Walk

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Walk – July 13, 2024

Struggle Buggy – Keep It Clean

Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry Live at Bunkys Breakfast, Helena Arkansas on 2006-10-05
archive.org/details/hl2006-10-05.Live_At_Bunkys_Breakfast

Delta Legends Live at King Biscuit Blues Festival on 2019-10-11
archive.org/details/hl2019-10-11

Delta Legends Live at Cedell Davis Stage at the King Biscuit Blues Festival on 2018-10-05
archive.org/details/hl2018-10-05

Fool’s Ball 2009 – Hairy Larry and Uncle Dave videos
archive.org/details/fools_ball_2009

Struggle Buggy – Keep It Clean
strugglebuggy1.bandcamp.com/album/keep-it-clean


John Shephard And Jeremy Burnett – Delta Legends

Struggle Buggie, Keep It Clean

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

Delta Legends, Eyesight To The Blind
Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry, Trouble In Mind

Now that’s what I’m talking about. That’s Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry doing the Mose Allison song, “Trouble In Mind”. Before that we heard Delta Legends sing “Eyesight To The Blind” recorded at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in 2019. And kicking us off we heard Struggle Buggy do “Keep It Clean” the title track of their new album.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet 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 more music by the featured musicians.

Coming up next we’ll hear Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry sing “KC Moan”, Struggle Buggie playing “Black Rat Swing”, and Delta Legends will sing “Rock Me Baby”

Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry, KC Moan
Struggle Buggie, Black Rat Swing
Delta Legends, Rock Me Baby
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Struggle Buggie, Walkin Cane
The Ballin’ Fools, Hard Times
The Ballin’ Fools, House Of The Rising Sun

All right now, that’s The Ballin’ Fools recorded at Fool’s Ball in 2009 singing “Hard Times” and “House Of The Rising Sun”. The Ballin’ Fools are Uncle Dave and myself. I’ll include a link to our video on the website. Before that Struggle Buggie did “Walkin Cane”.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org.

I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Struggle Buggy is a UK Roots band. Lee Bates contacted me by email and I thought that’s just the sound to build a jug band show around. If you have music for Something Blue visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to contact me.

Ok now, closing the show here’s Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry singing “It Hurts Me Too” recorded at The Biscuit in 2006 Then Delta Legends With Bob Corritore and Rhode Island Red will play “Big Boss Man”, and Delta Legends will do “Last Night”.

Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry, It Hurts Me Too
Delta Legends With Bob Corritore and Rhode Island Red, Big Boss Man
Delta Legends, Last Night

Rhode Island Red And Hairy Larry

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry Singing Walk Right In

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Hairy Larry


Rhode Island Red And Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry Singing Walk Right In
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-07-07

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some jug band music recorded at the King Biscuit Blues Festival.

It was October 5, 2006 and The Emporium Orkestra was playing at Bunky’s Breakfast on Cherry Street in Helena, Arkansas. That morning Rhode Isalnd Red and I were the early risers so our first set was as a duo. One of the songs we sang was “Walk Right In”.

“Walk Right In” was written by Gus Cannon and recorded in 1929 by Cannons Jug Stompers. In 1963 The Rooftop Singers had a big hit on the song. Rhode Island Red plays it more like the original while I had only heard the sixties hit.

Although we were a duo we sounded like a seven piece orchestra singing harmony vocals, while I played bass and rhythm when Red took the lead. I played my Mississippi saxophone on a rack while Red played the trumpet parts on his kazoo. And it’s Jug Band Music so we both played the drums with our feet and with hand slaps on our guitars.

One morning Rhode Island Red walked in and he had written a song. It’s really short so I’m going to sing it for you now.

We’re Hairy Larry and Rhodes Island Red
And we’re gonna play until we’re dead.
Well we ain’t dead yet. No no. We ain’t dead yet.

Ok now, they may kick me off the air for having too much fun so here’s Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry singing the Gus Cannon song “Walk Right In”.

Rhode Island Red and Hairy Larry Live at Bunkys Breakfast in Helena Arkansas on 2006-10-05
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/hl2006-10-05.Live_At_Bunkys_Breakfast

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
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Hungry

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Hungry – July 6, 2024

club d’Elf

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring NJHB and Club d’Elf. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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

Club d’Elf Live at Colony on 2024-06-20
archive.org/details/delf2024-06-20.ca14.flac16

NJHB – Blue Goose
archive.org/details/Njhb-BlueGoose

NJHB – Quantum Blues
archive.org/details/hl2018-07-28
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Cold Fusion

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Hairy Larry


NJHB – Quantum Blues

DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Cold Fusion
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-06-30

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear NJHB play a tribute to nuclear physics.

