Category: music

  • Big Mo Blues Show KCCK

    Big Mo Blues Show KCCK

    Heard this on the Big Mo Blues Show KCCK radio again. The last two years have been hard times. I’m hoping 2023 will be better.

  • Rag Time and Classical Music Fusion

    Rag Time and Classical Music Fusion

    The other night I heard something pretty interesting on the Music Choice channel. I was listening to the Light Classical stuff because, let’s face it, I’m a real lightweight when it comes to knowing anything about music, much less the classical genre. It reminded me of a time long ago when my mother tried to…

  • Bobby DeForest KCCK Blues Show

    Bobby DeForest KCCK Blues Show

    I heard this Eric Clapton cover of “Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday” on KCCK. Bob DeForest was covering for Big Mo. Bob does a great job.

  • Jazzed Up Mr. Grinch for the Big Arctic Blast

    Jazzed Up Mr. Grinch for the Big Arctic Blast

    I heard this last Friday KCCK on ‘da Friday Blues with John Heim aka Big Mo, believe it or not. So it’s a little late, but I had trouble finding it. Stay warm!

  • Big Mo Blues Show KCCK Radio Iowa City

    Big Mo Blues Show KCCK Radio Iowa City

    I heard this song, “Golden Rule,” on the Big Mo Blues Show tonight on KCCK radio 88.3. We all need to hear it. Lyrics here.

  • Big Mo Blues Show KCCK

    Big Mo Blues Show KCCK

    I heard this spiritual by Mavis Staples, “Creep Along Moses.” It was on the Big Mo Blues Show on KCCK. It rocks, like just about everything Mavis does.

  • Big Mo Blues Show KCCK Iowa City

    Big Mo Blues Show KCCK Iowa City

    This song is by Iowa’s own Kevin Burt. I heard it on the KCCK Big Mo Blues Show. I don’t know anything about music, but “Smack Dab in the Middle strikes me as being about dichotomies, which can be reduced to the old saying, being between a rock and a hard place or being neither…

  • Big Mo Blues Show KCCK

    I heard this one and recognized Aretha Franklin’s voice before Big Mo ever announced her on KCCK. I also heard a little more about MayRee and her hand-battered catfish. It’s tenderized to perfection, but you already knew that. Big Mo said her establishment is located at what sounds like the corner of Highway 73 and…

  • Heard it on the Big Mo Blues Show

    Heard it on the Big Mo Blues Show

    I heard John Heim aka Big Mo on the blues show tonight on KCCK radio 88.3 and he actually spelled the name of MayRee, the name of the cook who makes that good hand-battered catfish; it’s better because it’s battered and so the legend goes. I knew a cook a long time ago in Austin,…

  • John Heim aka Big Mo a Really Nice Guy

    John Heim aka Big Mo a Really Nice Guy

    As many of you know, I often listen to ‘da Friday Blues show on KCCK radio broadcast out of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Last Friday, he told listeners his email address and invited fans to get in touch with him. I can’t remember ever hearing any KCCK radio show host make that invitation. So,…