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  • Koko Taylor 7:13:24 10.39 PM

    Koko Taylor 7:13:24 10.39 PM
    Jul 14 2024
    Intro by: Gail Nobles
    Photo: Sumori - Own work
    Usage: CC BY-SA 3.0

    If You Got A Heartache is the fifth track on Koko Taylor's 1981 blues album entitled From The Heart of a Woman. She let you know that when you've got a headache, a headache powder will ease the pain, but when you've got a heartache, there ain't nothing you can do.

    Koko Taylor was a singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over the course of her career, she was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning 1985's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance on Blues Explosion.

    Taylor became better known by touring in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and she became accessible to a wider record-buying public when she signed a recording contract with Alligator Records in 1975. She recorded nine albums for Alligator, eight of which were nominated for Grammy awards, and came to dominate ranks of female blues singers, winning twenty-nine W. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards.

    Call Taylor live to get 80 years old to learn more about her go to alligator.com/artist/Koko-Taylor/

    I'm Gail Nobles tune in again next time for more from Podcast and Blues.
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  • Katie Webster-Stood Up Again 7:11:24 8.47 PM

    Katie Webster-Stood Up Again 7:11:24 8.47 PM
    Jul 12 2024
    Intro by: Gail Nobles
    Photo: Wikipedia
    Usage: Copyrighted free use

    Katie Webster has a single from her 1989 album Katie Webster Two-Fisted Mama. The single is entitled Stood Up Again. The lyrics tell the story of someone who has been let down and disappointed in relationship. Katie gets stood up, but in the end her man gets stood up. She repays him.

    Katie Webster was a boogie-woogie pianist. Her genres are Boogie-woogie,, soul, and swamp blues. She played piano with Otis Redding in the 1960s, but after his death went into semi-retirement.

    In the 1980s she was repeatedly booked for European tours and recorded albums for the German record label, Ornament Records, with Gary Wiggins and Chris Rannenberg (The International Blues Duo). She cut You Know That's Right with the band 'Hot Links', and the album that established her in the United States: The Swamp Boogie Queen with guest spots by Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray. Two-Fisted Mama! was released in 1989. Webster promoted the album with a North American tour. The album was nominated for a Bammy Award, in the "Blues Album" category.

    Katie Webster passed away in 1999 at age 63. You can check out Katie Webster's music on Spotify. Thank you for listening to Podcast and Blues. I am your host Gail Nobles.
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  • Alberta Hunter-My Handy Man.. 7:11:24 6.54 PM

    Alberta Hunter-My Handy Man.. 7:11:24 6.54 PM
    Jul 11 2024
    Story by: Gail Nobles

    'Now whoever said a man was hard to find
    Positively absolutely sure was lying
    Cause I just found the best man that ever was
    And here's just a few things that he does
    He shakes my ashes
    Greases my grittle'

    Hello, I’m Gail Nobles. Welcome to Podcast and Blues. Today’s topic is Alberta Hunter.
    The words that you have heard me say from the beginning comes from Alberta’s track My Handyman Ain't Handy Man No More.

    She's singing about how her man takes care of her household chores and fixes things. He does everything for her, but the title of the song is saying that the man is not handy no more. So in the title it sounds as if Alberta is saying that he is no longer able to do all those things he has done. But in the song, there is no frustration or disappointment having someone to rely on. So she could also be saying that he's more to her than a handyman.

    Alberta Hunter was a jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. After twenty years of working as a nurse, Hunter resumed her singing career in 1977. She lived to get 89 years old...
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  • Lowell Fulson 7:10:24 8.48 PM

    Lowell Fulson 7:10:24 8.48 PM
    Jul 11 2024
    Keyboardist: Gail Nobles
    Photo: Lioneldecoster - Own work
    Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

    Lower Fulson was a blues guitarist and songwriter in the West Coast blues tradition after T-bone Walker. He was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
    On January 13, 1955, he recorded a single titled Do Me Right. The song was written by Willie Dixon. It was released July 1955.

    Folsom recorded for swing Time records in the 1940s, Chess Records in the 1950s, Kent Records in the 1960s, and Rounder Records in the 1980s/1990s. He wrote "3 O'Clock Blues" (B.B. King's first hit), "Reconsider Baby" (a blues standard), and "Tramp" (co-written with Jimmy McCracklin and recorded by several artists). His 1965 song "Black Nights" was his first hit in a decade, and "Tramp" did even better, restoring him to R&B stardom.

    Fulson died in Long Beach, California, on March 7, 1999, at the age of 77. He left us with a lot of great blues.
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  • Memorial Day Blues 57 Festival 6:1:24 9.39 PM

    Memorial Day Blues 57 Festival 6:1:24 9.39 PM
    Jun 2 2024
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    Story, Podcast, and Film by: Gail Nobles copyright ©️ 2024
    Story: Memorial Day Blues 57 Festival
    Beginning Theme song by: Gail Nobles
    Theme song: Blues 57
    Characters by: Gail Nobles
    Characters: Rosco and Willie
    Characters made with Haiper app: https://haiper.ai/
    All voices by: Gail Nobles
    Background music: Pixabay.com


    Roscoe and Willie had a big crowd down to the Memorial Day blues 57 festival. Roscoe and Willie had everyone dancing and singing the blues. Some of the most famous blues singers were there.

