

SE 6 ep 17 - 2026 Blue Music Awards Winners and Album Feature – Robert Finley – Sharecroppers Son
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we’re heading straight to Memphis for a full‑blown celebration of the 2026 Blues Music Awards — the biggest night in the blues world. The BMAs are where legends, lifers, innovators, and rising voices all gather under one roof, and this year’s ceremony delivered on…

John Lee Hooker - Classic Album Feature – Chill Out”
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we’re coming home. Our classic album feature shines a warm spotlight on John Lee Hooker’s 1995 masterpiece Chill Out — a late‑career triumph from the patron saint of this program. For thirty years, BWAF opened with his incredible song The Healer, and Hooker’s voi…

SE 6 Ep 15 Classic Album Feature – Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we open the doors wide with two sets of brand‑new blues — a snapshot of where the music is right now, and a reminder that the blues is still evolving, still restless, still capable of surprise. GA‑20 team up with Charlie Musselwhite for a gritty, old‑meets‑new ope…

SE 6 Ep - 14 Classic Album Double Feature – Muddy Waters “Folk Singer" + Son House “Forever On My Mind”
This week on Blues With A Feeling, we’re travelling right to the heart of the Delta — not in a nostalgic way, but in a living, breathing, spine‑tingling way. Two feature albums anchor the show, and together they tell one of the great stories in American music: the rediscovery of Son House and the r…

SE 6 Ep 13 - Eric Bibb interview and album feature – One Mississippi
This week’s show is a journey through the living, breathing continuum of the blues — from its earliest recorded ghosts to one of its most vital modern storytellers. We begin with a remarkable moment in music history: the sudden appearance online of what appears to be a previously unheard test press…

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…