Raven And Blues

This week, we remember Ben Andrews who died 10 days ago So Glad Hazmat Modine Cicada Somewhere South Of Somewhere Doug MacLeod Brand New Eyes Travellin' Man Ben Andrews Stones In My Passway Mad With You Baby Ben Andrews Gallows Pole Gasoline & Matches Arnold McCuller Soon As I Get Paid Crossroads Bill Stewart On Top Of The World In The Basement Sue Foley Time Bomb Natch'l Low Ian Siegal The Skinny Nature's Cruel Design The Motives EP Who's In Town John Wilson Single Let The Sun Shine In Marcus Malone Let The Sunshine In Big Road Blues Sean Costello Sean Costello

This week, the 7 nominees in the Overseas Artist Section of the British Blues Awards 2011 Sweet Home Chicago Pinetop Perkins Pinetop Perkins & Friends Whut's Wit Dat Dr John & The Lower 911 Tribal Night Life Joe Bonamassa Black Rock Bird Has Flown WT Feaster Wish You Well Longer Days Henrik Freischlader Still Frame Replay Pull Strings Hamilton Loomis Live In England God Is Gonna Cut You Down Ben Prestage Real Music Common Ground Walter Trout Common Ground Pay The Band Buddy Whittingon Buddy Whittington You Got My Man Marcy Rodsky Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddies Moonshine Minnie Ian Siegal The Skinny Folk Club Blues Andres Roots Roundabout Bonus Track

Title Artist CD 61 Highway Blues The Delta Flyers Sixteen Bars The Tip Jar Song B J Estares Full Time Student Of The Blues The Man That I'm Lovin' Rory Block Shake 'Em Down The Tide Hazmat Modine Cicada Halfway To Nowhere The Barcodes Be Cool Shout It Out The Riotous Brothers Shout It Out Lord, I Looked On Down The Road Poplar Jake Riding The Blind Sheena's Back Nick Curran & the Lowlifes Reform School Lose Control King King Take My Hand Blues For Koko James Cotton Giant Yesterday's Makeup Michelle Malone Debris I Wanna Be With You Smokey Smothers Live Whoa Yeah Woman Kilborn Alley Blues Band Better Off Now

Goin' Home Son Seals Alligator 40th Anniversary Collection Broke Down Engine Ben Andrews Gallows Pole Wait A Minute Simon Campbell Bonus Track Busted Broken & Blue 24 Pesos Busted Broken & Blue I Prefer You Andrea Marr Little Sister Got Soul Restraining Order Marcy Rodsky Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddies She Wakes Up Cryin Los Fabulocos ft Kid Ramos Dos Shake It Baby Lynwood Slim & Igor Prado Band Brazilian Kicks Legacy Blues Andres Roots Roundabout Bonus Track Rock Me Baby The Bluesmasters The Bluesmasters Memphis Cassie Taylor Blue Solidor The Dirty Aces EP Don't Spill The Sugar The Wiyos Broken Land Bell Gather My Fruit Little Miss Higgins Across The Plains

This week -  Got My Mojo Working Pinetop Perkins Pinetop Perkins & Friends Take Your Eyes Off My Woman Pinetop Perkins Joined At The Hip Pinetop's New Boogie Pinetop Perkins Ladies Man Look Before You Leap Marcia Ball Roadside Attractions Can't Be Satisfied Poplar Jake Riding The Blind You Got Me Dizzy Steve Miller Band Bingo Six Feet Five Howlin' Bill Blues Challenge 2011 Wish The Clock Would Stop Gina Sicilia Can't Control Myself Come & Get It Bige Pete Pearson The Screamer Feel Good Music Dr John & The Lower 911 Tribal Leaving Chicago Fish, Taylor, Wilde Girls With Guitars Rolling Stone Gregg Allman Low Country Blues

This week back to the roots with no new material -  Otis In The Dark Otis Spann Boogie Woogie Pioneers Pink Champagne Joe Liggins Speciality Legends of Jump Blues Don't Stay Out All Night Billy Boy Arnold Essential Chicago Blues Jump For Joy Big Jack Johnson Roots Stew Dixie Diner Greg Taylor & Anson Funderburgh Blues Harp Boogie Trouble Blues Lightnin' Hopkins Lightnin' Hopkins in New York Chill Out John Lee Hooker Chill Out Confessin' The Blues B B King Best Of The Blues Guitar King Honey Bee Muddy Waters The Lost Tapes Love's A Disease Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee Old Town Blues Spill The Wine Eric Burdon Gratefully Dead One 2am Too Many Dr John Creole Moon Smokestack Lightnin Howlin Wolf The Chess Story

