Rockin' The Blues: Thursdays 20:00, Saturdays 00:01 (repeat)
Stuart Hamilton Profiles, Sundays 20:00, Saturdays 18:00
(repeat)
The Eclectic Mix, Sundays 17:00 (fourth Sunday of
the month)
Next show: Sunday,
22 January
Rock
Byways, Mondays 16:00 (from 5 September)
A chance
to hear this series again, originally broadcast as part of "The
Eclectic Mix".
Back when I was a boy, I didn't know what the blues were. I knew
I liked to rock, but that was about it. At the time I was
working after school and at weekends as an apprentice butcher
and early closing on a Saturday meant that if I got a shift on I
could rush across town to the finest record emporium around - Ezy Ryder. They had a rubbish bin full of cut out albums and
records without sleeves which I pored through every chance I
got.
This day I discovered a sleeveless compilation album for about
thruppence ha'penny which had a Vanilla Fudge track on it. That
was enough for the nascent rocker in me, so I bought it and
rushed off home to play it on my second hand Elizabethan mono
record deck.
The first two tracks from Delaney & Bonnie and the MC5 were
good, but then it hit me. Track 3! I had never heard anything
like this before. I yanked it off the deck to see who it was
(sleeveless, remember), and the three magic words appeared
before me. Allman Brothers Band.
I saved up my wages from then on, buying anything and everything
I could with those magic words on it. Then I started looking
more closely at the credits. Who was this "McTell" that wrote
'Statesboro' Blues'? It couldn't be Ralph? No, it was Blind
Willie. And so began an ongoing quest into the Blues that still
gets me excited a quarter of a century on. Granted, I still like
my Blues to rock and if there's a touch of a Southern roadhouse
about it, so much the better, but the Blues is definitely where
it all began.
Stuart's Best of 2011
Broadcast Xmas Day 2011
Sadie Jemmett - The Blacksmith's Girl 5.00
Julius Pittman & The Revival - I Wouldn't Treat A Dog 4.25
Hayley Griffiths - Haunted 3.33
The Enid - Space Surfing 4.45
Julie Fowlis - The Thatcher/Peter Byrne's/The Soup
Dragon/Isaac's Welcome To The World 5.08
Nicole Atkins - You Come To Me 3.48
John Parr - Naighty Naughty 4.45
Rebekah Findlay - Viking Blood 3.45
Demon's Eye featuring Doogie White - Sins Of The Father 4.37
Whitesnake - Steal Your Heart Away 5.19
Whitesnake - Forevermore 7.26
Stuart Hamilton Profiles: Saturdays 18:00 repeat, Sundays 20:00
2012
Sundays
1 January Southern Rock
8 January Argent UK
dates in Jan/Feb
15 January Thin Lizzy On tour in January 22 January Dream Theater UK
dates in February 29 January Steve Hackett On tour in
February 5 February West Coast Sounds
Saturdays
7 January Southern Rock
14 January Argent UK dates in Jan/Feb
21 January Thin Lizzy On tour in January 28 January Dream Theater UK dates in February 4 February The Scorpions On tour in February 11 February West Coast Sounds
All tour dates are in the UK (unless otherwise stated)
Previous shows (2011)
2 January
Thin Lizzy On tour in Jan/Feb
9 January The Contenders Artists to watch out for in 2011
16 January Magnum On tour in April 23 January Purple People
30 January New Blues
6 February Gary Moore
Celebrating the guitarist who died recently
13 February Paul Rodgers On tour in April 20 February AOR Foreigner, Journey, Styx on tour in June 27 February
Groundhogs Dates in April 6 March Whitesnake On tour in June 13 March Saxon On tour in April 20 March Wishbone Ash On tour in March/April 27 March Judas Priest On tour in July
