Crossroads

Fridays at 10pm, Sundays at 7pm

Crossroads is KMUW’s contemporary blues and soul show. Hosted by Chris Heim, the program highlights blues, R&B and soul from the post-war era to the present, from classic recordings to new releases, and from mainstream sounds to a diverse and wide-ranging collection of artists and recordings with roots in the blues and branches in nearly every other musical genre.

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Blues
8:00 am
Mon May 20, 2013

What's On: May 24 & 26

Credit PhantomBluesBand.com
Phantom Blues Band with Mike Finnigan at the Wichita River Festival and on Crossroads as part of the B3 month feature.

Crossroads features more blues and soul organ for the B3 month feature – including music from the Phantom Blues Band with Mike Finnigan and also from Charles Earland for his birthday – plus more Blues Music Awards winners, and new music from the Cash Box Kings, Robin Trower, the Dynamites featuring Charles Walker and more.

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Music
8:34 am
Fri May 3, 2013

Top 40 Albums April 2013

Credit Deborah Feingold / www.429records.com
Topping the Crossroads April Top 40 New Releases list is Boz Scaggs' soul-drenched Memphis.

  1. Boz Scaggs - Memphis (429 Records)
  2. Big Bill Morganfield - Blules With A Mood (Black Shuck)
  3. Dynamites w/ Charles Walker - Love Is Only Everything (Gemco)
  4. Robin Trower - Roots and Branches (V12)
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Blues
8:57 am
Tue April 30, 2013

May Feature: The B3 Organ

Credit http://www.alkooper.com photo gallery
Al Kooper on organ with Bob Dylan at the famed Newport Folk Festival appearance.

Throughout May, Crossroads teams up with Global Village, Strange Currency, Night Train and Straight No Chaser to celebrate B3 Month on KMUW. At the Crossroads, it's great players and recordings from both blues and soul that feature the instrument.

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Music
8:16 am
Fri April 5, 2013

April Feature: Muddy Waters Centennial Celebration

Credit Courtesy photo / www.muddywaters.com

Though at some point in his life a few years were shaved off, credible evidence (including a marriage certificate, union card, social security filings and early interviews) all point to 1913 as the year of Muddy Waters' birth. And a century since that event, he remains one of the most influential figures in the blues.

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Music
7:43 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Top 40 Albums March 2013

1. Willie Buck - Cell Phone Man (Delmark)
2. Shemekia Copeland - 33 1/3 (Telarc)
3. Slide Brothers - Robert Randolph Presents the Slide Brothers (Concord)
4. James Hunter Six - Minute by Minute (Fantasy)
5. Various - The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2 (Proper)
6. Otis Taylor - My World Is Gone (Telarc)
7. Mike Eldred Trio - 61/49 (Rip Cat)
8. Big Bill Morganfield - Blules With A Mood (Black Shuck)
9. Dennis Gruenling - Rockin' All Day (Vizztone)
10. Eric Burdon - 'Til Your River Runs Dry (ABKCO)

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Blues
4:25 pm
Thu February 28, 2013

Top 40 Albums February 2013

  1. Various - The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2 (Proper)
  2. Various - R&B Hipshakers Vol.
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Blues
12:03 pm
Mon February 25, 2013

March Feature: Johnny and Shemekia Copeland

Throughout March, Crossroads highlights music from both Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, along with our regular mix of classic recordings, new releases, birthday salutes and other blues and R&B favorites.

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Blues
7:22 am
Thu January 31, 2013

Top 40 Albums January 2013

  1. Milton Hopkins/Jewel Brown - Milton Hopkins and Jewel Brown (Dialtone)
  2. Robert Cray Band - Nothin But Love (Provogue)
  3. Mississippi Heat - Delta Bound (Delmark)
  4. Mitch Woods - Blues Beyond Borders (Club 88/Vizztone)
  5. Sunny Crownover - Right Here Right Now (Blue Duchess)

  6. Lindsey Alexander - Been There Done That (Delmark)

  7. Quintus McCormick - Still Called The Blues (Delmark)
  8. Joanne Shaw Taylor - Almost Always Never (Ruf)
  9. Lee Boys - Testify (Evil Teen)
  10. Shemekia Copeland - 33 1/3 (Telarc)
  11. Julian Fauth -
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Blues
8:54 am
Fri January 18, 2013

February Feature: Mardi Gras Month - New Orleans Blues and R&B

Throughout February, Crossroads teams up with Global Village (Samba and the Sounds of Brazil) and Night Train (Louis Armstrong) for a month-long Mardi Gras celebration. At the Crossroads, it’s the sound of New Orleans blues and R&B.

