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Blue Light Boogie: Bad Luck/Mojo

Playlist #013 Friday Sep. 13, 2019

“Born Under A Bad Sign”, Albert King, Born Under A Bad Sign, Stax Records

“Hard Luck Blues”, Roy Brown, Battle Of The Blues vol. 2 (various artists), King Records

“I Ain’t Superstitious”, Howlin’ Wolf, The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions, MCA/Chess Records

“Someone Else’s Blues”, David Bromberg, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Columbia Records

“Buzzard Luck”, Powder Blues, First Decade Greatest Hits, WEA Records

“Having A Real Bad Day”, Taj Mahal, Senor Blues, Private Music

“Waitin’ For My Luck To Change”, Bill Perry, Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout Love, Blind Pig Records

“Pushin’ My Luck”, Robert Belfour, Pushin’ My Luck, Fat Possum Records

“Bad Luck City”, R.L. Burnside, Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, Fat Possum Records

“Bad Luck”, Hoopsnakes, Ten The Hard Way, Mouthpiece Records

“Third Degree”, Johnny Winter, Third Degree, Alligator Records

“Woe, The Luck”, Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, Striking It Rich, MCA Records

“Theme From Mr. Lucky”, Henry Mancini, The Music Of Henry Mancini, Columbia Records

“Just A Lucky So And So”, Charles Brown, Lucky So And So, Bullseye Blues

“Mr. Lucky”, John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky, Charisma/ Pointblank Records

“Lucky Lou”, Jody Williams, Return Of A Legend, Evidence Records

“Mojo Boogie”, Sonny Landreth, South Of I-10, Zoo Entertainment

“Mojo Mambo”, Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88’s, Steady Date, Blind Pig Records

“Mojo Hannah”, Neville Brothers, Neville-ization, Demon Records

“Mojo”, The Radiators, SNAFU 10-31-’91, Croaker Records

“Mojo Haiku”, Little Feat, Shake Me Up, Morgan Creek Music Group

“Bad Luck Bone”, Spencer Bohren, Blackwater Music, Threadhead Records

“Black Cat Bone”, Lee Rocker, Black Cat Bone, Alligator Records

“Black Cat”, Chris Daniels And The Kings, In Your Face, Flying Fish Records

“Superstition”, Stevie Wonder, The Definitive Collection, Motown Records

“Born Under A Bad Sign”, Cream, Strange Brew The Very Best Of Cream, Polydor Records

 

Art Hooker was born in Wisconsin and trained on tuba at Hortonville Union High School and Lawrence Conservatory. As a self-taught flutist he traveled throughout the western U.S. as a busker. He studied radio production technology at Mount Hood Community College in Oregon. He also ad libbed flute music beds for a locally produced poetry program on public radio. He currently plays tenor saxophone, flute, rhythm guitar, percussive devices and vocals. He has performed with the Siegal/Schwall Blues Band, Seafood Mama (later known as Quarterflash), Sweet Betty and Nathaniel Mayer, as a solo artist and as a member of the bands King Rat, The Bushwhackers, FM Band, Two Flat Blues Band, Mumblin’ Eddy, Art Hooker, Hot Tomato, and the Big Jones Blues Band. He has opened for John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, Ben E. King, Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson, Marshall Tucker, The Guess Who and Chris Duarte.