This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The Ringers and The Nth Power. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.

The Ringers Live at The Grey Eagle on 2014-01-31
archive.org/details/Ringers2014-01-31.fob-schoeps-mk4.bell.ledwhofloyd.flac1644

The Nth Power Live at Blue Nile on 2019-05-06
archive.org/details/nthpower2019-05-06

It all started one year at Blues Fest. John Shepherd played the first part of his set without a band and Vivian loved it. Well, I did too, so I got in touch with John about recording a solo album and although it was a little bit outside of his comfort zone he was game.

Now I’m going to have to try to find that Blues Fest performance. It was probably in 2008 because …

I recorded John Shepherd at HairyLarryLand on February 21, 2009 and March 21, 2009. All tracks are John Shepherd, guitar and vocals, with no overdubs.

So it’s essentially a live album.

And he wrote all the songs.

We called the album “So Low” and it’s just killing all the way through. I picked the song “I Want To Be The One” to play today because of it’s deep lyric and exceptional blues guitar.

He showed up to play with just a guitar case. He said, “Don’t worry, there’s an amp in there too”. And sure enough when he opened his case there was a Pignose amp. I had John set up to sing in one room and I put the amp in another room with a close mic for sound isolation. So I was able to get John’s vocals right on top something that can be difficult to do when he’s singing with a loud band.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Bob James, Scott McLemore, and Steve Kahn. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Billy Jones Bluez Singing I’m A Bluesman
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-06-23

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear an Arkansas bluesman sing a song he wrote about his life in music.

It was October 8, 2013, when I met Mike Doyle in the parking lot at ASU to make our monthly sojourn down to Newport, Arkansas, for KASU Bluesday Tuesday. Mike was the KASU station manager at the time and he would MC the show. I was going to record Billy Jones Bluez for Something Blue.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The West Finch Blues Band, Blues Traveller, and Tribute To The Allman Brothers. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Tribute: A Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band Live at West Milford Farm / Cumming, GA on 2024-04-05
archive.org/details/tributeABB2024-04-05

Blues Traveler Live at Mary Rippon Theater, University of Colorado on 1992-05-16
archive.org/details/bt1992-05-16.treadwell.flac16

The West Finch Blues Band
Unreleased recordings from 2006
Recorded at Delta Recording Service in Como, Mississippi, by Jimbo Malthus

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Cottonmouth Playing July You’re A Woman
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-03-17

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some southern rock from a band that was big in Arkansas in the seventies.

Sometimes I look around for just the right music to play on From The Archives Of Something Blue. And sometimes the music comes to me.

Andy Fulkerson got in touch with KASU with some songs recorded in 1982 and Marty Scarbrough knew immediately that I would be interested. So, thanks to Andy for working with me filling in the details and bringing the Cottonmouth story to life.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring John Shepherd, Eric Johanson, Dispatch, and All Night Boogie Band. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Eric Johanson Live at the Teragram Ballroom on 2023-09-14
archive.org/details/bayoureview2023-09-14.aud.flac16

All Night Boogie Band Live at Radio Bean on 2023-12-01
archive.org/details/anbb2023-12-01.VERMONT_TAPERS_COLLECTIVE_FLAC

Dispatch Live at Dreams Sapphire (Only the Wild Ones Weekend) on 2023-12-01
archive.org/details/dispatch2023-12-01

John Shepherd – So Low
archive.org/details/so_low

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring John Mayer, The Cruise Brothers, and Marcus King. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

John Mayer Live at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 2004-04-15
archive.org/details/jm2004-04-15

Marcus King Band Live at Billboard Tokyo on 2023-04-18
archive.org/details/mkb2023-04-18.flac16

The Cruize Brothers Live at Red Goose Deli on 2009-06-15
archive.org/details/cb2009-06-15

From The Archives Of Something Blue July 23, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an Albert King song played at KASU Blue Monday.

When I first met Mike Dollins we were both promoting the blues on myspace. That’s right. We’re old.

Pretty soon he was contributing to Delta Boogie, keeping me up to date with the Little Rock Blues scene. Next thing you know he was coming up to Jonesboro to play at the Craighead Forest Bandshell and bringing his friends. Who soon became my friends.

I booked Hairy Larry and George in Little Rock and Mike Dollins was in the audience, enjoying the show. It was one of our best shows, too, with Suzanne and Fred joining us during the second set. I’ll include a link on the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Mike Dollins plays blues and jazz guitar. Playing with Mike at Blue Monday were Guido Ciardetti, bass and Brad Messer, drums. Their band name was The Cruize Brothers.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Julian Lage, Jakob Bro, and EST. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Julian Lage – Love Hurts

Esborn Svensson Trio – Live In London 2018

Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano – Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian

Thanks Marty, I’m Hairy Larry and I’ve got the blues for you.

