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Hugo spins a rainbow of blues, blues-rock and blues-adjacent music every Sunday from 5-9 PM Central

10/28/2025

Here's the playlist from October 26th.

10/25/2025

This Sunday's show will be pre-recorded. Listen from 5-8:45 PM CST on 107.7 FM, wqudfm.com and the MyTuner app for flood songs, river songs and re**er songs.

10/21/2025

Here's the playlist from October 19th.
Waylon Jennings- I'd Like to Love You Baby
Rev. Robert B. Jones- Death Letter Blues (Live at the Ellis Library, Monroe, MI, 1/31/17)
ZZ Top- Blue Jean Blues
Dave Keller- The Truth of the Blues
Buddy Guy- Tramp
Betty Davis- Don't Call Her No Tramp
Carmen Maki and Blues Creation- Mean Old Boogie
Elmore James- Person to Person
Little Feat- Dixie Chicken
Jonny Lang- A Quitter Never Wins
Jimmie Dale Gilmore- Midnight Train
20 Watt Tombstone- Midnight Train to Memphis
Buddy Guy- Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown- Dollar Got the Blues
Funkadelic- Funky Dollar Bill
Cinderella- Long Cold Winter
John Lee Ho**er- It Serve You Right to Suffer/House Rent Blues
Lead Belly- Scottsboro Boys (Smithsonian Folkways Recording)
J. B. Lenoir- Alabama March
Mountain with Warren Haynes- The Times They Are a-Changin'
Warren Haynes- Melissa
Tommy Johnson- Maggie Campbell Blues
Junior Kimbrough- Everywhere I Go
Muddy Waters- Mean Disposition
CeDell Davis- Darlin' (You Know I Love You)
Robin Trower- Rock Me Baby
Indiara Sfair & Ricardo Maranhão- Old Love
The Allman Brothers Band- Done Somebody Wrong (Live at the Fillmore East, 3/13/71 (2nd Show))
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Run Through the Jungle
Jelly Roll Morton- Jungle Blues
Luther Allison- Just As I Am
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Born on the Bayou (Live at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 1/31/70)
Terry Quiett Band & Miss'ippi Hal Reed- Basking (Live 2021)
Ten Years After- Help Me (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1/26/73)
Foghat- Helping Hand
Big Bill Broonzy- Plough-Hand Blues
Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong- Cold in Hand Blues
Ida Cox- Mojo Hand Blues
Lighnin' Hopkins- Mojo Hand
Ace Frehley- Up in the Sky
Albert King- The Sky Is Crying/Travelin' Man

10/20/2025

Little Walter playing Bukka White’s guitar!

10/15/2025

Here's the playlist from October 12th.
Avey Grouws Band- Heart's Playing Tricks
Memphis Minnie- Night Watchman Blues
Big Mama Thornton- Chauffeur Blues (Wessex Studios, London, 10/20/65)
Rory Gallagher- Calling Card
Jimmy Witherspoon- Card Playing Blues
Ray Wylie Hubbard with Ringo Starr, Don Was, Joe Walsh and Chris Robinson- Bad Trick
Avey Grouws Band- There for Me
Pink Floyd- More Blues
The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Powerful Stuff
Albert King- Blues Power (Single Version)
Little Milton- Annie Mae's Cafe
Memphis Minnie- Conjur Man
Lightnin' Hopkins- Baby Please Don't Go
Mandrill- Warning Blues
Big Head Todd and the Monsters- Hey Delila
Grateful Dead- Viola Lee Blues (Short Version)
Cannon's Jug Stompers- Viola Lee Blues
Big Mama Thornton- Wade in the Water
Avey Grouws Band- You Need Love/Jonas on the Road
James Solberg- Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Frank Zappa- Little Umbrellas
Gov't Mule- Pygmy Twylyte
Dion and John Hammond- My Baby Loves to Boogie
Jethro Tull- Someday the Sun Won't Shine for You (Live in Hilversum, North Holland, 10/19/99)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Blues with a Feeling/Look Over Yonder Wall/Born in Chicago (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 7/23/65)
Avey Grouws Band- Love Raining Down
Molly Nova and the Hawk- The Wrong I've Done
Memphis Minnie- Moonshine
Savoy Brown- I Can't Get Next to You
Big Mama Thornton- Unlucky Girl
Big Brother & the Holding Company- Ball and Chain (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, 6/17/67)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters with John Lee Ho**er- Boom Boom
Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Up Above My Head (Live in France, 1965)
Magic Sam- All of Your Love
Bonnie Raitt- Love Me Like a Man
Fleetwood Mac- Jumping at Shadows (Live at the Boston Tea Party, 2/5/70)
Jackie Venson- Rollin' On
Lightnin' Hopkins- That Woman Named Mary
Lead Belly- Sweet Mary Blues
The Allman Brothers Band- Mountain Jam (Live at Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, 4/11/70)

