DJ Hairy Larry Present Chris DeClerk Singing Crying And Sobbin

Posted on July 26, 2026 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Present Chris DeClerk Singing Crying And Sobbin’
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2026-07-26


Chris DeClerk – Solo

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Little Rock songwriter sing a song from a live album.

When I was first in the ASU Jazz Department I met Perry Osborne and Leon McEntire. They guested with The Flying Hungarians on our “Love Stuff” album with John Sifford on drums and my son, Uldis, on bass.

Much later, after Perry had been touring with El Bujo and Colonel Bruce Hampton, he recorded an album with his cousin, Chris DeClerk. So when Chris was in Jonesboro we met at The Edge Coffeehouse and talked for a while and he shared some songs. I played some of the songs from his album with Perry on Something Blue.

Once again, much later, I saw that he was playing at Stage Too, in Jonesboro. I got in touch with him and got permission to record his show. Playing with him was Matt Pierce, an outstanding guitarist from Jonesboro. I recorded his show and played some of those songs on Something Blue.

So when he released a live album I was all ears.

It sounds great. Just him singing and playing acoustic guitar.

I picked one he wrote, “Crying & Sobbin'” to play for you today. It has funny words with wry wisdom.

So now, from his new album, “Solo-Live from The Undercraft-6/13/2025” here’s Chris DeClerk singing “Crying & Sobbin'”.

Something Blue Archives Featured Concert
Chris DeClerk Solo
Live From The Undercraft
Little Rock, AR 6/13/25
chrisdeclerk.bandcamp.com/album/chris-declerk-solo-live-from-the-undercroft-6-13-2025

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate

Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians
archive.org/details/LoveStuff

Col. Bruce & The Quark Alliance Live at Wanee Music Festival on 2010-04-15
archive.org/details/colb2010-04-15.flac16

Chris DeClerk & Perry Osborn Live @ The Brickhouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas
archive.org/details/ChrisDeClerkPerryOsborn
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Strange

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Strange – July 25, 2026


Art Yenta – Landing

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Art Yenta, Tom La Meche, Viktor Sethy, Somewhere Off Jazz Street, Regis V. Gronoff, and Pk Jazz Collective. 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.


Pk jazz Collective – Pearls of our Life

Pk jazz Collective – Pearls of our Life
archive.org/details/SCL051

Regis V Gronoff-Jazz Ballads
www.jamendo.com/album/114064/jazz-ballads

Somewhere off Jazz Street – Saxophone 1.1.
somewhereoffjazzstreet.bandcamp.com/album/saxophone-11

Viktor Séthy – Way more out
www.jamendo.com/album/133096/way-more-out

Tom La Meche – Hypnotic project
www.jamendo.com/album/18170/hypnotic-project

Art Yenta – Landing
www.jamendo.com/album/18111/landing


Tom La Meche – Hypnotic Project
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Joe Lee Singing You Don’t Learn That In School

Posted on July 19, 2026 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Joe Lee Singing You Don’t Learn That In School
From The Archives Of Something Blue July 19, 2026

Joe Lee – Swings On

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear Joe Lee sing a Nat King Cole song.

I first met Joe Lee at Papa Joe’s Records in the early seventies but I never did any music with him until the nineties when he helped with Blues Fest and Blues Alley.

In 1991 we both played with Aaron Love at our first Blues Fest with Joe on sax and I was on guitar. And he was a regular, playing with his own band at many Blues Fests. in 1996 we had an Alley Records reunion featuring Aaron Love, Larry Donn, Sonny Burgess and The Pacers, Willie Lee Riley, Terry Carter, Joe Lee, and the Alley Reunion Band. In 1996 we featured Terry Ray Bradley who recorded “Red Hair and Green Eyes” at Alley when he was 14 and Tuesday Blues with Scott Snellgrove and Joy Sanford. Scott played with The Esquires who recorded “Sadie’s Ways at Alley and Joy Sanford frequently played piano with the Joe Lee Combo.

It wasn’t until later that I worked with Joe on some Alley Records projects. Vivian and I both worked on “The Best Of Alley Records vol. 1 Sounds Of The Sixties” a collection of released Alley Records singles. Scott Snellgrove helped us with the artwork.

