July 19, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Lou Rawls “Summertime”
Marvin Gaye “Groovin’”
Linda Ronstadt “Heat Wave”
Nina Simone “Here Comes the Sun”
Sly and the Family Stone “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
Victoria Spivey “Funny Feathers”
Maria Maldaur “Funny Feathers”
Jimmie Rodgers “Miss the Mississippi and You”
The Mississippi Sheiks “Somebody Got to Help You”
LaVerne Baker “Shake a Hand”
Wynonnie Harris “Bloodshot Eyes”
Roy Brown “Let the Four Winds Blow”
Charlie Rich “You Can Have Her”
Ray Charles “I Wake Up Cryin’”
James Booker “Come in My House”
Memphis Slim “I Guess I’m a Fool”
Otis Spann “Otis in the Dark”
July 12, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Texas Tornados “Is Anybody Going to San Antone?”
Los Super Seven “Rio de Tenampa”
Freddy Fender “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”
Doug Sahm “Be Real”
The Mavericks “Dance the Night Away”
Aretha Franklin “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”
Dan Penn “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”
Candi Staton “I’m Just a Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin’)”
Al Green “L-O-V-E (Love)”
Freddie North “Sidewalks, Fences, and Walls”
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions “Woman’s Got Soul”
Smiley Lewis “Real Gone Lover”
Guitar Slim “Well, I Done Got Over It”
Clarence “Frogman” Henry “Ain’t Got No Home”
Huey “Piano” Smith “Little Liza Jane”
Dave Bartholomew “Country Girl”
Little Richard “Slippin’ and Slidin’”
Lee Allen “Rockin’ at Cosimo’s”
July 5, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”
Dave Alvin “Fourth of July”
Lucinda Williams “Joy”
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band “Yours Forever Blue”
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings “This Land is Your Land”
The Staple Singers “This Land is Your Land”
Sam Cooke “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Bobby Womack “A Change is Gonna Come”
Sly and the Family Stone “Stand!”
Aretha Franklin “Respect”
Count Basie Orchestra “Splanky”
Big Joe Turner “I Want a Little Girl”
Dinah Washington “Cold, Cold Heart”
Nina Simone “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
King Curtis “Soul Twist”
June 28, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Delaney & Bonnie “Soul Shake”
Bonnie Raitt “I Got Plenty”
Leon Russell “Delta Lady”
Swamp Dogg “Total Destruction of Your Mind”
Ann Peebles “Beware”
Donnie Fritts “If It’s Really Got to Be This Way”
Arthur Alexander “If It’s Really Got to Be This Way”
Bobby Womack “More Than I Can Stands”
Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man”
Solomon Burke “Shame on Me”
Wilson Pickett “I’m in Love”
Esther Phillips “From a Whisper to a Scream”
Shuggie Otis “Inspiration Information”
Dorothy Moore “Misty Blue”
Van Morrison “Real, Real Gone”
June 21, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Blind Willie McTell “You Got to Die”
Bukka White “Parchman Farm”
Vera Ward Hall “Another Man Done Gone”
Mississippi John Hurt “Make Me a Pallet on the Floor”
Tampa Red “I’ll Kill Your Soul (And Dare Your Spirit to Move)”
Roy Acuff “Night Train to Memphis”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Night Train to Memphis”
Bobby Hebb “Night Train to Memphis”
Larry Green “Long Black Train”
Little Junior Parker “Mystery Train”
Rufus Thomas “The Memphis Train”
Rudy Greene “Juicy Fruit”
Jimmy Donnelly “Born to Be a Loser”
Ray Charles “You Are My Sunshine”
Eddie Hinton “Everybody Needs Love”
Jimmy McCracklin “Georgia Slop”
Larry Williams “Slow Down”
June 14, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Guy Davis “In the Evening Time”
Dave Alvin “Evening Blues”
Tom Russell & Barrence Whitfield “Irma Jackson”
John Hiatt “Lincoln Town”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Down by the Riverside”
Mahalia Jackson “Down by the Riverside”
Bob Dylan & Ralph Stanley “The Lonesome River”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Green River”
Los Lobos “Down on the Riverbed”
Charlie Rich “River, Stay Away from My Door”
Clara Ward “Time is Winding Up”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Turn on Your Love Light”
Johnny Ace “Pledging My Love”
James Davis “I’m Gonna Tell It on You”
Fenton Robinson “As the Years Go Passing By”
Little Junior Parker “Seven Days”
Larry Davis “Texas Flood”
June 7, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Sly and the Family Stone “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
The Ronettes “Do I Love You”
Marvin’ Gaye “Groovin’”
Jack Teagarden “Sweet and Hit”
Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues”
Sammi Smith “Today I Started Loving You Again”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Today I Started Loving You Again”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “It’s Not the Spotlight”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “I Wouldn’t Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)”
Carmen McRae “I Wish You Well”
Jackie Moore “Here I Am”
Johnnie Taylor “Just the One (I Was Looking For)”
Otis Redding “These Arms of Mine”
The Staple Singers “For What It’s Worth”
Percy Sledge “Take Time to Know Her”
Sam & Dave “Soothe Me”
Booker T and the MGs “Time is Tight”
May 31, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Gene Harris w/Curtis Stigers “Lean on Me”
Al Jarreau “Lonely Town, Lonely Street”
B.B. King “The Same Love that Made Me Laugh”
Esther Phillips “Use Me”
Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine”
Los Lobos “The Neighborhood”
Pops Staples “The Neighborhood”
Robert Cray Band “You Move Me”
The Dixie Hummingbirds “Someday”
Billy Preston “Nothing from Nothing”
Doris Duke “The Feeling is Right”
Sammi Smith “Sunday Morning Coming Down”
Candi Staton “Stand by Your Man”
Kenny Burrell “Chitlins Con Carne”
May 24, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Howard Tate “Girl of the North Country”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Please Crawl Out Your Window”
Mary Black “Lay Down Your Weary Tune”
The Band “When I Paint My Masterpiece”
The Candymen “The Memphis Blues Again”
Jackie DeShannon “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
Johnny Rivers “Positively 4th Street”
Marshall Crenshaw “My Back Pages”
Mavis Staples “Gotta Serve Somebody”
Ann Peebles “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You”
George Harrison “If Not for You”
Rita Coolidge “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)”
Bettye LaVette “Things Have Changed”
May, 17, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
North Mississippi Allstars “K.C. Jones (Part 2)”
Al Green “The Letter”
Irma Thomas “Loving Arms”
Mavis Staples “You Must Have that True Religion”
The Dixie Hummingbirds “Nobody’s Fault”
Little Richard “The Girl Can’t Help It”
Michelle Willson “The Girl Can’t Help It”
Don and Dewey “Kill Me”
Larry Williams “Slow Down”
Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
Dr. John “Junko Partner”
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings “How Long Do I Have to Wait”
Syl Johnson “I’ve Got the Real Thing”
Barbara Lynn “You’ll Lose a Good Thing”
Joe Henderson “Snap Your Fingers”
Larry Davis “Down Home Funk (Part 1)”
May 10, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Guitar Gable “This Should Go on Forever”
Percy Mayfield “The Big Question”
Ruth Brown “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”
Charles Brown “Fool’s Paradise”
Snooks Eaglin “Lipstick Traces”
Red Foley “Midnight”
Ray Charles “Midnight”
Nina Simone “In the Evening by the Moonlight”
Wes Montgomery “Moonlight Serenade”
B.B. King “Night Life”
Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen “The Man That Got Away”
Toot Thielemans “Body and Soul”
Little Walter “Fast Boogie”
Jerry McCain “Steady”
James Cotton “The Creeper”
May 3, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Otis Williams and His Midnight Cowboys “That’s How I Got to Memphis”
Bobby Hebb “Night Train to Memphis”
Bobby Hebb “Sunny”
The Supremes “It Makes No Difference Now”
Esther Phillips “Release Me”
Ted Hawkins “There Stands the Glass”
The Blasters “Border Radio”
Dave Alvin “Border Radio”
Buckwheat Zydeco “Marie Marie”
BeauSoleil “Hot Chili Mama”
Jon Byrd “In a Chest of Skin and Bones”
Bruce Channel “Hey! Baby”
Blind Boys of Alabama “You Got to Move”
Red Foley “Peace in the Valley”
Fisk Jubilee Singers “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Didn’t It Rain”
Nina Simone “I Shall Be Released”
April 26, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Al Green “I Tried to Tell Myself”
Ann Peebles “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down”
Otis Clay “Trying to Live My Life You”
Quiet Elegance “You Got My Mind Mixed Up”
O.V. Wright “Precious, Precious”
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown “Okie Dokie Stomp”
The Hollywood Fats Band “Okie Dokie Stomp”
B.B. King “When It All Comes Down”
Aretha Franklin “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You)”
Clarence Carter “Soul Deep”
Arthur Alexander “I’m Comin’ Home”
King Curtis “Soul Serenade”
Ann Sexton “Have a Little Mercy”
Howard Tate “Where Did My Baby Go?”
