Blues Breakers with Tom Marker

Hosted by XRT's award-winning Blues aficionado Tom Marker, Blues Breakers features new releases, classic recordings, and a preview of the best live shows coming to Chicago. Visit here often for playlists and Blues-related links.

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Artists of the Week

Monday, July 6th
Pinetop Perkins

Monday, July 13th
Keb' Mo'

Monday, July 20th
Johnny Winter

Monday, July 27th
Little Charlie and the Nightcats

Here's what you heard on July 6, 2009
    Featured Artist: Pinetop Perkins
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  • DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI PINETOP PERKINS w/ B. B. KING
    From the 2008 album, Pinetop Perkins and Friends.
  • R. L. BURNSIDE CEDRIC BURNSIDE AND MALCOM LIGHTNIN'
    Malcolm singing a song about his big daddy who passed away in 2005. This is from the album, 2 Man Wrecking Crew that came out last year. Cedric and Malcolm are appearing at Buddy's this Tuesday.
  • COLD WOMEN WITH WARM HEARTS MAGIC SLIM AND THE TEARDROPS
    From Slim's 1990 album, Gravel Road. Almost lost in the news about Koko Taylor, the Blues Fest and the Fourth of July was the passing of Slim's brother and bass player, the much loved Nick Holt, June 22.
  • PINETOP'S BOOGIE WOOGIE PINETOP PERKINS
    You can't really do a program about Pinetop without playing this song that seems to appear on most of his records. This is from an album called Pinetop's Boogie Woogie that came out in 1992 and features the all-star cast of James Cotton on harp, Matt Murphy on guitar, Luther Tucker on guitar, Bob Stroger on bass and Ted Harvey on drums.
  • SUMMERTIME EDDIE C. CAMPBELL
    From the new album, Tear This World Up.
  • NIGHT TRAIN TAB BENOIT
    From a 2005 album called Fever for the Bayou. Cyril Neville adds vocals and percussion to this album. It was Tab who convinced Cyril to "go blue" on his next album which just came out and which we're also playing tonight.
  • I FOUND JOY CYRIL NEVILLE
    This is from a new blues album by Neville Brother Cyril called Brand New Blues.
  • MAYOR DALEY BLUES EDDY CLEARWATER
    This is my shuffle song of the week. It popped up on my mp3 player and sounded good. Eddy singing about how if the first Mayor Daley would just come out and hear some blues he would then see to it that there would be blues clubs popping up all over town.
  • BIG BOSS MAN KOKO TAYLOR
    We'll be playing Koko all summer long on Blues Breakers. This is from the 1975 album, I Got What It Takes.
  • MOANIN' AT MIDNIGHT JOHN PRIMER
    From the new album, Chicago Blues: A Living History. That's Matthew Skoller on harmonica, Billy Flynn on guitar, Felton Crewes on bass and Kenny Smith on drums.
  • PINETOP'S NEW BOOGIE WOOGIE PINETOP PERKINS w/ MARCIA BALL
    Pinetop with a lot of lady guests here doing a piano duo with Marcia Ball from the album, Ladies Man, released in 2004.
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