The Langdon Auger Show

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00:02:38

Where it starts. Before the arena lights, before the distortion pedals, before rock ever learned how to strut, there was the blues. Tonight, just for the next couple of hours, we’re stepping back into the roots, the voices, the stories, the grit, and how it shaped the music we love today.

00:03:20

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00:13:53

From Delta recordings to arena stages, the blues never really left us. It just changed jackets. And if you listen closely, it’s still there in the bend of a guitar string, in the crack of a voice telling the truth.

That’s where it all began: B.B. King, “The Thrill Is Gone.” Before that, Elmore James, “Dust My Broom.” I believe my time ain’t long, and Robert Johnson started off that with “Crossroad Blues.” Thanks for tuning in tonight. We’re going to get back to some more right now.

00:14:28

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00:30:00

The blues was never about being sad. It was about surviving it, turning pain into something that moves, something that heals, and something that connects us. And maybe that’s why it’s never gone away.

We heard some Howlin’ Wolf in there with “Wang Dang Doodle,” Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and “Strange Things Happening Every Day.” Etta James as well, “I’d Rather Go Blind,” and we started off with the amazing Billie Holiday, with “Fine and Mellow.”

00:30:40

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00:50:15

Oh, that’s the blues. Not just a genre, but a heartbeat. It’s struggle. It’s resilience. It’s joy in the middle of hardship. Every riff we love, every rock anthem, every soul confession, it all traces back to these voices. Thanks for all listening in tonight.

We heard, of course, a little from the Unplugged Collection: Stevie Ray Vaughan and “Pride and Joy,” Led Zeppelin, “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” the Rolling Stones with “Love in Vain.” Started it all off with Cream and “Crossroads.”

00:50:50

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01:13:06

When we listen to the blues, it’s easy to think of it as something from the past: dusty records, old bars, forgotten cities. But the truth is, the blues never really went anywhere. Every riff you know, every singer who moves you, every guitar that makes your spine tingle, it’s built on the same chords, that same voice, that same story. Tonight, we’re not just listening to history. We’re hearing the pulse that still runs through every song that we love. Out by request, right now, a little Ray Charles.

But first, we’ve got to tell you who was in that set. Getting ahead of myself here. That was Little Feat and “Dixie Chicken.” Robert Palmer, “Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.” We had Joe Bonamassa and “Slow Gin.” Started off with Johnny Winter and “Highway 61 Revisited.”

01:13:55

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01:29:43

The blues, so timeless, isn’t just the music. It’s the honesty, the pain, the joy, the stories that get passed along from one voice to the next. That’s the lesson we carry into every song that we love today. Music connects us, it teaches us, it helps us survive. Tonight we heard the roots, we heard the evolution, and now we can feel why it still lives in all of us.

We heard Hardwire Speers, or Neil D. Speers, as he’s known now. [Song title unclear]. Kat Danser in there with “Bad Seed”. Eric Bibb, “New Shoes.” We started it all off with a great tune from Ray Charles, “Nighttime Is the Right Time.”

01:30:26

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01:48:01

It didn’t stay in the Mississippi Delta. It crossed oceans, it crossed borders, it crossed generations. And it’s still right there, in the stories, in the bends of a guitar string, in the honesty of a lyric. Tonight wasn’t about looking back; it was about recognizing where the music we love began, and why it still matters.

We heard Deep Purple and “Lazy,” Kenny Wayne Shepherd, “Blue on Black,” Bo Diddley in there with Bo Diddley. And we started it all off with Joe Cocker and “Feelin’ Alright.”

01:48:33

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02:02:32

Tonight we took a journey through the music that built everything else, from the raw voices of the Delta, Billie Holiday, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Robert Johnson, to the British blues explosion, to the artists who shaped the music we know and love today.

Actually, the blues isn’t just a sound; it’s a feeling, it’s a story, a pulse that runs through generations, and as we’ve heard tonight, it lives on in the riffs, the voices, the grit, and yes, in the music that inspires us personally. That’s the blues, a bridge between the past, present, and the heart.

We heard some John Mayall in there with “I Can’t Quit You Baby,” Lucinda Williams as well, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” We started off with the Jeff Beck Group and “I Ain’t Superstitious.” Thanks for tuning in, everybody, my time is done. I hope we have helped feel the blues tonight, and I hope we’ve done it justice. Happy mental health to you, and we’re going to end the show off with some David Wilcox in “Downtown Came Uptown.”

02:03:38

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