Wednesday 26 October 2011

This Week's Playlist

This week (October 26th) we played.... Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Cold Shot, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Kansas City, Lonnie Brooks (not Loonie, oops) - A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do, The Beatles - Yer Blues, John Martyn - Sugar Lump, Leadbelly - Rock Island Line, Savoy Brown - Taste and Try (Before You Buy), Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along, The Fabulous Thunderbirds - She's Tuff, Blind Boy Fuller - Untrue blues, Josh White - Good Gal, Mississippi Sheiks - Tell Me What The Cats Fight About.


For the record.... Jen's looked it up and Leadbelly was born Huddie William Ledbetter. Huddie is pronounced HYEW-dee or HUGH-dee.

If you missed the show, you can catch it again on Listen Again for one week HERE and select Wednesday, 11am.

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Today We Are Live!

Tune in to The cat at 11am for your weekly dose of great blues music. We will be mostly playing...
Sunny Blair, Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band, James Booker, Tom Archia, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Lee Hooker, The Allman Brothers' Band, Danny Overbea, Mississippi John Hurt and Bukka White.
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Thursday 13 October 2011

What Do You Think?

So, the blog is looking pretty good, there's a few different pages across the top. Anyone have any suggestions of anything else they'd like to see here?

Wednesday 12 October 2011

On Today's Show

This week we have mostly played....Robert Johnson, Big Mama Thornton, Mississippi Sheiks, Mississippi John Hurt, Billy 'Curley' Barrix, Dr Feelgood, Willie Mabon, Arlo Guthrie, Bo Diddley, Etta James, Smokey Hogg and Ma Rainey.
Listen again for one week here...
Listen Again
and select Wednesday, 11am.

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Welcome To Our New Blog!

Welcome to the brand new sparkly Midweek Blues blog. Midweek Blues is a weekly radio show on The Cat, a community radio station based in Nantwich, Cheshire. Our music spans nine decades, and we keep the chat informative, but light hearted. You can listen to The Cat 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but Midweek Blues is on Wednesdays between 11am and noon.