John Lee Hooker. Classic blues their big road with John Lee I might add that so bag magazine out of Paris France. The current issue has John Lee Hooker on the cover and a huge spread on the life and times of John Lee Hooker they've. Illustrated all of his cd releases and 40 five's there are some vintage photographs of Detroit Michigan on his thing street of John Lee John Lee in concert with Eddie Taylor and T.-Bone Walker. Falls and. John Lee all the way in the current issue of soul bag magazine you might be able to check it out on. The internet just Google soul bag magazine Paris France and they're also featuring. Luther Allison from the years when he was living in Paris and also Carl Weathersby is also featured in d.t. Bridgewater and others really beautiful magazine perhaps the best Blues and Soul magazine in existence Of course you have to read French. We heard from Otis Taylor before that one with Kathy Taylor singing from a song that Otis wrote about his father in the Pullman motor car from his album called below the fold It was issued on the Telmarc label. This is k.v. If a or k. P. Of b. In Berkeley or k f c f in Fresno we've got blues tonight biscuits and Blues in San Francisco for a one Mason Street at Gary and coming up on Tuesday November the 14th Rick Estrin and then one can be there. And Mitch Woods will be having a record release party at biscuits and blues as well and you can also hear blues at the saloon in North Beach San Francisco it's upper Grant at Columbus they've got blues all weekend long both in the afternoon and in the evening. And if you're traveling to Chicago it's getting to be cold there Kingston mines but he guys legends blue Chicago blues Rosa's smoke daddy Liza unleaded Fitzgeralds. And Larry's lounge. All. The levels of the Jive 5 with my true story that was recorded in 1961 and that year it went into the charts at number one on the r. And d. Charts and over on the pop charts My True Story went to number 3 they were from Brooklyn New York Eugene Pitt racial Harris excuse me Richard Harris Jerome Hanna and Bill prophet in Norman Johnson. The Jive 5 my true story before that we're from the Calvey means they're from Southern California and they're a group that has been carrying on the great tradition of the vocal groups I had them at the San Francisco blues festival they were absolutely sensational they had recorded an album for high tone records at Oakland California and. It was called in harmony the Calvey and you can probably still get it but they really were. A an amalgam of various other vocal groups from Southern California and we heard them do memories of El Monte the Legion hall in Monte California where they had all those great great vocal group shows Johnny Otis knew all about that as did Frank Zappa. Don't you saw my moons. This is a real tear jerker this is a. Tough song. Shemekia Copeland salt in my wounds turn the heat up is the cd release on Chicago's Alligator Records She's the daughter of the great Texas guitar player Johnny Copeland Well Charles Wilson grew up on the West Side of Chicago. He grew up and in the projects. He was born there and 1957 and began singing gospel music his father. In the early sixty's to consider Regal Theater remember the became recorded with the Regal I mean so many. Great r. And b. Stars vocal groups performed that the famed theater there in Chicago the Regal and he would go there and he'd see Bobby Blue Bland Jackie Wilson Sam Cooke Junior Charles Wilson and if heartaches were nickels that's on the Del Mark label with Carl work well weathers be featured on this release for Charles Wilson you know I feel to mention that Town Without Pity instrumental piece there was performed by Anthony Paul. Who lives here in the Bay Area guitar player works with Frank Bay a lot and others. Nice rendition of. The hit record from the early sixty's Town Without Pity. And further up the road was Bobby Blue Bland of course well Charles Wilson who we just heard. Often said that Little Milton Campbell was a big influence on him and we're going to listen to some Little Milton Campbell here. Here he is from a recording in Jackson Mississippi Melaka label I worry about you it's always nice to have somebody worry about you. You. Know Campbell Campbell from an album on the Malaka label and that one's titled cheating heart we heard I worry about you. Miss Woods has put out a cd we've been playing some selections here on the blues by the bay show. From the new album called friends along the way with special guest Taj Mahal and Ruthie Foster Charlie Musselwhite Elvin Bishop John Hammond Kenny Neal Maria Muldaur are Cyril Neville of the Neville Brothers Marcia Ball Joes Walker list goes on beautiful album let's listen to a selection here that Mitch is featured with. The one and only Mr Van Morrison. If. A group called to put a top they were from the South Bay. I guess they're not together any longer but they did record a couple of wonderful C.D.'s and this one here is called Rock tonight tip of the top with Kumar on armonica and we heard Fannie Mae Let's go to your 957. Bobby Parker was always one of Carlos Santana as favorites. featured on his release. From 1957 before that one. On vinyl. Well I want to thank you all very much for tuning in today. On the blues by the bay show. Listeners and. $88.00 f.m. In Fresno it's Soul Kitchen with coming up at. 8 point one. And coming up here on. The top of the hour. Jr with the point of departure he's going to be taking you down the Jazz highway for the next 2 hours with some. Great jazz releases so stay tuned for that and I'll see you again here next week. Keep on supporting the blues I'm Tom as we need.