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April 2

Artist Song Title Album Label
Bobby Blue Bland 36-22-36
Don't Cry No More
I'll Take Care of You
Anthology MCA
BB King Paying the Cost of Being the Boss Living the Blues Time Life
  Why I Sing the Blues
Sweet 16
Best of MCA
Aretha Franklin Ain't Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around Queen of Soul Atlantic
Al Green How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Command Motown
Lou Rawls Tobacco Road Legendary  
Joe Cocker Midnight Rider Joe Cocker  
Ray Charles It Ain't Easy Being Green Renaissance  
Queen Latifah Mercy Mercy Mercy The Dana Owens  
Tami Lynn Mojo Hanna Right On! Vol 4  
King Curtis Slow Drag The Best of King Curtis  
Roosevelt Dean & the Spellbinders Tell the World
Make Love at Night
I'm Gonna Wait
Keep All My Secrets
Take A Bow
Right There
I'm Gonna Leave Here
Ease My Worried Mind
Magic Power
I Mean What I Say
Cross-eyed Cat
I Started Steppin'
Rumor
Live at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que ZK Records
Bo Carter Please Warm My Wiener Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Footwarmers Preachin' Blues Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Coot Grant & Kid Wesley Wilson Take Your Hand off My Mojo Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon/The Harlem Hamfats Wet It Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Jimmy Strange/The Yas-Yas Man Yas Yas Yas Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Mary Dixon You Can't Sleep in My Bead Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Lil Johnson You Stole My Cherry Copulatin' Blues Mojo
Bobby Bland Ain't Doin' Too Bad, Parts 1 & 2    
Eartha Kitt Champagne Tastes Live at the Plaza  
James Brown I've Got Money I Got You (I Feel Good) King
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings My Man Is A Mean Man Naturally Daptone

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April 9

Artist Song Title Album Label
Big Time Sarah Fannie Mae A Million of You Delmark
Brewer Phillips Lunchbucket Blues Homebrew Delmark
Jimmy Rogers Money, Marbles, & Chalk
My Last Meal*
Hard Working Man
Trace of You
The Last Time
Looka Here
That's All Right
The Complete Chess Recordings Chess
Hal Singer Midnight Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Coleman Hawkins Soul Blues Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Etta James Tomorrow Night
I Want To Be Loved
These Foolish Things Chess
  A Sunday Kind of Love
Don't Cry Baby
Her Best Chess
  I Found A Love The Chess Box Chess
  If I Can't Have You Her Best Chess
  Hold Back the Tears* These Foolish Things Chess
  I Worship the Ground You Walk On The Chess Box Chess
  It Must Be Your Love
At Last
Loving You More Every Day
The Essential Etta James Chess
  Only Time Will Tell These Foolish Things Chess
  Security Her Best Chess
  Would It Make Any Difference to You
You Got It
The Essential Etta James Chess
  Trust In Me
Something's Got A Hold on Me
I'd Rather Go Blind
Fool That I Am
Her Best Chess
  How Can You Talk To A Fool These Foolish Things Chess
Clifton Chenier In the Mood Squeezebox Boogie Just A Memory
Thurston Harris & the Sharps Little Bitty Pretty One R&B Box Rhino
Bobby Day Rockin' Robin Only Rock & Roll, 1955-59  
The Mar-Keys Last Night Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 4: Soul Rhino
The Chips Rubber Biscuit Cry-Baby RCA
The Robins Smokey Joe's Cafe R&B Box Rhino
Louis Jordan Beans and Cornbread Malcolm X Qwest
Christina Aguilera Candyman Back to Basics RCA
Cast Finale
Jitterbug Waltz
Ain't Misbehavin' RCA
Tab Smith I'm A Bouncin' Mama* Top 'n' Bottom Delmark
Lady Bianca Easy Lovin' Rollin' Rooster Blues
Schoolhouse Rock Naughty Number 9 Multiplication Rock  
Dash Riprock Bedrock Twist Flintstones: Modern Stone Age Melodies Rhino

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April 16

Today I will be interviewing Lady Bianca and featuring Jimmy Smith.

Artist Song Title Album Label
Jimmy Smith Got My Mojo Working Got My Mojo Working Verve
  Blues in the Night The Cat Verve
  Blues Stomp Guest Star Records Presents Don Gardner Trio Featuring Jimmy Smith Guest Star
  You Feel It Don Gardner Trio Featuring Jimmy Smith Crown
  The Sermon The Sermon Blue Note
  C Jam Blues Got My Mojo Working Verve
  Delon's Blues The Cat Verve
  Kandy Kane
Soul Sermon
Guest Star Records Presents Don Gardner Trio Featuring Jimmy Smith Guest Star
  Hands Off
Good Rockin'*
Don Gardner Trio Featuring Jimmy Smith Crown
  Hobson's Hop Got My Mojo Working Verve
  More Soul* Don Gardner Trio Featuring Jimmy Smith Crown
  St. Louis Blues The Cat Verve
Eric Bibb I Heard the Angels Singing Painting Signs EarthBeat
Pops Staples Downward Road Father Father Virgin
Blind Boys of Alabama Moses Atom Bomb Real World
  Lift Me Up Like a Dove Gospel at Colonus Nonesuch
Graham Central Station Ghetto Graham Central Station Warner Brothers
Etta James Hold Back the Tears* These Foolish Things Chess
Bobby Blue Bland Dust Got In Daddy's Eyes   MCA
Aretha Franklin Cry Like a Baby Queen of Soul Atlantic
Nancy Wilson I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco
Ode to Billy Joe
Welcome to My Love Blue Note
Sarah Vaughan Peter Gunn Sarah Vaughan Sings the Mancini Songbook Verve