A wide mix of music this week , the one link with them all is the blues -  Bitch Fish, Taylor, Wilde Girls With Guitars Time Will Tell Peaches Staten Time Will Tell Mean Old World Brock Alexander Soul For Sale T-Train Kick Tomislav Goluban & LPFB Blues Challenge 2011 Love In Vain Paltan Blues band Tuta Stanote Good Time Charlie Kim Wilson Smokin' Joint Don't Bump My Stacy Adams Shoes Drink Small Tryin' To Survive At 75 They Just Don't Make Them Like You Anymore Richie Arndt & the Bluenatics The Blue Side Of Happy With My French Friends Hubert Sumlin My Guitar & Me I Dreamed I Saw Robert Johnson Ben B Beckendorf Voodoo Moon Hand Mer Down My Walking Cane Jack Rose Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers Walk On By Pearl Handled Revolver Pearl Handled Revolver

This week - vote in the British Blues Awards 2011 Vote for the show here - britishbluesawards.co.uk and to choose which of the four tracks make it through to the next round vote here - britishbluesawards.co.uk/raven Whammer Jammer J Geils Band Full House All Hands Against His Own The Black Keys Rubber Factory Turkey Walk Boo Boo Davis Undercover Blues I'm A Woman Koko Taylor Alligator 40th Anniversary Collection Blues Awards Compilation   British Blues Awards 2011 Broomhilda Big Daddy D & The Dynamites Down Boy Work Me Baby Junior Kimborough All Night Long They Play The Blues Steam Up The Windows Andrea Marr Little Sister Got Soul Lost My House NOMC Bonerama Get You A Healin' Red Beans Professor Longhair Alligator 40th Anniversary Collection Blues All Over Eden Brent Ain't Got No Troubles

This week - Title Artist CD Tell Me What You Got On Your Mind Magic Slim Tin Pan Alley You Gave Me The Blues Baby Guitar Shorty My Way Of The Highway Weekend Driver Tutu Jones Inside Out Say Yeah Kal David Crossroads Of My Life Hot As Hell Simon Campbell Thirty Six Cryin' Rooster Boom Chick Show Pony Let's Make A Dirty Movie Bullfrog Willard McGhee & Tad Walters Stealin' Gasoline The Vibe Los Fabulocos ft Kid Ramos Dos Get Up & Move On Ms Jody Ms Jody's Keepin' It Real That's It, I Quit Johnny Max Band It's A Long Road Older Fool Karen Lovely Still The Rain If That Ain't Love What Is Todd Sharpville Porchlight Rent My Soul Bob Pace Live At Blues On Grand

This week Title Artist CD She Walks Right In Roomful Of Blues Hook Line & Sinker I Ain't Got Nothing Buddy Ray I Ain't Got Nothing It's A Long Old Road Robert Pete Williams Freight Train Blues Where Have All The Black Men Gone Lillian Glinn Let Me Tell You About The Blues 3 x 7 = 21 Jewel King Let Me Tell You About The Blues You Don't Have To Go Sammy Myers Let Me Tell You About The Blues Keys Cassie Taylor Blue Mr Highway Man King King Take My Hand What You Got 3am 3am I'm A Good Man Baby Quintus McCormick I'm A Good Man Baby Live My Life To Sing The Blues 24 Pesos Busted Broken & Blue Blues Is Truth Hounds Tooth Bake Sale Vol 5 Fast Train Van Morrison Down The Road

This week - Title Artist CD I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know Gary Moore Bad For You Baby Little By Little Gregg Allman Low Country Blues Nobody's Fault But Mine Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson Beauty 'n the Beast Seventies Blues Tiny Legs Tim Small Birds Don't Fly Too High Hey You Boogie Boys Blues Challenge 2011 The Dy'n Crapshooter Catfishfry 13 in 5 Two Old Maids The Untouchables EP Take It So Hard Keith Richards Vintage Vinos Take The Back Road Home Delta Moon Hell Bound Train Woman Help Me Little Mac Chicago Blues Harmonica Wizard Goin' Fishin 2BLU & The Lucky Stiffs Goin' Fishin TV Mama Taj Mahal Maestro The Same Way Gary Moore Blues For Greeny

