Well, we started off the show with Debra Denise Solum, currently known as the beautiful Honey Piazza! That was "Expression Session" from Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers's CD Soul Monster from Delta Groove Music! If you recall, Honey was the 2008 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year  award winner!

So…. Are you ready ready to hear some great tunes from some more super women in the blues in this "Ladies By Request” show?

Well, I hope so! Crank it up my friends, we’re off and running!

What a great first set to start off our show! That was Lisa Mann with "Down Home Blues" from her self-titled CD. I had the chance to see her perform numerous time at this year's International Blues Challenge! And thanks to Lisa for sending me a copy of the CD!  After Lisa, we heard Shelley-Lynne Hardinge with her tune "My Claws". Thanks to Shelley for sending me the MP3s! She's got a CD coming out real soon! And we ended up the first set with Karen Lovely singing "Blues Ain't Far Behind" from her Pretty Pear Records CD called Still The Rain. I wish Karen luck this year at the Blues Music Awards! Thanks to Mark and Melissa for requesting Karen Lovely!

BJ Allen suggested I play Reba Russell but also mentioned to play a little BJ Allen if I could find some! Well, I contacted her and she sent me some! Thanks, BJ! So our second full set treated us to B.J. Allen and Blue Voodoo with a song I played back in March of 2007 on my first Women in Blues shows! That song was about Beale Street and is "Disneyland For The Blues" off of their CD called The Storm! We'll be treated to more of BJ Allen and Blue Voodoo in shows to come! After BJ we heard Ellie Lee and Blues Fury with "Hard Lovin' Man" from their Rhythm of the Blues CD! I had the pleasure of catching Ellie Lee play in the IBCs this year! Another IBC vet is Chrissie O'Dell and One Hot Mess! Craig suggested I play her and I played "Forecast Calls For Change" off her Dime Time Productions CD If I Had a Dime!

Our next set started off with a tune from my friend from Maine, Pat Pepin playing her tune "Long Haul Trucker" from her CD In It for the Long Haul. Pat and I always run into each other in Memphis! I first met her many years ago at the Women In Blues festival that blues woman Michele Seidman put on down in Wilmington! Pat is a real hoot is very saxy! :-) Following Pat is Cee Cee James singing "I Ain't Superstitious" from her FWG Records Seriously Raw CD. We wrapped up the set with the beautiful Janiva Magness singing the slow song "Save Me" from the Alligator Records CD "The Devil Is An Angel Too".
 

Next up is someone requested by Betsie, Mark, and Kool Breeze! This is Kirsten Thien getting a little help from Hubert Sumlin on guitar! Here's "Please Drive" off her Screen Door Records CD called Delicious!
 

Well okay folks! Now it's time to hear two songs that can both be considered a little dirty! Ya know, blues has always had songs with double entendres, but sometimes they don't beat around the bush! Well, maybe is this case it does! Here's Candye Kane singing "Masturbation Blues" off her Ruf Records CD called White Trash Girl! Ya know I had this song on my list to play in numerous shows but I always yanked it from the list! After Candye, we'll be treated to the classic Ruth Brown song singing about her working in a furniture store and trying to sell a chair to a man. So she sings "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It!"...

I hope you've enjoyed show #117, "Women in Blues, Ladies By Request!"


 

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Dave