NJHB, the New Jazz House Band, is a live act hosting the New Jazz In Jonesboro concerts. We did, however, release two studio albums, our first album, “Circular Logic” was recorded at HairyLarryLand in Jonesboro in 2012. And then, on July 20, 2018, we recorded “Quantum Blues” at my new studio, outside of Brookland.

I wrote all three songs on the album, “Cold Fusion”, “Quantum Blues”, and “Entanglement”. All named for concepts in nuclear physics at the frontiers of science. And for NJHB, the songs are short with the longest one just under eight minutes.

Also unique in the NJHB repertoire the band is a jazz trio featuring Tyler Remagen on tenor sax; Spencer Rawlins, bass; and Hairy Larry, piano. Having fewer musicians playing did not stop us from engaging in the NJHB trademark group improvisation.

Today we’re going to hear “Cold Fusion”. I’ll play the other two songs Saturday night on Something Blue.

I decided to name the album “Quantum Blues” and I went searching for artwork on the internet. I found an amazing mix of something old and something new, a quilt by Kate Findlay that she titled “Atomic”. I contacted her and she gave me permission to use her photo of the quilt for the cover art.

As always you can find links at the Something Blue website, sbblues.com, and you can see the cover featuring Kate Findlay’s quilt. I know you can’t see it on the radio. Here, let me hold it closer to the microphone.

Ok now, recorded at HairyLarryLand on July 20, 2018, here’s NJHB playing “Cold Fusion”.

NJHB Live at HairyLarryLand on 2018-07-28
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/hl2018-07-28

NJHB – Blue Goose
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/Njhb-BlueGoose

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

Arts Findlay
www.artsfindlay.co.uk

Atomic card


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Ghost

Posted on June 29, 2024 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Ghost – June 29, 2024

Scott Law Band

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Scott Law and Daniel Donato. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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

Daniel Donato Live at Mesa Theater on 2024-06-11
archive.org/details/danieldonato2024-06-11

Scott Law [Band] Live at Laurelthirst Pub on 2024-06-13
archive.org/details/slb2024-06-13.flac16
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Billy Jones Bluez Singing I’m A Bluesman

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Hairy Larry


Billy Jones

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Billy Jones Bluez Singing I’m A Bluesman
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-06-23

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear an Arkansas bluesman sing a song he wrote about his life in music.

It was October 8, 2013, when I met Mike Doyle in the parking lot at ASU to make our monthly sojourn down to Newport, Arkansas, for KASU Bluesday Tuesday. Mike was the KASU station manager at the time and he would MC the show. I was going to record Billy Jones Bluez for Something Blue.

Arkansas Roots was just a gleam in our eyes. Marty Scarbrough was promoting the idea and Mike and I would talk about just how cool the show could be.

Little did I know that I would host a weekly musicology podcast on Arkansas Roots and that I would be playing a song I recorded that night.

Billy Jones is a bandleader, a hot guitarist, an expressive singer, a creative songwriter, and most of all, an entertainer. After all, it is show business. You’re supposed to put on a show. They certainly did that.

Playing with Billy that night were his right hand man, Corey Bray on organ, Ricco Smith on drums, and Honeycut on bass. All fine outstanding Arkansas musicians.

Billy plays everything, blues, country, gospel, funk, and rock. I selected one of his originals to play today, the title track of his album “I’m A Bluesman”.

My son Carl and I were both vlogging at the time and he recommended a little Canon still camera that also took good videos. I had it with me so I talked to Billy about video recording one of his originals and he was down with it. That’s how I also made a video of this song.

Go to the Something Blue website at sbblues.com for links to the video, the Bluesday Tuesday concert, and to more great music from Billy Jones.

Now, without further ado, here’s Billy Jones Bluez playing “I’m a Bluesman”.

Billy Jones Bluez Live at Newport Country Club on 2013-10-08
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/bjb2013-10-08

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

Billy Jones Bluez – I’m A Bluesman
HairyLarryLand Video recorded at the Newport Country Club on 2013-10-08

the Delta Blues Outlaws … smokin’ hot funky blues!
billyjonesdeltabluesoutlaws.bandcamp.com/
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Sunna

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Sunna – June 22, 2024

Sunna Gunnlaugs – Songs From Iceland

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Sunna Gunnlaugs, AxMei, Regis V. Gronoff, and Kai Engel. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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

AxMei – Piano Su. 01
www.jamendo.com/album/464494/piano-su-01

Kai Engel – Irsen’s Tale
archive.org/details/SCL081

Regis V. Gronoff – Brazil Blues
www.jamendo.com/album/186376/brazil-blues

Sunna Gunnlaugs – Songs From Iceland
sunnagunnlaugs.bandcamp.com/
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jazz Alliance Playing Blues In A Hurry

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Hairy Larry


Partly Cloudy by Jazz Alliance

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jazz Alliance Playing Blues In A Hurry
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-06-16

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an extended trumpet solo recorded at Gracie’s Place right here in Jonesboro.