    Willie: This is what we always wanted to do and talked about doing, Rosco. Having a union of blues entertainers.

    Rosco: Yeah, it should help radio business.

    Willie: And we shouldn't have to worry about those old so-called promoters and managers and people in the record business.

    Rosco: We ain't the record business, but we can help the musicians get work and get paid performing.

    Willie: That's right bossman.

    But Rosco and Willie ran into some problems with the memorial day blues festival. One of their greatest entertainers on the list didn't show up. A big fight broke out indoors and Rosco and Willie got written up for owing money. All kinds of things were happening, but in the end Rosco and Willie managed to keep the music going and they entertaind the crowd themselves. They were able to pull off a successful festival that left everyone feeling happy and satisfied. The experience taught them to always be prepared for the unexpected in the world of event planning.

    Soon the festival was over.

    Rosco: It was all your idea! You almost got us shut down tonight.

    Willie: You mean we, Rosco. We! You see, that's how lies get out. Our number one entertainer didn't show up.

    Rosco: But we took care of that.

    Willie: There you go! We!
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  • Hubby Jenkins 5:15:24 12.09 AM

    Hubby Jenkins 5:15:24 12.09 AM
    May 15 2024
    Intro by: Gail Nobles
    Photo: Jayron32 - Own work
    Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

    Hello! I'm Gail Nobles. Welcome to apodcast and Blues. Today we're going to talk about old-time blues in today's blues through the talent of Hubby Jenkins.

    Hubby Jenkins is a multi instrumentalist who studies and performs old American music. He is a former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Rhiannon Giddens band, and has been nominated for Grammy and Americana awards.

    Hubby Jenkins was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. As a young man, he played the saxophone and bass guitar. After discovering the music of Skip James and Bukka White, he began exploring how African Americans influenced American roots music.

    From 2010 to 2016, Jenkins was a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, playing instruments including guitar, banjo, and bones. Their album Leaving Eden was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2012. Along with other members, he was later part of the Rhiannon Giddens band. The two groups played a major role in the revival of Black string band tradition.

    Jenkins was nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2015 Americana Awards.

    You can hear Hubby Jenkins music on Spotify. To find out more about Jenkins go to hubbyjenkins.com.
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  • Aretha Franklin-Today I Sing the Blues 4:28:24 7.39 PM

    Aretha Franklin-Today I Sing the Blues 4:28:24 7.39 PM
    Apr 28 2024
    Intro and podcast vocals by: Gail Nobles
    Song by: Aretha Franklin
    Song: Today I Sing the Blues

    Today I Sing the Blues" is a song written by Curtis Lewis and performed by Aretha Franklin. The song reached number 10 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1960.The song appeared on her 1961 album, Aretha.

    The lyrics say: Without a word of warning
    The blues walked in this morning
    And circled around my lonely room
    I didn't know why I had that sad and lonely feeling
    Until my baby called and said we we're through, ooh
    For yesterday, this time
    I sang a love story
    But today, I'm singing the blues …

    The lyrics start off in a very creative way. The writer talks about the blues like it's a person. That's called personification. Aretha Franklin sang the song with her own unique soulful sound.

    Thank you for listening to Podcast and Blues. I'm Gail Nobles.
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  • Syl Johnson-Anyway the Wind Blows 3:29:24 6.22 PM

    Syl Johnson-Anyway the Wind Blows 3:29:24 6.22 PM
    Mar 29 2024
    Photo: Sumori
    Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

    Welcome to Podcast & Blues .I'm Gail Nobles. Today's topic is Syl Johnson Anyway the Wind Blows.

    Syl Johnson is a blues and soul singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. His most successful records included "Different Strokes" (1967), "Is It Because I'm Black" (1969) and "Take Me to the River" (1975).

    He has a song from his album Back for a Taste of Your Love titled Anyway The Wind Blows. The album was released in 1973 the album was re-issued by the Fat Possum label.
    The song Anyway the Wind Blows was written by Earl Randle. He was a songwriter and a A&R man at Willie Mitchell's Hi Records from 1971 to 1980. Anyway the Wind Blows is a very good song. Johnson's voice, music, and style reminds me of Al Green singing the song. His label was Al Green however at Hi Records. Johnson was always to some extent in the shadow of Al Green.

    If you love Al Green and haven't heard Syl Johnson’s song Anyway the Wind Blows, I'm sure you'll love it. So check out the song today. Thank you for tuning into Podcast and Blues, and remember, check out Syl Johnson's song Anyway the Wind Blows.
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