Kyle Tims got in touch with me about playing at Blues Fest and we were glad to have him perform in September of 1997. I was talking to some of my friends who had played at Blues Fest, Sonny Burgess, Doug Greeno, and Larry Donn, and they told me that Kyle’s father, Tommy Tims, was a rockabilly drummer back in the day. Music runs in the family in Northeast Arkansas so I expected Kyle to put on a good show but everyone was just knocked out by his fantastic blues guitar work following in the footsteps of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring songs from Billy Jones Bluez, Erik Koskinen, and the JT Bates Grain Trio. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Erik Koskinen Live at Icehouse MPLS on 2020-11-07
archive.org/details/ErikKoskinen-2020-11-07.mix.flac16/

Billy Jones Bluez Live at Newport Country Club on 2013-10-08
archive.org/details/bjb2013-10-08

JT Bates Grain Trio Live at A Front Lawn In MPLS on 2020-11-06
archive.org/details/JTBatesGrain2020-11-06.mix.flac16/

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the North Mississippi Allstars and the Tedeschi Trucks Band. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Tedeschi Trucks Band Live at Beacon Theatre on 2022-10-06
archive.org/details/ttb2022-10-06.mk41v.edtyre/ttb2022-10-06.mk41v.edtyre.flac16

North Mississippi Allstars Live at Brooklyn Bowl on 2022-10-06
archive.org/details/nma2022-10-06.AKG463

From The Archives Of Something Blue September 18, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry presents NJHB playing “Catamaran”

01. DJ Hairy Larry presents NJHB playing “Catamaran”

02. Something Blue – Streak – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re hearing one of my jazz pieces recorded live at the Craighead Forest Bandshell.

NJHB is a different kind of jazz band without established personnel or repertoire. As usual when we played at the Craighead Forest Bandshell on June 2, 2013, it was the first and only time we played with this group of musicians.

So for this show we had Matt Jackson – bass, Mike “Zif” Lovell – guitar, Suzanne Michell – vocals, drums, and percussion, Carl Holden – guitar, Jay Shepherd – guitar, “Shugga” Shane Chastain – Roland Fantom, Addison Boling – drums, and Hairy Larry – Fender Rhodes, vocals, percussion, and dancing.

Something Blue – Ladybugs – July 30, 2022

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Arial Calabria, John Shepherd, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and John Scofield. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin, and Wood- Out Louder
www.medeskimartinandwood.com/
www.johnscofield.com/

Ariel Calabria, Bug Box
arcajazz.bandcamp.com/album/bug-box

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Angular Blues

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Hairy Larry and John Shepherd, Live on the Twitch Porch, April 10, 2022
deltaboogie.net
archive.org/details/hl2022-04-10.video

"Malaysia" by Larry Heyl  
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Hairy Larry's twitch stream is at  

https://www.twitch.tv/hairylarryland  

This version of "Malaysia" was excerpted from the stream recorded on April 10, 2022. Hairy Larry's current schedule is Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 2:00 PM Central with weekend live performances to be arranged.  

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Gerry Moss, The Radiators, and Masters Of The Telecaster. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Masters of the Telecaster Live at The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) on 2019-10-19
archive.org/details/MOT2019-10-19.MOT2019-10-19

Radiators Live at Ogden Theatre on 1994-01-22
archive.org/details/rad1994-01-22.156134.sbd.adams.mgoldey.flac1648

Gerry Moss Live at KASU Blue Monday August 20, 2019
gerrymoss.net/

funkwhale.hairylarry.rocks/library/tracks/295/

Thanks Marty, I’ve got a great blues song this week performed live at the Fall Ball by Delta Legends.

On September 30, 2017 Delta Legends took a road trip down to the Mississippi Hill Country to play at the Fall Ball. We originally booked to busk on Saturday morning but they offered us a slot early Saturday afternoon so we got to play that too. “All Over Again” is a blues standard made famous by B.B. King and Paul Butterfield. It’s one of our best songs and inspired by the festival stage we nailed it.

And, about that busking Saturday morning. We recorded that too and those songs are included on our CD, “Two Woman Blues”. It was a very productive day.

Now here’s Delta Legends playing “All Over Again”.

Thanks Marty, I have so much fun doing From The Archives for Arkansas Roots.

Billy Jones is a bluesman. A genuine Arkansas bluesman. But he also plays country, funk, gospel, and soul. When I went to record him at KASU Bluesday Tuesday in Newport, Arkansas, on October 8, 2013, I never thought he would be playing the Temptations. Yet here’s the proof, Billy Jones Bluez playing the classic Motown hit, “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”.

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And that’s “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”, a Temptations hit, played by Billy Jones Bluez at a KASU Bluesday Tuesday in Newport.

Tune in to Something Blue Saturday night at 10:00 to hear songs from Billy Jones, Erik Koskinen, and the JT Bates Grain Trio.