10/10/2025

The Blacklight Blues Show will be pre-recorded on Sunday. Listen from 5-9 PM for music from the Avey Grouws Band, Memphis Minnie, Big Mama Thornton and the Allman Brothers Band.

10/07/2025

Here's the playlist from October 5th.

10/05/2025

The Blacklight Blues Show will be pre-recorded until Sunday, October 19th. Tune in tomorrow from 5-8:45 PM for music from Leon Russell, Leon Russell Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd), and Muddy Waters.

10/03/2025

Buddy Guy & Eric Clapton [1968]

09/30/2025

Here's the playlist from September 28th.
Bessie Smith- Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
John Lee Ho**er- War Is Over (Goodbye California)
Lonnie Mack- Stop
Robert Johnson- Stop Breakin' Down Blues (Take 1)
Koko Taylor and Her Blues Machine- I Cried Like a Baby (Live at FitzGerald's, Berwyn, IL, January 1987)
Demon Fuzz- Fuzz Oriental Blues
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup- Mean Old Frisco Blues
Johnny Winter- Mean Town Blues (Live at the Fillmore East, 10/3/70)
Big Joe Williams- Highway 49
Derek and the Dominos- Key to the Highway
Albert Lee- The Next Milestone
Brandon Santini- Mile After Mile
Jeff Beck Group- Beck's Bolero
Hot Tuna- Talking 'Bout You (Live at Theatre 1839, San Francisco, 8/5/77)
Muddy Waters- I Be's Troubled
Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry- Train Whistle Blues
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Blues with a Feeling
Dion with John Hammond and Charlie Musselwhite- My Baby Loves to Boogie
Elvin Bishop & Los Lobos- What the Hell Is Going On
Charlie Musselwhite- Finger Lickin' Good
Blaze Foley- Oooh Love (Live at the Austin Outhouse, 12/27/88)
B.B. King- She Don't Move Me No More
Ann Peebles- Do I Need You
Lightnin' Hopkins- LA Blues
Albert King- Night Stomp (Live at the Fillmore West, 1968)
Tim Gartland- Mind Your Own Business
Sanford Clark- It's Nothing to Me
J. B. Lenoir- Vietnam
Howlin' Wolf- Mr. Highway Man
Johnny Sansone with Jason Ricci- Blowin' Fire
Harvey Mandel with Charlie Musselwhite- The Lark
Harvey Mandel- Snake
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers- Walkin' the Ceiling
Savoy Brown- Blues on the Ceiling (Live Radio Broadcast, 1971)
Big Joe Williams- Brother James
Ma Rainey- Toad Frog Blues
Kankawa Nagarra- My Country
Tom Waits- Everything Goes to Hell
Junior Kimbrough- Burn in Hell
Odell Harris- Hill Funk
Robert Belfour- Hill Stomp
Ranie Burnette- Dough Roller Blues

09/28/2025

🥁 An Introduction to Jessie Mae Hemphill 🎤🎸
Trance-inducing grooves. Deep country soul. Jessie Mae Hemphill was the Queen of Hill Country Blues — and one of the few women to own that stage.

