Crossroads

This week Crossroads highlights some of the newly announced winners in the Independent Music Awards and newly named NEA Heritage fellow Carol Fran - plus more for the June feature from Bobby Robinson’s labels, including work he did with blues legend Elmore James - and there’s new music including Delbert McClinton with ‘70s buddy Glen Clark, the Global Noize salute to Sly & the Family Stone, and Rory Block’s tribute to Mississippi John Hurt.

Crossroads highlights music from Bobby Robinson’s groundbreaking blues, R&B and doo wop labels throughout June – this time including the first hit from soul saxman King Curtis, favorites from both Lee Dorsey and Elmore James, a classic from Champion Jack Dupree, and a lost classic from Sandra Grimes. Plus the latest from Hadden Sayers, the 4 Jacks, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and classics from the Bar-Kays, Junior Wells, and Hound Dog Taylor.

Throughout June, Crossroads will be spinning golden oldies and rarities from Bobby Robinson's classic doo-wop and R&B labels.

1. Boz Scaggs - Memphis (429 Records)
2. Tom Jones - Spirit in the Room (Rounder)
3. Robin Trower - Roots and Branches (V12)
4. Southern Hospitality - Easy Livin’ (Blind Pig)
5. Al ‘Carnival Time’ Johnson - Beyond Carnival (Rabadash)

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. 3 (Vampi Soul)
3. Willie Buck - Cell Phone Man (Delmark)
4. Aaron Neville - My True Story (Blue Note)
5. Various - The Enjoy Records Story (Fuel 2000)
   

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.