Nightingale

Something Blue – Nightingale – August 7, 2021

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring God Street Wine and Sky Burrow Tales. 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.

God Street Wine Live at The Gathering at Chaffee’s Music Festival on 2021-07-23
archive.org/details/gsw2021-07-23

Sky Burrow Tales Live at Central Garden on 2021-07-23
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From The Archive August 1, 2021 – Vincent Holden – “I Just Can’t Say It”

Thanks Marty. This week on From The Archives Of Something Blue we’ve got a just released song recorded at HairyLarryLand in 2019.

I met Vincent Holden jamming at Blues Fest. I was immediately struck by his raw blues guitar work and I set up several sessions to record him and continued jamming with him at Craighead Forest Park. He’s even featured on the NJHB album, “Live At The Bandshell” where our guitar section included Holden as well as Mike “Zif” Lovell and Jay Shepherd.

Then in 2019 I got in touch with him again and I had the idea of recording a blues guitar power trio. We recorded the album on October 7, 2019. Luke Reed helped me out on my “Lil Sonny Boy Hisself” album and I called on him for the drums. I played bass at the session and overdubbed vocals and harmonica later in 2019.

Then, life happened, and the next thing you know it’s July 2021 and I’m finally releasing the album. So this music really is from the archives.

We called the album “Taste Of Mud” and it’s somewhere in the middle of raw delta blues and power trio blues rock. Luke and I do all right but the album is all about Vincent Holden on guitar.

Now here’s Vincent Holden playing “I just Can’t Say It”. Vincent wrote the music and I wrote the lyrics and the melody. Recorded at HairyLarryLand on October 7, 2019, here’s Luke Reed, drums; I’m on bass, harmonica, and vocals; and Vincent Holden on guitar playing “I Just Can’t Say It”.
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Sleeping

Something Blue – Sleeping – July 31, 2021

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Frank Zappa and Sun Ra. 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.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Sleeping Beauty
sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-beauty-expanded

Frank Zappa – Make A Jazz Noise Here

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From The Archive July 25, 2021 – Grant Garland – “Somethin’ ’bout The Way You Smiled”

Thanks Marty. This week on From The Archives Of Something Blue we’ve got a song recorded at KASU Blue Monday way back in 2009.

Grant Garland brought an amazing band to Blue Monday in Newport on September 14, 2009. Grant played guitar and sang, Rob Alley was on trumpet, Derek Doyle on bass, and Ben White, drums. Grant and Derek are from Arkansas. Rob Alley taught at ASU. They played a great show including standards and a few originals from Grant’s 2009 release that he called “Grant Garland”.

I new Derek and Rob well, I recorded them and even played with them occasionally. But this was my first chance to hear Grant play and he knocked me out. I am so glad that I got good recordings of this show, the musicianship was exquisite.

Now here’s Grant Garland singing a song he wrote called “Somethin’ ’bout The Way You Smiled” recorded at KASU Blue Monday on September 14, 2009.
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Something Blue – Backyard

Something Blue – Backyard – July 24, 2021

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Dave Holland, Kenny Garrett, and Elephant 9. 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.

Dave Holland, Another Land

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Elephant 9, Arrival Of The New Elders
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Kenny Garrett, Do Your Dance

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From The Archive July 18, 2021 – NJHB – “Circular Logic”

Thanks Marty. This week on From the Archives of Something Blue we’re hearing some new jazz recorded at HairyLarryLand in 2012.

In the fall of 2012 I talked to Carl Abraham about adding a monthly jazz night to the schedule at TheArts@311. I called the concerts New Jazz In Jonesboro because we were going to play all original charts. Before our first show in January of 2013, over Christmas break, I brought NJHB to the HairyLarryLand Studio where we ran through some material and recorded our first album, “Circular Logic”.

Playing at the session were Mike Lovell – guitar, Garrett Tyler – drums, Matt Jackson – bass, Hairy Larry – piano, Cody Ballard – tenor sax, and Joseph Curtis – trumpet, all ASU students or former ASU students active in the ASU jazz program.

This album was the only NJHB studio album, since then all of the albums have been recorded live. But we recorded it just like a live album doing one take of each song and recording to stereo.

NJHB songs are not designed for radio with most tracks running about twenty minutes. So I’m going to play a radio mix for Arkansas Roots with a fade at the end of the bass solo. Visit the NJHB website at njhb.org to hear “Circular Logic” and other albums.

Here we are now, NJHB, playing the title track from our first album “Circular Logic”.

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And that’s NJHB playing “Circular Logic” recorded at my HairyLarryLand Studio on December 29, 2012.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Dave Holland, Kenny Garrett, and Elephant 9. 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.

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Mobile

Something Blue – Mobile – July 17, 2021

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The Salty Dogs, CBDB, and Mike Guldin. 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.

CBDB Live at Barrelhouse South on 2021-07-09
archive.org/details/cbdb2021-07-09.flac16

Mike Guldin and Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Live at Brother Kershner Brewing Co on 2021-07-09

The Salty Dogs at Bluesday Tuesday in Newport, Arkansas, on March 12, 2013
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From The Archive July 11, 2021 – The Salty Dogs – “Starting Now”

Thanks Marty. This week on From the Archives of Something Blue we’re hearing some great country blues from KASU Bluesday Tuesday.

Like so many Arkansas musicians I met Brad Williams through Delta Boogie promoting The Salty Dogs on the web and playing their music on Something Blue. I recommended them to Mike Doyle who was booking Bluesday Tuesday at the time and I was glad when the stars aligned and I got to hear them live at the Newport Country Club on March 12, 2013.

The Salty Dogs are from Little Rock. Also playing in the band are Bart Angel, Brent LaBeau, Nick Devlin all living in Arkansas with deep Arkansas roots except Nick Devlin, the lead guitarist is from Edinburgh, Scotland. Where he got his Arkansas roots, I don’t know, but you can hear them in his music.

The Salty Dogs are different than most country bands. They play country, blues, and gospel music and their country originals sound like old school standards. And yet somehow they bring a new music feel to their shows.

Here they are now, The Salty Dogs, singing one they wrote “Starting Now”.
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Sad

Something Blue – Sad – July 10, 2021

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Perpetual Groove, Tedeschi Trucks, and Charlotte Taylor. 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.

Perpetual Groove Live at Western North Carolina Agricultural Center – AsheJam on 2021-06-26
archive.org/details/pgroove2021-06-26.flac24

Tedeschi Trucks Band Live at Showtime at the Drive-In on 2021-07-01
archive.org/details/ttb2021-07-01

Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain Live at Red Goose Deli on 2009-04-20
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From The Archive July 4, 2021 – Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain – “Summertime”

Thanks Marty. This week on From the Archives of Something Blue we’re hearing George Gershwin as sung at KASU Blue Monday.

I had known Charlotte Taylor for years, promoting her music on Delta Boogie, but the first time I met her in person was at the Red Goose Deli in Paragould, Arkansas, on April 20, 2009.

She sang great and the band played great. Really friendly people fun to party with. I was fortunate to get good recordings that night that I love playing on Something Blue. Since then we have become good friends, working together on several shows and hanging in Helena at the King Biscuit Blues Festival. One time, at the biscuit, Delta Legends got to open for Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain so sharing a stage is a feather in my cap.

Here they are now, Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain, singing a jazz and blues standard that George Gershwin wrote for his opera, Porgy and Bess, “Summertime”.

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