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25/02/2025

Not long to go before you’ll hear SHOTGUN SAM & His World Famous Blues Band - Tune in to Crossroads 94.7 The Pulse

24/02/2025

19/02/2025

A Heartfelt Request. I’m reaching out to the local community you wi… Hollie Evans needs your support for Help Cornellius Find Peace in His Final Journey

18/02/2025

Want to hear your favorite song on the air? It’s easy - drop your request in the comments! Country, Blues, Rockabilly or any other Roots track -
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06/02/2025

Hey folks, here’s what’s happening in our little world of blues music in the coming weeks. Come and say hi.
February 8th Saturday: the drunken poet 8pm
February 15 Saturday: Kalimna pub 7pm
February 16 Sunday: Bruthen blues festival
February 22nd Saturday: Gellibrand river blues festival 2pm - 3:40pm
March 1st: Beneath Driver’s Lane 9pm

26/01/2025

Tune in to Crossroads this coming Tuesday between 4pm and 6pm on 94.7 The Pulse
where you just might hear some Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience.

Awesome piece in the International Times from Andrew Darlington “…. but when Pat Fulgoni sings the Blues, he ain’t nothin’ but his own sweet self. The Blues walks a long unforgiving road. From the Mississippi Delta all the way to… Huddersfield. But there ain’t no Blues like a Pat Fulgoni Blues” READ -> https://internationaltimes.it/the-blues-aint-broken-it-dont-need-fixin/

Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience

26/01/2025

I saw the Bob Dylan movie last night, and right now I’m just lost for words, it was that great. At the time, I’m 76, I followed all these events that are described in “A Complete Unknown” as they happened. The same moment as when I got the first album by Bob back in 1963, from my older cousin David. I didn’t know what I was listening to at first, but one song on it (the only original composition) about Woody Guthrie really struck me, with it’s simple direct lyrics and message to his hero, clear as a spotlight. I knew then I’d found something special. That ‘Song to Woody’ is featured early in the movie, and for me it could not help but strike a chord. Now I was walking with Bob and his first girlfriend (confusingly not named Suze Rotolo) through Greenwich Village in those extraordinary early sixties days, when life was suspended in coffee bars on a fragile thread by the Cuban missile crisis and the murders of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. I was back there too, when Dylan picked up a Fender Stratocaster and shocked the Newport Folk Festival and followed that up with those loud gigs in England with The Hawks (later named The Band), one of these shows at the Royal Albert Hall I attended, duly stunned to my seat by his audacity. Yes I followed all these developments closely at the time, deciding this wild poet and arbiter of change and transition was the only guide I could possibly trust. Then came ‘Hey Mr. Tambourine Man’, ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ and ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ in short order, finally topped by my vote for the greatest song of all time (and maybe yours too) - ‘Like A Rolling Stone’. My faith in my hero firmly in place, I sought to follow him so closely I morphed myself into him - copied his rebel pout, his crazy hair, his anti-establishment clothes, his belligerent attitude, followed so closely I almost lost myself. Here in celluloid was everything I’d experienced while chasing my guide - right there up on the screen, the fear of nuclear war, the beauty of Joan Baez, the blinded power of youth, the scary manager character of Albert Grossman, the streets he walked and the musical hoodlums he hung with. In the movie I saw Dylan exactly as he has haunted my life, an enigma of sorts, like a feather blowing in the wind, one you’ll try to, but you never can catch. In that little picture house last night I had tears in my eyes and a fire was back in my soul. I’m happy I stuck with you Bob, and I thank God, the actors and the film-makers for this movie.

12/01/2025

Enjoyed a fantastic afternoon aboard the Hygeia with this great blues band, The Windsavers. Part of Pistol Pete's Blues on the Bay.

11/01/2025

06/01/2025

CROSSROADS is back this Tuesday 7th January for another year of amazing Roots & Blues music.
Tune in at 4:00pm every Tuesday on 94.7 The Pulse.

