Tag: ZZ Top

It’s Tuesday Bluesday With Some Texas Blues, a Janis Joplin Surprise, and Live Stevie Ray Vaughan, September 23, 2025

Good morning, bluesologists. It’s another Tuesday Bluesday and I’m on the run due to an unresponsive computer for about 20 minutes. Stubborn little thing. We’ve got a great lineup today, so read on for details!

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Best of Texas Blues: Various Artists

One of our newer blues EP’s featuring Johnny Winter, Kim Wilson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Doyle Bramhall II, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Marcia Ball, Gary Clark Jr., Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Janis Joplin, Freddie King, Angela Strehli, Big Mama Thornton, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Blind Lemon Jefferson, ZZ Top, Ally Venable, and more!

4:00 p.m. Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen: The Famous Typewriter Tape NEW!

A little unknown tidbit is that Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, later the great blues-rock band Hot Tuna) often collaborated. This is a short, but sweet, interlude recorded at Jorma’s house. The sound in the background is Jorma’s wife typing. Hence, the name. This is vintage 1964!

8:00 p.m. Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at The Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA, June 30, 1987

We close with SRV live at the Mann Center in Philly.

Our programming is Texas blues all the way around today. Before, In between, and after it’s our big, wide Open Stream! Just hit the button below!

The Texas Blues!

It’s Tuesday Bluesday With ‘The Best of Texas Blues,’ The Robert Cray Band With SRV, and Jimi Hendrix, August 19, 2025

Good morning, bluesologists! We are back with another Tuesday Bluesday with five hours of uninterrupted Texas blues to start out, then some great live music and a the blues, Hendrix style.

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Best of Texas Blues: Various Artists

We’ve got the blues, Texas style, with Johnny Winter, T. Bone Walker, Kim Wilson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Doyle Bramhall II, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Marcia Ball, Gary Clark, Jr., Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Janis Joplin, Freddie King, Angela Strehli, Big Mama Thornton, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ally Venable, and more!

4:00 p.m. The Robert Cray Band with Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Club Redux, Dallas, TX, January 21, 1987

Stevie Ray Vaughn teams up with one of Barack Obama’s favorite artists for a show in Dallas!

8:00 p.m. Jimi Hendrix Sings The Blues

We don’t often think of Hendrix and the blues together, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. You’ll see why this evening.

Once again, we’re here 24/7 and we’re totally free. No strings. No lies. No commercials. Just music. The button is below.

Tuesday Bluesday!

It’s Tuesday Bluesday With the ‘Best of Texas Blues,’ Live Blues Project, and Slim Harpo ‘In the Spotlight’, On June 3, 2025

Mornin’ bluesologists, and welcome to Tuesday Bluesday as I head back to hardware hell, leaving you in the capable hands of The Music Mermaid. She’ll get you thorough a great Tuesday Bluesday until I return!

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup!

9:00 a.m. The Best of Texas Blues: Various Artists

We kick off Tuesday Bluesday with a visit to Texas and music from Johnny Winter, Bobby “Blue” Bland, T. Bone Walker, Marcia Ball, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The King Bees, Freddie King, Janis Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Doyle Bramhall III, Ally Venable, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Albert Collins, ZZ Top, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and more!

4:00 p.m. The Blues Project Live at The Cafe A Go Go, New York, NY, November 24-27, 1965

This afternoon we’re in the Wayback Machine as we travel back in time for The Blues Project’s residency in the legendary Cafe A Go Go.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Slim Harpo

We close it out with bluesman extraordinaire Slim Harpo, guitarist, blues harp master, and a man steeped in the swamp blues style. Love him.

We’re moving into summer now and we’ll have some more ‘Spotlights’ coming up on the blues side of things as we move forward (never backwards). We’re on 24/7, not just when we have programming. We’re free. No strings. And no commercial advertising. The button of musical nirvana is below.

Best of Texas Blues!

Tuesday Bluesday Brings ‘The Best of Texas Blues’, Gunsmoke Blues, and a Peter Green ‘Spotlight’ (Finally), April 29, 2025

Good morning, bluesologists! We’ve got some great blues programming today. Our 4:00 p.m. slot has an interesting story. Read on for details!

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Best of Texas Blues: Various Artists

We open it up with one of our great blues EPs featuring Johnny Winter, Bobby “Blue” Bland, T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marcia Ball, The King Bees, Freddie King, Janis Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Doyle Bramhall II, Ally Venable, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Albert Collins, ZZ Top, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and more!

