Eclectic It's Allright Alex McKown Crossing Boundaries Kinda Fat Chainsaw Dupont Fan Club Release Don't Have To Hunt No More Raoul & The Big Time Blue Midnight Goin' Out That Way WT Feaster Wish You Well