Crossroads Blues Radio E511 "Some Blues Novelties" (09/10/2026)

 

PODCAST DE L'EPISODI del 9 d'octubre de 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES”, una selecció de 10 novetats del Blues, dels seus diferents estils i derivats amb dues cançons dels nous àlbums de:

PODCAST DEL EPISODIO del 9 de octubre de 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES”, una selección de 10 novedades del Blues, de sus diferentes estilos y derivados con dos canciones de los nuevos álbumes de:

PODCAST OF THE EPISODE of October 9, 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES,” a selection of 10 new Blues releases, from all its different styles and derivatives with two songs from the new albums by:

Amani Burnham, Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind w. Kaitlin Dibble, Anthony Geraci, Murali Coryell, Dogshark, Lady A, Jodie Kay Victor, Peter Parcek, Kevin Burt and Eddie Cotton.

1: Amani Burnham

Album: Roots & Wings (5/2026)

Songs: 1) I Wanna Know 2) The Last Thing I Remember

2: Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind w. Kaitlin Dibble

Album: 13 Hours (5/2026)

Songs: 1) Long Twisted Night 2) Renegade

3: Anthony Geraci

Album: Where Were You (6/2026)

Songs: 1) Stop Sneaking Around 2) Where Were You

4: Murali Coryell

Album: Deep Blues (6/2026)

Songs: 1) Pony Blues 2) Kokomo Blues.

5: Dogshark

Album: The Live Blues Sessions (7/2026)

Songs: 1) Drifting Blues 2) You Shook Me

6: Lady A

Album: The Space In Between (7/2026)

Songs: 1) I Stay Covered 2) That's My Mama

7: Jodie Kay Victor

Album: Soul Patrol (7/2026)

Songs: 1) Bound And Detirmined 2) One Of These Days

8: Peter Parcek

Album: Most Of The Time (8/2026)

Songs: 1) Mississippi Phone Booth 2) Poor Boy

9: Kevin Burt

Album: This-Trip (8/2026)

Songs: 1) Round and Around 2) You Gone

10: Eddie Cotton

Album: Bubble Gum Lover (9/2026)

Songs: 1) Rescue Me 2) Ooh Wee

                                             

Crossroads Blues Radio E510 "September Blues Selection" (02/10/2026)

PODCAST de L'Episodi del 29 de maig de 2026. “SEPTEMBER BLUES SELECTION”, una selecció de 20 artistes amb cançons que van ser gravades durant les dues primeres dècades d'aquest segle.

PODCAST del Episodio del 2 de Octubre de 2026. “SEPTEMBER BLUES SELECTION”, con una selección de 18 artistas con canciones que fueron grabadas durante las dos primeras décadas de este siglo.

PODCAST of the October 2, 2026 episode. “SEPTEMBER BLUES SELECTION,” featuring a selection of 18 artists with songs recorded during the first two decades of this century.

PLAYLIST: Morblus Funky Blues Band, Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon, Big Yuyu & The Hot Nite Band, Rob Stone & The C-Notes, Will Jacobs & Marcos Coll, Mac Arnold's Blues Revival, Edu “Big Hands”, Robin Banks, James Cotton, Hurricane Ruth, Fernando Beiztegui, Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues, Charles Walker Blues Band, Slam Allen, Reverend Robert B. Jones Sr., Trizia Band, The Backbones, Greg Copeland & Soul Gang.

1 Morblus Funky Blues Band

Album: Push! Live At Fiamene (2001)

Song: Paying The Cost To Be The Boss

2 Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon

Album: It's About Time (2000)

Song: The Way I Used To Be

3 Big Yuyu & The Hot Nite Band

Album: Burnin' Up (2011)

Song: Hoy Tengo El Blues

4 Rob Stone & The C-Notes

Album: No Worries (2000)

Song: Lost And Lonely

5 Will Jacobs & Marcos Coll

Album: Takin Our Time (2019)

Song: It Ain't Safe

6 Mac Arnold's Blues Revival

Album: Live At The Grey Eagle (2010)

Song: Drivin' Wheel

7 Edu 'Big Hands'

Album: Blues (2015)

Song: That's All Right

8 Robin Banks

Album: Honestly (2001)

Song: The Whiskey Song

9 James Cotton Blues Band

Album: 35th Anniversary Jam (2002)

Song: I've Got A Feeling (with Koko Taylor)

10 Hurricane Ruth

Album: Ain't Ready For The Grave (2017)

Song: Let Me Be The One

11 Fernando Beiztegui

Album: Long Road Blues (2015)

