Podcast and Blues

Podcast and Blues

Podcast and Blues is about new and traditional blues singers. It is music news on the artists by Gail Nobles. https://sites.google.com/view/podcast-and-blues/home

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March 3, 2024 1 min
Intro: Gail Nobles

Here Today and Gone Tomorrow sounds like an early recording from the group the Ohio Players from their 1969 debut album Observations in Time. The group is known by their hit songs like fire and Love Rollercoaster.

The song Here Today and Gone Tomorrow sounds like soul blues. It's the first track on the album their lyrics say Here today, gone tomorrow, Each time you come, you leave a little sorrow.

The Ohio Players i...
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Little Milton was expressing pain. He was talking about a flow of tears if his lover ever left him. It's bad to hurt like that over someone.

Little Milton’s single Cry Me a River was released in 1972. The style of the song is sold on the Stax label. Little Milton’s records are still being sold because he's that soulful kind of blues we don't hear today. Little Milton’s single Cry Me a River ...
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January 19, 2024 2 mins
Intro: Gail Nobles
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Arthur Adams is another great blues man to listen to. In the early 1960s, he produced several singles, including "If It Ain't One Thing It's Another"/"Willin' To Die" on Philadelphia-based Jamie Records.

During the latter 1970s, Adams changed style and played soul.[3] In 1981 he had a surprise hit called "You Got the Floor" which reached nu...
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December 7, 2023 1 min
Music intro by: Gail Nobles
Story by: Gail Nobles

Next on Podcast and Blues is Carlin Taylor.
Carlin Taylor, the man that brought us the song Keep It 100, Bet Yo Mama Like It, and Let's Have a Barbecue. His music is fun to hear. You can hear the singer and actor in him when he's telling his story in his blues. It’s fun to watch Carlin Taylor in videos and live on stage. He is a multi-talented singer and songwriter and also we dancer.

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November 17, 2023 4 mins
Ed Cook - WVON, Chicago - January 29, 1966
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Cover Art by: Gail Nobles

Good evening everyone. Today I'm going to talk about Ed “Nassau Daddy” Cook. Ed Cook was a beloved DJ for WVON-one of Chicago's first major black radio stations. Ed Cook played rhythm and blues. He played Sonny Boy Williamson's Bring It On Home. Sometimes he was a little upset while doing his job because things weren't...
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November 16, 2023 1 min
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Story by: Gail Nobles

Welcome again to Podcast and Blues. I am your host Gail Nobles. I want to talk about the sound of B.B. King from the 1950s. A much different sounding style of blues than when he was singing The Thrill Is Gone from the 1970s. Alan Freed would play BB King’s music.

(Alan Freed Introduces B.B. King's song)

B.B. King song Lonely and Blue reminds me of a song that Fat...
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November 10, 2023 1 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles
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Here we go with today's topic Ben Harper.Welcome toPodcast and Blues. I'm Gail Nobles. In the next few minutes we're going to talk about singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Ben Harper who plays and ecletic mixer blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has...
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October 26, 2023 2 mins
Music Intro by: Gail Nobles
Cover Art by: Gail Nobles

You listening to the Podcast and Blues Show. I’m bringing to you today a topic on James Carr.
You listen to podcast and blues show I am bringing to you today a topic on James Carr after being turned down by stacks records he made his first recordings for Goldwax Records, a small Memphis-based independent record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee iin 1964 by Quinton Claunch and Rud...
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Hello! You’re listening to Podcast and Blues. Today's topic is Bobby Bland Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City.

Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" is a 1974 R&B song written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh, and first recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland for the album Dreamer.

While it is ostensibly a love song, some critics and fans have also heard it as a lament on u...
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October 8, 2023 2 mins
Cover Art by: Gail Nobles
Intro music by: Gail Nobles

Today's topic: Jeter Jones, a blues R&B soul singer and songwriter.

Did you know that Jeter Jones has a belt with all his award names written on it? Titles like Entertainer of the Year, Artist of the Year; Blues Critic Artist of the Year. He has many names on the belt. He said if he runs out of room, he'll get another belt. The soul blues singer carries a belt like a boxer or w...
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October 1, 2023 4 mins
Rowdy Blues by Kid Bailey
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Kid Bailey was a Mississippi delta bluesman. His one known recording session occurred on September 25, 1929 in Memphis Tennessee. He collaborated with Charley Patton and a circle of Delta blues musicians who swapped melodies, riffs, and lyrics during the late 1920s and early 30s such as Son House and Tommy Johnson just to name a fe...
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September 24, 2023 2 mins
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Intro by: Gail Nobles
Story by: Gail Nobles

Christone Kingfish Ingram has a live album titled Live In London. Kingfish is a great vocalist and guitar player. He sounds like a legend at the age of 24. Kingfish has what blues listeners want to hear.

I couldn't wait to hear his first song on his album titled She Calls Me Kingfish.
He sings: She’s flipping out on me
She calls me ki...
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September 16, 2023 55 secs
Music by: Gail Nobles
Lead Vocals by: Gail Nobles
Song by: Gail Nobles

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Happy heavenly Birthday to B.B. King, born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925. An American guitarist and blues singer who will always be remembered.
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August 26, 2023 2 mins

Music intro by: Gail Nobles

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Shemekia Copeland is an electric blues vocalist. To date, she has released ten albums and been presented with eight Blues Music Awards.

On June 12, 2011 at the 2011 Chicago Blues Festival, Copeland was presented Koko Taylor's crown, and officially given the honor as the new "Queen of the Blues" by Koko T...
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Ending Music by: Gail Nobles


Walter "Wolfman" Washington was a singer and guitarist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. While his roots were in blues music, he blended funk and R&B to create his own unique sound. He passed away at the age of 79. Washington had a band called the Roadmasters. He had a soulful voice his trademark was a wolf howl sound. Why was he called the Wo...
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July 19, 2023 3 mins
Intro song: Miss Adegbalola Blues
Intro song and music by: Gail Nobles
Vocals by: Gail Nobles

Song: (There Is Always) One More Time
Song by: Gaye Adegbalola

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Gaye Adegbalola is a blues singer and guitarist, teacher, lecturer, activist and photographer I love her blues songs, and I love how she plays the guitar. One of my favorite songs from her griot album “(There Is Always One More Time).

“No matter what you've ...
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Captain Jack Watson! He made an announcement that this is his 45th year of singing the blues. I don't know much about Captain Jack and did not hear about him from radio. I just happened to see him pop up in my feed on my Facebook page called “Blues Music”. Then I found Captain Jack on Spotify. He...
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John Németh said in his lyrics this may be the last time we sing together.


John Németh is an electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. And his music proves it. He has received five Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist, Soul Blues Album, Traditional Blues Album of the year, In...
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Art by: Gail Nobles
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Keyboardist: Gail Nobles

Hi! I'm Gail Nobles from Podcast & Blues. I listen to Cassie CJ Fox from Soul of the Blues. If you haven't heard her show, you've got to listen. She plays Joe Simon, and it's like he said: Music in my bones, and I can't sit down. (Singing) You go...
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May 14, 2023 2 mins
Intro song by: Gail Nobles
Music by: Gail Nobles
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Hi! I'm Gail Nobles. Welcome to Podcast and Blues. Today’s topic is Albert White. A blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released two albums in his own name, although his musical career started in the late 1950s, when he played in Piano Red's then ensemble, later known as Dr. Feelgood & the Interns.

Albert ...
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