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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.