3 April Kings X On tour in April 10 April Rush On tour in May 17 April Nu Blues 2
24 April Megadeth Sonisphere in July 1 May Purple People 11 The latest in Stuart's Deep Purple-related series 8 May
Argent/related On tour in May 15 May Rush On tour in May 22 May AOR Foreigner, Journey & Styx on tour in June 29 May
Whitesnake On tour in June 5 June The Groundhogs Dates in June and July 12
June Queensryche On tour in July 19 June Judas Priest On tour in July 26 June Megadeth Sonisphere July 8 3 July Purple People 12 More from the Purple family 10
July Jethro Tull High Voltage, 24 July 17 July Dream Theater On tour in July and High Voltage (24 July) 24 July Iron Maiden On tour July/August 7 August Fish
On tour Aug/Sept in Scotland 14 August Caravan
On tour October 21 August Robin Trower On tour Aug/Oct 28 August Y & T On tour Sep/Oct 4 September John Mayall On tour
Oct/Nov 11 September Peter Frampton On tour
November 18 September Joe Bonamassa
On tour
October
25 September Focus On tour Oct/Nov 2 October Carl Palmer On tour
Nov/Dec 9 October Yes On
tour Nov 16 October The Zombies
On tour
Nov
23 October John Mayall On tour Oct/Nov 30
October Steve Hackett On tour Nov 6 November Molly Hatchet On tour
Dec 13 November Carl Palmer On tour Nov 20 November Walter Trout On
tour Nov 27 November Purple People Deep Purple on tour Dec 4
December Saxon On tour in Dec
11 December Molly Hatchet On tour in Dec
18 December NWOBHM 2
Previous shows
(2010)
4 April Purple People 8
11 April Joe Bonamassa On tour in May 18 April Argent Playing High Voltage Festival in July 25 April Hawkwind
Tour dates in April/May 2 May New Blues Oli Brown, Joanne Shaw Taylor on tour in May 9 May AC/DC AC/DC
headline Download in June 16 May Michael Schenker
On tour in May/June 23
May Aerosmith
Aerosmith
headline Download in June 30 May ZZ Top
ZZ Top headlining High Voltage in July
6 June Richie Kotzen
Tour dates in June 17-20
13 June Y&T Download, June 12
20 June Magnum High Voltage, July 25 27 June Marillion High Voltage, July 25
4 July Focus High Voltage, July 25 11 July Argent/related
High Voltage, July 25 18 July ELP
High Voltage, July 25 25 July Camel
1 August Robin Trower On tour in September 8 August Walter Trout
On tour in October 15 August: Purple People 9 - Glenn Hughes On tour in September/October 22 August Y&T On
tour in October 29 August New Prog
4 September Robin Trower On tour in
September 11 September Porcupine Tree Royal
Albert Hall, October 14
18 September Glenn Hughes On tour in
Sept/October
25 September Joe Bonamassa On tour in
October 3 October Joe Satriani On tour in
October 10 October Jeff Beck On tour in
October 17 October Wishbone Ash
On tour in October/November 24 October Steve Hackett
On tour in November 31 October Motorhead
On tour in November 7 November Uriah Heep Hard Rock Hell, December 4 14
November UFO On tour in December (incl. Hard Rock Hell, Dec 3) 21 November Iron Maiden
28 November Saxon
Hard Rock Hell, Dec
4
5
December Motorhead
12 December Purple People 8
19 December Queensryche
Stuart Hamilton Rock Byways: last Sunday of month, 17:00
from May 30 2010
Sample playlist
Man - Ride And The View 4.56
Spencer Davis Band - Pockey Way 5.05
Savoy Brown - Got Love If You Want It 3.17
Caravan - The Show Of Our Lives 4.41
Gentle Giant - Proclamation 5.33
The Strawbs - Burning For Me 4.02
Slapp Happy - Just A Conversation 4.07
Renaissance - Prologue 6.20
Pierre Moerlens's Gong - Flyin' High 5.49
Russ Ballard - Your Time Is Gonna Come 4.39
The Amazing Blondel - Call It A Night 3.04
