Booze & Blues
It seems like a long time ago. December 2019. We began hearing reports of a new illness going around. To be honest, we all thought it was not going to come here. It was Covid 19. It came and all of a sudden, we were hearing stories about some of our Memphis musicians contracting this […]
Our friend William – otherwise known as The Weekend Vlogger – was in the studio with us when North Mississippi Bluesman Kenny Brown joined us in the studio for Booze and Blues. He captured some awesome video of Kenny performing – check it out! Check out the interview on Episode #221 of the From Radioland […]
Our friend William – The Weekend Vlogger – joined us in the studio on April 8 when we had Blues legend Watermelon Slim in on the Booze & Blues show. The Weekend Vlogger captured video of Slim performing two of his songs: 1, 4, 5 and Blue Freightliner. Check out the video below – and […]
Sunday evening April 08, 2018, 8-11pm CDT, the Radio-Memphis ‘Booze & Blues’ show proudly welcomes legendary Bluesman Watermelon Slim live in the studio. Watermelon Slim will be talking with show hosts Ric Chetter and Jeff Janovetz and he’ll perform some of his tracks live. This is a show you don’t want to miss. To listen […]
This Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 12:00 PM CT, get to Radio Memphis for a special interview with Jon Brewer. Jon is the Producer and Director of Monochrome: Black, White & Blue. A documentary about the midsouth, blues and how the music related to the times. It is on Amazon Prime for U.S. subscribers right […]
Our friend Brad Webb encountered this holiday gem. Mark Caldwell shot this video of Tom Walton doing this tune in Brad’s studio. Happy Holidays from all of us Radio Memphis! To get you in the Christmas spirit, here's a cool new original Christmas Blues song "Santa Claus (The Real)" by Tom Walton of Memphis, TN. […]
It’s not a true Radio Memphis party until the blues musicians show up. That is exactly what will be happening. Ric & Jeff will take the air around 6:30PM CT when they will be talking with Radio Memphis in the Morning co-host Kate Lucas who is calling in from the road. Also joining them is […]
The follow up to the huge “Drink Up!” record is in the pre-production phase. The Eric Hughes Band is busy putting together some fantastic songs for their forthcoming “La Bluesicana” and they could use your help. Here’s how. Take a look at THIS link and see what you can do to help make this album […]
Trumpet player and founding member of The Bar-Kays, Ben Cauley has passed away. He was 67. Ben Cauley was one of the key players in the Memphis music sound coming from Stax in the 60’s. The Bar-Kays put that sound and the city of Memphis on the map. But there is more to the story. […]
If you have been living under a rock somewhere, you may not have heard about the Memphis Blues Society and their inaugural blues festival coming to Overton Square this fall. This is a big deal. A very big deal. Here are SOME of the scheduled performers for this year’s festival; Kenny Brown, Barbara Blue, Vince […]