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It's the first Saturday of the month, so we bring you another thematic retrospective show. We set the WayBac Machine for February 7th, 2003, when B.B. King and Lucille headlined a one-night-only celebration of the blues' 100th birthday featuring over five dozen artists at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Through careful song selection, the concert crafts a musical narrative beginning with the form's earliest blues guitar beginnings, then branches out to encompass the myriad styles it subsequently gave rise to. Old-school practitioners Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Ruth Brown and Solomon Burke mix it up with the likes of Macy Gray, John Fogarty and Mos Def. We didn't have enough time to air the entire 2-CD soundtrack album, but you will hear most of it!