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Cerys's weekly round-up of the blues you need to hear, from all around the world and in all shapes and sizes!

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BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bob Dylan

    Mississippi Version 2

    • Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 5.
    • Sony - classic.
    • 31.

  • John Lee Hooker

    One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

    • The Real Folk Blues.
    • Geffen*.
    • 8.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    You Got Me Running

    • Living In The City.
    • Pegasus Entertainment.
    • 10.

  • Trá Pháidín

    An Beal Bocht

    • Digital Single.
    • World of Echo.

  • Tamikrest

    Iman Derhan Nasn

    • Assikel.
    • Glitterbeat Records.

  • Jessie Mae Hemphill

    She-Wolf

    • She-Wolf.
    • Craft Records.

  • Ma Rainey

    Oh Papa Blues

    • Mother Of The Blues: The Complete Paramount Recordings 1923-1928.
    • Black Swan.

  • The Black Keys

    Lonely Boy

    • NONESUCH.

  • Memphis Slim

    Slow Lonesome Blues

    • Blues in the Mississippi Night.
    • Lomax Archives.
    • 15.

  • Big Bill Broonzy

    Summer Time Blues

    • Essential Blues Masters.
    • Nifty Music, Inc..
    • 2.

  • Phil Upchurch

    You Can't Sit Down, Pt. 1

    • Get on the Right Track: Mod R&B, Jazz & Ska.
    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • 46.

  • Oli Mac

    Sad Songs (Will Kill You Everytime)

    • You Got To Call Me EP.
    • APM Records.

  • Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

    Hot Rod Lincoln

    • Lost In The Ozone.
    • Geffen.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Monday21:00
    BBC Radio 2