Then we did “Joe Lee Swings On”, a jazz album featuring Ben Brogdon, bass; Ronnie Coletta, guitar; and Mike Overall, drums. Joe sang on some of the songs and he also played piano and sax. Except for “What’s New”, that was recorded Live at The Forum in Jonesboro, Arkansas, featuring Joe on tenor, Joy Sanford on piano and John Long on drums.

Vivian did the album artwork from a photo Joe gave her. I digitized the recordings from unreleased master tapes. We all worked hard to create the best album we could and I’m still proud of it today.

Before we finalized the art work Joe noticed how hard I was working and he decided to give me co-producer credits. So that’s how I became a record producer at Alley Records.

We continued working together until Joe died and we became close friends. We did another album that I engineered and mixed, “Boppin’ At The Forest”, Joe’s tribute to Blues Fest. And for a while I would visit him every week and digitize some more of his great recordings including the one where Dizzie Gillespie did a walk on solo with the Jonesboro Jazz Society Big Band.

So, there will always be more Joe Lee on From The Archives Of Something Blue.

And now, here’s Joe Lee on piano and vocals, singing a Nat King Cole song, “You Don’t Learn That In School”. This song, written by Marvin Fisher and Roy Alfred, has funny lyrics, some of them a bit bawdy and some of them playing around with hip jazz vernacular.

Something Blue Archives Featured Concert
Joe Lee – Swings On
archive.org/details/joe-lee-swings-on

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate

You Don’t Learn That In School by The King Cole Trio; King Cole; Roy Alfred; Marvin Fisher

archive.org/details/78_you-dont-learn-that-in-school_the-king-cole-trio-king-cole-roy-alfred-marvin-fishe_gbia0193263a

Joe Lee And Friends – Boppin’ At The Forest
archive.org/details/joe-lee-and-friends-boppin-at-the-forest


Joe Lee – Swings On – Liner Notes
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Well

Posted on July 18, 2026 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Well – July 18, 2026


The Phoenix Trio – Tomorrow Is Today

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The Phoenix Trio, Emmet Cohen, Bebop Beatniks, and SML. 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.


Emmet Cohen – Universal Truth

Bebop Beatniks – Live At Blues Fest
archive.org/details/hl2023-09-24.album

Emmet Cohen – Universal Truth
emmetcohen.bandcamp.com/album/universal-truth

The Phoenix Trio – Tomorrow Is Today
joemartin3.bandcamp.com/album/the-phoenix-trio-tomorrow-is-today

SML – Spontaneous Music Live
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-music-live
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Bebop Beatniks Playing Malaysia

Posted on July 12, 2026 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Bebop Beatniks Playing Malaysia
From The Archives Of Something Blue July 12, 2026

Bebop Beatniks – Live At Blues Fest

Thanks Marty, Today we’re going to hear Bebop Beatniks – Live At Blues Fest.

I wrote “Malaysia” in the fall of 2012 and it was first released on the NJHB album, “Bella’s Blues”, recorded on January 4, 2013. It’s a Bossa Nova song with a beautiful melody and a hard bop turnaround that catches everyone’s attention.

It quickly became an NJHB favorite and I also used it as a show closer for Bebop Beatniks and my solo piano shows.

In fact, when Bebop Beatniks recorded Live At Blues Fest on September 24, 2023, “Malaysia” was our closer.

We played as a quintet with two percussionists featuring

Tyler Remagen – sax and flute
Hairy Larry – piano and vocals
Jeremy Jackson – bass
Alex Washam – drums
and
Conley Hunt – percussion and vocals

I want to take a minute to talk about Tyler Remagen. Tyler helped me play on my recitals when he was an undergraduate in the ASU jazz program. I invited him to join Bebop Beatniks and he played on our studio album “Leaves”.

He also played with NJHB and on my “Elphonium” album recorded on November 30, 2018, in the ASU Bandroom at my composition recital. We had a little side project going called Lady Day and The Prez featuring Whitley Newman singing Billie Holiday songs with Tyler playing the Lester Young tenor sax parts.

As always, I will leave links on the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

And if you listen to these songs you will hear how well he played.

Then after he graduated from ASU he went to Cincinatti and took a Masters in Saxophone Performance. When he got back to Jonesboro his playing was at a whole different level as they say in the jazz world. That’s what that kind of intensive study does for you.

