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 December 28th, 2025:
"I Need Help" - blues and soul from three guitarists off 2025 releases from MUSIC MAKER - Earnest "Guitar" Roy, Anthony "Big A" Sherrod and Leonard "Lowdown" Brown. That is in the first hour. In the second hour new blues and R&B from singer and guitarist Sean McDonald and the "down in the delta and in the spirit" segment of gospel and acoustic tracks.

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Dec. 28, 2025	John Tackaberry	"I Need Help" - blues and soul from three guitarists on 2025 releases from the MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION - Earnest "Guitar" Roy, Anthony "Big A" Sherrod out of Clarksdale, Mississippi and by way of Houston, Texas - Leonard "Lowdown" Brown	available
Dec. 21, 2025	John Tackaberry	"We Got To Have Peace" - the soulful sounds of songs with a message by legendary singer Mavis Staples featuring recordings on the Anti- label since 2007 highlighting the latest	available
Dec. 14, 2025	John Tackaberry	"Antone's at 50" - a special celebration of the blues club in Austin, Texas and record label featuring Lavelle White, Jimmie Vaughan, Derek O'Brien and many more	available
Dec. 7, 2025	John Tackaberry	"Can't Take My Joy" - gospel, blues and soul from Louisiana singer, songwriter and guitar player Robert Finley featuring his Easy Eye Sound releases	available
Nov. 30, 2025	John Tackaberry	"I Want To Be The One" - a jukebox set of tracks from "early blues sessions" 1984 to 2007 by harmonica master Bob Corritore & Friends - Little Milton, Jimmy Rogers , Clarence Edwards and many more	available
Nov. 23, 2025	John Tackaberry	"Full Circle" - soul and blues from Mississippi born singer, songwriter and guitarist Jimmy Burns featuring his Delmark Releases	available
Nov. 16, 2025	John Tackaberry	"Steppin' Out" - blues and rhythm and blues from the legendary Rhode Island horn band Roomful of Blues highlighting releases for Alligator Records featuring their latest	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.)