Host of “Blues After Dark" & "The Saturday Blues Brunch”
For over 22 years Phil Anderson has hosted the legendary, "Saturday Blues Brunch", where he features 6 hours of pure unadulterated Blues. It’s the only place on the radio where you will find your favorite songs by artists like Shirley Brown, Johnny Taylor, Peggy Scott-Adams, Little Milton and more.
Now weekdays, tune in as the hits continue with "Blues After Dark", which features the best variety of Blues with a twist of Old School. So if it’s the Blues you want, Phil Anderson has it for you six days a week.
Phil Anderson, the finest purveyor of this art form in the Midwest!
Did You Know
Phil Anderson has been in radio for over 40 years. He started out hosting an R&B radio show in 1971-75 at 1590 WAWA. He worked at WNOV from 1975-77 then took a break from radio for 12 years. During that break Phil worked at the Social Development Commission while obtaining his degree in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Over the years he also served on the board of Milwaukee Health Services and he worked for the Harambee Ombudsman Project, Inc. and the Milwaukee Urban League. In 1989 Phil was asked to come back to radio at 1290 and host a Saturday Blues show. Phil said, “One Saturday led to another and before I knew it I was doing a Blues show full-time”.
In his spare time Phil is a Basketball Referee. He took his skills to the professional level and refereed in the NBA from 1978 – 80 and is currently a member of the Midwest Minority Officials Association as well as the Eastern Wisconsin Officials Association.
Phil has won several awards over the years including the Black Excellence Award in 2010.
Birthday: August 4th
Favorite Food: Chicken and vegetable stir frys
Leisure Activities: I enjoy traveling.
Favorite Sayings: Always be good to yourselves because if you don't nobody else will.
Favorite Artist: Johnny Taylor
Favorite Talk Show Host & Show: Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton
Most Memorable Interview: When I talked with Little Milton.
Most Memorable Moment at 1290 WMCS: Becoming host of Blues After Dark
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Click on the links below to hear Phil's interviews with the Blues Artists
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*Grammy-winning blues musician Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website.
Smith’s death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, with whom Smith shared a Grammy win this year in the best traditional blues album category for their 2010 release “Joined at the Hip.”
Smith said backstage at the Grammy Awards that he first met Perkins as a boy and was glad to have found success recording with his elder. “To tell you the truth, right now I’m one of the happiest men on earth,” he said at the February event.
While the Grammy win at age 75 was Smith’s first, he had previously had a long career playing with the late blues legend Muddy Waters.
Born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1936, Smith went to Chicago at age 17 and heard Waters playing for the first time. He later joined Waters’ band as a drummer in the early 1960s.
In 1964, Smith was forced to pack up his drum kit for a time and he supported himself with odd jobs such as driving a taxicab in Chicago, according to a profile on his website.
But Smith rejoined Waters’ band in 1968 and played with him through the 1970s, the period when Waters won his six Grammys.
Aside from the drums, Smith also played the harmonica and sang. In the 1980s, he performed in the Legendary Blues Band with Perkins, Louis Myers, Calvin Jones and Jerry Portnoy.
Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, said in a statement that Smith was a “great, versatile Chicago bluesman” who “made an indelible impact” on the blues genre.
“Our sincerest condolences extend to his family, friends, fans and all who will continue to appreciate his rhythm and riffs for generations to come,” Portnow said.
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