Live! from Steamy Dubuque

STEAMY?
Well, the current relative humidity reading for DUBUQUE is 100 percent. Even though it's only 64 degrees outside, it feels like the inside of a greenhouse.
Yesterday, I listened to a steamy album to match the conditions.
"LOU RAWLS LIVE" was recorded in early 1966 before an invited audience at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, but Rawls' performance feels like it's emanating from the cozy inside of a club on a humid night on Chicago's South Side.
The great album leads with T-Bone Walker's classic, "(They Call it) Stormy Monday," a song that certainly fit the conditions yesterday afternoon.
Other tracks, such as "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water," "Goin' to Chicago Blues" and the Leroy Carr blues classic, "In the Evenin' (When the Sun Goes Down)" complement the album's sultry atmosphere. It's a perfect record to play when it's steamy outside. And for the past couple of days, we've known all about being steamy.