It's the first Saturday of the month, so we bring you another thematic retrospective show. We set the WayBac Machine for February 7th, 2003, when B.B. King and Lucille headlined a one-night-only celebration of the blues' 100th birthday featuring over five dozen artists at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Through careful song selection, the concert crafts a musical narrative beginning with the form's earliest blues guitar beginnings, then branches out to encompass the myriad styles it subsequently gave rise to. Old-school practitioners Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Ruth Brown and Solomon Burke mix it up with the likes of Macy Gray, John Fogarty and Mos Def. We didn't have enough time to air the entire 2-CD soundtrack album, but you will hear most of it!
Track Listing:
Code Blue
J-W Jones Band · My Kind of Evil
See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Mavis Staples · Lightning in a Bottle
Gamblin' Man
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards · Lightning in a Bottle
Love In Vain
Keb Mo · Lightning in a Bottle
Men Are Just Like Streetcars
Natalie Cole, Mavis Staples & Ruth Brown · Lightning in a Bottle
I Can't be Satisfied
Buddy Guy · Lightning in a Bottle
Hound Dog
Macy Gray · Lightning in a Bottle
Midnight Special
John Fogarty · Lightning in a Bottle
A Little Goes a Long Way
Horojo Trio · Set The Record
Just You & I
Kenny Wayne · Blues From Chicago to Paris
You Got To Move
Night Bluemers with Dawn Tyler Watson · Welcome Aboard the Midnight Train
What've I Been Drinkin'
The Powder Blues · Uncut
Okie Dokie Stomp
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown · Lightning in a Bottle
Coming Home
Bonnie Raitt · Lightning in a Bottle
The Sky is Crying
Greg Allman & Warren Haynes · Lightning in a Bottle
First Time I Met The Blues
Buddy Guy · Lightning in a Bottle
Big Chief
The Neville Brothers · Lightning in a Bottle
I Pity the Fool
Shemekia Copeland & Robert Cray · Lightning in a Bottle
Killing Floor
David Johansen & Hubert Sumlin · Lightning in a Bottle
Turn on Your Love Light
Solomon Burke · Lightning in a Bottle
Down In The Valley
Solomon Burke · Lightning in a Bottle
Voodoo Child
Angelique Kidjo, Buddy Guy & Vernon Reid · Lightning in a Bottle
Minnesota Blues (aka Black Jack Blues)
Mos Def · Lightning in a Bottle
Sweet Sixteen
BB King · Lightning in a Bottle
Soul Searching
Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters · Mercy Me