Murphy's Saloon Blues Podcast

Show Notes: • Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas by the Candy Butchers. • A Podsafe Christmas by Jonathan Coulton. • If Every Day Was Christmas by Podsafe for Peace (the Podsafe Music Network link) and Podsafe For Peace, where you can buy and download a copy of the song. All proceeds from the sales of the mp3 will go to UNICEF. • This White Christmas Will Be Blue by Beatrice Ericsson. • Christmas of Love by Tresa Street. • Christmas Wish by Gidgets Ga Ga. • Just Stockings On by [munk]. (All music courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network)

With new, improved audio levels, so you can put away your ear trumpets, I promise. • Boom Boom by Loren Schulte at GarageBand.com. • In My Arms by The Ken DeRouchie Band at GarageBand.com, and at their own site. • Five O'Clock in the Morning by the The Fabulous House Rockers at GarageBand.com. • Big Mary's by The Hipnotics at the Podsafe Music Network, and at their own site. • Slow Start To Nowhere by Circus Mind at GarageBand.com. Circus Mind's own site is over here. • I Want To Go To Heaven by Tommy Z at the Podsafe Music Network. Tommy's own site is here. And, of course, the Murphy's Saloon intro is from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit and the show outro is from Play This by Dave at the Chub Creek Podcast, both at the Podsafe Music Network. If you'd like to see where some Murphy's Saloon listeners live, you can check out the Murphy's Friends map over here, and perhaps put up a push pin of your own. (Music in this week's Murphy's Saloon is courtesy of GarageBand.com and the Podsafe Music Network)

• Put A Little Love by Beatrice Ericsson. • Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas by the Candy Butchers. • A Podsafe Christmas by the Jonathan Coulton. • If Every Day Was Christmas by Podsafe for Peace (the Podsafe Music Network link) and Podsafe For Peace, where you can buy and download a copy of the song. All proceeds from the sales of the mp3 will go to UNICEF. (All music courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network)

Murphy's Saloon #7 Show Notes: This show should be much easier to hear than previous shows. • Someone To Talk To by Robin Banks. • I Believe by Detroit Women. • La Fayette Cajun by the Blue Stew. • Snake by Son Lewis. • Guaranteed Recipe by The Raunchtones. Special props to Silk City Records and Andy Allu, who made the work of these artists available at the PMN. Thanks, Andy! Thanks, also, to Michael Butler for bringing Silk City Records to the PMN. Now go catch us a 'Gator, Michael. The Murphy's Saloon intro is from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit and the show outro is from Play This by Dave at the Chub Creek Podcast. (All music in Murphy's Saloon #7 is courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network)

Murphy's Saloon #6 Show Notes: • She's Leavin' by Phantom Freeway and the Badass Horns. • Foul Weather Blues by Harpdog Brown. • Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas by the Candy Butchers. • Tryin' Blues by The Jimmy Davis Band. • Ragtop Cadillac by George Fletcher and Bourbon Renewal. • Didn't Know She Was Married by Chumslick Nick and the Sharks. • And, as usual, the Murphy's Saloon intro is from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit and the show outro is from Play This by Dave at the Chub Creek Podcast. (Music in this week's show courtesy of the PodSafe Music Network and GarageBand)

Murphy's Saloon #5 Show Notes: • I Won't Go Back by Joe White from GarageBand. • Just A Fool by Big Hammer from GarageBand. • Above the Clouds by P. W. Fenton & The Second Ward. • Lonely in Love by Amber deLaurentis and Sarah Blue. • Secrets by Steve Pierson from GarageBand. • Woolly Mammoth by Robert Farrell. • And, as usual, the Murphy's Saloon intro is from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit and the show outro is from Play This by Dave at the Chub Creek Podcast. (Music in this week's show courtesy of the PodSafe Music Network and GarageBand)

Murphy's Saloon #4 Show Notes: • Almost Heaven by Tommy Z. Tommy infuses his songs with a mix of jazz, R&B, rock and funk, tinged with spirituality. His latest CD, Universal Love, was produced by Nick Blagona (Bee Gees, Nazareth, Moody Blues, Deep Purple, Rainbow, The Police, Chicago) He also appears on a recently released solo album Gillan's Inn by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. Tommy's personal Web site (where you can buy his CD) is here. • Talk Is Cheap by The Shades of Gray. The Shades of Gray are four young guys out of Salt Lake City who've been playing together for 2 years. They list Herbie Hancock, the Allman Bros. and Jimi Hendrix as influences. The band's site is here. • Your Heart by Anne Heaton. Heaton has been based out of New York in recent years, but is considering a move back to Chicago, her home town. She was an opening act on Jewel's Spring 2005 tour, and lists Fine Young Cannibals, Peter Gabriel, Tom Petty, 10,000 Maniacs and the Indigo Girls as influences. Heaton's debut album, Black Notebo

Murphy's Saloon #3 Show Notes: • The Hipnotics, from Kansas City, Missouri. • George Fletcher and Bourbon Renewal, from Saratoga Springs, NY. • Billy Marquis, from Indianola, MS. • Delta Chuck, from Tulsa, OK. • Punam Verma from the United Kingdom at the Podsafe Music Network and, as promised the photo page at her personal site. • Harpdog Brown, from Vancouver, British Columbia. • Stingray, from Perth, Western Australia. • Show intro from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit, whose CD is available through their site, CD Baby or Tower Records. • Show outro from Play This by Dave at the Chub Creek Podcast. There was also a very brief discussion of bad beer, and the sad and lamentable fact that Murphy was not included in the Chicago Tribune's voting list of the best bartenders in Chicago for 2005. (Music in this week's show courtesy of the PodSafe Music Network, except where noted.)

This episode was a solo project, with considerable material and moral support from several sources (Greg, you're a mensch!). Big thanks to the Podsafe Music Network, GarageBand and the artists. Show Notes: • Show intro from Rocket Science by Brain Buckit, whose CD is available through their site, CD Baby or Tower Records. • 99 Pounds by P.W. Fenton and The Second Ward. Although they're no longer playing together, present evidence argues that P.W. Fenton and The Second Ward put on one hell of a show in their day. Today, among other things, Fenton is the host and chief instigator of his own podcast, Digital Flotsam. • Missing You by Blue Matters. Blue Matters are a group of German and Swiss students who met in school in Venezuala. Missing Youhas a nice, smooth R&B groove going for it. I think it deserves better than the two-and-a-half star rating it presently has at the Podsafe Music Network. • Cool Your Engine by Janet Ryan and Straight Up!. I found Janet Ryan and Straight Up! over at GarageBand.com and wa

Welcome to opening weekend at Murphy's Saloon - Podcast Home of the Blues. Drinks are on the house. Every week I'll be serving up the best of independent and podsafe blues, blues rock, rhythm 'n' blues, or whatever else catches my ear. I'm also trying to make arrangements for special permission to play some signed blues artists, so keep your fingers crossed. Show Notes: • Rocket Science by Brain Buckit. I want to apologize to Brain Buckit for not looking further for information about them before recording my show. Be sure to visit their site (linked above), and if you liked what you heard, buy their CD. • There's More Pretty Girls Than One by Blind Arvella Gray. Huge thanks to Cary Baker of Cary Baker's Conqueroo for giving me special permission to play Blind Arvella Gray. Arvella was the real deal, there's no doubt about that, and Cary is a true fan of the blues. • There She Goes by Brother Love. What can I say about Brother Love? That he's got the goods? Hell, yeah! That he rocks? Hell, yeah again! There