Join Rufus Tate as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 16th in blues history.
November 16 maps a bold arc of the blues—from W.C. Handy putting the music “down on paper” and giving it a popular voice, to Jimi Hendrix blasting those roots into a cosmic, electric future with Electric Ladyland at the top of the charts. We trace that lineage into the present day, where Australia’s scene—Ash Grunwald’s stompbox thunder, Chain’s long-running grit, and festival stages from Queenscliff to Thredbo—keeps the acoustic Delta dust alive while pushing the edges of blues-rock. This episode is a timeline you can feel: arranged, amplified, and roaring across continents. Cue up Handy’s classics, spin Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child,” then step onto Australia’s sunburnt stages—the blues travels, adapts, and gets bloody loud on November 16.