Johnnie Taylor “Just the One (I was Looking For)”
Otis Redding “I’m Changed Man”
Sly and the Family Stone “If You Want Me to Stay”
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Little Richard “Jenny Jenny”
Los Lobos “Jenny’s Got a Pony”
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels “Jenny Take a Ride”
Flaming Ember “Westbound Number 9”
Shorty Long “Devil with the Blues Dress”
Lavern Baker “Shake a Hand”
Red Foley “Shake a Hand”
Eddie Floyd “Raise Your Hand”
Jackie Moore “Clean Up Your Yard”
Little Milton “That’s What Love Will Make You Do”
William Bell “You Don’t Miss Your Water”
Taj Mahal “She Caught the Katy”
Solomon Burke “Fast Train”
Etta James “One More for My Baby (And One More for the Road)”
Percy Sledge “True Love Travels on a Gravel Road”
April 12, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Roosevelt Sykes “I Hate to Be Alone”
Sunnyland Slim “Everytime I Get to Drinking”
Mildred Anderson “I’m Getting’ Along All Right”
Jimmy Witherspoon “I’ll Go on Living”
Lonnie Johnson “You Have No Love in Your Heart”
Charly Patton “I Shall Not Be Moved”
Pops Staples “I Shall Not Be Moved”
Kelly Joe Phelps “Footprints”
Doc & Merle Watson “Blue Railroad Train”
Chris Smither “Link of Chain”
Eddie Hinton “Very Blue Highway”
Percy Sledge “Why Did You Stop”
Mavis Staples “This Little Light”
Arthur Alexander “If It’s Really Go to Be this Way”
Bettye Lavette “In the Meantime”
April 5, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Doris Duke “Feet Start Walking”
Jimmy McCracklin “The Walk”
Patsy Cline “I’m Walking the Dog”
T-Bone Walker “Street Walking Woman”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane”
Cannon’s Jug Stompers “Walk Right In”
Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line”
Shelby Lynne “I Walk the Line”
The Falcons “Love the Way You Walk”
Robert Lockwood “Take a Walk with Me”
Ray Charles “Walkin’ and Talkin’”
George Jones “Walk Through this World with Me”
Fats Domino “When I’m Walking”
The Prisionaires “Just Walking in the Rain”
Son House “Walking Blues”
Percy Mayfield “Walking on a Tightrope”
Four Tops “Walk Away Renee”
Rufus Thomas “Walking the Dog”
Lee Allen “Walkin’ with Mr. Lee”
March 29, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Muddy Waters “I Can't Be Statisfied”
Blind Willie Johnson “Dark was the Night”
Ry Cooder “Feelin’ Bad Blues”
Elmore James “Dust my Blues”
Earl Hooker “Blue Guitar”
Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues”
Allman Brothers Bands “Statesboro Blues”
Bonnie Raitt “I Feel the Same”
John Hiatt “Take It Back”
Son House “Walking Blues”
Mike Henderson “Nobody’s Fault but Mine”
R.L. Burnside “Wish I was in Heaven Sitting Down”
Furry Lewis “Brownsville Blues”
Bukka White “Parchman Farm Blues”
Biltmore Orchestra “Kaui Kahio”
Kelly Joe Phelps “Doxology”
Blind Willie Johnson “Make Up My Dyin’ Bed”
March 22, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Fats Domino “Cheatin’”
Jimmy McCracklin “The Walk”
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale “The Wobble”
Patsy Cline “She’s Got You”
Elvis Presley “A Mess of Blues”
Frank Sinatra with Count Basie “Fly Me to the Moon”
Bobby Womack “Fly Me to the Moon”
Ernie K Doe “Taint It the Truth”
Irma Thomas “The Same Love That Made Me Laugh”
Esther Phillips “Til My Back Ain’t Got no Bone”
Johnnie Taylor “Testify (I Wonna)”
Eddie Floyd “Close to You”
Mable John “Your Good Thing (Is About to End)”
Sam & Dave “You Don’t Know What You Mean to Me”
Booker T and the MGs “Green Onions”
March 15, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Gene Harris “This Little Light of Mine”
Allen Toussaint & Rhiannon Giddens “Rocks in My Bed”
Oscar Peterson Trio “Night Train”
Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love”
James Booker “Please Send Me Someone to Love”
Michelle Willson “Responsibility”
Memphis Slim “Mother Earth”
Big Maceo “County Jail Blues”
Leroy Carr “Blues Before Sunrise”
Nina Simone “Trouble in Mind”
Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson “Roll ‘Em Pete”
Ray Charles “Laughin’ and Cryin’”
Albert Ammons “Swanee River Boogie”
