From The Archive May 2, 2021 – Plain Meanness – Pipeline – October 6, 2024

Thanks Marty, this week on From The Archives we’ve got another song from Blue Monday.

If there was ever a band you could call eclectic it’s Plain Meanness. They play more variety in one set than you are likely to hear at an entire festival. I recorded them at KASU Blue Monday in Paragould, Arkansas, on October 17, 2011 and they tore it up. Every style, every genre, from Al Green to Dylan to The Ventures.

Playing that night were Patrick Dailey, guitar; Corey Emerson, trombone; Derek Doyle, bass; and Greg Arnold, drums. All local musicians well known in the community. I will be featuring more of their music on Something Blue but for today I picked “Pipeline”, a guitar instrumental classic from the sixties. Just listen to Patrick Dailey nail it.
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Muffin

Something Blue – Muffin – April 24, 2021 – October 7, 2024


This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The Hanging Chads, NJHB, and Vertigo Jazz 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 CST, at kasu.org.

Vertigo Jazz Project Live at Double Door Inn on 2009-05-22
archive.org/details/vertjazz2009-05-22.flacf16

Hanging Chads Live at Sheraton Hotel Deck Party on 2006-09-15
archive.org/details/chads2006-09-15.flac16

NJHB Live at HairyLarryLand on 2018-07-28
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Malaysia



DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Malaysia
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-09-29

Thanks Marty, this week on From The Archives I picked a song from one of my favorite NJHB albums, “Stinger”.

Chris “Stinger” Stevens was a guest star at New Jazz In Jonesboro held in downtown Jonesboro at TheArts@311 on April 6, 2013. Chris is a very versatile guitarist who plays everything from The Beatles to Santana as well as blues and jazz so he was a perfect fit as a guest guitarist for NJHB joining our regular guitarist Mike “Ziff” Lovell.

We played an exceptional set with lots of soaring guitars but unfortunately with no horns or bass. So I did audio post production on what we had and wrote an overdub script for bass and sax. Corey Emerson came to HairyLarryLand and put down the bass parts and then Cody Ballard visited later and played the sax. Both of these guys are such fine musicians that everything was first take.

Also on the album, recorded during the live show, are Carl Abraham on drums and I’m on piano. Here we are now doing a song I wrote called “Malaysia”.

NJHB Live at TheArts@311 on 2013-04-06
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/hl2013-04-06

Something Blue Archives – List Of Concerts
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Live at HairyLarryLand on 2018-07-28
archive.org/details/hl2018-07-28
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Hide – April 7, 2021 – September 28, 2024

Something Blue – Hide – September 28, 2024

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The Beau Sasser Trio, The Mudcats, and the Benevento Russo Duo. 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.

Benevento/Russo Live at Relix Studio on 2021-03-29
archive.org/details/duo2021-03-29

Beau Sasser Trio Live at The Main Pub on 2021-04-03
archive.org/details/BST2021-04-03.BeauSasserTrioTelefunkenDSBD

The Mudcats – Blues Fest House Band
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DJ Hairy Larry Pesents The Mudcats Playing Guitar Blues



Thanks Marty, this week on From The Archives we’re featuring some blues recorded at Blues Fest.

The Mudcats were the Blues Fest House Band. We had a band call in sick so I gathered some musicians from the audience and told everyone we were The Mudcats. After hosting the jam set and filling in again people started asking when The Mudcats were going to play. So we ended up on the schedule.

The core group was George Hinds, bass; Randy Gambill, drums, and I was on guitar. We always had guests and on September 2, 2007, we had Scott Mathis on lead guitar. Which was appropriate because the song we’re going to hear is “Guitar Blues”.

Now here are The Mudcats playing a song I wrote called “Guitar Blues”.

The Mudcats Live at Blues Fest at The Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2007-09-02
Something Blue Archives
archive.org/details/mc2007-09-02

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

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

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Night

Something Blue – Night – April 10, 2021/September 21 2024

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Erroll Garner, Caprice, Greg Skaff, and Matana Roberts. 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.

Erroll Garner – The Complete Concert By The Sea
www.errollgarner.com/

Greg Skaff – Polaris
gregskaff.com/

Matana Roberts – The Chicago Project

Matana Roberts

Caprice – From Dawn Til Dusk
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From The Archive April 4, 2021/September 16, 2024 – Caprice – “Papa Samba”



Thanks Marty, this week on From The Archives we’re featuring more jazz recorded right here in Jonesboro.

Caprice was a student band at ASU and I had been recording their recitals. When they decided to record an album they asked me and I was very excited to record these great songwriters and musicians. After all the work they had put into developing their band sound it was important to me to get their songs down before Tim Moore and Brandon Moore left ASU to continue their jazz education at North Texas State.

Playing in Caprice were Tim Moore, piano; Brandon Moore, sax; Alex Ditto, guitar; Matt Bounds, bass; and Addison Boling, drums.

Here they are now playing a Brandon Moore composition, “Papa Samba”.
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Run

Something Blue – Run – February 13, 2021/November 26, 2022/September 14, 2024

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Trade, John Spencer, and Niceness. 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.

Trade Live at Penuches on 2021-01-23
archive.org/details/Trade2021-01-23

Niceness Live at Buckley Park on 2020-09-19
archive.org/details/niceness2020-09-19.matrix.flac24

Road to Brigadoon with protest song “Blood On The Water”
archive.org/details/road_to_brigadoon
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DJ Hairy Larry presents John Spencer

From The Archives Of Something Blue February 7, 2021/November 11, 2020/September 8, 2024

1. DJ Hairy Larry presents John Spencer
2. Something Blue – Run – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, It’s great to be here on Arkansas Roots sharing songs from the archives of Something Blue.

I met John Spencer at Blues Fest and it wasn’t long before we had John and Tommy, The Spencer Brothers, on stage. John came to me with some songs that he and Tom Turner wrote, Tom was the lyricist and John put them to music. John is a regular at KASU events, both playing and in the audience and Tom Turner was raised at Burnt Hill, just down the road from me.

The title track for the CD is called “Road To Brigadoon” and it’s a protest song with a deep message. John is a multi instrumentalist and besides singing the lead vocals he played guitar, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, dobro, and double bass on the album. After we had all the tracks down we were looking for a female vocalist to sing harmonies on some of the songs. I found our singer, Cheryl Culp, at the ASU Farmer’s Market. We sang with her for years and are still close friends. We call her the Honey Lady, not just because of the way she sings. I eat Culp Honey every day.

Now here’s John Spencer with Cheryl Culp singing harmonies on the title track of John’s CD, “Road To Brigadoon”.

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Changes

Something Blue – Changes – January 23, 2021 – November 19, 2022 – September 7, 2024

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends. 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.

Neal Francis Live at Framily Fest on 2020-09-05
archive.org/details/nealfrancis2020-09-05
www.nealfrancis.com/

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live In Maui

Live In Maui

Delta Legends Live at The Fall Ball on 2017-09-30
archive.org/details/hl2017-09-30
deltalegends.com/
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