Crossroads

Crossroads celebrates the birthday of blues great Taj Mahal (along with Global Village and Strange Currency) and will also feature the newly named Blues Music Awards winners.

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)
   

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.

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.

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)

1. Various - The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2 (Proper)
2. Various - R&B Hipshakers Vol.

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.

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 -

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.

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