March 8, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Vera Ward Hall “Another Man Done Gone”
Vera Ward Hall “I Been Drinking”
Dock Reed “The Soul of a Man”
Blind Willie Johnson “The Soul of a Man”
Mary McDonald “Little Bitty Man”
Willie Brown “Future Blues”
Ernest Williams Group “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos”
Lightnin’ Washington Group “Stewball”
Annie Brewer “Hush, Little Baby”
Sam Cooke “Somebody Have Mercy”
Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson “Somebody Have Mercy”
Dan Penn “Living on Mercy”
Mike Farris “Mercy Now”
Marvin Gaye ”Mercy, Mercy Me”
Mike Henderson and the Bluebloods “Give Me Back My Wig”
Kevin Gordon “GTO”
The Rascals “Good Lovin’”
Shooter Jennings “Rebound”
King Curtis “Ridin’ Thumb”
March 1, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Sir Douglas Quintet “She’s About a Mover”
Doug Sahm Band “Poison Love”
Los Super Seven “Rio de Tenempa”
Sir Douglas Quintet “Be Real”
Texas Tornados “Who Were You Thinking Of”
Lefty Frizzell “You’re Humbuggin’ Me”
The Fabulous Thunderbirds “You’re Humbuggin’ Me”
Big Mama Thornton “Hound Dog”
Lee Ann Womack “Chances Are”
Buddy Holly “You’re the One”
Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee”
The Vaughan Brothers “Hard to Be”
Willie Nelson “You Don’t Know Me”
T-Bone Walker “Glamour Girl”
Lowell Fulsom “Black Nights”
Blind Willie Johnson “Dark was the Night (Cold was the Ground)”
February 22, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Little Richard “Long Tall Sally”
Barrett Strong “Money (That’s What I Want)”
Arthur Alexander “Anna”
The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman”
Carl Perkins “Honey Don’t”
Larry Williams “Slow Down”
Lonnie Johnson “Tomorrow Night”
Charlie Rich “Tomorrow Night”
Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home”
Ray Charles “Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It”
Hoagy Carmichael “Memphis in June”
Lou Rawls “Georgia on My Mind”
Muddy Waters “I Just Want to Make Love to You”
Howlin’ Wolf “The Red Rooster”
Mississippi Fred McDowell “You Got to Move”
Robert Johnson “Love in Vain”
Robert Wilkins “That Ain’t No Way to Get Along”
Jay McShann “Confessin’ the Blues”
February 15, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Frank Stokes “Tain’t Nobody’s Business but Mine”
Sid Selvidge & Jim Dickinson “Walking Down Beale Street”
Mississippi Fred McDowell “I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll”
Mississippi Fred McDowell “You Got to Move”
B.B. King “Chains and Things”
Johnny Cash “Tennessee Flat Top Box”
Rosanne Cash “Tennessee Flat Top Box”
Charlie Rich “You Can Have Her”
Warren Smith “I Don’t Believe I’ll Fall in Love Today”
Dusty Springfield “Willie and Laura Mae Jones”
Elvis Presley “You’ll Think of Me”
Al Green “The Letter”
Bettye Crutcher “Do You Want Me to Lie to You”
O.V. Wright “I’d Rather be Blind, Crippled, and Crazy”
Mavis Staples “Keep on Pushing”
Dan Penn “Zero Willpower”
The Mar-Keys “Last Night”
February 8, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Smiley Lewis “I Hear You Knockin’”
Little Richard “Keep A-Knockin’”
Eddie Floyd “Knock on Wood”
Curly Money and his Rolling Ramblers “Stop Your Knockin’”
Percy Sledge “Love Come Knockin’”
Fats Domino “I Hear You Knockin’”
Duke Ellington “Don Get Around Much Anymore”
Big Walter “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
Little Walter “Rocker”
Count Basie “Splanky”
Wes Montgomery “Bumpin’ on Sunset”
King Curtis “Soul Serenade”
Aretha Franklin “Don’t Play that Song”
Shelby Lynne “Leavin’”
Susan Marshall “Time and Again”
Irma Thomas “It’s Rainin’”
Candi Staton “Heart on a String”
February 1, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Trouble in Mind”**
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “That’s All”**
Wynnonie Harris “Hurry, Hurry”**
Annesteen Allen “Good Blues Tonight”**
Judy Carol “Don’t Cry baby”**
Lucky Millinder Orchestra “Shipyard Social”
Sonny Boy Williamson II “Don’t Start Me Talking”
James Cotton “Don’t Start Me Talking”
Muddy Waters “Messin’ with the Man”
