The Roadhouse

Series produced by Tony Steidler-Dennison

Caption: The Roadhouse
The Roadhouse 

The Roadhouse is a weekly blues program, delivered in evergreen one-hour files for radio programming flexibility.

With a primary focus on vital new blues artists and releases, The Roadhouse spans the full range of blues sub-genres - jump, acoustic, electric, traditional, contemporary, and more. It also occasionally calls to the pioneers in the search for the perfect blues nuggets. This truly is a weekly hour of the finest blues you've never heard - The Roadhouse.


143 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 904
The hour ahead is a "thank you," seventeen years in the making. It's an hour chock full of artists who have helped define the sound of the show. Se...

Bought by Raven Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 150
This hour contains a record-setting number of Roadhouse debuts, with many artists closer to the beginning of the careers than the end. That fact al...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 149
The next edition of The Roadhouse is pretty upbeat, full of shuffles, and probably another chair-dancing edition. Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames, ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 148
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, the full range of blues is on display. I have some tracks that are clearly unadulterated blues, some with roots ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 147
Like the bear claws at the donut shop, the hour ahead is from a variety of sources and includes tracks that were not included in previous shows. Da...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 146
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, we do what we know best. Son of Dave, Junior Wells, Dr. John, Walter Trout, and Trudy Lynn are all just waiting ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 145
A cloudy afternoon brings a savory hour this week, to offset the occasional technicolor explosion from The Roadhouse Studios. Mavis Staples & Levon...

Bought by WSLR, WLPR , and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 144
It's a quieter week in The Roadhouse, after a week with a smoking hot blues guitar set. Larry McCray, Charlie Musselwhite, Edgar Winter, Staples Jr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: May 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 143
A good roll continues in the next hour of The Roadhouse. I've got four more Roadhouse debuts and a 4-track set of dense blues and blues-rock guitar...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 895
It's an hour of firsts in the next hour of The Roadhouse. I have a full set of Roadhouse debuts, five debuts in total. And, almost half of the musi...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 141
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, I'll just try to stay out of the way of an hour of great blues tracks, providing just a little arrangement to he...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 140
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, a pool of 30 tracks fell together into 12 that fit together perfectly. Bob Stroger & The Headcutters, Altered Fi...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 139
The next hour of The Roadhouse fulfills the need for the familiar, the comfortable, the predictably reliable. Larry McCray, David Lumsden, Leyla Mc...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 138
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, I've got a full set of Roadhouse debuts, a track from a deluxe edition follow-up to a first-of-its-kind release,...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 137
It's all about the professionals in the next hour of The Roadhouse. There's not an artist in the hour who doesn't labor full-time in the blues. Tru...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 136
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, I've corraled a good mixture of new artists and old. Ferris & Sylvester, Rory Gallagher, Kilborn Alley Blues Ban...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 135
I've got 17 tracks in the next hour of The Roadhouse, the most of any edition of the show, including music from Love & Light Orchestra, Albert Cast...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 134
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, I follow up a week with a lot of Roadhouse debuts with a week with a lot of Roadhouse debuts. Just short of a th...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 133
After an hour of show-openers, we go the other direction with five Roadhouse debuts in the next hour - a record for The Roadhouse. Bonham-Bullick, ...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Roadhouse PRX 885
There's an anniversary celebration in the next edition of The Roadhouse, commemorating 17 years of the show. As is our tradition, the hour is fille...

Bought by WLPR and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2