I met Ron Horton when he was Director of Jazz Studies at ASU. He was playing trumpet in Jazz Alliance. I had been playing music at The Edge Coffeehouse for years so when I saw they had a jazz band playing there on Thursday nights I had to go. I liked their music and soon I was going every Thursday, recording their shows. It was great when they would invite students to jam and that’s how I first met Tim Moore and Clinton Curtis, when they were still in High School.

Ron Horton had composed some of the songs they played and I was recording them anyway so I talked to Ron about doing a Jazz Alliance album. And that’s how I produced “Partly Cloudy”, recording Ron Horton originals at live shows, until we had enough.

“Partly Cloudy” has five songs, all of them recorded at The Edge except for “Blues In A Hurry” which was recorded at Gracie’s Place on May 14, 2010.

Playing on “Blues In A Hurry” are

Ron Horton – trumpet
David Eckert – bass
Craig Collison – vibes
and
Mike Overall – drums

Ron and Craig taught at ASU. David was librarian at the Jonesboro Public Library. And Mike Overall was a jazz fixture in Jonesboro for decades as president of the Jonesboro Jazz Society and drummer with Nightlife, Giant Steps, and Joe Lee. Mike often promoted local musicians in his Overall Comments column at the Jonesboro Sun.

In the last half of the 20th century small groups featuring extended solos dominated jazz music. This allows the jazz soloist time to stretch out and it takes both endurance and imagination. On “Blues In A Hurry” Craig Collison plays the intro, Ron Horton plays the head and then solos for almost half the song. Also soloing are Craig Collison on vibes, David Eckert on bass, and Mike Overall, drums.

Ok now, from their “Partly Cloudy” album here’s Jazz Allince playing a Ron Horton original, “Blues In A Hurry”.

Partly Cloudy by Jazz Alliance
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/partly_cloudy

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
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MixRemix – Creative Commons Jazz – 2024-05-10
archive.org/details/ccj2024-05-10

Creative Commons Jazz Library
jazz.mixremix.cc/music.htm
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Wildflower

Posted on June 15, 2024 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Wildflower – June 15, 2024


Angie Owens – Break The Chain
www.reverbnation.com/angiecampbellowens

Hairy Larry Live at Bella’z Restaurant on 2011-08-25
archive.org/details/hl2011-08-25

John Spencer – Road to Brigadoon – All songs by John Spencer and Tom Turner
archive.org/details/road_to_brigadoon

Paul Nunis – Live At Alive After 5:00 June 15, 2017

George Hinds – Hairy Larry and George live at Caffe Buono Feb. 8, 2008
archive.org/details/hl2008-02-08

The Mudcats – Blues Fest House Band
archive.org/details/blues_fest_house_band

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

Hairy Larry And The Flying Hungarians – Think I’ll Lay Around The House Today

Hairy Larry and George with Mike “Zif” Lovell and Cheryl Culp – Live at the Craighead Forest Bandshell June 3, 2012
archive.org/details/hl2012-06-03
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Angie Owens Singing Serena’s Song

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Hairy Larry


Angie Owens – Break The Chain

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Angie Owens Singing Serena’s Song
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-06-09

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear the coordinator of the Songwriter’s Workshop display her craft.

Angie Owens ran the Songwriter’s Workshop for many years. For a while there she held it at my Blues Alley jukehouse and I attended those sessions regularly and benefited from her lessons and from the song sharing. I wrote the song “Think I’ll Lay Around The House Today” over a couple of the workshops and it quickly became a requested favorite.

Then later when she was at The Edge Coffeehouse I started attending again, enjoying the workshop and the company of my friends in music, John Spencer and Paul Nunis.

She taught me the meaning of the word prosody and I’ll never forget the time when she covered the most common song structures and John Spencer and I would come up with hit songs for each structure. If this sounds a bit technical it’s because songwriting is a craft with it’s own vocabulary and that is what Angie Owens taught at her workshop.

The song I selected to play today is one that Vivian would request. Both Vivian and Angie had daughters later in life. Vivian sometimes wrote about Megan when she worked with her at The Times Dispatch and Angie wrote a song about Serena.

If you’ve raised a family you know there’s nothing easy about it and many young parents worry about whether they’re doing it right. Now you can’t stop a mother from worrying but when you have a child later in life after you’ve already raised a few you can spend a little more time enjoying yourself and a little less time worrying.

And you can focus on the most important part of family life, love.

Ok now, I’ve said it as well as I could but not nearly as well as Angie does in her song.

Here’s Angie Owens singing “Serena’s Smile”.

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
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Angie Owens – Reverbnation
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