Albert King “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me so Strong”
B.B. King “Gambler’s Blues”
Freddy King “Butterscotch”
Big Bill Broonzy “Long Tall Mama”
Son House “Walking Blues”
Willie Brown “M & O Blues”
James “Iron Head” Baker “Black Betty”
Blind Willie McTell “Dying Crapshooter’s Blues”
Beale Street Sheiks “It’s a Good Thing”
**Artists backed by the Lucky Millinder Orchestra
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Al Dexter “Honky Tonk Blues”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Honky Tonk”
Webb Pierce “Honky Tonk Song”
Dwight Yoakam “Honky Tonk Man”
Hank Williams “Honky Tonkin’”
Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk, Part 1”
Nappy Brown “Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You”
Esther Phillips “Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You”
Los Lobos “This Time”
Jackie Moore “Clean Up Your Own Yard”
Eddie Floyd “On a Saturday Night”
Ann Sexton “Have a Little Mercy”
Tar Heel Slim “Number 9 Train”
Buddy Guy “When My Left Eye Get to Jumping”
B.B. King “Quit My Baby”
Elmore James “Something Inside of Me”
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown “Okie Dokie Stomp”
January 18, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Cecil Gant “Nashville Jumps”
Wynnonie Harris “Bloodshot Eyes”
Bobby Hebb “Night Train to Memphis”
Freddie North “Sidewalks, Fences, and Walls”
Esquerita “Rockin’ the Joint”
Etta James “Sweet Little Angel”
Gladys Knight and the Pips “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
Wilson Pickett “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
Sammy Davis Jr. “Come Sundown”
Al Green “For the Good Times”
Johnny Adams “Reconsider Me”
Ivory Joe Hunter “City Lights”
Esther Phillips “Release Me”
Dorothy Moore “Misty Blue”
The Staple Singers “Will the Circle be Unbroken”
January 11, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Blind Willie McTell “I Got to Cross the River Jordan”
Jon Byrd “Dirty Ol’ River”
Mattie Delaney “Tallahatchie River Blues”
Charlie Poole and his Carolina Ramblers “If the River was Whiskey”
Buddy Miller “Draggin’ the River”
Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini “Moon River”
Judy Garland “Moon River”
The Band “The River Hymn”
Merle Haggard “Kern River”
Jimmie Rodgers “Miss the Mississippi and You”
Al Green “Take Me to the River”
Freddie King “Woman Across the River”
Little Milton “Cry Me a River”
Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross”
Ike and Tina Turner “River Deep – Mountain High”
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Howlin’ Wolf “Smokestack Lightning”
Elizabeth Cotton “Freight Train”
The Rock and Roll Trio “Lonesome Train”
Los Lobos “Everybody Loves a Train”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Night Train to Memphis”
Rufus Thomas ‘The Memphis Train”
Steve Goodman “City of New Orleans”
Sammi Smith “City of New Orleans”
Solomon Burke “Fast Train”
John Prine “Morning Train”
Rosanne Cash “My Baby Thinks He’s a Train”
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale “The Train that Carried My Gal from Town”
Muddy Waters “Still a Fool”
Woody Guthrie “ Railroad Blues”
Jimmie Rodgers “Waiting for a Train”
December 28, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Irma Thomas “Loving Arms”
Jon Byrd “Going to Montgomery”
Ann Peebles “When the Candle Burns Low”
Percy Sledge “These Ain’t Teardrops”
The Band “The Weight”
The Staple Singers “The Weight”
Kevin Gordon “Catch a Ride”
Tony Joe White “Leavin’ on the Midnight Train”
Eddie Hinton “Very Blue Highway”
Nina Simone “Trouble in Mind”
James Booker “Tell Me How Do You Feel”
Charlie Rich “Feel Like Going Home”
Albert Ammons “Swanee River”
December 21, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
James Brown “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto”
Solomon Burke “Presents for Christmas”
Solomon Burke “Shame on Me”
Billy Preston “Nothing form Nothing”
Arthur Alexander “Bye, Bye Love”
The Clovers “One Mint Julep”
Ray Charles “One Mint Julep”
The Moonglows “Hey, Santa Claus”
Mabel Scott “Boogie Woogie Santa”
Louis Armstrong “Zat You, Santa Claus?”