And we were fortunate to have him playing with Bebop Beatniks again including on September 24, 2023, when we recorded Bebop Beatniks “Live At Blues Fest”.

After playing together for all those years we had a tight band but Tyler Remagen was definitely the star of the show. We recorded a saxophone album.

And as I said before, “Malaysia” closed the show.

So now, here’s Bebop Beatniks playing “Malaysia” featuring Tyler Remagen on tenor sax.

Something Blue Archives Featured Concert
Bebop Beatniks – Live At Blues Fest
archive.org/details/hl2023-09-24.album

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate

BebopBeatniks – Leaves
archive.org/details/BebopBeatniks-Leaves

NJHB – Quantum Blues
archive.org/details/hl2018-07-28

Hairy Larry – Elphonium
archive.org/details/hl2018-11-30

Lady Day and The Prez – Craighead Forest Bandshell – May 13, 2018
archive.org/details/hl2018-05-13.LadyDay
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Abundance

Posted on July 11, 2026 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Abundance – July 11, 2026

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Neal Alger, Chicago Soul Jazz Collective, Geof Bradfield and Atlantic Road Trip. 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.


Geof Bradfield – Colossal Abundance

Geof Bradfield – Colossal Abundance
geofbradfield.bandcamp.com/album/colossal-abundance

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective – No Wind & No Rain
chicagosouljazzcollective.bandcamp.com/album/no-wind-no-rain

Atlantic Road Trip – One
atlanticroadtrip.bandcamp.com/album/one

Neal Alger – Old Souls
nealalger.bandcamp.com/album/old-souls

Calligram Records
calligramrecords.bandcamp.com/

Calligram Records: Chicago Meets the World
www.allaboutjazz.com/calligram-records-chicago-meets-the-world-geof-bradfield-chad-mccullough


Neal Alger – Old Souls
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents The C3 Big Band Playing A Michael Medrick Composition

Posted on July 5, 2026 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents The C3 Big Band Playing A Michael Medrick Composition
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2026-07-05

C3 Big Band Trombone Section with Michael Medrick On The Left

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an original jazz song written by one of my professors.

I met Michael Medrick a few times before he started teaching at ASU where he ended up as the Director Of Jazz Studies before he retired. He plays trombone like nobody’s business but his real calling is composing and arranging for big bands.

Now a big band can have 25 or more musicians so writing all those notes is a lot of work. I know, I’ve done a few big band charts and the experience convinced me to write for octets.

But there are sounds that a big band can produce that smaller bands can’t, and that’s where composers like Michael Medrick hang their hat.

Now before Medrick came to ASU he was in Dallas where he played in and wrote for the C3 Big Band. On their website it says, “The goal of the C3 Big Band is to bring Dallas/Fort Worth audiences NEW music by current composers.”

On their album, “Straight Eighths” Medrick wrote four of the songs. I picked “Flor De Okra” to play for you today. He has the first solo so you’ll get to hear him play trombone.

In an email interview he said “The tune was composed after some deep listening to Pancho Sanchez’s “La Familia”, The Jazz Crusaders “Chili con Soul” and The Willie Martinez Jazz Sextet. Wayne Henderson of the Crusaders has been very influential on my sound as a trombonist.”

So now you know where he’s coming from, how about that song title?

He wrote, “That title came from a plant flowering in the garden outside my home office window.” … “Inspiration can be all around us.”

When I took Jazz Improv from Dr. Patty in the eighties our textbook was “Improvising Jazz” by Jerry Coker. While taking jazz arranging lessons from Michael Medrick I learned that Jerry Coker was one of his teachers. Just sayin’… somehow I always luck out.

So now, featuring Michael Medrick on trombone, here’s the C3 Big Band playing one of his compositions, “Flor De Okra”.

DJ Hairy Larry Presents The C3 Big Band Playing A Michael Medrick Composition
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2026-07-05
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Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate

C3 Big Band
c3compositions.com/c3-big-band
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King

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – King – July 4, 2026

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Marcus King Band, SLM, and Jazz Mandolin Project. 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.


SLM

Marcus King Band Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, Texas on 2026-01-24
archive.org/details/mkb2026-01-24.sbd.flac16

Jazz Mandolin Project Live at The Atrium, MSC Divina on 2026-02-11
archive.org/details/jmp2026-02-11

SLMjam Live at Cranky Pat’s on 2011-02-25
archive.org/details/SLMjam2011-02-25.stage.au


Marcus King Band

Marcus King Band – Honky Tonk Hell

Welcome to Something Blue. I’m Hairy Larry and I’ve got the blues, for you.

