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Blue Light Boogie: The Blues Train Never Stops

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Playlist #1826 Oct. 6, 2017

“Where The Yellow Cross The Dog”, Corey Harris, Downhome Sophisticate, Rounder Records, http://www.corey-harris.com http://www.rounder.com

“New Frisco Train”, Bukka White, Memphis Country Blues vol. 1, Memphis Archives

“Morning Train”, Precious Bryant, The Truth, Terminus Records, http://www.preciousbryant.com http://www.terminusrecords.com

“When The Train Comes Along”, Elizabeth Cotton, Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, http://www.folkways.si.edu

“Station Blues”, Otha Turner And The Afrosippi Allstars, From Senegal To Senatobia, Birdman Records, http://www.othaturner.com

“Sittin’ In The Train Station”, Willie McBlind, Live Long Day, http://www.freenotemusic.com

“Trainfare Home”, Duke Robillard, Low Down And Tore Up, Stony Plain Records, http://www.dukerobillard.com http://www.stonyplainrecords.com

“Streamline Train”, ‘Cripple’ Clarence Lofton, Boogie Woogie Kings (various artists), Delmark Reords, http://www.delmark.com

“Steamline”, Pin And The Hornits, 1993 Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, Burnside Records, http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com

“Red Streamliner”, Little Feat, Hoy-Hoy!, Warner Brothers Records, http://www.littlefeat.net http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Two Trains”, Lowell George, Thanks I’ll Eat It Here, Warner Brothers Records, http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Two Trains”, Carolyn Wonderland, Peace Meal, Bismeaux Records, http://www.carolynwonderland.com http://www.bismeauxrecords.com

“One Track Train”, The Blues Brothers Band, Red, White And Blues, Turnstyle Records

“Right Train, Wrong Track”, Kenny Neal, Bayou Blood, Alligator Records, http://www.kennyneal.net http://www.alligator.com

“That Train Don’t Stop Here”, Los Lobos, Kiko, Warner Brothers Records, http://www.loslobos.org http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie”, B. B. King, Let The Good Times Roll, MCA Records, http://www.bbking.com

“Choo Choo Mama”, Sean Chambers, The Rock House Sessions, Blue Heat Records, http://www.seanchambers.com

“Last Train”, Allen Toussaint, The Allen Toussaint Collection, Reprise Records, http://www.allentoussaint.com http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com

“Downtown Train”, Tom Waits, Rain Dogs, Island Records, http://www.tomwaits.com

“Night Train”, Terry Hanck, Night Train, self release, http://www.terryhanck.net

“The Train Kept A Rollin’”, Dread Zeppelin, 5.000.000, I.R.S. Records, http://www.dreadzeppelin.com

“Other Side Of The Tracks”, Cold Shot, The Complete Salt City Blues vol. 1, Blue Wave Records, http://www.coldshottheband.weebly.com http://www.bluewaverecords.com

“Same Train”, Dennis Jones, My Kinda Blues, Blue Rock Records, http://www.dennisjonescentral.com

“The Train”, Junior Wells, Better Off With The Blues, Telarc Records

“First Train Home”, Fleetwood Mac, The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967-1969, Blue Horizon Records, http://www.fleetwoodmac.com

“Last Train Home”, Chris Watson Band, Last Train Home, self release EP, http://www.chriswatsonband.com

“Mystery Train”, Zora Young, The French Connection, Delmark Records, http://www.delmark.com

“Train Time”, Cream, Wheels Of Fire, Polydor Records, http://www.ericclapton.com http://www.jackbruce.com http://www.gingerbaker.com http://www.polydor.co.uk

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.