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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At the bottom of the hour, we are gonna hear
from the Broncos. They've got a press conference with their
number one draft pick that everybody in Colorado went who
last night except for Ken the bass player. More on
that in a moment joining us now. Though in the
meantime you hear him here as Jimmy Segenberger. Maybe you
read his columns in the Denver gazett as Jimmy Sangenberger,
(00:21):
but he's in here today as his alter ego. Oh
that's right, Jimmy Junior. The Jimmy Junior Blues Band is
playing on Sunday as part of the Douglas County tenth
Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Because in Douglas County, we
like our cops call it's crazy, we love the cops,
and it is a family friendly event. They got guest speakers,
(00:43):
they got food, they got drinks, and they got music
by the Jimmy Jr.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Blues Band.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now I have a theory, Jimmy, why you call yourself
to Jimmy Junior Blues Band? Okay, I think you think
it makes maybe you sound black.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And since it's a blues band, I'm blue is rooted
in the black experience.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I think you just maybe wanted to, you know, sort
of just get a little of that vibe. Am I right,
have you been talking with my buddy Tay Anderson.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, I'm sure he'd suggest that's the reason. There are
two main reasons. One I actually am a junior right.
Two Junior Wells is my favorite blues harmonica player, an
old Chicago blues guy. If you're familiar with blues guitarist
Buddy Guy, the legends still alive today, really the reigning
king of the blues.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
He was very close friends with Junior.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Wells and they used to do a lot together back
in the day as well, and so sort of channeling
that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They're black and the really I'm just throwing you know,
you want to you can idea how any way you want. Jimmy,
if people learned nothing from our brethren across the islands,
that you can just decide you're going to be black
on Sunday and be part of the Jimmy Junior Blues Band.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
There's anything that can happen if you just put your
mind to it right where where? And Ken is with
us as well.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Ken is normally the bass player, but in order to
be more animated on the radio, he is a guitar
player today because, as I said, the players don't do
anything but stand there and look cool and barely move
their hands.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Ken. That's right, isn't it true?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No, I'm very very animated on stage as well. And
since you brought that up, one of the reasons to
come see Jimmy play is that he gets into it.
I've never played with anybody whoever has gotten into playing
the harmonica or any other instrument for that matter, as
much as Jimmy has.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It is as much a.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Sight as it is an oral experience to see Jimmy perform.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Is it like Joe Cocker level? What are we looking
at right now?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Similar to that, only it's a little bit more crouching.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon kind of stuff. Maybe a leg
kick here and there.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's it's I can't obviously, I'm struggling for words.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Music is flowing through kim It literally, yeah, it really does.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Even at practice. It's just this great thing to be
a part.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You've never really talked about how you started loving blues music,
because I too love blues music, and for me, it
really started when I started going to blue festivals and
being exposed to some of the artists that you were
talking about, and you know, just kind of really enjoying it.
Although one of my friends once said to me, I
don't know how you go to these blues festivals, because
(03:13):
we'll go for an all day blues festivals. You like,
after the third song at all stouts starts to sound the.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Same, and I was like, Okay, maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's kind of like a Mumford and Son, you know song, maybe,
but there's so much more to it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
When did you start loving the blue?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
When I was a little kid, real honestly, I mean
I would coming home from the hospital as a newborn, myself,
my younger brother, my younger sister. My parents had Steve
Ray Vaughan's version of Live version of Mary had a
little Lamb by Buddy Guy cued up in the car.
I kid, you not first song coming home from the
hospital as newborns so from birth raised on Stevie Ray
and the Almand Brothers band. I mean, I was seven.
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We'd be in the car doing errands. My mom would
be listening to the top forty radio. I had a
portable CD players listening to Almenn Brothers and Steve rayvaugh
at seven first concert Johnny Lang opening for Jeff Beck.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Bedad took me. I was seven or eight years old.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I discovered Jeff Beck when I did not return my
Columbia recording house, and I still have the Jeff DECKCD
that I got because of it. So if you'd like
to borrow that, that's great, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I mean just the music. Grew up on blues and
southern rock.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
My sister Caitlin will be joining us for a tune
to say Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers on Sunday,
so that'll be fun as well. But it really it's
just there's something that spoke to me and connected with
me at that age. And because I'm a young.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Black man growing up in this society, it probably was challenging.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It makes it very difficult, and so you really channel
and feel the blues. I will say this though, because
I mentioned Buddy, I was eleven when I saw Buddy
Guy and bb King first in concert at at Fiddlers.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Wow, that's amazing. That's a lot of listeners. Jimmy put
that into context. When were you eleven two.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Thousand and one, not that long ago, not that long
ago for some people.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
To me, it's quite a while ago.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well for the rest of us. Whatever, No, I'm just
kidding you guys gonna play for us?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh goodness, I mean, gush.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I think we should start with given a couple of factors,
I think we should start with our original that we've wrote.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Together, actually go back by the years. This one is
called blues Man through and Through.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Bluesman through and Through by the Jimmy Junior Blues Band.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well do of them anyway, shall we say? The Jimmy
Junior Duo.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
We gotta give all the credit here, that's for sure.
