Archie Archive’s Norty Blues
Nearly an hour of the Blues, from its Hokum days to the respectability of the 21st century. A personal choice.
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Episodes
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Welcome to episode 110 of Norty Blues. I'm your presenter Archie Archive and the entertainment this week is from Rosa Henderson, Charlie Patton, Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins, Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Dinah Washington, Bonnie Kay and the Sweet Patooties, JR & The Jewel-Tones, Ruth Brown, Charlie Musselwhite & Richard Bargel, Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Guy
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Welcome to this week's Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and the entertainment in episode 109 is from Gladys Bentley, Revd Gary Davis, Mamie Smith, Howlin Wolf, Nina Simone, Liza Ohlback, Don Hopkins, ZZ Top, Craig Nielsen, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Joanna Connor and Willie Dixon.
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Welcome to this week's episode of Archie Archive's Norty Blues. This is episode 108 and the entertainment is from Bo Carter, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends, T-Bone Walker, Anna Boulic, Rick Steele, Beth Hart, Chet Baker, Memphis Slim, Janis Joplin, Keb Mo and Maria Muldaur
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Welcome to episode 107 of Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and the entertainment this week is from
Marion Harris, Mississippi Sheiks, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lonnie Johnson, Anna Scionti , Django Braveheart, Ruthie Foster, , Larkin Poe, Charlie Musselwhite, Joe Bonamasso, Memphis Minnie and Leadbelly
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Welcome to episode 106 of Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and the entertainment this week is from Hambone Willie Newbern, Moanin' Bernice Edwards, Peetie Wheatstraw, Anna Belle Coleman, B.B. King, Fiona Boyes, Brett Littlefair, Samantha Fish, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mable Hillery and Willie Dixon
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Welcome to Episode 105 of Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and the entertainment tonight is from
Bessie Smith, Bo Carter, Billie Holiday, Memphis Slim , Elvis Presley, Kate Lush, Pete Cornelius, Tuba Skinny, Ray Charles with Bonnie Raitt and Sippie Wallace
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Archie Archive here again with episode 104 of Norty Blues. Welcome and this week you will hear some blues from
Lucille Bogan, Kokomo Arnold, Ida Cox, Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry, Pinetop Perkins, Suedan, Dave Hole, Samantha Fish, John Lee Hooker, Maria Muldaur, Rory Bookbinder, Larkin Poe and Bull Moose Jackson
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Welcome to Episode 103 of Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and the entertainers this week are
Rosa Henderson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Big Bill Broonzy, Bonnie Raitt & Junior Wells, Tommy McClennan, Kara Grainger, The Blues Preachers, Big Mama Thornton, Duke Ellington, Etta James, Pack Rat's Smokehouse and Elles Bailey
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Welcome to episode 102 of Norty Blues. Not so Norty this week but very Bluesy!I'm Archie Archive and the entertainment in this show is from Josie Miles, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Nina Simone, Bukka White, Dinah Washington, Kevin Borich, Anna Scionti, Fred McDowell, John Mayall, Zooloo Blues Band, Barbeque Bob and Sippie Wallace
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Welcome to this week's Norty Blues. I'm Archie Archive and this is Episode 101. In this great South Land, the 26th January is either a celebration of Australia Day, or a remembrance of Invasion Day as many people now refer to it. Regardless, here is a collection of Australian Blues entertainers - Pigram Brothers, Fiona Boyes, Chris Wilson, Kankawa Nagarra, Frank Sultana, Marlene Cummins, Chain, Jo Jo Smith, Georgia Lee and Jimi Hocking.