This week's playlist: • It's Never Too Hard To Be Humble (4:44) by Watermelon Slim, from Escape From The Chicken Coop (2009), available from NorthernBlues Music and the iTunes Music Store. Visit WatermelonSlim.com for more information. • You Can Count On Me (4:05) by Blueskillet, from Cure These Blues (2009); available from CDBaby and the iTMS. Visit Blueskillet.com for more information. • Homegrown (Radio Mix) (3:42) by The Kelly Bell Band, from Phat Blues Music (1998), available at the band's page at Garageband, the Phat store at their site, or from the iTMS. Visit PhatBlues.com for more information. • You Let Me Down (6:46), Common Man (4:01) and Shoot 'Em Up (4:12), all by Ramblin Dawgs, and all from Shoot 'Em Up (2009); available from the store at their site and the iTMS. Visit RamblinDawgs.com for more information. • Like The Bad Girls Do (2:47) by Jacks O' Diamonds, from Here There & Everywhere (2009). To buy Here There & Everywhere, send email to jdofjacksodiamonds (at) yahoo (dot) com. Visit JacksODiamonds.net for more information. • Stone Cold Blues (5:27), Mississippi Mud (4:36) and Bad in a Good Way (5:21), all by Omar & the Howlers, and all from Boogie Man (2003); available from Amazon.com and the iTMS. Visit OmarAndTheHowlers.com and their MySpace page for more information. • Brand New Blues (5:11) by Cyril Neville, from Brand New Blues (2009); available from MC-Records.com and the iTMS. Visit Nevilles.com and Cyril's MySpace page for more information. • Lost In The Sauce (4:48) by the JP Blues Band, from Die Happy (2007); available from the iTMS. Visit the band's Electronic Press Kit (EPK) for more information. • Foul Weather Blues (3:30) by Harpdog Brown. To buy Harpdog's most recent CD, Once in a Howlin' Moon, visit HarpdogBrown.com. Visit Harpdog's Garageband page or his MySpace page for more information. Mentioned during this show: AirplayDirect. To contact me: email me at murphyssaloon (at) gmail (dot) com - you can also contact me through: Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. My Flickr photo collection is here. My Google profile is here. You can read items I share in Google Reader here. You are welcome to write reviews of Murphy's Saloon Blues Podcast in the iTunes Music Store. Primary sources of information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues; BluesRevue.com, the online home of Blues Revue magazine; BigCityBluesMag.com, the online home of Big City Blues magazine; and BluesCritic.com. Recommended reading: Today's Chicago Blues (Amazon link) by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago. Karen also blogs about the blues at Today's Chicago Blues. For things to do in Chicago: The Local Tourist. Two wonderful non-traditional online sources of Chicago news: Gapers Block and the Chicagoist. (Something noteworthy being done by a hard working and very talented friend of mine: Flamenco Chicago) (The music you hear on Murphy's Saloon comes to you courtesy of the artists and their labels. One of the following may have provided assistance: IODA PROMONET, AirplayDirect, RadioSubmit.com, the Podsafe Music Network, Download.com or Garageband.com, )