It’s unofficially our sixth summer in The Little Blue House on the Wetlands. As the days grow longer, blues is the perfect soundtrack for travel, baseball, family gatherings, and barbecue. Mississippi Heat, Anders Osborne, Robert Belfour, Seth Walker, and Gina Sicilia take on the spirit of sunshine and great weather, propelling us through a summer [...]

The 266th Roadhouse is chock full of new blues – perhaps more than any single show before. They take blues from R&B to Gospel to Rock and back, Kirk Fletcher, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers, Nasty Ned, and Peter Karp & Sue Foley take the lead in this edition. It’s truly another hour [...]

It’s the 5th anniversary of The Roadhouse, and the artists in this edition have helped define the sound of the show. Doug MacLeod, Joe White, Kelly Richey, Tinsley Ellis, and Watermelon Slim gather with listeners to share congratulations. It’s an hour of great friends in the 261st Roadhouse.

The 230th Roadhouse is a veritable sampler of styles. Jump blues, Chicago, contemporary, acoustic – it’s all broken out by set for your convenience. Louis Prima, Greg Nagy, Mississippi John Hurt, Aaron Moore, and Mary Flower represent the big picture of the blues. They set the stage to guarantee that you’ll find some new favorite [...]

The tiny bandstand in the Roadhouse lights up with a range of blues broad enough to suit everyone. Big Jack Johnson & The Oilers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kelly Joe Phelps, Sugarcane Collins, and John Nemeth take the stage as the bartender pours shots, scowling at anyone who leaves the bar without leaving a tip. Before [...]

The fifth year opens for The Roadhouse with a great variety of blues. Joanne Shaw Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, and Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers peg the meters in the 209th Roadhouse Podcast. And, they’ll keep you chair-dancing with another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.

The Roadhouse 157 is chock full of new music, catching up on new releases from the past few months. Taking us deep into the Roadhouse atmosphere, Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King, Ian Siegal, Honeyboy Edwards, Rick Holmstrom, and Charlie Musselwhite encourage plenty of chair-dancing. It’s the first edition of the fourth year of [...]

The 156th edition of The Roadhouse celebrates three years of the finest blues you’ve never heard. The focus is on artists you probably heard first in The Roadhouse; some great music from Garageband.com, some artists who have taken the blues world by storm in the past three years, and some who had a great reputation [...]

Mississippi Blues Commission

The Blues and Mississippi are synonymous to music lovers. The repertoire of any Blues or rock band is full of songs, guitar licks, and vocal inflections borrowed from Mississippi bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Son House to Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Boy Williamson, [...]

Sunshine fills The Roadhouse this week – summer sunshine. Inspired by an XM Radio set while driving home from work on Friday, I pull out the stops in this edition. Alex Wilson, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, Charles Avery, Eric Hughes Band, and The Mighty Lester fill the 121st Roadhouse Podcast with a definite summer feel. Some [...]

Two years on, the Roadhouse rolls on with an edition that rolls back the calendar. The two-year anniversay of The Roadhouse is an hour of some of my favorites fro the previous 103 editions, but certainly not all. Some of the great artists include Joe White, Susan Tedeschi, Kelly Richey Band, Shannon Boshears, and Johnny [...]

A boogie mood sweeps over the 92nd Roadhouse Podcast, punctuated by the occasional approving squeals of my daughter. Gary Primich, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, and Ronnie Earl set the tone. We also welcome a new label to The Roadhouse family – Stony Plain Records. Be prepared to boogie in the 92nd [...]

Playlist iMix

The 55th Roadhouse Podcast ignores the speed limits for a fast hour-long cruise of the blues. Like a ‘57 Cadillac convertible, we roll with Watermelon Slim, Sue Foley, Shannon Boshears, West of Memphis, and The Mike Andersen Band. Plus, a little spring cleaning means The Roadhouse is feeling more spacious and sounds even better. [...]

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This week, it’s an official party to celebrate the 25th show of The Roadhouse. I’ve selected some of my favorite music from the first 25 shows, and we’ve got guests galore. Bring your noisemakers and party hats, because we’re kicking up [...]

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The 17th edition of The Roadhouse is pure butt-shakin’ music. Johnny Flash and the Rockets, Brother Chunk and the Chicken Funk, Joe White, Nobby Reed Project, and Juke House Kings sit at the very front edge of the musical wave. A [...]

An overcast Saturday provides the perfect excuse to kick up your feet, crack open a brew and take in Homegrown Blues, Joe White, Tony Kamona, John Winter, Snake Drive and other fun blues artists. Listener comments, contact infomation, podcasting news, and blues news round out the 11th edition of The Roadhouse – the finest blues you’ve never heard.

Listener comments, contact information, podcast news, blues news, and an exciting contest giveaway. Those lead The Roadhouse 008, with music by Blue Shot, Smokehouse Blues, Enos Hornet, T-Bone and the Nightcrawlers, The Strange Tones and many more. Truly, the finest blues you’ve never heard.

As promised, the first feature artist is Joe White, who’s currently sitting pretty at #1 on the blues charts of garageband.com. We talk for a little over 20 minutes and play two great cuts: “I Won’t Go Back” and his previously unreleased version of “Folsum Prison Blues.”

I’m happy to announce that the first featured artist on The Roadhouse podcast will be Joe White from Nashville, TN. We’re working out the finer details of an interview throughout the day today. But, even if we have to resort to “old” technology (eg: the telephone – remember those?), Joe will join me for the Saturday premiere of The Roadhouse.