

SE 6 ep 31 - Album feature and interview – Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues – Blues Is My Biography
This week on Blues With A Feeling, Shaun sits down with one of the true ambassadors of Chicago Blues — Billy Branch. Across a remarkable fifty‑year career, Billy has become an Emmy Award winner, a three‑time Grammy nominee, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, and one of the most recorded harmonica playe…

SE 6 Ep 30 – Classic Album Feature – Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods – First Blood
This week on BWAF, we pay tribute to the late Mike Henderson, who passed away on September 22 at the age of 69. His debut album with The Bluebloods, First Blood, remains one of the most explosive, soulful, and influential blues records of the 1990s — and it’s our feature album this week. Across…

SE 6 Ep 29 Classic Album Feature – Junior Wells – On Track
This week on Blues With A Feeling, Shaun brings you a full book of brand‑new blues, deep Chicago grooves, and a special feature on one of Junior Wells’ most overlooked gems. We kick off with fresh releases from Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues featuring Bobby Rush, Bywater Call, John Primer & Frie…

SE 6 Ep 28 - Classic Album Feature – Buddy Guy – Slippin In
This week on BWAF, we celebrate one of the true giants of the blues as Buddy Guy turns 90 — and what better way to mark the occasion than with a deep dive into his Grammy‑winning 1994 masterpiece Slippin’ In. It was only two weeks ago that we featured his stunning Sweet Tea record, but when you’re …

SE 6 Ep 27 - Classic Album Feature – The Paladins – Lets Buzz
This week on Blues With a Feeling, we continue a very special journey through the music of one of the most influential bands in the history of this program: The Paladins. Their sound, their energy, and their uncompromising commitment to American roots music played a huge role in shaping the identit…

SE 6 Ep 26 - Classic Album Feature - Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
This week on BWAF, we celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the true giants of modern blues — Buddy Guy — with a deep dive into one of the most daring and electrifying albums of his career: Sweet Tea (2001). Recorded in Oxford, Mississippi, Sweet Tea captures Buddy plugging straight into the Hill …

SE 6 Ep 25 - Classic Album Feature - BB King Eric Clapton - Riding With The King
This week on BWAF, I'm bringing you a blues feast built around one of the great modern collaborations — B.B. King and Eric Clapton’s Grammy‑winning album Riding With the King. Across 12 tracks and 61 glorious minutes, two masters trade warmth, wisdom, and guitar lines that feel like conversations b…

SE 6 Ep 24 - Classic Album Feature - Otis Rush - So Many Roads
This week on BWAF I’m shining a light on one of the most electrifying live blues recordings ever made — Otis Rush’s So Many Roads: Live in Japan. Recorded across two unforgettable Tokyo concerts in July 1975, this album captures Otis in full flight: inspired, fearless, and feeding off a crowd that …

SE 6 Ep 23 - Classic Album Feature – Hubert Sumlin – Wake Up Call
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we shine a warm and grateful spotlight on one of the great architects of modern guitar playing: Hubert Sumlin. His 1998 album Wake Up Call sits at a remarkable point in his life — late in his career, seasoned by decades of triumph and heartbreak, yet still playing…

SE 6 Ep 22 - Classic Album Feature - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Alone & Acoustic
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we open the door to a room most people never got to enter — a small studio in Paris, May 15, 1981, where Buddy Guy and Junior Wells sat down with nothing but a couple of Guild acoustics, some harps and fifty years of shared history between them. No band, no amp…