DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Good and Friends Playing Honky Tonk Joy

DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Good and Friends Playing Honky Tonk Joy
From the Archives Of Something Blue 2025-04-20

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a musician I played with 30 years ago who sent me some songs recently recorded.

Back in the nineties a guitarist called Duke was jamming with Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians. He even played at Blues Fest. A great guy and a great musician.

Now, 30 years later, I get an email from John Good. Duke is his stagename. John Good is his name. I probably knew that back at the time but I only remembered Duke.

And he sent me two CDs recorded by John Good and Friends. Excellent work played by excellent musicians from Little Rock, Arkansas.

The song I picked to play on Arkansas Roots is “Honky Tonk Joy” an original song recorded by John Good and Friends and featuring guitarists, Nick Devlin and John Good. It’s a rocker done in a style that is close to my heart, Honky Tonk.

So now, recorded in Little Rock Arkansas by John Good and Friends here’s “Honky Tonk Joy”.

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Coastline

Something Blue – Coastline – April 19, 2025


Fergus McCreadie – Stream

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Pat Metheny, Fergus McCreadie, and Martin Speake. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Art Porter Playing Somewhere

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Art Porter Playing Somewhere
From the Archives Of Something Blue – 2025-04-13


Art Porter – A Portrait Of Art

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some more great piano from our Arkansas treasure, Art Porter, Sr.

I have loved Art Porter’s music ever since I started listening to him on AETN and I’m on a quest to find all of his recordings, audio and video. That’s why I bought this CD, “A Portrait Of Art”, one of three releases he made that I’m aware of. I’m still working on getting the other two.

So, if you have or are aware of other recordings by Art Porter please contact KASU and they will let me know. I still think there must be a box somewhere in the thirteen state area where his television shows were broadcast full of VHS tapes labeled Art Porter. Now that would be a treasure recovered.

Art Porter was an educator and a family man who was deeply involved with music at his church. He didn’t like to travel and he didn’t tour except for the time he toured with his son, Art Porter Jr. Both of them also traveled to Washington DC to play at Bill Clinton’s inauguration.

Because of that and because he lived in a time before everyone recorded videos of everything with their phones there weren’t a lot of recordings made of his performances. Which makes recovering and saving the recordings we have of this great man all the more important.

Now, “West Side Story” may not have been the best album recorded on Broadway in the twentieth century. But it’s certainly up near the top along with “Porgy and Bess”. The funny thing is that for Broadway musicals both of these shows lean toward the operatic. People say they don’t like opera but they love “West Side Story” and “Porgy and Bess”.

The most popular song on the “West Side Story” album is “Somewhere”, a song Art Porter made his own.

So now, from his album, “A Portrait Of Art”, here’s Art Porter playing “Somewhere”.

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Something Blue – More – April 12, 2025


John Shepherd – So Low

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring John Shepherd, Allan Holdsworth, and George Porter Jr. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.

George Porter, Jr. and Runnin’ Pardners Live at Bowstring Burgers and Brewyard on 2025-04-02
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Shepherd Playing I Want To Be The One

DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Shepherd Playing I Want To Be The One
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-04-06


John Shepherd – So Low

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear John Shepherd play the blues, for you.

It all started one year at Blues Fest. John Shepherd played the first part of his set without a band and Vivian loved it. Well, I did too, so I got in touch with John about recording a solo album and although it was a little bit outside of his comfort zone he was game.

Now I’m going to have to try to find that Blues Fest performance. It was probably in 2008 because …

I recorded John Shepherd at HairyLarryLand on February 21, 2009 and March 21, 2009. All tracks are John Shepherd, guitar and vocals, with no overdubs.

So it’s essentially a live album.

And he wrote all the songs.

We called the album “So Low” and it’s just killing all the way through. I picked the song “I Want To Be The One” to play today because of it’s deep lyric and exceptional blues guitar.

He showed up to play with just a guitar case. He said, “Don’t worry, there’s an amp in there too”. And sure enough when he opened his case there was a Pignose amp. I had John set up to sing in one room and I put the amp in another room with a close mic for sound isolation. So I was able to get John’s vocals right on top something that can be difficult to do when he’s singing with a loud band.

I used a photo of the Pignose amp for the cover art. Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to see it. I will also include a link to the whole album which is well worth a listen.

So now, here’s John Shepherd singing his song, “I Want To Be The One”.