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Blues
9:15 am
Fri December 28, 2012

Top 40 Albums December 2012

  1. Lindsey Alexander - Been There Done That (Delmark)
  2. Sunny Crownover - Right Here Right Now (Blue Duchess)
  3. Lee Boys - Testify (Evil Teen)
  4. Quintus McCormick - Still Called The Blues (Delmark)
  5. Shemekia Copeland - 33 1/3 (Telarc)
  6. Robert Cray Band - Nothin But Love (Provogue)
  7. Mississippi Heat - Delta Bound (Delmark)
  8. Mitch Woods - Blues Beyond Borders (Club 88/Vizztone)
  9. Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B (Exile/Blue Note)
  10. The Blues Broads - The Blues Broads (Delta Groove)
  11. Chris O'Leary Band - Waitin
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September 21, 2012

10:00 PM
Jock-A-Mo
Artist : (Various) Sugar Boy Crawford
Album : Crescent City Soul
Label : EMI
10:04 PM
Wrong Side of the Blues
Artist : Trampled Under Foot
Album : Wrong Side of the Blues
Label : Vizztone
10:09 PM
Money to Burn
Artist : Samantha Fish
Album : Runaway
Label : RUF
10:15 PM
Hangin’ Up
Artist : Shemekia Copeland
Album : 33 1/3
Label : Telarc
10:22 PM
Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Artist : Freddie King
Album : Ultimate Collection
Label : Hip-O
10:25 PM
Hold That Plane
Artist : Buddy Guy
Album : Hold That Plane
Label : Vanguard
10:30 PM
Grim Reaper
Artist : Rockin’ Johnny Band
Album : Grim Reaper
Label : Delmark
10:36 PM
Son of the Seventh Son
Artist : Mud Morganfield
Album : Son of the Seventh Son
Label : Severn
10:42 PM
Million Miles
Artist : Bonnie Raitt
Album : Slipstream
Label : Redwing
10:49 PM
Mama’s Bad Luck Child
Artist : Smokin’ Joe Kubek/Bnois King
Album : Close to the Bone
Label : Delta Groove
10:53 PM
Cell No. 13
Artist : Billy Boy Arnold
Album : Sings Big Bill Broonzy
Label : Electro-Fi
10:57 PM
San-Ho-Zay
Artist : Freddie King
Album : Hide Away
Label : Rhino
11:00 PM
Win My Train Fare Home
Artist : Robert Plant
Album : Dreamland
Label : Universal
11:06 PM
Voodoo Moon
Artist : Anthony Gomes
Album : Up 2 Zero
Label : Anthony Gomes
11:10 PM
Ragged Company
Artist : Janiva Magness
Album : Stronger for It
Label : Alligator
11:16 PM
Oo Wee Baby
Artist : (Various) Sugar Boy Crawford
Album : Chess New Orleans
Label : Chess/MCA
11:19 PM
Zonin’
Artist : Rick Estrin and the Nightcats
Album : One Wrong Turn
Label : Alligator
11:23 PM
Tore Down
Artist : Freddie King
Album : Texas Cannonball
Label : DCC
11:30 PM
Sweet Suzanne
Artist : Hadden Sayers Band
Album : Swingin' from the Fabulous Satellite
Label : Radio Ready
11:36 PM
Wig Chalet
Artist : Kelley Hunt
Album : Mercy
Label : 88 Records
11:40 PM
Broke and Lonely
Artist : Tab Benoit
Album : Medicine
Label : Telarc
11:46 PM
Hi-Heel Sneakers
Artist : Booker T. & the MGs
Album : Soul Men
Label : Stax
11:49 PM
Matchbox Blues
Artist : Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Album : Bad Boy
Label : Blind Pig
11:55 PM
Soul Dressing
Artist : Raphael Wressning/Alex Schultz
Album : Soul Gift
Label : ZYX