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…

Se 6 Ep 2 - Classic Album Feature – Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Ledbetter Heights

“Five-time GRAMMY-nominated guitarist and songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd returns to Australia for the first time since 2018 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of his landmark debut Ledbetter Heights. Shepherd’s fiery tone and emotive phrasing have cemented him as one of modern blues-rock’s leading…

SE 6 Ep 1 - Classic Album Feature & Interview - Kim Wilson - Tigerman

Classic Album feature & Interview After a much needed break over Christmas, I’m back for Blues With A Feelings 32nd year with an all time classic, Kim Wilsons first solo album and his debut for Antones Records Tigerman. With a crack bunch of the hottest players on the scene, this record was a big…

SE 5 Ep 48 - Classic Feature Album - Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963

“In the studio, Sam Cooke was a consummate pop crooner, whose delicate, caramelized voice charmed the reserved and mild. By the early sixties, his success and stature as a groundbreaking R&B crossover sensation loomed large in the music business. But when Cooke stepped into Miami’s Harlem Square C…

SE 5 Ep 47 - Classic Album Feature - Little Charlie & the Nightcats - All the Way Crazy

  “It's been over 30 years since world-class musicians guitarist Little Charlie Baty and harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter Rick Estrin first teamed up and took hard Chicago blues, jump, Texas swing and jazz and mixed it with rockabilly, proto-rock'n'roll, jumping jive, bebop and Estrin's sharply ori…

SE 5 Ep 46 - Mavis Staples - Classic Album Feature - We'll Never Turn Back

"Billed as her most personal statement, this may well be Mavis Staples’ finest solo effort to date. In 2004, the powerhouse lead singer of the famed Staple Singers released the rootsy Have A Little Faith on Alligator. Here, producer/guitarist Ry Cooder places the reigning queen of gospel’s voice in…