Sam and Dave “Broken Down Piece of Man”
Johnnie Taylor “Loves Bones”
Freddie King “Christmas Tears”
Song Boy Williamson II “Santa Claus”
Eartha Kitt “Santa Baby”
Ann Peebles “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You”
Milt Jackson “Blue Genius”
December 14, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Albert King “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’”
Lou Rawls “Nobody but Me”
Elmore James “Madison Blues”
Jimmy McCracklin “Later On”
Little Richard “Rip It Up”
Darlene Love “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
Tony Joe White “Willie and Laura Mae Jones”
Shelby Lynne “Willie and Laura Mae Jones”
Johnny “Guitar” Watson “Cuttin’ In”
Ella Fitzgerald “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney”
Charlie Rich “Santa Claus’ Daughter”
Wilson Pickett “Sugar Sugar”
The Ronettes “Do I Love You”
Smiley Lewis “Shame Shame Shame”
Oscar McOllie and his Honey Jumpers “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus”
Louis Armstrong “Cool Yule”
Percy Mayfield “Louisiana”
Lee Allen “Rockin’ at Cosimo’s”
December 7, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
James Brown “Santa Claus, Santa Claus”
Louis Jordan “Santa Claus”
Shirley Brown “Woman to Woman”
The Impressions “It’s All Right”
Booker T and the MGs “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
The Ventures “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
Lena Horne “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
Kelly Joe Phelps “Footprints”
Miss LaVell “Stolen Love”
Clara Ward “Time is Winding Up”
Etta James “Almost Persuaded”
Bill Withers “Lovely Day”
Chet Atkins “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”
Elvis Presley “Blue Christmas”
Rufus Thomas “I’ll Be Your Santa”
November 30, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Little Walter “Just Your Fool”
Memphis Slim “I Guess I’m a Fool”
Ray Charles “I’m a Fool to Care”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “I Pity the Fool”
Charles Brown “Fool’s Paradise”
Big Bill Broonzy “The Midnight Special”
The Louvin Brothers “The Midnight Special”
Charlie Rich “Midnight Blues”
Ray Charles “Midnight”
B.B. King “Midnight Believer”
Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour”
Darrell Banks “Mama Give Some Water”
William Bell “You Don’t Miss Your Water”
Ray Charles “You’ll Never Miss the Water”
James Carr “Throwing Water on a Drowning Man”
Dan Penn “You Left the Water Running”
November 23, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
B.B. King “Gonna Keep on Loving You”
Ann Peebles “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down”
Little Milton “Behind Closed Doors”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Goin’ Down Slow”
Eddie Hinton “Everybody Needs Somebody”
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages “Everybody Needs Somebody”
Freddie King “Same Old Blues”
Albert King “Personal Manager”
Koko Taylor “Yes, It’s Good for You”
Shirley Horn “Forget Me”
Erma Franklin “Baby I Love You”
Aretha Franklin “Ain’t No Way”
Ruby Johnson “Don’t Play That Song”
Esther Phillips “Don’t Put No Headstone on My Grave”
November 16, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Nina Simone “I Shall Be Released”
Doris Troy “Stormy Weather”
Ann Sexton “Who’s Gonna Love You”
Gladys Knight and the Pips “I Don’t Want to Do Wrong”
Irma Thomas “Save a Little Bit for Me”
Billie Holiday “Until the Real Thing Comes Along”
Big Joe Turner “Until the Real Thing Comes Along”
Ray Charles and Milt Jackson “Deed I Do”
Charlie Rich “Why Oh Why”
Sid Selvidge “I Get the Blues When it Rains”
Al Green “I’m So Glad You’re Mine”
Ann Peebles “Beware”
Johnnie Taylor “Just the One (I Was Looking For)”
Clarence Carter “The Feeling is Right”
Candi Staton “Heart on a String”
Eddie Floyd “Never Found a Girl”
November 9, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues
Doris Duke “The Feeling is Right’
Clarence Carter “Soul Deep”
Freddie North “Did I Come Home too Soon (Or Stay Away Too Long)
Howard Tate “Where Did My Baby Go”
Booker T and the MGs “Time is Tight”
Sam Dees “The World Don’t Owe You Nothin’”
Percy Sledge “It Tears Me Up”
Dan Penn “It Tears Me Up”
Esther Phillips “From a Whisper to a Scream”
