

SE 6 Ep 12 - Ruthie Foster Interview and album feature - Mileage
Joy is the first thing that walks into the room this week — bright, unhurried, and absolutely contagious. It’s in the new music, it’s in the stories, and it’s especially in the voice of Ruthie Foster, whose insights peppered throughout the show feel like little bursts of sunlight. Fresh from her 20…

SE 6 Ep 11 - Sue Foley Album Feature and Interview - Pinky's Blues
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we’re diving deep into the world of one of the great modern torchbearers of Texas blues guitar — Sue Foley. With Sue celebrating her birthday last week, and with her brand‑new book Guitar Woman: Conversations and Life Lessons with the Heroines of Guitar on the way…

SE 6 Ep 10 - Marcia Ball - Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Classic Album Feature
There are albums that entertain, albums that impress, and then there are albums that feel like they open a door into a whole other world. Marcia Ball’s Let Me Play With Your Poodle is one of those rare records — a joyous, rolling, deeply human celebration of Gulf Coast blues delivered by an artist …

SE 6 Ep 9 Classic Album Feature – Black Magic – Magic Sam
“Black Magic is a marvellously atmospheric and easy record to listen to - with Sam's resonant and flexible vocals a perfect match for his clean virtuoso guitar playing. Moving on from the scorching Chicago blues captured so unforgettably on West Side Soul - here the accent is on a smooth soun…

SE 6 Ep 8 - Classic Album Feature – Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters – Now My Soul
On his fourth album in four years, Earl proves that he's robust enough to muscle through a set of swinging jazz (Jimmy Smith's "Blues for J"), sizzling gospel ("Walking on the Sea" with the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers), and explosive blues (everything else) with strapping aplomb. As opposed to his p…

SE 6 Ep 7 - Classic Album Feature - John Hammond - John Hammond
This week on Blues With A Feeling, following the sad passing of John Hammond in February, I’m rolling the tape all the way back to 1962 — back to a moment when a young New Yorker with an old soul stepped into a studio and cut a debut album that felt less like a beginning and more like a declaration…

SE 6 Ep 6 - Ron Thompson Classic Album Feature - Magic Touch
Not many living blues musicians can say they have performed with and recorded for legends like Big Mama Thornton, Sonny Rhodes, Luther Tucker, Jimmy McCracklin, Pee Wee Crayton, Carla Thomas, Booker T. Jones, Percy Mayfield, Etta James, B.B. King, and Jimmy Reed. Ron Thompson can, and that's just …

SE 6 Ep 5 - Grammy Winners Showcase
Grammy Winners Showcase For more than three decades, Blues With A Feeling has been your weekly home for stories, songs, and the artists who keep the blues alive. And this week, we’re taking a deep dive into the very best of the last six years — a special feature celebrating the winners of the Blue…

SE 6 Ep 4 - Solomon Burke - Classic Album Feature - Make Do With What You Got
“Burke, who turns 65 this month, proves once again that his reengineered fusion of classic rock and soul is essential listening. Produced by Don Was, and ably backed by such stalwart musicians as guitarist Ray Parker, Jr. (“Ghostbusters”), the ten songs on Make Do… draw once again from Burke’s dee…

SE 6 Ep 3 - Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - Interview Feature
“Christone “Kingfish” Ingram stands at the crossroads of legacy and innovation. A native son of Clarksdale, Mississippi — a city steeped in blues history — he channels the spirit of the Delta while fearlessly reshaping its future. With Hard Road, his most introspective and ambitious project yet, Ki…