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Stomp

Something Blue – Stomp – April 5, 2025


Jordan VanHemert – Deep In The Soil

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Gerald Clayton, Kurt Elling, and Jordan VanHemert. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Lady Bird

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Lady Bird
From The Archives Of Something Blue April 6, 2025



Thanks Marty, today we’re going to dig all the way back to last week when we had a session at HairyLarryLand.

My friend, Chris Isom, was coming to town for Spring Break and he got in touch. We wanted to get together to play some music so I got to work setting up a session. Our fellow student, Spencer Rawlins, said he could play bass. He used to play with Chris in Common Time.

So I scheduled a session for Tuesday, March 25 and I started reaching out to horn players. Paul Lessard who plays alto sax in Bebop Beatniks was good for that date as was Craig Collison who plays vibes.

We all have close ties to the ASU Music Department. For the liner notes I wrote, “Chris, Spencer, and I were jazz students at Arkansas State University and we all studied under and played with Craig Collison, who was the director of percussion studies. Paul Lessard is currently on the faculty teaching music theory and composition.”

So, personnel for the session are

Paul Lessard – alto sax
Craig Collison – vibes
Chris Isom – drums
Spencer Rawlins – bass
and
Hairy Larry – piano

Well, we hit the ground running playing two of my original songs and then we finished the session with two jazz standards. We were there for about two hours and when we were done we’d laid down the album, “1625 Groove Street”.

I contacted Sam Brown and got permission to use his fantastic painting, “Spiral Speak”, for the album artwork.

Go to the Something Blue website at sbblues.com for a link to Sam Brown’s website and to the album where you can see the artwork and hear all four songs.

I picked a great song to play today, “Lady Bird” by Tadd Dameron.

So now, here’s the Broadcast Premier of “Lady Bird” on “1625 Groove Street”, recorded by ASU graduates and faculty, at my studio, HairyLarryLand, on March 25, 2025.

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Shoes

Something Blue – Shoes – March 29, 2025


DiGDug – Live at Bergen Nattjazz 1988

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Manuzik, Javiar Martin Boix, DRDJEKILL, DIGDug, and Gavin Gamboa. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents ASU Students Playing Sympatico

DJ Hairy Larry Presents ASU Students Playing Sympatico
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-03-23


Sympatico

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear one of my compositions recorded in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.

If you listen to me at all you know I love jazz and blues and that most of the pieces I write are at least a little bit of both. But what you might not know is that I have also written a lot of algorithmic compositions going all the way back to the eighties when I wrote a music program on a Kim single board computer and then I gave a talk for the ASU Association For Computing Machinery where I generated melodies based on the solos of John Coltrane and Charlie Parker using an Atari 800 computer.

When I was studying with Dr. Tacke I did some more algorithmic composition and I wrote this piece, “Sympatico”, about ten years ago, but I didn’t use a computer. I executed the algorithm the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. And then I used the composer’s perogative of listening and picking the interesting bits for the piece. And I placed the parts I picked where I wanted them in the composition, keeping the algorithm in mind and I decided which instruments would play them.

And there were a lot of instruments, all played by ASU students except the vibes were played by Craig Collison, director of percussion studies.

Flute – Tyler Fields
Oboe – Devin Morton
English Horn – Devin Morton
Alto Sax – Clinton Curtis
Tenor Sax – Cody Ballard
Bari Sax – Lauren Dudley
Horn – Cassie Ferrell
Trumpet – TJ Irvin
Flugelhorn – Hunter Durham
Trombone – Adam Waddell
Tuba – Cody Duncan
Guitar – Alex Ditto
Vibes – Mr. Craig Collison
Drums – Addison Boling
Bass – Terrell Montgomery
Piano – Tyler Worsham

I love english horn as a jazz instrument but it is a rare bird. Fortunately a graduate student, Devin Morton, played both oboe and english horn really delivering the english horn solo. You’ll hear it because the english horn has a unique sound.

I also want to thank Dr. Carroll who rehearsed and directed the ensemble.

I will include a link to the piece and some extensive notes on the Internet Archive where I write, “I call the piece Post Zappa Impressionist. There are definite jazz influences but I think “Sympatico” is more heavily influenced by the 20th Century impressionists and by the work of Frank Zappa.”

Ok now, recorded on October 28, 2014, here’s all sixteen musicians playing “Sympatico”.

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Something Blue – Thought

Something Blue – Thought – March 22, 2025

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Keith Jarrett – Tokyo ’96

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Art Porter, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Evans. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.

Art Porter – A Portrait Of Art
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Bill Evans – Waltz for Debbie

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