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The Roadhouse 333
This edition of The Roadhouse brings the 27th annual Mississippi Valley Blues Festival into the spotlight, with an hour of music from artists who performed at the festival. Sherman Robertson, Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers, Linsey Alexander, Harper, and Chocolate Thunder keep the hour moving right along with the headliners from the festival. The 333rd Roadhouse is another hour – a festive hour – of the finest blues you’ve never heard.
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, July 1, 2011.
Dwayne Dopsie and The Zydeco Hellraisers @ Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.
Annie Raines @ Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.
Eric Gales live on the bandshell stage at Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.
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Johnny Nicholas performs “Hard Time Livin’”.
Ruthie Foster performs “Heal Yourself” in 2010.
Mississippi John Hurt performs “You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley”
Roadhouse 331
In celebration of the blues festivals filling weekends from now until Labor Day, the 331st Roadhouse contains a nice mixture of live and studio blues. Trampled Under Foot, The Jeff Healey Band, Ruthie Foster, Harmonica Shah, and Harry Manx & Kevin Breit are part of a lineup that will help prime the pump for your attendance at your own local blues festival. There’s lots of live music in this hour, and it’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.