4:00 p.m. Gunsmoke Blues: Various Artists

This is the stuff of legends. While on a filming break from the Gunsmoke TV series in November of 1971, blues lover Link Wyler and some of his friends from the production crew took to the road and documented the blues barnstorming tour of the Pacific Northwest underaken by Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner and George “Harmonica” Smith. This is the result.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Peter Green NEW!

This one has been coming for a while. We give you the music of the late, great Peter Green as a solo artist, as the co-founder of Fleetwood Mac (originally a blues band before Nicks and Buckingham joined), and Peter Green’s Splinter Group.

Before, in between and after we give you our big, wide Open Stream of more than 30,000 songs. We don’t keep playing the same hundred songs over and over ad nauseum. We also don’t cost you a thing, play commercial advertising or talk through the music. We’re anti-capitalist to the core. Join us. The button’s below.

Tuesday Bluesday!

Friday Brings a New ‘Great Beginnings’ EP, Live Allman Brothers and a New Dave Clark Five ‘Spotlight’, March 28, 2025

Good morning, music lovers and welcome to the cusp of the weekend once again. We’ve got not one, but two, new pieces of programming today! Read on for details!

Here’s your Friday musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. Great Beginnings: Various Artists NEW!

From a playlist to the big kahuna. We’ve expanded our library of songs with great openings to a full-blown EP featuring The Beatles, Elton John, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, the J. Geils Band, Aretha Franklin, Yes, Chicago, The Who, Johnny Rivers, Electric Light Orchestra, The Kinks, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Allman Brothers Band, CSNY, Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Badfinger, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steely Dan, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Paul Simon, The Chambers Brothers and more!

4:00 p.m. The Allman Brothers Band Live at Woodstock ’94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, August 14, 1994

Nope. It was decidedly not anything like Woodstock ’69, but The Allman Brothers Band, as always, gave a great performance.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Dave Clark Five NEW!

Another great British Invasion band gets its due. Tom Petty used to say that it should be called The Mike Smith Five because he was their great lead vocalist. (Dave Clark was the drummer, of course.) It’s kind of parallel to the J. Geils Band here in the U.S. with the great Peter Wolf on vocals and J. Geils on guitar. But I digress. The Dave Clark Five was the second British Invasion band to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. The first, of course, was The Beatles.

We’re here. We’re rarin’ to go. And we’re on 24/7 for your listening pleasure. We never charge you to listen to our music, and we never indulge in commercial interruptions because we’re not in it for the money. So, enjoy. The button is below.

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Welcome to Tuesday Bluesday With ‘The Best of Texas Blues’ EP, Plus Live Performances From Susan Tedeschi and the Robert Cray Band, on March 25, 2025

Good morning, bluesologists, and welcome to another Tuesday Bluesday here in The Mermaid Lounge! We’ve got a great lineup starting with five uninterrupted hours of Texas blues!

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Best of Texas Blues: Various Artists

Our newest blues EP is a killer with Johnny Winter, Bobby “Blue” Bland, T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marcia Ball, The King Bees, Freddie King, Janis Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Doyle Bramhall II, Ally Venable, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Albert Collins, ZZ Top, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and more!

4:00 p.m. Susan Tedeschi Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX, June 17, 2003

Boston’s own Susan Tedeschi live from the Moody Theater recorded live for Austin City Limits!

8:00 p.m. The Robert Cray Band Love at The Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA, December 2, 1995

We close out the day’s programming with one of Barack Obama’s favorite musicians live from The Warfield Theater. And he’s miles above either Kid Rock or Ted Nugent. (We don’t play that shit.)

We’re here 24/7 at no charge to the listening public. We don’t buy our music from Amazon and it’s billionaire bootlicker (people who do are overpaying), but from European sources. And we don’t track you using Starlink or anything else. We’re all about the music. The button is below.

Welcome To Tuesday Bluesday!

On Sunday It’s Our House EP, a ZZ Top ‘Spotlight’ and The Jerry Garcia Band Live at Roseland Ballroom, March 2, 2025

Welcome, weekenders! Today we’ve got a pretty eclectic lineup for you that includes our House EP, then some electric blues-rock from ZZ Top and a live performance by The Jerry Garcia Band.

Here’s your Sunday Funday lineup:

9:00 a.m. The #BecomeUngovernable House EP: Various Artists

The music that inspired the station includes Barry McGuire, The Temptations, Edwin Starr, Peter Tosh, The Beatles, T. Rex, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & The Fish, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Joan Baez, CSNY, Pink Floyd, The Animals, Ten Years After, The Plastic Ono Band, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Hendrix, Three Dog Night, Jimmy Cliff, Richie Havens, Marvin Gaye, The Association, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush, The Band and more!

