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Blue Light Boogie: More Trains

Playlist #1430 Saturday Nov. 9, 2019

“Where The Yellow Cross The Dog”, Corey Harris, Downhome Sophisticate, Rounder Records

“New Frisco Train”, Bukka White, Memphis Country Blues vol. 1 (various artists), Memphis Archives

“Morning Train”, Precious Bryant, The Truth, Terminus Records

“When The Train Comes Along”, Elizabeth Cotton, Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

“Station Blues”, Otha Turner And The Afrosippi Allstars, From Senagal To Senatobia, Birdman Records

“Sittin’ In The Train Station’, Willie McBlind, Live Long Day, self release

“Trainfare Home”, Duke Robillard, Low Down And Tore Up, Stony Plain Records

“Streamline Train”, ‘Cripple’ Clarence Lofton, Boogie Woogie Kings (various artists), Delmark Records

“Streamline”, Pin And The Hornits, 1993 Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, Burnside Records

“Red Streamliner”, Little Feat, Hoy-Hoy!, Warner Brothers Records

“Two Trains”, Lowell George, Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here, Warner Brothers Records

“Two Trains”, Carolyn Wonderland, Peace Meal, Bixmeaux Records

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

“Right Train, Wrong Track”, Kenny Neal,, Bayou Blood, Alligator Records

“That Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore”, Los Lobos, Kiko, Warner Brothers Records

“Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie”, B. B. King, Let The Good Times Roll, MCA Records

“Choo Choo Mama”, Sean Chambers, The Rock House Sessions, Blue Heat Records

“Last Train”, Allen Toussaint, The Allen Toussaint Collection, Reprise Records

“Downtown Train”, Tom Waits, Rain Dogs, Island Records

“Night Train”, Terry Hanck, Night Train, self release

“The Train Kept A Rollin’”, Dread Zeppelin, 5,000,000, I. R. S. Records

“Other Side Of The Tracks”, Cold Shot, The Complete Salt City Blues vol. 1 (various artists), Blue Wave Records

“Same Train”, Dennis Jones, My Kinda Blues, Blue Rock Records

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

“First Train Home”, Fleetwood Mac, The Complete Horizon Sessions1967-1969, Blue Horizon Records

“Last Train Home”, Chris Watson Band, Last Train Home, self release EP

“Mystery Train”, Zora Young, The French Connection, Delmark Records

“Train Time”, Cream, Wheels Of Fire, 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.