Blues from a lonely place. From blues to doo wop to southern soul…from behind prison walls to that singular window in that singular room looking out from a high-rise hotel onto a busy street in urban anywhere, America. Today’s music is all about being alone. Our show explores songs written with the lonesome muse on the shoulder. Ray Charles, Joe Liggins, Earl King, and Champion Jack Dupree join in as we ponder lonesome times from the heart of the solitary blues.
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| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Booker T. & The MG's | Lonely Avenue | Green Onions |  |
| 3 | Ray Charles | Lonely Avenue | Doc Pomus: Singer And Songwriter [Disc 2] | |
| 4 | Mel Walker | Feelin' Mighty Lonesome | Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2 | |
| 5 | Johnny Ace | So Lonely | Memorial Album | |
| 6 | Smiley Turner | Lonely Boy Blues | Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 5]: West Coast Blues V1 | |
| 7 | Julia Lee | Have You Ever Been Lonely | Kansas City Star [Disc 2] | |
| 8 | Irma Thomas | Woman Left Lonely | My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn | |
| 9 | Maxine Sullivan | Kind'a Lonesome | Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1] | |
| 10 | T-Bone Walker | Blue Mood | Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years | |
| 11 | Shakey Jake | Gimme A Smile | The Bluesville Years Volume 10: Country Roads, Country Days | |
| 12 | The Holmes Brothers | I'm So Lonely | Simple Truths | |
| 13 | Joe Liggins | Blues For Tanya | Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers | |
| 14 | Sam Cooke | Lonely Island | The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (1 of 4) | |
| 15 | Eddie Burns | Lonely Man Plea | Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1] | |
| 16 | James Winfield | Lonely, Lonely, Nights | Lonely Lonely Nights | |
| 17 | Champion Jack Dupree | Lonely Road Blues | Two Classic Albums Plus Singles | |
| 18 | Chris Kenner | I'm Lonely, Take Me | Land of 1000 Dances | |
| 19 | Earl King | Those Lonely Lonely Nights | Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound | |
| 20 | Eddie Boyd | Got Lonesome Here | Third Degree (The Blues Collection Vol.58) | |
| 21 | Johnny Bragg | Hurt & Lonely | The Johnny Bragg Story | |
| 22 | Violet Hall | (All Alone) I Sit And Cry | The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2 | |
| 23 | Fats Domino | I'm Alone Because I Love You | Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 8 | |
| 24 | Clarence "Frogman" Henry | Lonely Street | Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry | |
| 25 | Freddie King | Lonesome Whistle Blues | Ultimate Collection | |
| 26 | Lowell Fulson | Everyday I Have The Blues | Trying to Find My Baby | |
| 27 | Smiley Lewis | Lonesome Highway | ABC Of The Blues Vol 25 | |
| 28 | Nappy Brown | I'm Getting Lonesome | Down In The Alley – The Complete Savoy Singles A's & B's | |
| 29 | Little Richard | Lonesome And Blue | The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection | |
| 30 | Ray Charles & Betty Carter | Alone Together | Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You | |
| 31 | Ella Fitzgerald | I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town | Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 | |
| 32 | Lillie Mae Kirkman | Lonesome | Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949) | |
| 33 | Julia Lee | Back Street (06-13-47) | 1947 | |