This week we began the show with the Blues ladies! Lou Ann Barton celebrated a recent birthday, so she led off with a performance on Jimmie Vaughn’s “Out of the Shadows,” then a song with Jimmie’s late brother Stevie. Lou Ann didn’t have to ask too hard to work with those two, after all, she was their contemporary in the late 70′s blues scene in Austin and was a member of the Triple Threat Review (which included Stevie Ray and W.C. Clarke.) She even was a founding member of Double Trouble. So show some respect!

Birthday kudos, as well, to Irma Thomas, who turned 70! The New Orleans songstress can still hit the notes and does a different concert every night. Since she mainly sings requests from the audience, every concert is a fresh one. Johnny Winter has a B-day coming up, so we rocked a whole set for him!

Thanks to Angela Ruggiero from Quincy for her excellent CHOOSE YOUR BLUES list! She called “Three Kings and a Queen.” Oh yeah! And we had fun with our ‘Ray Charles’ set; it was inspired by a channel-surf moment with The Blues Brothers movie!

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Sunday Morning Blues Playlist: February 19, 2012

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Out of the Shadows
Do You get the Blues?
Jimmie Vaughan (with Lou Ann Barton)

You Can Have My Husband
Solos, Sessions & Encores
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lou Ann Barton

We’re Gonna Make It
Blues Summit
BB King & Irma Thomas

Must Be a Better World
Till the Night is Gone
Irma Thomas

Crawfishin’
Live! Down the Road
Marcia Ball

One More Drink for the Road
Unusual Supsects
Leslie West

I Ain’t Drunk
Cold Snap
Albert Collins

I Think it was the Wine
The Reunion Concert
Siegal Schwall Band

Wine
A Long Time Comin’
Electric Flag

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Hooker
John Lee Hooker

Whiskey River
Runs Good
Liz Lannon Band

I Got a Woman
Talkin’ About Soul
Luther Guitar Junior Johnson

I Don’t Need No Doctor
Anthology
Ray Charles

Let’s Go Get Stoned (Live at Woodstock)
Woodstock Diary
Joe Cocker

What’d I Say?
Jammed Together
Steve Cropper, Albert King & Pop Staples

I’ve Got News For You
Searching for Simplicity
Gregg Allman

I’m Certain That I’m Hurtin’
Evening
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Boom Boom Out Goes the Lights
Blues Masters Vol. 6: Blues Originals
Little Walter

Calling Card Blues
Blues Tracks
Pat Travers

Painted On
Painted On
The Fabulous Thunderbirds

I Had to Laugh/Sing Singin’
One November Night
Johnny A

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CHOOSE YOUR BLUES from Angela Ruggerio

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Darling Honey Angel Child (Come On Part 1)
Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings
Earl King

Hideaway
Hideaway: The Best of Freddie King
Freddie King

Laundromat Blues
King of the Blues Guitar
Albert King

Trying to Make a Living
I Got What it Takes
Koko Taylor

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Mean Town Blues
Progressive Blues Experiment
Johnny Winter

Leland, Mississippi Blues (Live at Woodstock)
The Woodstock Experience
Johnny Winter

Too Much Secanol
Still Alive and Well
Johnny Winter

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter

It’s My Life, Baby
Deluxe Edition
Johnny Winter

Boogie Thing
100% Cotton
The James Cotton Band

If You Don’t Start Drinking
Boogie People
George Thorogood

All Down the Line
Exile on Main Street
Rolling Stones