Archie Archive’s Norty Blues

Nearly an hour of the blues from some of the better known artists.
Louis Armstrong and his Hot SevenDinah WashingtonWillie DixonBillie HolidayTom WaitsNina SimoneDave HoleLead BellyGraham Bell and his Australian Jazz Band with Georgia Lee JoJo SmithRenee Geyer and the Kevin Borich Express

A look at some of the bluesmen who didn't last all that long along with some more modern tracks. Featuring Little Walter, Bumble Bee Slim, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Kokomo Arnold, Wendy Saddington, Marlene Cummins, Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane, Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton and Blind Blake

This week we have mostly women of talent on the show although there are some highly skilled Bluesmen included.
From the Deep South of the USA to Europe and on to Australia we have Bo Carter, Memphis Minnie, Sippie Wallace, Sippie Wallace, T Bone Walker, Georgia Lee, Margret Roadnight, Wynton Kelly&John Coltrane&Stan Getz, Chris&Fenn Wilson, Scott Henderson, Samantha Fish.

The Blues as a part of Saturday Night Entertainment. The Dallas String Band, Memphis Minnie, Ida Cox, Tommy McClennan, Howlin' Wolf, Diamond Dave and The Doodaddies (from Western Australia) and Frank Sultana out of Sydney

Getting drunk on the Blues. Featuring Johnnie Johnson, Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong, Arthur "Blind"  Blake, Rosa Henderson, Rufus Thomas, Janis Joplin, John Lee Hooker in half an hour of classic Blues.

Forty minutes of Blues which fades into Gospel. With Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Blind Boy Fuller, Son House, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker, Jo Jo Smith, Wayne Jury and the Blind Boys of Alabama

Blues from Down South in the USA all the way Out West. Western Australia, that is. Music from Mississippi Fred McDowell, Maggie Jones, Victoria Spivey. Clyde McCoy, Billie Holiday, Dave Hole and Fiona Boyes
 

Discovering some of the early Blues singers and finding out some of their musical descendants.
Featuring Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins, Tommy Johnson, Renee Geyer, Stevie Wonder

Featuring Bessie Smith, Armenter Chatmon (Bo Carter), Sippie Wallace, Lead Belly, Blind Boys of Alabama, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

Blues music from 1924 to 2013, from Southern USA to Broome, Western Australia.
Featuring Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Lucille Bogan, Wynonie Harris, Big Bill Bloonzey, Helen Humes,  Chris Wilson and Steven Pigram