Nina Simone

Do I Move You The Blues  
Lady Bianca Kiss and a Rose Through a Woman's Eyes Magic-O
Lady Bianca Still Good Let Love Have It's Way Magic-O
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues Playin' the Blues Direct Source
Bessie Smith Kitchen Man Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon Indigo
Lady Bianca Oprah Winfrey Show
Baby's Boogie
Should'na Made It So Good
Welcome to the Momma's Club
Through a Woman's Eyes Magic-O
Bessie Smith Nobody In Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine    

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April 23

Artist Song Title Album Label
Aretha Franklin You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings Atlantic
Fontella Bass I Want Everyone to Know From Chicago To Shreveport: Deep Soul Vol. 1 Fuel 2000
Tina Turner Darling You Know I Love You What's Love Got To Do With It  
Erma Franklin Piece of My Heart    
Barbara Morrison I'm Gettin' 'Long All Right I'm Gettin' 'Long All Right Chartmaker
Labelle Moonshadow What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves  
Tami Lynn Mojo Hanna Right On, Vol. 4  
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings I Got A Thing On My Mind Dap-Dippin' Daptone Records
Dianne Reeves Sugar Blues The Last Time I Committed Suicide Blue Note
Big Maybelle Pitiful Blues, Candy, & Big Maybelle Savoy
Helen Humes They Raided the Joint Outside the Law Buzzola
Ma Rainey Prove It On Me Blues Sissy Man Blues Mojo
Nancy Wilson West Coast Blues Yesterday's Love Songs, Today's Blues Blue Note
Etta James Hold Back the Tears These Foolish Things Chess
Nina Simone House of the Rising Sun The Blues Novus
Bobby Powel CC Rider
There Is Something in a Man
From Chicago To Shreveport: Deep Soul Vol. 1 Fuel 2000
Shorty Long Devil with the Blue Dress Hitsville, Vol. 1 Motown
Stanley Turrentine Lonely Avenue Common Touch Prestige
Bobby Bland This Time I'm Gone for Good Anthology MCA
Chick Willis Something to Remember You By Stoop Down Baby Collectables
James Brown Doin' It To Death Star Time Polydor
Andy Bey Day Dream Ballads, Blues & Bey Evidence
Chuck Roberson A Woman Wants A Freak A Woman Wants A Freak Ecko Records
Wynonie Harris That's the Stuff You've Got To Watch Everybody Boogie Delmark
Muddy Waters Still A Fool His Best 1947-1955 Chess
Lightnin' Hopkins Last Night Blues The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins Prestige
Willie Dixon 29 Ways Chess Blues Classics Chess
Ray Charles & BB King Sinner's Prayer Genius Loves Company Concord
Billy Boy Arnold Ten Million Dollars Ten Million Dollars Evidence
Big Time Sarah Riverboat A Million of You Delmark
Big Maybelle No More Trouble out of Me* The Complete Okeh Series Okeh
Joe Louis Walker Shake for Me* Blues Survivor Verve
Snooky Pryor Work With Me Annie Shake My Hand Blind Pig
Theodis Ealey Lil' Brown Eyes Stand Up In It IFGAM
Otis Taylor Little Betty Definition of a Circle Telarc
Otis Redding Tramp The Best of Otis Redding Rhino
James Brown Mashed Potatoes '66 Soul Pride: The Instrumentals Polygram

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April 30

Today is all BB King.

Artist Song Title Album Label
BB King

You Upset Me Baby
Every Day (I Have the Blues)
5 Long Years
Sweet Little Angel
Beautician Blues
Dust My Broom
Three O'Clock Blues

The Best of BB King, Volume 1 Flair
  You Upset Me Baby
Worry Worry
Woke Up this Mornin'
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
Help the Poor
Live at the Regal ABC
  Playing with My Friends Blues Summit MCA
  Ghetto Woman BB King in London ABC
  Second-Hand Woman
Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star
The Beginning of the End
Take It Home MCA
  Blues with BB
King of Guitar
The Unexpected...Instrumental... BB King Kent
  The Thrill Is Gone
Ain't Nobody Home
Caledonia
Sweet Sixteen
H ummingbird
The Best of BB King MCA
 

Payin' the Cost of Being the Boss

Living the Blues Time Life
  Let the Good Times Roll Bobby Bland Anthology MCA
  Crying Won't Help You Now* My Sweet Little Angel Flair
  Nightlife
Since I Met You Baby
Guess Who
Peace to the World
Live at the Apollo GRP Records
  Ain't That Just Like A Woman
Growing Old
String Bean
My Sweet Little Angel Flair
  BB's Blues (w/Branford Marsalis) I Heard You Twice the First Time Columbia
  Up at 5 AM Friends Columbia
  To Know You Is To Love You To Know You Is To Love You ABC
  I Gotta Move out of This Neighborhood/ Nobody oves Me But My Mother
Everybody's Had the Blues
Blues Summit MCA

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