This week  Title Artist CD Doctor Brown Fleetwood Mac Rhythm & Blues Little By Little Kat & Co Gypsy Woman Just Enough Bo Molasses You've Put Your Voodoo On Me Ten Ton Blocks Dana Live with the London Blues Band New Louisiania Blues Bob Margolin Blues For The Gulf Red Hot Cherry Lee Mewis Little Girl Blue All Your Life King King Take My Hand Daddy's Little Girl Johnny Max Band It's A Long Road Swindler For You Giles Robson & The Dirty Aces Single New Orleans Hop Scop Blues Maria Muldaur Naughty Bawdy & Blue Black Water At My Door Joe McMurrian Get Inside This House The Action Keb Mo Live & Mo Duck Soup Andres Roots Roundabout

Dave Arcari plays live and  Title Artist CD Just Count The Days Reverend Raven Shake Your Boogie Red Hot Woman Reverend Richard John Blues Brand New Cadillac Reverend Rusty & The Case Preacher Man Blind Man Gregg Allman Low Country Blues King Of Cheap Studebaker John & The Hawks Born To Win Swampnight James Harman Do Not Disturb Devil's Left Hand Dave Arcari Live in the studio MacPherson's Lament Dave Arcari Live in the studio Bring Your Fine Self Home Collins, Cray, Copeland Showdown! Down In The Woods Malcolm Holcombe To Drink The Rain Wash These Blues Away Little Miss Higgins Across The Plains Trouble & Pain Robert Cray This Time

Dave on a flying visit south of the border for BBC 6 Music, and the Windmill in Brixton finds time to come and talk and play tracks from his new album - Devil's Left Hand.

Clare Free plays live and Title Artist CD The Creeper James Cotton Dealing With The Devil Red Dress T-Model Ford & Gravelroad Taledragger Rolled & Tumbled Rosalie Hill Worried Now I Won't Lie Clare Free Live in the studio Small Miracles Clare Free Live in the studio If The Diesel Don't Get You Popa Chubby The Essential Popa Chubby Shut Yo Flap G'Jai I Got The Blues Juice Juice Juice Roomful Of Blues Hook Line & Sinker Livin' On Love Shemekia Copeland Deluxe Edition Burned Down The House The Homemade Jamz Blues Band The Game O.C. Blues Marcy Rodsky Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddies Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long Sidney Carter Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long Ain't No Grave Dead Rock West Bright Morning Stars

Clare visits the boat and talks about her career and sings I Won't Lie, Small Miracles, My Perfect Man and Funky Mama's Kitchen Blues.

Erja Lytinen plays live and Title Artist CD Hellbound Train George Kochbeck Burning Tires You Can't Take It Back From Here Candye Kane Blues For The Gulf Cambaya Stomp Lazy Lester Antequera Blues Soul Of A Man Erja Lyytinen Live in the studio Oil & Water Erja Lyytinen Live in the studio The Question Why Jamie Marshall mp3 Born Like This Sonny Babe Don't Touch Brand New High Sheriff Blues Ian Siegal The Dust Buddy's Blues Buddy Guy & Junior Wells The Best Of Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Real Music Ben Prestage Real Music Lock It In The Pocket Bill Rich Can U Pheel It I'm Sorry About That Mitch Kashmar & The Pontiax 100 Miles To Go

Erja makes a very welcome return to the boat to talk about and play tracks from her new album 'Voracious Love' Watch the video of her music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGO_iIEdhZI  

This week  Title Artist CD I Thought I Heard Big Daddy D & The Dynamites Down Boy Bionic Tumatoe Duke Tumatoe I Just Want To Be Rich If It Ain't One Thing Chris Thomas King Red Mud She's An Evil Woman Clare Free How It Is Come On In My Kitchen Dave Arcari Devil's Left Hand Don't Let A Good Woman Down Erja Lyytinen Voracious Love Mr J J Cale Mike Lecuyer Montparnasse a Montreal C C Rider Robert Lockwood House Rockin' & Blues Shoutin' Gotta Get Gone Susan Cattaneo Heaven To Heartache Mighty Incinerator Giles Robson & The Dirty Aces EP Just Another Rider Greg Allman Low Country Blues I'm Going Home Victoria Blackie Wanted Man Pelican Michael Packer Blues Band Blues For The Gulf Baby Bye Bye Robin Rogers Back In The Fire

The first show of 2011 is entirely from the live sessions of 2010 Title Artist Low Down Sweet & Dirty 24 Pesos The Man Next Door Cherry Lee Mewis Losing You Ben Poole Superstition Geoff Achison Rollin' & Tumblin' L R Phoenix Complicated Oli Brown Nora Dani Wilde Midnight In Memphis Doug MacLeod The Lights Are On Matt Schofield Fare Thee Well Sean Taylor Someday Baby Ben Prestage Lenny Mitch Laddie Baseball Blues Toby Walker Bo Diddley Mashup Bluesmix