KRVM's Breakfast With The Blues

01/07/2026

January 7. Muddy Waters recorded "Hoochie Coochie Man" on this date in 1954. This Willie Dixon composition could be THE classic Chicago blues song, recorded by THE classic Chicago blues band: Muddy on guitar, Willie on bass, Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Otis Spann on piano, and Fred Below on drums. "Hoochie Coochie Man" has a stop-time riff that has become on of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues.

Recorded in the year 1954 at Chess label. There is of course other versions of this classic blues here in YouTube, but they are all worth of listening. Mud...

01/06/2026

KRVM Current Blues Airplay, 01-02-26

1. Kim Wilson/Slow Burn/M.C.
2. Randy Lee Riviere/Farmhouse Blues/Wilderness
3. Roomful of Blues/Steppin’ Out!/Alligator Records
4. Tom Hambridge/Down the Hatch/Quarto Valley
5. Mud Morganfield/Deep Mud/Nola Blue
6. Mike Bourne/Kansas City O’Clock/Overton
7. Maria Muldaur/One Hour Mama: the Blues of Victoria Spivey/Nola Blue
8. Candice Ivory/New Southern Vintage/Nola Blue
9. Buddy Guy/Ain’t Done With the Blues/RCA
10. Tinsley Ellis/Labor of Love/Alligator Records

Breakfast With the Blues airs seven mornings a week. We report airplay to Living Blues, Roots Music Report, and NACC.

01/02/2026

KRVM Current Blues Airplay, 2025-12-27

1. Robbin Kapsalis/The Blues Is in the House/Blues House
2. Dave Keyes/Two Trains/MoMojo
3. Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia/Blood Brothers: Help Yourself/Gulf Coast
4. Altered Five Blues Band/Hammer & Chisel/Blind Pig
5. Maria Muldaur/One Hour Mama: the Blues of Victoria Spivey/Nola Blue
6. Kim Wilson/Slow Burn/M.C.
7. Greg Nagy/Just a Little More Time/Greg Nagy
8. Mud Morganfield/Deep Mud/Nola Blue
9. Roomful of Blues/Steppin’ Out!/Alligator Records
10. Candice Ivory/New Southern Vintage/Nola Blue
11. Mike Bourne/Kansas City O’Clock/Overton
12. Buddy Guy/Ain’t Done With the Blues/RCA
13. Tom Hambridge/Down the Hatch/Quarto Valley
14. Mississippi MacDonald/Slim Pickin’/APM

Breakfast With the Blues airs seven mornings a week. We report airplay to Living Blues, Roots Music Report, and NACC.
15.Billy Branch/The Blues Is My Biography/Rosa’s Lounge

12/30/2025

December 30. The Mighty Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, on this date in 1928. His birth name was Elias Bates. He was raised by an aunt, and took her last name, becoming Elias McDaniel. So where did his "Bo Diddley" name come from? Bo said his childhood friends gave him the name, as an insult. He also stated that the name belonged to a singer that his aunt knew. Billy Boy Arnold, who played harp on some Bo Diddley sessions, said the name belonged to a local comedian. A 1921 story, "Black Death" by Zora Neale Hurston, was about a womanizer named Beau Diddely. In the poor, rural South where Bo grew up, children would make rudimentary music by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of the house. Put a rock under it as a moveable bridge, and you've got what was commonly known as a "diddley bow."

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesI'm a Man · Bo DiddleyThe Bo Diddley Collection 1955-62, Vol. 1℗ 2016 Acrobat Licensing Ltd.Released on: 2016-0...

12/23/2025

December 23. Esther Phillips (Esther Mae Jones) was born in Galveston, Texas, on this date in 1935. She was 14 years old in 1949 when she won a talent contest at Johnny Otis's Barrelhouse Club in Los Angeles. Johnny signed her up as a recording artist and a member orf his traveling Rhythm'n'Blues Caravan. He billed her as Little Esther. She took the last name Phillips, inspired by a sign at a gas station. With Johnny at the helm, Little Esther immediately cranked out several #1 R&B hits. Starting in the mid 50s her career was hampered by he**in addiction, but she still managed to deliver hits in he 60s, 70s, and 80s. She was only 48 in 1984 when she died of liver and kidney failure brought on by her drug abuse.

Provided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlow Top Blues / Jelly Jelly Blues / Long John Blues · Esther PhillipsConfessin' The Blues℗ 1966 Atlantic Recording Corp...