In the first hour of this week’s Saturday Night Blues, host Holger Petersen talks to Canadian blues and roots singer Treasa Levasseur.
Active on the Toronto music scene for many years, Levasseur has spent time recording in Memphis and recently released a CD called Broad. On that disc, she has four different Canadian blues bands backing her up.
In hour two, Lucky Peterson and his wife, Tamara, drop by the SNB studio in Edmonton to play some live blues. Peterson was a child prodigy who recorded his first hit at the age of five. He has appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show and worked with Etta James, Mavis Staples and B.B. King. Peterson has recorded more than a dozen highly acclaimed solo albums.
In 1955, Bo Diddley recorded the song “Bo Diddley.” In 1963 Ronnie Hawkins recorded the song “Bo Diddley.” Hawkins’s version was recorded with his band, the Hawks. The Hawks eventually broke out on their own and renamed themselves the Band. We will compare the two “Bo Diddley” versions during the Saturday Night Blues cover of the week.
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Lucky Peterson and wife Tamara tear it up for SNB