Host(s): Rick Galusha
KIWRBlues@gmail.com
Sunday mornings from 9 – Noon, PS Blues gives you three hours of blues, Jazz, Folk and Americana music. From the classics like Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters to the latest from Los Lonely Boys, Indigenous and others.
Playlist for 6/14/26
1. Janis Joplin / Black Mountain Blues
2. Bob Dylan & The Band / Bessie Smith (Happy and Artie Traum)
3. Dory Previn / (Janis Joplin bought a) Stone for Bessie Smith
4. John Coltrane / Bessie’s Blues
Influences
5. Ma Rainey / See See Rider Blues (Elvis Presley)
6. Ida Cox / Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
7. Albert Hunter / Down Hearted Blues
8. Maime Smith / Crazy Blues
Duets: Charlie Green of Omaha
9. Bessie Smith w/ Charlie Green / Empty Bed Blues
10. Jim Croce / Charlie Green Play that Slide Trombone
11. Bessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong (trumpet) / St Louis Blues
12. Clara Smith w/ Bessie Smith / I’m Going Back to My Used to Be
James P Johnson, The Invisible Pianist
13. Bessie Smith w/ James P Johnson / Back Water Blues
14. Fats Waller / Ain’t Misbehavin’
15. Count Basie / April in Paris
16. Duke Ellington / Take the A Train (Billy Eckstine)
Lieber & Stoller
17. Wilbert Harrison / Kansas City
18. Kathy Tyree / Hound Dog
19. Elvis Presley / King Creole
20. The Rolling Stones / Down Home Girl
21. The Beatles / Young Blood
John Hammond Sr. Legendary A&R Columbia Records
22. Billie Holiday / Gimme a Beer and a Pigfoot
23. Aretha Franklin / Soulville
24. Bruce Springsteen / Sandy (4th of July)
25. Lionel Hampton w/ Nat Cole Trio / House of Morgan
Covers of Bessie Smith’s Music
26. Sue Foley / Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair
27. Ella Fitzgerald / Gulf Coast Blues
28. Della Reese / You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon
29. Etta James / Don’t Cry Baby
30. Bessie Smith / Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
31. Rhiannon Giddens / You Put the Sugar in My Bowl
32. Rory Block / I’m Down in the Dumps
33. Kenny Wayne Shepherd / Backwater Blues
34. Keb Mo / Fussing and Fighting
35. Low Cut Connie / Can’t Be Wrong
36. Dom Flemons / One Dollar Bill
37. Alvin Youngblood Hart / Sunday Morning Coming Down
