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"Down
at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,

if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,


look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."

(Slim Dusty)



Show 158

We're
on a blooze crooze to the Land Down Under The music we call the blues
came from the Mississippi Delta but it's spread around the world.


Look
How You Broke My Heart - Collard Greens and Gravy, from their 2010
album Juke Joint Boogie.


Woman
Ain't A Mule - Fiona Boyes, from an album she recorded in Austin,
Texas in 2009, Blues Woman.


Bad
Weather Blues - the Bondi Cigars, the title track of their 1992
album.


Sunday
In The City -
the band called Carson,
from their 1972
album Blown,
featuring Broderick
Smith on vocals and harmonica.


Stranger
Blues -
Brendan Gallagher, from his album Wine Island, a 2013 release.
Along with making his own records, Gallagher
is a record producer, session musician, and works with his band Karma
County.


Wang
Dang Doodle - Murder Mouse Blues Band, from their 2009 album Fill The
Hole, doing a Willie Dixon song he wrote for Howlin Wolf in 1960.


Blues
So Bad - Andy Baylor and his Cajun Combo doing some blooze with a
western swing, from 2021, the album titled Tonight.


First,
some chuckles


Colin
Hay, the Men At Work guy, had
a chat with
Kerri-Anne Kennerley on
her
Australian
daytime TV
show
Midday, which ran from 1985 to 1998.


Back
to the blues


When
The Blues Began - Kerri Simpson, from her album Sun Gonna Shine, a
2007 release.


Smokestack
Lightning - the Backsliders, with another Howlin Wolf song, this one
written by Wolf (Chester Burnett), who recorded it in 1956; the
Backsliders put this version on a 2005 album titled Live.


Let
It Slide - Suzannah Espie, from her 2009 album First and Last Hotel.


White
Shawl - David
McComb,
the Triffids leader,
with a little something
that was on the 2006
expanded version of the band's album Born Sandy Devotional,
which originally came out in 1986.


World
of Blue -
Geoff Achison,
from his 2018 album
Sovereign Town.


Working
Man's Blues
-
Dutch
Tilders, from his
album Live at the Commune, 1973.


Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.





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