Comin up, on The Blues Show
August 16, 2008 Sneak preview of a new Taj Mahal album! Also, Art Tatum with Big Joe Turner, sounding better than ever, reissued by Pristine Audio, a company that uses the latest technology and some "digital elbow grease" to get the best sounds yet out of some old recordings. They have also reissued all of Robert Johnson's songs, and we'll hear a few of them as this day is the 70th anniversary of his death. In the midnight hour on The Blues & Beyond, we'll feature Mac Arnold's album "Backbone & Gristle." Miss a show, or want to listen again? You can always listen to streams of the two most recent programs for The Blues Show and The Blues & Beyond.
About The XPN Blues Show
and Jonny Meister:
It's been said that rock, pop, country, jazz and R&B are just branches of a tree whose roots are buried deep in the mud of the Mississippi Delta. To honor those roots 88.5 WXPN presents The Blues Show with host Jonny Meister every Saturday evening from 7PM to 12 midnight.  Jonny Meister with Catherine Russell The Blues Show covers the entire history of the blues from 1920 to the present, from the best-known to the most obscure blues, with an eye both on the rich history of this music and its current vitality. Host Jonny Meister has been playing the blues on WXPN since March 1977. Meister grew up with old blues records in the house. His father played boogie woogie on the piano, which Jonny learned at about the age of 12. Later he played in rock bands and did a few solo gigs as a singer-songwriter. His interest in blues grew and he became especially interested in the history of the music, a history not always revealed by the rock musicians who drew heavily on the blues and their promoters. Jonny spent a week with the family of the late, great blues musician J. B. Lenoir in 1979, and he was one of the consultants for the Wim Wenders film The Soul Of A Man which featured Lenoir, in the recent PBS film series The Blues. He won the "Keeping The Blues Alive" award for work in Public Radio for The Blues Show in 2000 and a "Best of Philly" award from Philadelphia Magazine in 1996 for "Best Local Radio Show". Area Blues Concerts & Events
For more detailed information please visit our concert calendar or a venue's website. AugustThursday, August 14, 2008:
George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Buddy Guy, with Elvin Bishop
@ Mann Center
Philadelphia PA
215-878-7707 7:30 PM
Friday, August 15, 2008:
Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowout featuring Kenny Neal,
Magic Dick (of J Geils Band), & Steve Guyger
@ Sellersville Theater
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Saturday, August 16, 2008:
Craig Thatcher Band
@ Sellersville Theater
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808
Sunday, August 17, 2008:
Keb' Mo' and The Robert Cray Band
@ House Of Blues
Atlantic City NJ
8:00PM Wednesday, August 20, 2008:
Keb' Mo' & Robert Cray Band
@ Keswick Theatre
Glenside PA Sunday, August 31, 2008:
12th Annual Alonzo's Memorial Picnic
Baltimore Blues Society presents
Big James Montgomery
Billy Price Band
Nothin' But Trouble
& others
@ Rosedale American Legion Hall
1311 Seling Avenue
Rosedale MD 21237
410-744-2291
SeptemberThursday, September 18, 2008:
Ronnie Baker Brooks
@ Sellersville Theater
Sellersville PA
215-257-5808 Saturday, September 20, 2008:
Deb Callahan @ World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA Sunday, September 28, 2008:
Deb Callahan @ Stockton Blues Festival
Stockton NJ
OctoberThursday, October 2, 2008:
Taj Mahal/Shemekia Copeland
@ Keswick Theatre
Glenside PA
| Saturdays, 7pm-1am The XPN Blues File, produced by Jonny Meister, is a weekly look into the world of blues, keeping you up-to-date on the latest developments in this essential musical form, as well as exploring the long and rich history behind it. Listen to The Blues File online too, by subscribing to The Blues File Podcast. Click an icon below to subscribe to The Blues File podcast using iTunes or MyYahoo:   Or copy & paste this address into your preferred podcasting application:http://www.npr.org/rss/ podcast.php?id=510165 The XPN Blues File
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(listen to "out-of-print" Blues Files here): Contact the Show:Drop Jonny an email about the show. Blues Links:
Visit these links to explore the Blues, learn about live events and to take part in the culture of this American art form. Alligator RecordsOne of the leading Chicago blues labels. Alligator is Koko Taylor's label and also home for Lonnie Brooks, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, and many more. Recent releases include The Holmes Brothers Simple Truths and Kenny Neal & Billy Branch Double Take. Delmark RecordsA venerable Chicago blues & jazz label now celebrating 50 years in the business. Many of the blues greats of the past, like Junior Wells, have recorded for Delmark, as have a number of fine contemporary singers and players, like Bonnie Lee and Lurrie Bell. One of their finestrecent releases is a compilation of women blues singers called Wild About My Thing featuring Bonnie Lee, Dinah Washington, Big Time Sarah,and many others. Diamond State Blues Society sponsors many blues events, notably regular day-long shows at Gators in New Castle DE and summer events in Wilmington. Bucks County Blues Society; is America's oldest blues society. Among the performers they have presented are folks like Willie Dixon and Albert Collins. They have regular events and a big Blues/R &;amp; B picnic every summer, and they sponsor "Blue Thursdays"; every Thursday night at A. J.'s in Levittown, PA. | ;