Who Was She?
Born near Senatobia, Mississippi in 1923, Jessie Mae Hemphill came from a long line of fife-and-drum musicians. She carried that hypnotic, percussive tradition into her own blues — mixing electric guitar with hand percussion and call-and-response chants. Her music wasn’t flashy — it was primal, powerful, and rooted in something older than the Delta.

She didn’t just keep the tradition alive — she was the tradition.

Essential Albums & Recordings:

🎙 She-Wolf (1981) – Raw, stripped down, and full of rhythmic mojo. Features standout tracks like “Go Back to Your Used to Be” and “Lord, Help the Poor and Needy.”

🥁 Feelin’ Good (1990) – A live-in-the-room vibe. Guitar and tambourine groove together like a porch jam turned ritual.

💿 Get Right Blues (Compilation) – Captures some of her most intimate and driving field recordings.

🎶 Dare You Do It Again (with Napoleon Strickland) – A nod to her family’s fife-and-drum roots, full of ancient rhythm and communal spirit.

🔥 Mississippi Hill Country Blues – Any compilation under this title that includes her tracks is pure gold. Keep an ear out for her unmistakable stomp and twang.

Why It Matters:
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a pioneer — a Black woman writing, playing, and fronting her own sound in a male-dominated scene. Her influence echoes through R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and even contemporary artists like Valerie June. She wasn’t trying to be commercial — she was trying to be true.

Start with “She-Wolf,” “Standing in My Doorway Crying,” or “Shake It, Baby.” You’ll feel it in your bones.

09/25/2025

Here's the playlist from September 21st.
Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band- Baby Will You Please Help Me
Sonny Terry with Johnny Winter, Willie Dixon and Styve Homnick- Sonny's Whoopin' the Doop
Gov't Mule- Thorazine Shuffle
Ironboss- Sunshine on My Knife
Earth (Black Sabbath)- Wee Wee Baby
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Mellow Down Easy
Little Walter- Mean Old World
Lonnie Johnson- Mr. Johnson's Blues
Big Joe Turner with Elmore James- T.V. Mama
AC/DC- Down Payment Blues
Detroit with Rusty Day and Steve Gaines- Don't Wanna Lose (Live at the 20 Grande Driftwood Lounge, Detroit, 1973)
Blood Brothers- Can't Be a Prophet
Paralyzed- Heavy Blues
AC/DC- Ride On
Muddy Waters- I Got My Mojo Working
Professor Longhair- Big Chief (Parts 1 & 2)
Sonny Curtis- Unsaintly Judy
Ry Cooder- Paris, Texas
Alvin Youngblood Hart- Underway at Seven
Charley Crockett- It's Nothing to Me
Bukka White- Strange Place Blues
Jack Bruce and Robin Trower- Distant Places of the Heart
Prince- The Ride
Cinderella- Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams
Blind Willie McTell- The Razor Ball
Charlie Musselwhite- Hip Shakin' Mama
Buddy Guy- Worry, Worry
Cash Box Kings- You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Sweetie & The Toothaches- Keep Running
Moreland & Arbuckle- Long Way Home
David Bowie- The Jean Genie (Live on Top of the Pops, 1/3/73)
Alvin Lee- One More Chance
Skip James- How Long Buck
Chris Vincent & the Raw Deals- Midnight After All
The Allman Brothers Band- Temptation Is a Gun
Hot Tuna- Extrication Love Song
Bill Abel- No Hard Time (Get You Off My Mind)
Terry "Big T" Williams- Incarcerated Blues
L. C. Ulmer- Rosalee
Freddie King- Gimme Some Lovin'/Love Her with a Feeling
Little Walter- Blues with a Feeling
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes- All Night Long
Mississippi Fred McDowell- You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore

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