Pacific Street Blues & Americana

Pacific Street Blues
Spotlight on Bessie Smith
June 14, 2026

1. Janis Joplin / Black Mountain Blues
2. Bob Dylan & The Band / Bessie Smith (Happy and Artie Traum)
3. Dory Previn / (Janis Joplin bought a) Stone for Bessie Smith
4. John Coltrane / Bessie's Blues

Influences
5. Ma Rainey / See See Rider Blues (Elvis Presley)
6. Ida Cox / Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
7. Albert Hunter / Down Hearted Blues
8. Maime Smith / Crazy Blues

Duets: Charlie Green of Omaha
9. Bessie Smith w/ Charlie Green / Empty Bed Blues
10. Jim Croce / Charlie Green Play that Slide Trombone
11. Bessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong (trumpet) / St Louis Blues
12. Clara Smith w/ Bessie Smith / I'm Going Back to My Used to Be

James P Johnson, The Invisible Pianist
13. Bessie Smith w/ James P Johnson / Back Water Blues
14. Fats Waller / Ain't Misbehavin'
15. Count Basie / April in Paris
16. Duke Ellington / Take the A Train (Billy Eckstine)

Lieber & Stoller
17. Wilbert Harrison / Kansas City
18. Kathy Tyree / Hound Dog
19. Elvis Presley / King Creole
20. The Rolling Stones / Down Home Girl
21. The Beatles / Young Blood

John Hammond Sr. Legendary A&R Columbia Records
22. Billie Holiday / Gimme a Beer and a Pigfoot
23. Aretha Franklin / Soulville
24. Bruce Springsteen / Sandy (4th of July)
25. Lionel Hampton w/ Nat Cole Trio / House of Morgan

Covers of Bessie Smith's Music
26. Sue Foley / Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 
27. Ella Fitzgerald / Gulf Coast Blues 
28. Della Reese / You've Been a Good Old Wagon 
29. Etta James / Don't Cry Baby
30. Bessie Smith / Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 
31. Rhiannon Giddens / You Put the Sugar in My Bowl 
32. Rory Block / I'm Down in the Dumps 
33. Kenny Wayne Shepherd / Back Water Blues

20. Lee Roy Parnell / Daddies and Daughters
21. Bruce Springsteen / Walk Like a Man
22. Keb Mo / Lullaby Baby Blues
23. Pops Staples / Father, Father
24. Radney Foster / Never Gonna Fly
25. Morgan James / Dream On
26. Lou Ann Barton / One Way Street
27. Bull Moose Jackson / Big Ten Inch Record
28. Aerosmith / Baby, Please Don't Go
29. The Black Keys / She Does It Right
30. Marc Broussard & Joe Bonamassa / I'm Going Home
31. Eddie 9V / Cry Like a River
32. Aiyana Lee (Anderson) / Housebroken
33. The Screaming Cheetah Wheelies / I Found Love
34. The Allman Brothers / Ain't Wastin' Time No More
35. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away
36. PM Dawn / You Got Me Floatin'

Pacific St Blues & Americana
June 7, 2026 

1. Shaun Murphy / I'm Gonna Take the Money
2. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Devil Be Gone 
3. Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs / No Regrets 
4. Joyann Parker / End of the Line 
5. Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials / If I should Love Your Love 
6. D.K. Harrell / Grown Now
7. Carla Thomas / Country Road 
8. Mark Knopfler & James Taylor / Sailing to Philadelphia
9. Ghalia Volt / Where Do We Go
10. Caroline Wonderland / Sooner or Later 
11. Low Cut Connie / Can Be 
12. Bywater Call / Only 
13. Fabulous Thunderbirds / I'm a Good Man 
14. Jr Wells & Buddy Guy / Hoodoo Man Blues 
15. Bonnie Raitt / Right Down the Line 
16. Devon Allman & Samantha Fish / Stop Dragging My Heart Around 
17. Beth Hart / Kashmir 
18. Slash, Bonamassa, Shemekia Copeland / When Love Comes to Town
19. U2 American Obituary

Pacific St Blues featuring Nick Armijo & Rick Galusha
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London
22. Mose Allison / Young Man Blues
23. The Who / Young Man Blues
24. Moody Blues / Bye Bye Bird
25. The Rolling Stones / In the Stars
26. Fleetwood Mac / Oh Well, pt 1

27. The Black Keys / Tell Me You Love Me
28. The Kels / 6ft Deep
29. Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials / Crazy Love
30. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Hell or High Water

Canada
31. Sue Foley / Gaslight
32. Bywater Call / Only
33. Joni Mitchell / A Case of You
34. Neil Young / Ohio
Omaha
35. Kris Lager Band / Trouble in My Home
36. Matt Whipkey / Lonely Town Too
37. Eric Nelson / Not At All 
38. Hector Anchondo / Face It Down 
39. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away

Pacific St Blues & Americana
May 31, 2026
With Nick Armijo & Rick Galusha

Texas(ish)
1. Duane Betts / Down to Houston
2. Blood Brothers (Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia) / Do What You Gotta Do
3. Fabulous Thunderbirds / Full Time Lover
4. Albert Collins / Blue Monday Hangover
Louisiana
5. Professor Longhair / Junco Partner
6. Marcia Ball & Irma Thomas / Look Up
7. Fats Domino / I'm in the Mood for Love
8. Van Morrison / Domino
9. John Lennon / Ain't That a Shame
Chicago
10. Johnny Burgin / Silently Suffering
11. Muddy Waters / Go Mojo Working
12. Buddy Guy / She Suits Me to a T
13. Magic Same / All Your Love

14. ZZ Hill / Downhome Blues
15. Willie Mabon / Seventh Son
16. Mark Broussard w/ Joe Bonamassa / I'm Going Home
17. Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps / When My Baby Comes Home
Memphis
18. Elvis Presley / I Got Stung
19. John Hiatt / Mess O'blues 
20. Jackie Brenston / Rocket 88
21. Billy Lee Riley / Flying Saucer Rock n Roll