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of ZZ Top

ZZ Top started up in 1969 and stood the test of time until Dusty Hill’s untimely death in 2021. We’ve got them ‘In the Spotlight’ this afternoon.

8:00 p.m. The Jerry Garcia Band Live at The Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

We close out the day’s programming (but not the music) with a performance by the Jerry Garcia Band at the iconic Roseland Ballroom and Dance Hall in New York.

It’s a day to kick back and relax. The Orange Fascist Blob is golfing, so the mayhem has abated until tomorrow. Great time to retool and relax with some great music. Tomorrow the lunacy returns. Let’s get through this together. Music helps. And we’re beholding to no billionaires here. We’re totally free and anti-capitalist. The button is below.

Sunday Funday!

It’s Tuesday Bluesday With EC & Friends, Larkin Poe and Rick Danko Live With Paul Butterfield, October 29, 2024

Welcome to Tuesday Bluesday in The Mermaid Lounge where we have some really great stuff on tap, including a new-ish band that can really belt out the blues!

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. Eric Clapton & Friends: The Crossroads Guitar Festival

Clapton hangs out with Sheryl Crow, Joe Walsh, ZZ Top, B.B. King, Doyle Bramhall II, Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, Susan Tedeschi, the Robert Cray Band, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, J. J. Cale, Willie Nelson and others!

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Larkin Poe NEW!

Led by sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, the band started out with a third sister as a folk-rock band, but shifted to blues-rock after the original band broke up. With their great guitar work, particularly the steel guitar, they are often compared to the style of The Allman Brothers Band. Today, we put them In The Spotlight and you can learn more about them here.

8:00 p.m. Rick Danko & Paul Butterfield Live at The Blue Note, Boulder, CO, December 13, 1979

Today we’ve got two legends to close out Tuesday Bluesday programming as Rick Danko (The Band) joins the legendary Paul Butterfield on stage for a live performance at The Blue Note.

Again, we’re here playing tunes 24/7 at no cost to the listening public and with absolutely NO commercial advertsing. We’re all about the music and The Button is below.

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On Friday, It’s Songs About Luck, a ZZ Top Spotlight Feature, and Live Music From the Jerry Garcia Band, September 13, 2024

Good morning, musicologists. Yes, It’s Friday the 13th, so we’ve got songs about luck starting things off…good luck, bad luck and even plain old dumb luck. Then it’s on to ZZ Top and the Jerry Garcia Band!

Here’s your Friday (the 13th) lineup:

10:00 a.m. Good Luck, Bad Luck, Dumb Luck: Various Artists

Yes, it’s true. It’s Friday the 13th and we’ve got songs about luck from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Cream, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Steve Winwood, The Beatles, Albert King, Fats Domino, Genesis, Bob Dylan, Loggins & Messina, Joe Walsh, The Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Taj Mahal and more!

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of ZZ Top

Formed back in the sixties, ZZ Top stood the test of time for more than a half century until the death of Dusty Hill back in 2021. Their music lives on!

8:00 p.m. The Jerry Garcia Band Live at The Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA, December 2, 1977

Tonight it’s some live music from Jerry’s “other” band.

We’re on the cusp of the weekend here folks. One more day to go. We’re here to get you through 24/7 with a never-ending rotation of great music. Just hit the button below.

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It’s Bob Marley & The Wailers, ZZ Top and Linda Ronstadt (& Some Stone Poneys) on This Rainy Monday, December 4, 2023

Good morning, music lovers! If you have Monday off like I do and it’s rainy where you are like it is here, this is the perfect day to hunker down with some great music. And we’ve got it here.

Here’s your musical Monday:

10:00 a.m. Bob Marley & The Wailers Live at The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, October 13, 1973

We start out the day with some Reggae vibes from the singer-songwriter who helped put Reggae on the map worldwide and his great band, The Wailers.

3:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of ZZ Top

We haven’t heard this one in a while. We’ve dusted this great ZZ Top Spotlight off and are ready for it this afternoon.

8:00 p.m. A Linda Ronstadt Retrospective: The Stone Poneys & The Early Solo Years

We take a trip in the Wayback Machine for this one as we feature the Queen of Rock’s early years with and without the Stone Poneys. Ronstadt paved the way for women, controlling her own career from the very start and defying those who told her what she should or should not sing. I think we can all agree it was quite a career.

We’re ready for the music today. I’m in The Lounge all day. No retail hell; no pushy, nasty Christmas customers (thankfully, we don’t get many of those). The festivities start at 11:00 a.m. but the music is 24/7.

Monday, Monday.