Song: Strange Feelin´ Blues

12 Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues

Album: Walk The Walk (2011)

Song: Fake Paradise

13 Charles Walker Blues Band

Album: Hotel Room Blues (2005)

Song: Broken Child

14 Slam Allen

Album: This World (2010)

Song: Another Man's Women

15 Reverend Robert B. Jones Sr.

Album: The Time Of The Preacher (2005)

Song: If It Wasn't for the Train

16 Trizia Band

Album: Predestinados (2017)

Song: I Have Nothing To Loose Beacuse I'm Crazy

17 The Backbones

Album: New Road Sessions Vol. 1 (2006)

Song: Black Cat Bone (Feat. Matt Schofield)

18 Greg Copeland & Soul Gang

Album: Take It To The Bridge (2012)

Song: I Know I Was Wrong

Crossroads Blues Radio E509-B Albert Collins

Albert Gene Collins (October 1, 1932 - November 24, 1993) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster".

Collins was born in Leona, Texas, on October 1, 1932. He was introduced to the guitar at an early age by his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins, also a Leona resident, who played at family gatherings. The Collins family relocated to Marquez, Texas, in 1938 and to Houston in 1941, where he attended Jack Yates High School. Collins took piano lessons when he was young, but when his piano tutor was unavailable his cousin Willow Young would lend Albert his guitar and taught him the altered tuning that he used throughout his career. Collins tuned his guitar to an open F-minor chord (FCFA♭CF), with a capo at the 5th, 6th or 7th fret. At the age of sixteen, he decided to concentrate on learning the guitar after hearing "Boogie Chillen' " by John Lee Hooker.

At 18, Collins started his own group, the Rhythm Rockers, in which he honed his craft. During this time he was employed for four years at a ranch in Normangee, Texas; he then worked as a truck driver for various companies for 12 years.

Albert Collins - Iceman

Brown playing a Fender Esquire, he decided to purchase a Fender. He wanted a Telecaster, but because of the cost he chose to buy an Esquire, which he took to the Parker Music Company in Houston to be fitted with a Telecaster neck pickup. This was his main guitar until he moved to California, and it was the guitar that he used on his earliest recordings, including his signature song, "Frosty". For the rest of his career he played a "maple cap"–necked natural ash body Fender 1966 Custom Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup retrofitted into the neck position, which became the basis for a Fender Custom Artist signature model in 1990.

In 1954, Collins, then aged 22 and without a record release, was joined in the Rhythm Rockers by 17-year-old Johnny Copeland, who had just left the Dukes of Rhythm (a band he had started with the Houston blues musician Joe "Guitar" Hughes).

Collins started to play regularly in Houston, notably at Shady's Playhouse, where James "Widemouth" Brown (brother of Gatemouth Brown) and other well-known Houston blues musicians would meet for "Blue Monday" jams. By the mid-1950s, he had established his reputation as a local guitarist of note and had started to appear regularly at a Fifth Ward club, Walter's Lounge, with the group Big Tiny and the Thunderbirds.

The saxophonist and music teacher Henry Hayes heard about Collins from Hughes. After seeing him perform live, Hayes encouraged Collins to record a single for Kangaroo Records, a label he had started with his friend M. L. Young. Collins recorded his debut single, "Freeze", backed with "Collins Shuffle", for Kangaroo at Gold Star Studios, in Houston, in the spring of 1958, with Hayes on saxophone. Texas blues bands of this period incorporated a horn section, and Collins later credited Hayes with teaching him how to arrange for horns.

Albert Collins - If trouble was money

In 1964, he recorded "Frosty" at Gulf Coast Recording Studio in Beaumont, Texas for Hall Records, owned by Bill Hall, who had signed Collins on the recommendation of Cowboy Jack Clement, a songwriter and producer who had engineered sessions for Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Records. His debut album, The Cool Sound of Albert Collins, released in 1965 on the TCF Hall label, consisted of previously released instrumentals, including "Thaw-Out", "Sno-Cone", and "Don't Lose Your Cool".

On June 19, 1968, the group Canned Heat was playing at the Music Hall in Houston, and a friend of theirs mentioned that Collins was playing at the Ponderosa Club, which they duly attended. After Collins had finished playing, they introduced themselves and offered to help secure an agent for him as well as an introduction to Imperial Records in California. With the offer of a record deal and regular live work, Collins decided to move, relocating to Kansas City in July 1968, where he played in the organ trio of the keyboardist Lawrence Wright, and then in November moving to Palo Alto, California. For his 1968 Imperial album, Collins chose the title Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even in a Guitar), from the lyrics of Canned Heat's "Fried Hockey Boogie", in honor of Canned Heat and their lead singer Bob Hite, who wrote the liner notes for the album. In the spring of 1969 Collins was hired by Bob Krasnow to play on the Ike and Tina Turner album The Hunter, which was released by Krasnow's Blue Thumb Records. 

