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Midwest Beat Blues: August 16, 2024

Tom Lounges

HOUR ONE:   The first half of this week's program features tasty team-ups by various artists.  These pairings include: B.B. & Albert King, Carlos Santana & Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker & Randy California, Ronnie Baker Brooks & Lonnie Brooks, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Edgar Winter, and a half dozen others.

HOUR TWO:   This hour is a mish-mash of various blues artists/cuts with no theme, rhyme nor reason. Just some great songs plucked out of the "Midwest BEAT Blues" library. Included this hour are songs by -- Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Curtis Salgado, Fats Domino, Deborah Bonham, Janis Joplin, Chris Cain, Lightning Hopkins and Brigitte Purdy, among others.

Tom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.