Tom Craig Band

Thank you Phillip Smith for including my most recent recording in your year end review! I am truly honored.

#722 : PhillyCheeze's Favorite 25 of 2024 (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com) A weekly blog dedicated to blues and blues-rock, shedding light on those recordings which make a positive influence.

Thank you The Blues Journey for playing my latest recording!

The Blues Journey Playlist for Saturday, December 28, 2024, which is also reported to the Roots Music Report Blues Chart.

The Blues Journey broadcasts from the studio of Radio That Doesn't Suck in Toronto, Canada every Saturday at 9am/3pm/9pm (EST) and again early Sunday morning at 3am (EST), and you can check out my archived shows at www.rtds.ca

My Top 25 Picks for 2024, a few others, plus a few New Year's songs to ring in 2025!

1st Hour

1. Rene Huard Project - Favourite Shirt - Blues Calling (Self)
2. Dani Wilde - Please, Stop Smoking That W**d - Single (Self)
3. Konstantin Kolesnichenko - Tight Dress - Good Things (Self)
4. Katie Knipp - Outlaw Doc - Me (Self)
5. Tinsley Ellis - Devil In The Room - Naked Truth (Alligator Records)
6. Sierra Green & The Giants - Same Old Blues - Here We Are (Righteous Path Records)
7. Tom Craig - This Needs To Lead To Something - Get To Work (8th Train Records)
8. Sister Blue - Life's Party - I Should Have Said No (Self)
9. Freddie King - Pack It Up - 1934-1976 (Mercury Records)
10. Mike Zito - Without Loving You - Life Is Hard (Gulf Coast Records)
11. Eden Brent - What You Want - Getaway Blues (Yellow Dog Records)
12. Sam Joyner - It's That Mojo That Makes Me Stay - Come What May (Self)
13. Danielle Miraglia - The One Who Made Him - Single (Self)
14. Toronzo Cannon - Can't Fix The World - Shut Up & Play! (Alligator Records)

2nd Hour

15. Bywater Call - Turn It Around - Shepherd (Self)
16. The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Payback Time - Struck Down (Stony Plain Records)
17. Vanessa Collier - Elbow Grease - Do It My Own Way (Phenix Fire Records)
18. Chris Cain - Bad Dream - Good Intentions Gone Bad (Alligator Records)
19. Lee Kanehira - Baby, Don't You Love Me No More - The Chicago Blues Piano Trio (Waggy Murphy's Records)
20. Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover - Confessin' The Blues (BMG Records)
21. Odetta - If Anybody Asks You (live) - Gonna Let It Shine (M.C. Records)
22. Gerald McClendon - House Ain't A Home - Down At The Juke Joint (Delta Roots Records)
23. Kat Riggins - Lucky - Revival (House of Berry)
24. Sonny Gullage - Things I Can't Control - Go Be Free (Blind Pig Records)
25. Ollee Owens - Shivers & Butterflies - Nowhere To Hide (Self)
26. Mitch Woods - Amber Lee - Happy Hour (MoMojo Records)
27. Susan Santos - Snakebite - Sonora (TWH Records)
28. Benny Turner - Going Down Slow - BT (Nola Blue Records)
29. Karen Lawrence - Made To Move - The Blues Is Back (Hostel Records)
30. Ronnie Baker Brooks - I'm Felling You - Blues In My DNA (Alligator Records)

Ringin' in the New Year!

31. Big Harp George - It's New Years Eve - Big Harp George Does Christmas (Blues Mountain Records)
32. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Happt New Year Blues - Cool Blue Christmas (Contrast Records)
33. Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy New Year - Blue Yule (Rhino Records)
34. Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers - Auld Lang Syne - The Christmas Swing (Juicy Juju Records)

The Blues Journey Playlist for Saturday, November 30, 2024, which is also reported to the Roots Music Report Blues Chart.

The Blues Journey broadcasts from the studio of Radio That Doesn't Suck in Toronto, Canada every Saturday at 9am/3pm/9pm (EST) and again early Sunday morning at 3am (EST), and you can check out my archived shows at www.rtds.ca

1st Hour

1. John Mayall - A Quitter Never Wins - The Sun Is Shining Down (Forty Below Records)
2. Kittle Sammy Davis - I Ain't Lyin' - Title Track (Delmark Records)
3. Carly Harvey - She Ain't Me - Kamama (Do Good Records)
4. Sugar Brown - Mam's Moving On - Toronto Bound (Self)
5. Ronnie Baker Brooks - All True Man - Blues In My DNA (Alligator Records)
6. Tom Craig - As Sure As I Can Raise My Hand - Get To Work (8th Train Records)
7. Mike Zito - No One To Talk To (But The Blues) - Life Is Hard (Gulf Coast Records)
8. Magic Sam - Hoochie Coochie Man - The Legacy (Delmark Records)
9. Vanessa Collier - Do It My Own Way - Title Track (Phenix Fire Records)
10. Wyly Bigger - Ain't The First Time - Broken Telephone (Self)
11. Wailin' Al Walker - Cherry Red - All Fired Up (Self)
12. Kat Riggins -Set Me Free - Revival (House of Berry)
13. Chris Cain - Had About All I Can Take - Good Intentions Gone Bad (Alligator Records)
14. Steve Luow - You n' Me Tonight - Between Time (Self)
15. Marcus Trummer - Holding Out For You - From The Start (Gypsy Soul Records)

2nd Hour

16. The Wildcat O'Halloran Band - Always Nobody - Lead Me Not Into Temptation, I'll Find It Myself (Doves Nest Records)
17. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - (I Gotta Look) Up Ynder Your Hood (live) - Live from The Ash Grove (Liberation Hall Records)
18. Rick Estrin & The Nighcats - Everubody Knows - The Hits Keep Coming (Alligator Records)
19. Shemekia Copeland - Cadillac Blue - Blame It On Eve (Alligator Records)
20. Mikey Junior - She Can Do What She Wants To - Traveling North (8th Train Records)
21. Eddie 9V - Delta - Saratoga (Ruf Records)
22. Benny Turner - Smokin' My Peace Pipe (Smokin' It Right) - BT (Nola Blue Records)
23. Odetta - Keep Movin' It On - Signle (Rose Quartz Records)
24. Garry Cogdell - Stuck In The Mud - Single (Self)
25. Celso Salim & Darryl Carriere - Sweet Thing - About Time (Self)
26. The Dennis Spencer Group - Your Secret Is Safe - Bluesman From Jupiter (Self)
27. Erja Lyytinen - 24 Angels (live) - 20 Years of Blues Rock (Tuohi Records)
28. Hubert Sumlin w/James Cotton and Little Mike & The Tornado - I Want You - Heart & Soul (Delmark Records)
29. Tony D. - Highway - Electric Delta (Cordova Bay Records)
30. J.P. Soars - Jezebel - Brick By Brick (Little Village Records)
31. Cat Squirrel - What The Blues Will Do - Blues What Am (Dixie Frog Records)

Ok so I’ve been tagged by the t-shirt selling bandit. I am not selling t-shirts!