He actually was the inspiration for this song. I said
I'm a blues man through and through one day, and
he said, that's gonna be the name of your first
album Forever. We finally wrote this song.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Yeah, I'm a bluesman, baby.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You know that it's true. I'm a bluesman, Dylan, you
know that it's truth. Yeah, I'm a blues man through
and through.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And a baby.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's all because of you.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah, I'm a blues man baby.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah, I'm a bluesman baby.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know it's the truth. Yeah, I'm a blues.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Man through and through, and baby, it's all.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Because of you. My baby done going and left me.
She left me high and dry.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
She didn't even give me a chance to say goodbyes.
Why I'm a blues man, people, a blues man through
and through. I'm a blues man through and through, and baby,
it's all because of you. I'm a bluesman, Dolan, I'm
(07:31):
a blues man through and through. I'm a blues man,
pretty baby, a blues man through and through. Just give
me a harmonica, little girl, and I'll prove that is true.
(08:48):
Oh baby, I'm feeling down, a feeling like a dark clown.
Old baby, I'm a feeling so downs. Why I'm a
blues man, people, a blues man and through and through.
I'm a bluesman through and through, and.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Baby, it's all because of you.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'll be the solo flat audience right there, Jimmy j bluesman.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna be back
with another song.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You can see them Sunday at the tenth annual Douglas
County Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. It's gonna be at the
Douglas County Fairgrounds from three pm to six pm. Family friendly, free.
Come on out celebrate law enforcement listening to some good music.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'll be right back. I'm in a studio.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Jimmy Sunnenberger, Bassed player Ken from the Jimmy Junior Blues Ban.
They're playing on Sunday for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in
Douglas County. It's at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock.
They're gonna be The event goes from three to six.
Do you know what time you guys are playing?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
At three o'clock?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
At three, we're gonna do a few tunes. Then they're
gonna open things up. Then we're gonna play word. We're
throughout the event. Uh, you got to cover on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Oh, We've got.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Quite a great range of tunes. I mentioned long Train Running.
My sister Caitlin will be sitting in with us for that.
A Red House from Jimmy Hendrix will be playing. I
mentioned Junior Wells will be playing. We got a couple
other regional tunes that we've got. We've got an Almond
Brothers song in the mix, a couple of tunes covered
famously by.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The Blues Brothers.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We've got his z Eazy Top song in there, really
eclectic fun mix. One really great tune that Ken actually
sings is if you want to Get to Heaven, which
was done by the Ozark Mountain Daredevil's.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It is the one that goes of course, Yeah, we
put that. That is an absolute.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Blast to play on harmonica and you look like you're possessed.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I'm a cute video.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And I'm gonna put it on my social media after
the show.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Shoot some more. As I stand up now, I've.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Got to move sitting down. I can't like I have
to record commercials standing up. Okay, they're gonna do another song,
and then when we we're gonna take a break right
when they get done, and then when we come back,
the Broncos are having a press conference with their number
one draft pick. We're gonna jump into that. As soon
as that starts. It is time for the Jimmy Junior
Blues Band. You can see them Sunday at the Douglas
County Fairgrounds.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hit it kids, all right, this will be a blast.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
This June by the Great Sunny Boy Williamson two covered
by Junior wows in the past. Get going, brother, you.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Gotta help me. I won't do it All by myself.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You gotta help me, baby, Woman, I won't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All by myself.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
No, I won't.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
If you don't help me, baby, I've gotta find myself
somebody else.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I might have to wash, I might have to sew,
I might have to.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'll leave it my back floor. But you gotta help me.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Woman, Baby, I.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Won't do it all by myself.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
If you don't help me, baby, I'm gonna have to
find myself somebody else.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Let me go a little bit now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
When I walk, you walk with me. When I talk,
you talk to me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I can't do it all by myself.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
If you don't help me, I've got to find myself
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Let me take us South Camp.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Dog Jimmy, Judy Blase Man, Sunday, Douglas County Fairground, three
p m. Hope to see you there will be right back.
Broncos press conference with their number one draft pick coming
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