Esther Phillips “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”
Stevie Wonder “I Was Made for Loving Her”
William Bell “’Til My Back Ain’t Got No Bone”
Tyrone Davis “Can I Change My Mind”
Curtis Mayfield “Move On Up
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Shorty Long “Devil in the Blue Dress”
Chuck Jackson “Something You Got”
Mable John “You’re Good Thing (Is About to End)”
King Floyd “Groove Me”
Arthur Alexander “I’m Comin’ Home”
Bobby Williams “Baby, I Need You Lovin’”
Wynnonie Harris “Good Rockin’ Tonight”
Elvis Presley “Good Rockin’ Tonight”
Tiny Bradshaw “Train Kept A-Rollin’”
The Rock and Roll Trio “Train Kept A-Rollin’”
Big Maybelle “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
B.B. King “Get Out of Here”
Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers “Going Back to New Orleans”
Little Milton “Grits Ain’t Groceries”
Ray Charles “Who You Gonna Love”
Johnny Adams “I Won’t Cry”
Etta James “Sweet Little Angel”
Little Junior Parker “Way Back Home”
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Los Super Seven “Talk to Me”
Jackie Moore “Both Ends Against the Middle”
Darrell Banks “No One Blinder (Than the Man Who Can’t See)”
Johnny Rivers “The Poor Side of Town”
Elvis Presley “Stuck on You”
Bessie Smith “Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
Nina Simone “Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
Big Maybelle “One Monkey Don’t Stop the Show”
Aretha Franklin “A Change”
Ann Sexton “You Been Doing Me Wrong for so Long”
Gladys Knight and the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia”
Ray Charles “Ring of Fire”
George Torrence and the Naturals “Lickin’ Stick”
Magic Sam “I Need You So Bad”
Same Cooke “Somebody Have Mercy”
Robert Ward “I Found a Love”
Little Walter “Rocker”
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Mississippi Fred McDowell “You Got to Move”
Nina Simone “Nobody’s Fault but Mine”
Fisk Jubilee Singers “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”
Red Foley “Peace in the Valley”
Pops Staples “I Shall Not Be Moved”
Charlie Rich “Mohair Sam”
Slim Harpo “Mohair Sam”
Don and Dewey “Kill Me”
Doris Willington “You Can’t Do That”
Otis Redding “I’m a Changed Man”
Sam and Dave “You Don’t Know What You Mean to Me”
Mose Allison “Fool’s Paradise”
Nat King Cole “Send for Me”
Ray Charles “I Wake Up Crying”
James Booker “Come in My House”
Tom Waits “Come on Up to the House”
Otis Spann “Great Northern Stomp”
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Big Maybelle “96 Tears”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Today I Started Loving You Again”
Dyke and the Blazers “You Are My Sunshine”
Marvin Gaye “Groovin’”
Candi Staton “That’s How Strong My Love Is”
Mark James “Suspicious Minds”
Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds”
Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man”
The Box Tops “The Letter”
Bobby Womack “More Than I Can Stand”
The Gentrys “Keep on Dancin’”
Wilson Pickett “I’m in Love”
Lonnie Johnson “Jelly Roll Baker”
Robert Wilkins “That’s No Way to Get Along”
Son House “Walking Blues’
Jazz Gillum “Key to the Highway”
Charly Patton “Down the Dirt Road Blues”
Blind Willie McTell “Kill It Kid”
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
The Blind Boys of Alabama “Run on for a Long Time”
Blind Willie Johnson “Dark was the Night”
Blind Willie McTell “Delia”
Blind Lemon Jefferson “Black Snake Moan”
Blind Blake “Diddie Wah Diddie”
Pee Wee King “Tennessee Waltz”
Sam Cooke “Tennessee Waltz”
Alastair Moock “Red Ribbon Waltz”
Iris Dement “Mom and Dad’s Waltz”
Leo Kottke “Waltz”
Bonnie Riatt “Angel from Montgomery”
Susan Tedeschi “Don’t Think Twice”
Susan Marshall “Time and Again”
Joy Lynn White “Life’s Too Short”
Shelby Lynn “Gotta Get Back”
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Bessie Smith “Diamond Joe”
James “Iron Head” Baker “Black Betty”
Vera Ward Hall “Another Man Done Gone”
Sister Ernestine Washington “Holding On”
Julius Daniels “Ninety-Nine Year Blues”
Willie Walker “Dupree Blues”
Jimmie Davis “Blues at Midnight”
Champion Jack Dupree “Junker’s Blues”
Willy DeVille “Junker’s Blues”
Fats Domino “The Fat man
Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
