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This week on ART ON THE AIR features the Fantastic Realist artist, George Underwood, photographer Sharon Hoogstraten whose portraits celebrates Potawatomi tribal members, and our Spotlight is on the Canterbury Theater’s “ Scotland Road ” running August 3rd through 5th.

Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blending together various styles and eras of the blues -- from the old school legends, to the top contemporary players of today, along with some of the up and young guns deserving to have their music heard. Audiences will hear the guitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, the singers, and the shouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland's regional players also get showcased on this program.

The 2023-2024 school year has already begun for many families across the Hoosier State but there's still a teacher shortage. The July jobs report is out and Fed Chair Jerome Powell is hopeful inflation will be curbed. A Region native who made the decision to head out on a trek from his hometown to Florida…all in an effort to serve as a symbol of hope, faith and perseverance.

Shep reveals some secrets of the "business lunch".

Shep explains why some students never want to leave school.

This week on ART ON THE AIR we feature author and poet Achy Obejas, playwright and producer of “Mindy’s Bachelorette Party,” Spotlight on Chautauqua in the Dunes Photo Exhibit “B” and Spotlight Extra on Indiana Ballet Theatre's "50s Diner Dance."

Shep recounts an unforgettable Army training film

This week on ART ON THE AIR we again feature artist David Criner with his second CD, “North American.” Next Harbert Michigan based gallery owner, Judith Racht, discussing her Outsiders-Outside-Art-Fair. Our Spotlight is on Tomfooolery Fun Club’s “Hoosier Palooza” at Whiting’s Hoosier Theatre on August 26th .

Both hours in this week's MB BLUES Program a series of 15-20 minute blocks of great live concert recordings, broken up by me jumping in to do some "back sells" and "front sells".ARTISTS featured in the FIRST Hour include: Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dr. John, Susan Tedeshi, Luther Allison, Lonnie Mack and Jonny Lang, among others.The artists include: Paul Rodgers with The Deborah Bonham Band, Robin Trower, Rare Earth, The Nighthawks, Eric Clapton & Bonnie Bramlett, Wet Willie and Buddy Guy with Jim Peterik. Wrapping up the show are live cuts by Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers, Joe Bonamassa and The Steepwater Band with Pinetop Perkins.This is an energized show -- a fantasy concert booked and produced solely in my blues-lovin' head and then shared with the listeners. Minimal talking on this week's program, in favor of being very music intensive.

The FIRST HOUR of this week's Midwest BEAT Blues program has a lot of young, new artists and selections of newly released albums by The Nick Moss Band, Anthony Geraci Band, The Mike Bourne Band with Johnny Burgin, Monster Mike Welch, Joanna Connor and others. That half also includes some "old guard" in there as well like B.B. King, Elmore James, Lightnin' Hopkins and Howlin' Wolf.The SECOND HOUR is mostly live and vintage with concert cuts by the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Albert Collins, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, and a couple of deep cut covers by team ups by such classic '60s blues-rockers as Jack Bruce. Mick Taylor and Gary Moore.