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Black And Blues
Blues, rhythm and blues with some sixties soul.
Hosted by: John Tackaberry
Airs: Every Sunday from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Coming up at 9:00 PM on March 31st, 2024:
"The Right Man" - Blues, R&B, and soul on 2023 Little Village Foundation releases - D.K. Harrell, Nic Clark, Candice Ivory, Alabama Mike and Marcel Smith. That is in the first hour. The "down in the delta and in the spirit" segment of gospel and acoustic numbers in the second hour includes blues from 1928 out of The Memphis Blues Box and new acoustic songs by Jack de Keyzer.

Black And Blues

Date Host Highlight On Demand
Mar. 31, 2024 John Tackaberry "The Right Man" - Blues, rhythm and blues, and soul on 2023 Little Village Foundation recordings - D.K. Harrell, Nic Clark, Candice Ivory, Alabama Mike and Marcel Smith
available
Mar. 24, 2024 John Tackaberry "Wild and Whammy Guitars" - a special jukebox selection of 'blues fretwork masters' from 1954-1962 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Buddy Guy and many more
available
Mar. 17, 2024 John Tackaberry "I Wanna Go Back To Memphis" - soul blues out of Vermont from singer, songwriter, guitarist - Dave Keller highlighting songs off his latest Tastee Tone Records release
available
Mar. 10, 2024 John Tackaberry "Phoenix Blues Rumble" - traditional electric blues from harmonica master Bob Corritore & Friends in Arizona out of his "vast archives" from sessions between 1987 and 2017
available
Mar. 3, 2024 John Tackaberry "Lu's Jukebox" - Blues, rhythm & blues, and soul covers plus original songs from the legendary singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams to mark INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY on March 8th.
available
Feb. 25, 2024 John Tackaberry "Caldonia" - A sample of the blues and R&B of Taj Mahal from The Rising Sons band in the 60s to his latest recording Savoy on Stony Plain Records
available
Feb. 18, 2024 John Tackaberry "Bobby's Blues" - Blues, soul, and funk from Bobby Dean Blackburn and Blackburn Brothers - a father and his four sons - highlighting recordings on Electro-Fi records in a BLACK HISTORY MONTH profile
available
"Black & Blues" from 9-11 p.m. on Sunday features blues, rhythm and blues with some sixties soul. There are special profiles of musicians and recording labels in the first hour. In the second hour there is a blues and R&B calendar of events in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa with "new and reissued blues and rhythm and blues tracks on wax" featured in the last half hour. This segment alternates with "live blues and rhythm and blues for a Sunday night". In the last half hour of the show on the last Sunday of every month I go "down in the delta" to spin some acoustic gospel and blues.

(N.B. The show started as "Meantown Blues" in October 1978. The name changed in March 1983 to "Black & Blues" to reflected the R&B and soul that is included in the show. And I have been the host since the start.)