Posts Tagged ‘blues’

This episode features a usual topic in American music : offence, crime, jail, life in prison, penalty and what leads to it. Brad Paisley is yelling at the policeman but beware of the representative of the authorities who doesn’t always like his job, as stated by Junior Brown. He can lead you to the cell [...]

Today’s episode sounds like a Good Bye just to say hello again in two weeks. Indeed the show won’t be hosted anymore from the Wueste Welle studio in Germany. It won’t change that much as Wueste Welle will still air the show at the same time. So for you listener, the story continues… Dwight Yoakam [...]

It’s been a long time since we got BB with us in the studio for the last time. In this episode BB’s back with his guitar and new songs still under the influence of Neil Young but exploring new paths. We are driving together on the road opened by Brad Paisley who wants a muscle [...]

In this episode we intend to broadcast green music: we save some electricity. No electric bass. The big doghouse or double-bass is ruling! In roots music that huge and powerful instrument sets the beat and the melodic line and sounds like a heartbeat. The doghouse, stand-up, slap bass, double-bass or whatever it’s called is the [...]

Since the American soldiers landed in Europe in 1944, the Europeans absorbed their culture through the clothes and the music they imported. Jazz, rock’n’roll and blues as well as blue jeans became well-exported American idioms. British bands of the sixties proved they could learn the blues without being raised in Mississippi and make it their [...]

2012 should be the last year for humanity. If we should go to Hell, we choose the nuclear option with “Uranium Rock”. Johnny Horton, Robert Johnson and Rufus Thomas are standing out of the grave. You will see Tiger Men. There will be Juke Joint Pimps with nuclear slide guitars. You will hear Robert Johnson [...]

Recently our colleagues of Radio Diaries from the US National Public Radio (NPR) featured a story about a particular day in the music history. On November 23, 1936 on each side of the Atlantic, two men recorded music that would have an effect on the music destiny. Robert Johnson recorded pieces that would became cornerstones [...]

In this episode we’re having a look back on what year 2011 brought, the artists that we discovered and re-discovered at HONKY TONK LIVE : Hank Williams alive again, George Thorogood going back to Chicago, John Mellencamp recording in mono with T-Bone Burnett placing the mike, the Earle family business, Bob Wayne leaving his job [...]

In this episode we are trying to rescue roots music from pop no-taste with the help from Batman and Robin backed-up by Link Wray. We are boarding for a fantastic journey from the blues with George Thorogood and his Destroyers, through bluegrass, country music with artists writing further Hank Williams songs, rockabilly with the Stray [...]

This episode is 100% electric blues opening with George Thorogood sounding today like he sounded more than 30 years ago. A 91-year-old bluesman called after an old car model is still playing the blues in the 3rd Millenium. A “Little Red Rooster” running in the barnyard between the Doors and an old Ford while Johnny [...]