WXRT's Blues Breakers
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Artist of the Week: Bobby Rush
Tom Marker's Blues Breakers airs every Sunday from 9p-10p on
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# = Chicago artist
CHICKEN HEADS - BOBBY RUSH - CHICKEN HEADS: A 50-YEAR HISTORY OF BOBBY RUSH - OMNIVORE Recorded for Galaxy Records.
Bobby will be opening for his friend Buddy Guy at Buddy Guy's Legends this Thursday.
STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING - KIM WILSON - TAKE ME BACK, THE BIG TONE SESSIONS - M.C. RECORDS Kim will be our Artist of the Week next week on Blues Breakers. He was born in Detroit on January 6, 1951. *
COME TO MAMA - ETTA JAMES - SEVEN YEAR ITCH - ISLAND
YOU GOT TO TAKE SICK AND DIE ONE OF THESE DAYS - MUDDY WATERS - THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS - MCA RECORDS Recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi in the summer of 1942. #
POOR BOY A LONG WAY FROM HOME - THE BLACK KEYS featuring KENNY BROWN and ERIC DEATON - DELTA KREAM - NONESUCH *
INSURRECTION BLUES - COREY HARRIS - THE INSURRECTION BLUES - M.C. RECORDS *
TROUBLE MAN - BUDDY GUY - FEELS LIKE RAIN - SILVERTONE The first of the 2022 Buddy Shows is this Thursday with Bobby Rush opening. #
STEP IN - CEDRIC BURNSIDE - I BE TRYING - SINGLE LOCK RECORDS *
PORCUPINE MEAT - BOBBY RUSH - PORCUPINE MEAT - ROUNDER
ONE STEP FORWARD - JACKIE VENSON - LOVE TRANSCENDS - SELF RELEASED *
ROOM WITH A VIEW OF THE BLUES - JOHNNY ADAMS - THE GREAT JOHNNY ADAMS BLUES ALBUM - ROUNDER Johnny was born on January 5, 1932, in New Orleans.
RAG AND BUCKET - NORA JEAN WALLACE - BLUES WOMAN - SEVERN *#
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GOTTA HAVE MONEY - BOBBY RUSH - CHICKEN HEADS: A 50-YEAR HISTORY OF BOBBY RUSH - OMNIVORE Recorded in 1968 for ABC Records. If you want to know all about Bobby Rush read his autobiography, "I Ain't Studdin' Ya."
Next week's Artist of the Week: Kim Wilson
