PLAYLIST Pacific St Blues & Americana
April 9, 2023

“Don’t be the best in town. Just be the best until the best comes around.” Buddy Guy
Revisit today's show, and our archives at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/KIWRblues.com

1. Eric Bibb / Family
2. Eric Clapton / Long Distance Call
3. Angela Strehli / Two Steps from the Blues
4. GA 20 /
5. Tom Petty / They Call Me the Breeze
6. John Hiatt & MOE / Ballad of Curtis Loew
7. Dwight Yoakam / T is for Texas
8. Big Head Todd & the Monsters /  Sweet Home Alabama
9. Mavis Staples / You Gotta Move
10. Rory Block / I'll Take You There
11. Mike Ferris / When Mavis Sings
12. The Staple Singers / Love is Plentiful
13. BB King / Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby?
14. Louis Jordan / Jack, You Dead
15. Taj Mahal / Caledonia
16. Eric Clapton / Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out (unless they happen to be Pete Townshend)

Upcoming Shows & Events of Interest

April
12 ZZ Top, Orpheum
20 Earth Day
22 Record Store Day
28 The New Pornographers, Waiting Room (Neko Case)
29 Boo Boo Davis, The Jewell
30 Ivy Ford, The Jewell

May
2 Jason Isbell & Amythyst Kian, Orpheum
4 Harper, B.Bar
6 Built to Spill, Waiting Room
6 Blues Society Annual Meeting (5 p.m.), B. Bar
10 Big Al & The Heavyweights, Philly Sports Bar, LaVista
11 Buddy Guy @ The Holland
12 The Killer, Steel Shed (Holland)
15 Beatles Tribute, Orpheum
18 Big Al & The Heavyweights, Philly
20 Southern Culture on the Skids, Waiting Room
25 Curtis Salgado, Waiting Room
26 Blue Venue @ B. Bar

June
2 Marcia Ball & Ray Wylie Hubbard, Eureka Springs Auditorium (Arkansas)
3 Soaring Wings Vineyard Blues, Booze & Balloons
9-11 Summer Arts Festival
13 Jackson Browne, Omaha
16 Flaming Lips, Steel

July
1st Saturday in the Park, Sioux City
6-8 Zoo Fest, Zoo Bar
8 Orchestra plays music of Dr. Dre
14 Sugaray Rayford & Eddie V, (Playing With Fire)
15 Twelve Bar Blues Band, Dom Martin Band, Justin Saladino, Blues Ed (Playing With Fire)
15 Tori Amos @ Orpheum
19 Little Feat & Leftover Salmon, Orpheum
25 Tedeshi Trucks Band @ Pinewood Bowl (Lincoln)
28 Diana Krall @ Holland
28 Fargo Blues Fest Day #1 w/ Tommy Castro, Sugaray Rayford, Hector Anchondo
28 Maha Music Festival
29 Fargo Blues Fest Day #2 w/ GA 20, Blood Brothers (Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia)
29 Diana Krall @ Hoyt Sherman, Des Moines

August
4 New American Arts Festival, Benson area
5 In the Market for Blues
11 Trombone Shorty, Mavis Staples, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Ziggy Marley @ Pinewood Bowl (Lincoln)
11 Thorbjorn Risager & Black Tornado, Samatha Martin & Delta Sugar (Playing With Fire)
12 Bywater Call, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal, Blues Ed (Playing With Fire)
20 Doobie Brothers, Pinewood Bowl
27 Black Keys, Pinewood Bowl
31 - 9/4 Kris Lager's Ozark Festival, Arkansas

September
15-17 Telluride Blues Festival (Bonnie Raitt)

In the Mood for a Getaway? (Regional Shows: Des Moines, KC, & Iowa City)

Upcoming shows at the Starlight Theatre, Kansas City...
May 5th, Robert Plant(Led Zeppelin) & Alison Krauss,
May 26th, Chicago,
May 10th, Steve Miller w/Cheap Trick,
June 11, Barenaked Ladies,
June 14, Doobie Brothers,
June 15, Tyler Childers
June 19, Matchbox 20
June 30, Revivalist w/ Head and the Heart
July 1, Young the Giant w/ Milky Chance
July 18, Foreigner w/ Loverboy
Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles
August 1,2,3,4,5,6'Jagged Little Pill' (Morisette play)
August 25, The Black Keys,
September 6. 3 Doors Down,

Upcoming shows at Kansas City's Knuckleheads Saloon
April 19th, Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band
May 11th, Brandon Santini,
May 20th, Southern Culture on the Skids,
May 25, 26, 27, The Mavericks,

Upcoming shows at the Hoyt Sherman in Des Moines include...
July 29th, Diana Krall

The Englert Theater in Iowa City has some good shows coming up this year.
April 21 & 22, David Sedaris