Blues in the Afternoon with Mike Jacobs

Mondays, 1pm - 3pm

Mike Jacobs has hosted Blues in the Afternoon on KIOS-FM since its inception on October 4, 1994. Since that time, he has produced more than 500 shows and featured more than 8,000 songs.

The theme music at the beginning of the program, "Juke" by Little Walter, has become a familiar introduction to the weekly show.

Mike Jacobs  became interested in Blues when he was a student at Technical High School, which is where the KIOS studios are now located. 

His interest in the music of Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones led him to the Blues artists who inspired them and a deeper appreciation and understanding of the genre.

He honed his broadcasting skills as a student of the broadcasting program at Tech and was a member of its last graduating class(1984). Jacobs went on to study broacasting at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he produced a Friday afternoon Blues program at the student run-station KBLZ.  In addition to working at KIOS-FM, Jacobs has also worked at several Omaha area commercial radio stations as on-air talent. 

Jacobs says his favorite Blues song is Robert Johnson's Hell Hound on My Tail.

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Playlist

February 25, 2013

1:06 PM
Scufflin’
Artist : Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Album : Scufflin'
Catalog : BPCD 5036
Label : Blind Pig Records
1:09 PM
Matchbox
Artist : Magic Slim & The teardrops
Album : Bad Boy
Catalog : BPCD 5147
Label : Blind Pig Records
1:15 PM
Look What You Done
Artist : Big Bill Morganfield
Album : Blues With A Mood
Catalog : BSR002
Label : Black Shuck Records
1:18 PM
My Time Baby
Artist : Grady Champion
Album : Tough Times Don't Last
Catalog : GSCD 1004-13
Label : Grady Shady Music
1:22 PM
Mighty Long Road
Artist : Shaun Murphy
Album : Ask For The Moon
Catalog : 11192
Label : Vision Wall
1:30 PM
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
Artist : Robben Ford
Album : Bringing It Back Home
Catalog : PRD 73882 US
Label : Provogue
1:35 PM
Commit A Crime
Artist : Teeny Tucker
Album : Voodoo To Do You
Catalog : 85265
Label : TeBo Records
1:38 PM
My Guitar’s My Only Friend
Artist : James ’Buddy’ Rogers
Album : My Guitar's My Only Friend
Catalog : BWRCD00023
Label : Blue Wave productions
1:45 PM
Giving In To Love
Artist : Sweet Mama Cotton
Album : Suh-Weeet
Catalog : 76727
Label : 100% Cotton
1:49 PM
Intoxicated
Artist : James Montgomery Band
Album : From Detroit...To The Delta
Catalog : OE063
Label : Open E Entertainment
1:53 PM
Country Boy
Artist : Buddy Guy
Album : Live at Legends
Catalog : 43762-2
Label : RCA -Silvertone
2:02 PM
Don’t Take your love (Out On Me)
Artist : Hadden Sayers
Album : Rolling Soul
Catalog : 677967130226
Label : Blue Corn Music
2:05 PM
Havin’ Fun
Artist : Big Bill Morganfield
Album : Blues With a Mood
Catalog : BSR002
Label : Black Shuck Records
2:10 PM
Duct Tape On My Soul
Artist : Kevin Selfe
Album : Long Walk Home
Catalog : DGPCD157
Label : Delta Groove
2:15 PM
Midnight Hour
Artist : Andy T - Nick Nixon Band
Album : Drink Drank Drunk
Catalog : DGPCD158
Label : Delta Groove
2:20 PM
Preachin’ Blues
Artist : Reverend Freakchild
Album : Chaos And Country Blues:The Best Of Reverend Freakchild
Catalog : T&R-005
Label : Treated And Released Records
2:23 PM
You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend)
Artist : Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
Album : Get Up!
Catalog : STX-33874-02
Label : Stax
2:27 PM
You Got To Move
Artist : Catfish Keith
Album : A True FRiend Is Hard To Find
Catalog : FTRCD012
Label : Fish Tail Records
2:32 PM
Chicken Switch
Artist : The James Hunter Six
Album : Minute By Minute
Catalog : FAN-33836-02
Label : Fantasy Records
2:34 PM
On my mind, In My Heart
Artist : Jesse Dee
Album : On My Mind/In My heart
Catalog : ALCD 4952
Label : Alligator Records
2:38 PM
You Don’t Know Nothing About Love
Artist : Frank Bey with the Anthony Paule Band
Album : You Don't know Nothing
Catalog : BDR CD 105
Label : Blue Dot Records
2:47 PM
Hole In The Wall
Artist : Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Album : Scufflin'
Catalog : BPCD 5036
Label : Blind Pig Records
2:49 PM
Goin’ To Mississippi
Artist : Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Album : Blue Magic
Catalog : BPCD 5076
Label : Blind Pig Records
2:54 PM
Black Tornado
Artist : Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Album : Black Tornado
Catalog : BPCD 5046
Label : Blind Pig Records
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10:52 am
Fri May 3, 2013

KIOS BLUES CHART APRIL 2013

1.RONNIE EARL & THE BROADCASTERS / JUST FOR TODAY / STONY PLAIN
2.THE DUKE ROBILLARD BAND / INDEPENDENTLY BLUE / STONY PLAIN
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Mon January 14, 2013

Blues at the Crossroads 2: Muddy & The Wolf

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11:59 am
Sun December 2, 2012

Mike Jacobs' Favorite Blues and R&B CDs of 2012

Artist / CD Title / Record Label

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Thu November 29, 2012

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located at 4727 South 96th Plaza just south of L Street. Music starts at 3:00PM
and will feature Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, The Loose
Brothers and Christy Rossiter & 122 North Duck. Local musician Lash LaRue
is in his tenth year of hosting events to raise funds and awareness of conditions in

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Sat September 29, 2012

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The Emergence of Bonnie Raitt: In The Slipstream

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Mon June 11, 2012

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