Hi, I’m Al Hensley, host of the blues/soul/R&B music program Blue Monday. Each week I post the program’s playlist so you can find out more about the new releases and historic tracks featured. I’ll be taking a break from the show till early June. Meanwhile, blues loving presenters the Duke and the Duchess will fill in for me. To see what was played on 23 April 2012 click here

The following tracks were played on Al Hensley’s “Blue Monday” on 23 April 2012.

1. PEE WEE CRAYTON ‘You Know Yeah’ B.B. King & The Kings Of Electric Blues
2. REV. GARY DAVIS ‘Samson & Delilah’ The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful Dead
3. EDDIE BOYD ‘Five Long Years’ B.B. King & The Kings Of Electric Blues
4. FRANKIE LEE SIMS ‘Don’t Be Mad With Me’ Walking With Frankie
5. LUCILLE BOGAN ‘Pay Roll Blues’ I Can’t Be Satisfied Vol. 2
6. HOMESICK JAMES & HIS DUSTERS ‘Set a Date’ Chicago/The Blues/Today!
7. STUDEBAKER JOHN ‘Old School Rockin’ Old School Rockin’
8. EDDIE C. CAMPBELL ‘I Do’ Spider Eating Preacher
9. BIG JAMES & THE CHICAGO PLAYBOYS ‘Trying To Live My Life Without You’ The Big Payback
10. ERIC BELL ‘Hold That Plane’ Belfast Blues In a Jar
11. JANIVA MAGNESS ‘Thought I Knew You’ Stronger For It
12. JOHN LEE HOOKER ‘Come Back Baby’ Motor City Blues Master
13. JIMMY REED ‘Close Together’ The Essential Recordings
14. CHUBBY CARRIER & THE BAYOU SWAMP BAND ‘Who Stole The Hot Sauce’ The Rough Guide To Cajun & Zydeco
15. PJ O’BRIEN ‘Times Like These’ Jefferson Blues
16. THE MOJO WEBB BAND ‘Impossibly Beautiful’ The Cat
17. ALI PENNEY & THE MONEY MAKERS ‘Too Much Time’ Wait a Minute
18. LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS ‘Give Me Central 209′ The Houston Hurricane
19. BILLY BOY ARNOLD w/T.S. McPHEE & THE GROUNDHOGS ‘Mary Bernice’ Blue And Lonesome
20. MICHAEL MESSER ‘Crow Blues’ National Avenue
21. GILES ROBSON & THE DIRTY ACES ‘Keep On Diggin’ Crooked Heart Of Mine
22. TROMBONE SHORTY ‘Nervis’ For True
23. TAIL DRAGGER & BOB CORRITORE ‘Sugar Mama’ Longtime Friends In The Blues
24. ETTA JAMES ‘Too Tired’ The Dreamer
25. NATHAN JAMES & THE RHYTHM SCRATCHERS ‘Black Snakin’ Jiver’ What You Make Of It
26. HORACE SILVER ‘Cookin’ At The Continental’ The Best Of Horace Silver