The move to California was proving to be the right decision, with Collins establishing himself as a regular act on the West Coast circuit, playing at the Fillmore West and the Whisky a Go Go and at the "Newport 69" festival in Northridge, California, in June 1969 and the Gold Rush Festival at Lake Amador, California, in October. In December 1969, his debut album, The Cool Sound of Albert Collins, was reissued as Truckin' with Albert Collins by Blue Thumb. He opened for the Grateful Dead at the Family Dog on the Great Highway in San Francisco in early August, 1969.

Albert Collins - "Lights Are On But Nobody's Home"

More biography - click image

ALBERT COLLINS FULL ALBUMS

Ice Pickin'                                       Iceman

Crossroads Blues Radio E509 "Some Blues Novelties" (18/09/2026)

PODCAST DE L'EPISODI del 18 de setembre de 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES”, una selecció de 12 novetats del Blues, dels seus diferents estils i derivats, un total de 20 cançons, presentant els nous enregistraments dels següents músics a la PLAYLIST: Bluescats Feat. Greg Copeland, Carl Ricci & 706 Union Ave, Chris O'Leary, The Blind Dog Mayer Group, Misty Blues, Joanna Connor, GA-20 With Charlie Musselwhite, Parsley Sage, Crystal Shawanda, Mike Wheeler Band, Antonio Hidalgo & Le Blues Troupe i Ster Wax.

PODCAST DEL EPISODIO del 18 de septiembre de 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES”, una selección de 12 novedades del Blues, de sus diferentes estilos y derivados, un total de 20 canciones, presentando las nuevas grabaciones de los siguientes músicos en la PLAYLIST: Bluescats Feat. Greg Copeland, Carl Ricci & 706 Union Ave, Chris O'Leary, The Blind Dog Mayer Group, Misty Blues, Joanna Connor, GA-20 With Charlie Musselwhite, Parsley Sage, Crystal Shawanda, Mike Wheeler Band, Antonio Hidalgo & Le Blues Troupe y Ster Wax.

PODCAST OF THE EPISODE of September 18, 2026. “SOME BLUES NOVELTIES,” a selection of 12 new Blues releases, from all its different styles and derivatives, a total of 20 songs featuring the new recordings of the following musicians in the PLAYLIST: Bluescats Feat. Greg Copeland, Carl Ricci & 706 Union Ave, Chris O'Leary, The Blind Dog Mayer Group, Misty Blues, Joanna Connor, GA-20 With Charlie Musselwhite, Parsley Sage, Crystal Shawanda, Mike Wheeler Band, Antonio Hidalgo & Le Blues Troupe and Ster Wax.

Bluescats Feat. Greg Copeland

Album: The Soul Of The Blue (5/2026)

Songs: 1) Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 2) Baby Please Don't Go

Carl Ricci & 706 Union Ave

Album: Babydoll's Kitchen (6/2026)

Songs: 1) Ruby Lipstick 2) She's In My Soul

Chris O'Leary

Album: Blue Collar (7/2026)

Songs: 1) After 2 A.M. 2) Nothing But A Memory

The Blind Dog Mayer Group

Album (EP): Live Studio Session ''From The Shadow Of The Castle'' (6/2026)

Song: Call Me Blind Dog

Misty Blues

Album: Still Ticking (7/2026)

Songs: 1) State Of The Union 2) Gimme Some More

Joanna Connor

Album: Live On 11-11 (8/2026)

Songs: 1) Magic Sam Boogie 2) You’re So Fine

GA-20 With Charlie Musselwhite

Album: Blues Now (7/2026)

Songs: 1) Strange Land 2) The Blues Never Die

Parsley Sage

Album: From the Hosts and the Ghosts (8/2026)

Song: The ballad of Johnny Who

Crystal Shawanda

Album: Homesick Indian Blues (8/2026)

Songs: 1) Homesick Indian Blues 2) The Whole World's Got The Blues

Mike Wheeler Band

Album: Chicago Blues (9/2026)

Songs: 1) A Blind Man Can See 2) Here I Am.

Antonio Hidalgo

Album (EP): Escondido en el Desván (9/2026)

Song: Blues del soldado

Ster Wax

Single: Back On My Feet