SLM – Buffalo
Marcus King Band – The Shadows

Now that’s what I’m talking about. That’s the Marcus King Band, recorded live at The Moody Theater, in Austin, Texas, on January 24, 2026, playing “The Shadows”. Kicking us off tonight they played “Honkey Tonk Hell”. And sandwiched in between there we heard SLM do “Buffalo”.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.

I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to listen anytime and for links to the concerts we’re hearing tonight.

Ok now. recorded live at Cranky Pat’s in Neenah, Wisconsin, on February 25, 2011, here’s SLM singing “Flag Football” followed by the Jazz Mandolin Project playing “Sir Duke”.

SLM – Flag Football
Jazz Mandolin Project – Sir Duke


Jazz Mandolin Project

Marcus King Band – Ramblin’ Man
Jazz Mandolin Project – Spiders

All right now, recorded live at The Atrium, on the MSC Divina cruise ship, on February 11, 2026, that’s the Jazz Mandolin Project playing “Spiders”. Before that we heard the Marcus King Band do “Ramblin’ Man”.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.

I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Thanks to the Live Music Archive at archive.org for hosting the concerts we’re hearing tonight.

Ok now, closing the show here’s SLM singing “Hypnotize” and the Jazz Mandolin Project doing “Milestones”. Until next time this is Hairy Larry reminding you once again, blues is the mainstream.

SLM – Hypnotize
Jazz Mandolin Project – Milestones

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents The Rockford Family Playing Old Spinning Wheel In The Park

Posted on June 28, 2026 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents The Rockford Family Playing Old Spinning Wheel In The Park
Something Blue – King – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Northeast Arkansas family band playing Old Spinning Wheel In The Park.

I call From The Archives Of Something Blue my musicology podcast and I know some of you are wondering what musicology is.

Well, the definition is simple, a musicologist preserves and documents music.

So first we try to make sure that the music isn’t lost, and then we try to come up with when and where it was played, who played it, and most importantly, what’s the story about the song, the performance, and the performers.

In practice, though, it’s difficult. Just finding the music isn’t always easy. Then you have to deal with digitizing old recording formats to preserve the song. And it can also be difficult to come up with the who, when, where, and the story about the music.

But sometimes, to paraphrase The Generator Man, it just pops up when you least expect it.

We were playing music at the Union Grove United Methodist Church Homecoming which is a joy in itself but comes with the added benefit of a potluck dinner.

Now I know Eileen from Wednesday morning Bible study and I sat down with Eileen and Billy Clifft, to eat. And, as you do, we got to talking.

Now Billy is from a musical family and he has a lot of cassette tapes from family gatherings and family bands. And taking it one step further he’s a computer hobbyist and he has been digitizing these cassettes.

So I lucked out there, I found the music and it’s already digitized.

And I have just told you the story of how that happened.

But there’s a lot more work to be done, filling in the blanks, for each performance and each song.

The song I’m going to play for you today is called “Old Spinning Wheel In The Park”. It’s an instrumental so how do I know that? It’s on the tape. After the guitarist finished playing the song someone asked him what song he played and he told them.

Now, I’ve never heard of “Old Spinning Wheel In The Park” and neither has the internet. If you know anything about the song I am deputizing you. Contact KASU. Let them know what you know and they’ll see that I get it.

I also know the performers because the digitized file is called Tape 4 A Rockford Family.

But I have more questions. When was it recorded? Who was the guitarist? And where did he come up with the song?

Hopefully, Billy Clifft will be able to fill in some blanks.

So now, here’s the Rockford Family playing “Old Spinning Wheel In The Park”.

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate
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Sonny

Posted on June 27, 2026 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Sonny – June 27, 2026


Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Sonny Rollins, the Common Time Quartet, and Dizzie Gillespie. 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.

Sonny Rollins
The Bridge – Without A Song, The Bridge
Saxophone Colossus – Moritat
sonnyrollins.com/

Common Time Quartet Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2017-06-03
archive.org/details/ct2017-06-03

Dizzie Gillispie With Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt

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Dizzie Gillespie – Duets
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