02/01/2025

21/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Crossroads and of course 94.7 The Pulse
See you in the new year - Tuesdays 4 till 6pm

From us to you… wishing you a restful holiday.

26/11/2024

Tune in to Crossroads today for a little dive into Desmond Dekker and the Aces.
94.7 The Pulse between 4:00 and 6:00pm

Always spinning great Roots music. New releases and old favourites.

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20/10/2024

Crossroads - Tune in every Tuesday between 4:00 and 6:00pm.
Just great Roots & Blues.
This week I feature the fantastic album "Low Country Blues" by Gregg Allman.
Only on 94.7 The Pulse
Geelong's own Community Radio Station

01/10/2024

If you listened to this afternoons Crossroads program you would have heard the new single “I gotta make a whole lotta money”.
Crossroads on 94.7 The Pulse always plays great new Australian music.
Don’t miss out next week. Or go to the website and listen on demand.

“Mississippi Shakedown” have a NEW Album out soon called “Plant You Now, Dig You Later”.. 😃

The 1st Single, out soon, is called “I Gotta Make a Whole Lotta Money” and it’s being played on all Community Radio Stations in Oz.

The song is now #6 on the Australian AMRAP Charts, 1st week in… gotta love that folks…!!!

The last Album, “QLD”, was #5 in the Blues Charts, let’s hope the new Album does as well for us…

Misipi JEFF

10/09/2024

John Lee Ho**er with the 'Muddywood' guitar, made from wood from Muddy Waters' childhood home.
Billy Gibbons: “I had phoned Jim O’Neil, founder of Living Blues magazine – he now lives in Mississippi – and accompanied him to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. It so happened that Sid Graves, the director, said he was making a trip to Stovall Farms, where Muddy Waters was raised, to inspect the cabin that was in danger of being taken down upon request of the Highway Department for safety reasons. The cabin had been hit by a tornado and they figured, well, it might fall down.

“As we were looking about, the director picked up a piece of scrap lumber and said, `Why don’t you take a souvenir, here.’ There was quite a large beam left over, and we loaded it into the car.

“I drove back to Memphis and I was speaking with Rick Rayburn and Rick Hancock, the proprietors of the Pyramid Guitar Co., and mentioned having this piece of wood. I said, why don’t we make a guitar out of it? They said sure, let’s have a look.

“I unloaded it and left it with them, and two weeks later they called and said they had a couple of things in mind, why don’t I stop by?

“I drove back, spent about 20 minutes doing the design. It was humble beginnings for what really is an offering to the Delta Blues Museum. The guitar can be a focal point for modern blues musicians to pay homage to the museum, which has been doing a fine job of preserving this art form we now know as American music.”

What kind of wood was this?

“It was a piece of cypress wood that was apparently part of the roof. It was a difficult piece of wood to work with. It was filled with knotholes and nails. In fact, there are actually two instruments from this effort – the first being kind of the test piece, the experimental piece, and the final, finished piece being the one presented to the museum. I kept the first one, which I’ll probably end up using on tour. The second piece is the one presented to the museum and leased to the Hard Rock.”

What factors did you take into account in the design? Did Muddy play a similar guitar?

“Yes, in the beginning I said let’s try to keep this design aesthetic as an instrument that would be usable as we might expect from Muddy Waters. And as we got near to the completion of the project, the decision was made to make it a donation to the museum. Rather that paint the instrument blue, we decided against that because it was just too corny. The Mississippi River paint scheme was applied to the instrument as a symbol of the power of what the river has come to be known and interpreted as. Certainly, it was the Mississippi River that gave the initial rise to the Delta, which of course became the fertile ground for the invention of the blues.

“The museum guitar is really the `player.’ There was just something about it upon completion. It not only sounded great, but it played like melted butter.”

Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images

10/09/2024

It’s time for Crossroads on 94.7 The Pulse
Don’t miss our feature on the new album by Tami Neilson