Music Listening This Weekend Here in Chicago

All times Central Daylight Savings.  Both stations stream.

WXRT, 93.1 FM   www.wxrt.com

Saturday Morning Flashback 8-11 a.m.  Today to 1991

Sunday--
Breakfast With the Beatles  8-10 a.m.  With Terri Hemmert
Bluesbreakers  9-10 p.m.  With Tom Marker

WDRV, 93.1 FM   www.wdrv.com

Rock and Roll Roots  7-10 a.m.  Part 4 of the Summer of 1977  Songs on the radio and in your stereo and your album collection for September 3, 1977.  With Bob Stroud

Tune In or Tune Out.  --RoadDog

Get Your Radio Ears On: 1967 on WXRT :"I Am the Walrus"

Right now, Wendy Rice is back to one of my all-time favorite years, 1967, on her Saturday Morning Flashback Show on Chicago's WXRT, 93.1 FM.  It streams at www.wxrt.com. and goes to noon here in CDST.

So far, some of the songs she has played"

I AM THE WALRUS--  Beatles
SWEET SOUL MUSIC--  Arthur Conley
SWALBR--  Cream

SOUL MAN--  Sam and Dave
(WE AIN'T GOT) NOTHIN'  YET--  Blues Magoos
HAPPY JACK--  Who

LET'S LIVE FOR TODAY--  Grass Roots
SUNNY AFTERNOON--  Kinks
EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART--  Soul Survivors

I am tuned in.

Tomorrow, Sunday, Bob Stroud goes back to the 60s and 70s on his Rock and Roll Roots from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. CDST.  Plus, next week, his Ten at Ten (at 10 a.m. and repeated at 10 p.m.) features these topics (ten songs each).  All shows stream at www.wdrv.com.

Monday--  Blue Monday
Tuesday--  Crazy
Wednesday--  Free Wheelin'  (I imagine about cars, so you Roadies might be especially interested.)

Also, Sunday, it's Terri Hemmert's Breakfast With the Beatles on WXRT from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m..  Monday it is Tom Marker's Bluesbreakers show on WXRT from 9 to 10 p.m.

Give Them a Listen.

Name That Tune (from above)  "Coming To You On a Dusty Road, Good Lovin' I Got a Truckload."--RoadRadio

MORE SUTHEN-ISMS:  Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.  Yes. shrimp and grits.

"Soul Man"

Last Night, We had Our Annual Lundi Gras Celebration: "Party Town"

In other wirds, Fat Monday, the Day Before the Big Day.

Tom marker, on Chicago's WXRT, 93.1 FM devoted his whole hour-long Bluesbreakers show to the music of Louisiana.  Always a must-listen show for me.

Here's what he played:

We will be driving to Twin lakes, Wisconsin in a short time and picking up our King Cake and going over to Donovan's Reef for own lil' Mardi Gras.

PARTY TOWN--  Marcia Ball
RED BEANS--  Snooks Eaglin
BONEYARD--  John Cleary

These next three songs written by Allen Toussaint:

A CERTAIN GIRL--  Ernie K. Doe
HOLY COW--  Lee Dorsey
RULER OF MY HEART-- Irma Thomas

These next two performed y Allen Toussaint:

YES WE CAN CAN--  Allen Toussaint
WHIRLAWAY--  Allen Toussaint

MEET DEM BOYS ON THE BATTLEFRONT--  Anders Osbourne and Big Chief Monk Bourdreaux
CAN'T STOP THE FUNK--  Neville Brothers
MARDI GRAS DAY--  Kermit Ruffin and Rebirth Brass Band

BASIN STREET BLUES--  Henry Butler

Name That Tune: "Driver of My Soul, Where Can You Be."  --RoadiGrasDog


"Ruler of My heart"

Some Good Radio Listening This Week

TODAY, SATURDAY:  Even though the show was listed as being 1995, it is 1981 on WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback with Wendy Rice.  It goes from 8 a.m. to noon CDST and streams at www.wxrt.com.

TOMORROW, SUNDAY--  Bob Stroud's Rock and Roll Roots has his annual Summer Show.  Three hours of great summer-related music from the 60s and 70s.  WDRV from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Breakfast With the Beatles with Terri Hemmert on WXRT, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m..

NEXT WEEK

Bluesbreakers 9-10 p.m. WXRT

Ten at Ten, WDRV 10 1.a.m. and 10 p.m.
Mon.  1980
Tues. 1968
Wed. 1975

All times Central.

"In the Beginning..."  --RoadDog

Some Music to Check Out: B.B. King Show Tonight on WXRT

I am not surprised to find out this morning that Tom Marker has expanded his hour-long Bluesbreakers Show on Chicago's WXRT, 93.1 FM to two hours to honor bluesman supreme B.B. King who died last week.  It starts at 8 p.m. CDST and goes to 10.  It streams at www.wxrt.com.

Plus, right now, Fessa John Hook is running the Beach Music Top 40 for the year 1958, worth a listen at www.beachshag.com.

Bob Stroud's Ten at Ten for today was ten songs from 1976.  Wednesday he goes to 1982 and then 1977 for Wednesday.  the show runs at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. at www.wdrv.com CDST.

--RoadDog

Get Your Mardi Gras Music on Chicago's WXRT

Tonight, at 9 PM, CST, tune into Chicago's Finest Mardi Gras station, WXRT, 93.1 FM for Tom Marker's Bluesbreakers Show, featurinmg the music of New Orleans and Mardi Gras. It's called Lundi Gras, for Monday. It will also have New Orleans blues, Dixieland, Second-Line, Cajun and Zydeco. //// Then, tomorrow, XRT will be featuring a whole lot of Mardi Gras music all day. //// And, it streams at www.wxrt.com. //// I Smell Jambalaya!! --RoadDog

All the Blues You Can Use

The Chicago Blues Festival is this weekend and bills itself as the world's largest blues festival. And, it's FREE!!! Something rare in Chicago where it seems everyone is intent on getting as much money as they can from you, from the outrageous parking costs, to the 10% downtown sales tax.

I am a big fan of the blues. Most Mondays, I tune into Tom Marker's Bluesbreakers Show on WXRT, 93.1 FM, and listen to an hour of new and old blues songs and the information he gives out. At one time, our classical station had a great blues/soul show on after midnight featuring Mr. A. They changed formats and now is The Drive playing classic rock, but I sure do miss Mr. A and would like to know if he is still on the air somewhere.

Like Marker says, Chicago is the World Capital of the Blues. A major destination for tourists are the various blues clubs around the city. Buddy Guy's Legends is probably the best known. They will be moving from the building soon, but relocating elsewhere. Plus we have the Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor.

There will be lots of acts at several stages, but some of the "big" names are:

Thursday- Artie "Blues Boy" White, Larry McCray
Friday- Eddie Bo, Elvin Bishop
Saturday- Ronnie Baker Brooks, Siegal-Schwall Blues Band
Sunday- Bobby Blue Bland, Dorothy Moore

I'm considering taking a ride on the Metra train. It drops you off at UnionStation, about ten blocks from Grant Park, where the festival is taking place. Great deals on the weekends, $5 unlimited rides for both days. Plus... Union Station and Grant Park are on ROUTE 66!!!!

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Bluesin' It in Chicago. --RoadDog