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Friends of the Blues
May 8, 2026 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM 
Music
Classic and current blues music hosted by true aficionados. Produced on the campus of Kankakee Community College, Illinois, featuring legends like Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy Williamson; current "unknown" wailers like Kid Ramos and Too Slim and the Taildraggers; and regional stand-outs like "Mondo" Cortez's Chicago Blues Angels, and the Kilborn Alley Blues Band. Hosted by D’Arcy “Shuffle Shoes the Blues Guru” Ballinger and James “Dr. Skyy Dobro” Walker.
| 9:02 PM |
| Sonny Boy Williamson II Help Me Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Ralph Bass His Best UMG Recordings, Inc.
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| 9:05 PM |
| Memphis Slim Three Women Blues The Best Of The Blues Sandrew Metronome
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| 9:08 PM |
| Root Doctor Blues Will Take Good Care Of You Change Our Ways Big O Records
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| 9:14 PM |
| James Armstrong Devil's Candy Blues At The Border Catfood Records
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| 9:18 PM |
| Blue Lunch Rapid Shave Saxophone Shootout II (Live) Catapult
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| 9:24 PM |
| Jimmy Vivino Soulful Dress MAURICE EUGENE McALISTER, TERRY VAIL 13 Live Blind Pig Records
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| 9:35 PM |
| Michael Burks Little Juke Joint Harrison Sumner, Michael Burks The Alligator Records Years Alligator Records
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| 9:41 PM |
| Son Seals Ain't That Some Shame Samuel Lawrence Taylor Living In The Danger Zone Alligator Records
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| 9:45 PM |
| W.C. Clark Midnight Hour Blues Brown The Most Essential Blues Rock X5 Music Group
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| 9:51 PM |
| Little Milton Some Kind of Wonderful John Ellison Welcome to Little Milton Malaco Records
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| 9:55 PM |
| Curtis Salgado He Played His Harmonica Hall, Rusty, Salgado, Curtis The Blues of USA Today X5 Music Group
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| 10:00 PM |
| Ruth Brown Can't Stand A Broke Man A Good Day for the Blues New Rounder
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| 10:05 PM |
| Sugar Pie DeSanto Use What You Got Sugar Pie DeSanto In The Basement: The Chess Recordings Geffen
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| 10:09 PM |
| James Cotton He Was There James Cotton, Richard Fleming, Tom Hambridge Cotton Mouth Man Alligator Records
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| 10:13 PM |
| Darrell Nulisch Goin' Back to Dallas Goin' Back To Dallas Continental Record Services
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| 10:18 PM |
| James Harman It's Too Late Brother Remembering Little Walter Blind Pig Records
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| 10:21 PM |
| Andy T - Nick Nixon Band On My Way to Texas Andy Talamantez, James T Nixon Drink Drank Drunk DELTA GROOVE PRODUCTIONS
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| 10:29 PM |
| Tampa Red When Things Go Wrong With You (It Hurts Me Too) - 2002 Remastered Hudson Whittaker That's All Right (When the Sun Goes Down series) SME
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| 10:32 PM |
| Elmore James It Hurts Me Too Mel London Street Talkin' Ronn Records
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| 10:35 PM |
| Canned Heat Stranger Elmore James Canned Heat Blues Band (Original Recording Remastered) Friday Music
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| 10:40 PM |
| Long Tall Deb Married To The Blues Deb Landolt, John Popovich Raise Your Hands Vizztone Label Group
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| 10:44 PM |
| R.L. Burnside Everything Is Broken All Blues'd Up: Songs of Bob Dylan Intersound
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| 10:51 PM |
| Too Slim and the Taildraggers Blues For EB Blues For EB Burnside Records
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| 10:56 PM |
| Rick "L.A." Holmes Fooled Ya Lookout! Black Top
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| 10:56 PM |
| Purple Mountains All My Happiness is Gone Purple Mountains All My Happiness is Gone Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
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| 10:58 PM |
| Buddy Guy First Time I Met The Blues The Very Best of Buddy Guy Rhino / Wea
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