This is show #96, Mannish Boys Blues, Celebrating 5 Years! Part Two!

Welcome back, my friends! It’s time for another episode of The BluzNdaBlood Show! This is your
bluesman and DJ  Dave Harrison actually coming at you from the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, TN! …

Well, this show is the second part to a very special episode! Ya know, The Mannish Boys are celebrating
their 5 year anniversary and as a result, that’s gonna be the theme of this show! It’s the second part of the
“Mannish Boys Blues, Celebrating 5 Years!” show!

We’ll be hearing tracks off of many of the Mannish Boys CDs! But I also have a special treat for you and
have my buddy Randy Chortkoff (the Delta/Eclecto Groove CEO) with me on the show! As a matter of fact,
we’ve had so much fun and played so much music, I’ve had to split the show in two! So you’ll be listening
to Part 2 on today’s show!

Well, this show started off the show with “She Wants To Sell My Monkey”… It’s off the second
Mannish Boys CD is called Live & In Demand and was recorded live at the Winthrop Music Festival.

(MUSICIANS: Finis Tasby - vocals, Kid Ramos - guitar, Franck Goldwasser - guitar, Leon Blue - piano,
Johnny Dyer - vocals & harmonica, Randy Chortkoff - vocals & harmonica, Richard Innes - drums,
Tom Leavey - bass, Produced by Randy Chortkoff)

 

After talking to Randy a little bit about the band, we talk about the fourth CD offering from
The Mannish Boys called Lowdown Feelin’, which was a tremendous success! It was designated
by Blues Revue Magazine to be one of the top 25 blues CD of the Decade! Wow! We’ll hear two songs
after Randy describes some details about them. We’ll hear “Chocolate Drop” and “Rude Groove”.

 

THE
(BAND: Bobby Jones: vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 17), Finis Tasby: vocals (3, 5, 15), Johnny Dyer: vocals (7, 14),
Randy Chortkoff: vocals (12), harmonica (1, 4, 12), Frank “Paris Slim” Goldwasser: vocals (16), lead guitar
(8, 12 – 1st guitar solo, 16), slide guitar (2, 7), rhythm guitar (5, 9, 10), Kid Ramos: lead guitar
(3, 11, 12 – 2nd guitar solo, 15), acoustic guitar (1), Kirk “Eli” Fletcher: lead guitar (5, 10), rhythm guitar
(1, 7, 8, 15, 16), Ronnie James Weber: upright bass (4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17), electric bass (1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 15, 16),
guitar (3 – intro breaks), Tom Leavey: electric bass (2, 11, 13), Richard “Big Foot” Innes: drums (all tracks)
SPECIAL GUESTS: Little Sammy Davis: vocals & harmonica (9, 13) Fred Scribner: slide guitar (9),
rhythm guitar (13), Junior Watson: lead guitar (4, 14, 17), rhythm guitar (6), Lynwood Slim: harmonica (6, 8),
Al Blake: harmonica (14), Fred Kaplan: piano (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17), B-3 (11, 12, 13, 14, 16),
Scott Steen: trumpet (1, 3, 10), David “Woody” Woodford: tenor sax (1, 3, 6, 10, 17) baritone sax (1, 17),
Cynthia Manley: background vocals (13), Jessica Williams: background vocals (13)
Produced by Randy Chortkoff & Jeff Scott Fleenor )


The Mannish Boys were also included on two volumes that were recorded as a part of the
3^rd Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue. We’re then treated with a Kirk Fletcher tune called
“Lucille” from Volume One of the 3^rd Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue CD.

 

(Various Artists)

 

Well, it seems like The Mannish Boys just get better and better with each release! Fortunately we’ve
now got their 5^th year offering to the blues world, it’s Shake For Me. I let Randy pick two of his favorite
songs on the CD, and what great picks he made! Here’s “Educated Ways” and “The Bullet”…..

(THE BAND Finis Tasby: vocals, Bobby Jones: vocals, Randy Chortkoff: harmonica,
Kirk “Eli” Fletcher: lead & rhythm guitar, Frank Goldwasser: vocals, slide, lead & rhythm guitar,
Willie J. Campbell: electric & upright bass, Jimi Bott: drums & percussion,
SPECIAL GUESTS Rod Piazza: harmonica (track 7), Kid Ramos: lead guitar (track 15),
Mitch Kashmar: harmonica (track 14), Nick Curran: guitar (tracks 1 & 11),
Mike Zito: vocals & guitar (track 2), Arthur Adams: vocals & guitar (track 13), Johnny Dyer:
vocals (track 14), Lynwood Slim: harmonica (track 12), Rob Rio: piano (track 5),
Fred Kaplan: piano (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), Andy Kaulkin: piano (track 16),
“Big Pete” van der Pluijm: vocals & harmonica (track 16)
Produced by Jeff Scott Fleenor Executive Producer: Randy Chortkoff)
 

Well, that wraps up Show #96, “Mannish Boys Blues, Celebrating 5 Years!” show, Part Two!

Special thanks to Randy Chortkoff for his time and to Jody Best for arranging the interview!

Well, you know the routine! Now that you’ve heard this great music, go out and buy the music!
Or go out and see them live! Then buy their music and tell them you heard their music on
The BluzNdaBlood Show! 

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