James Booker “Junco Partner’
Professor Longhair “Tipitina”
Bill Withers “Lean on Me”
Freddie King “Ain’t No Sunshine”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City”
Jackie Moore “Darling Baby”
King Curtis “Soul Twist”
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Johnnie Lee and his Boys “Milk Cow Blues”
Mississippi Sheiks “Somebody Got to Help You”
Bob Wills “Sitting on Top of the World”
Maddox Brothers and Rose “New Mule Skinner Blues”
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers “If the River was Whiskey”
Dan Penn “Living on Mercy”
Mike Farris “Mercy Now”
Percy Sledge “Why Did You Stop”
Bettye LaVette “in the Meantime”
Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters Blues Band “Black Rat”
Howlin’ Wolf “Down in the Bottom”
Little Milton “Grits Ain’t Groceries”
Muddy Waters “My Life is Ruined”
Little Walter “Fast Boogie”
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Irma Thomas “Ruler of my Heart”
Ernie K. Doe “Mother in Law”
Fats Domino “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday”
Benny Spellman “Fortune Teller”
Betty Harris “I’m Evil Tonight”
Lee Allen “Tic Toc”
Lee Dorsey “Holy Cow”
David “Honeyboy” Edwards “Worried Life Blues”
Otis Spann “Worried Life Blues”
Robert Lockwood “Take a Little Walk with Me”
Mississippi John Hurt “Louis Collins”
Blind Willie McTell “You Got to Die”
Dinah Washington “Cold, Cold Heart”
Bessie Smith “On Revival Day”
Helen Humes “When the Saints Go Marching In”
Erma Franklin “Piece of My Heart”
Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues”
September 7, 2024- Memphis, Tennessee
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Rufus Thomas “The Memphis Train”
King Curtis “Memphis Soul Stew”
Nate King Cole “Beale Street Blues”
Sid Selvidge “Walkin’ Down Beale Street”
Dan Penn “Rainin’ in Memphis”
Roy Acuff “Night Train to Memphis”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Night Train to Memphis”
Chuck Berry “Memphis, Tennessee”
John Hiatt “Memphis in the Meantime”
Mason Dixon “Hello Memphis”
Memphis Jug Band “Going Back to Memphis”
Lonnie Mack “Memphis”
Donnie Fritts “Hello Memphis”
Buddy Miller “That’s How I Got to Memphis”
Jerry Lee Lewis “Memphis Beat”
Hoagy Carmichael “Memphis in June”
Don Redman “That Blue-Eyed Baby from Memphis”
Soul Sisters – August 31, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Aretha Franklin “Don’t Play That Song”
Shelby Lynn “Leavin’”
Iris Dement “There’s a Whole Lotta Heaven”
Irma Thomas “Break-A-Way”
Carla Thomas “Gee Whiz, Look at His Eyes”
Dorothy Moore “Misty Blue”
Etta James “Misty Blue”
Anita Suhanin “Midnight Blues”
Michelle Willson “Half Past the Blues”
The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
The Supremes “Back in My Arms Again”
The Crystals “Then He Kissed Me”
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas “Heatwave”
Ike and Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High”
August 24, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Johnny Adams “Reconsider Me”
James Carr “Love Attack”
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do”
Solomon Burke “Baby Goodbye”
Clarence Carter “It’s All in Your Mind”
James “Thunderbird” Davis “Chains Around My Heart”
Chuck Willis “It’s Too Late”
Lowell Fulsom “Black Nights”
Joe Tex “Hold on to What You Got”
Johnnie Taylor “I Wonna Testify”
Little Milton “Cry Me a River”
Al Green “Ain’t No Fun For Me”
Bobby Womack “It’s Gonna Rain”
ZZ Hill “You Were Wrong”
Ray Charles “Hid Nor Hair”
MD – back sell & sign-off
Little Willie John “Big Blue Diamonds”
August 10, 2024
Frank Stokes “Downtown Blues”
Jimmie Davis “When the Saints Go Marching Down”
Jimmie Rodgers “Treasures Untold”
Jimmy Reed “I Wanna Be Loved”
Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross”
Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Long, Long, Time"
Charlie Rich “Feel Like Going Home”
Charlie Rich “Feel Like Going Home”
Clarence Carter “Slip Away”
Sam and Dave “Soothe Me”
Sammi Smith “Sunday Morning Coming Down”
James Carr “Throwing Water on a Drowning Man”
Elmore James “Something Inside Me”
James Cotton Blue Band “Don’t Start Me Talking”
James Booker “Let Them Talk”
James Brown “Get Up Offa That Thing”