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Alberta Hunter / Lovie Austin ALBERTA HUNTER with LOVIE AUSTIN'S BLUES SERENADERS Riverside / Original Blues Classics 1961 / 1991 Notes: "A top performer during the 20s, Miss hunter appeared on Broadway and then became the first blues singer to hit the European continent. She has spent many years abroad--including more than twenty five trips to the European and Pacific theaters of war with the USO during World War ll, and later in Korea." "During the 1930s and '40s Miss Austin worked in the pit band at the Monogram Theater in Chicago, and also travelled with her own shows. Since the late '40s she has worked as pianist at a Chicago dancing school." Complete Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpaOrUxzwlkCheers |
Son House THE ORIGINAL DELTA BLUES Columbia / Legacy 1965 / 1998
Notes: "...Persuading them to lose the carefully acquired skills of several decades and play in the fashion of their youth required a certain amount of tact. Thirty years on, it seems prescriptive and high handed. Eddie J. House Jr.--Son House--provided no surprises of that kind when he got his second chance. He had not played music at all for seven or eight years, and probably not with any regularity since the early 1940s, when he left his native Mississippi to live and work in Rochester in upstate New York. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he was not about to "go electric", or to break into a recent R&B hit like "High Heel Sneakers." His repertoire and guitar techniques really were frozen in the past."
wiki:
Born: March 21, 1902, Lyon, MS
Died: October 19, 1988, Detroit, MI
Pearline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvFa3qteu8John The Revelator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QnBIarHc0Death Letter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjoLevee Camp Moan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjoPreachin' Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmR7jjOoFOwCheers |
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Earl Hooker BLUE GUITAR Paula Records 1991 Excerpts from the Notes: "Before the age of ten while Earl Hooker and his family lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Earl taught himself to play the guitar. At the age of ten his family moved to Chicago. That following year he attended Lyon and Healy Music School...In the early 1940's he occasionally worked the streets for tips with Bo Diddley and others.... In 1949 he toured for several years with Ike Turner's group throughout Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida...frequently appeared with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas...In 1965 he appeared with the Beatles on the Ready Steady Go show on BBC-TV... He was thought to be one of the finest but underappreciated guitarists in modern Blues music. Earl Zebedee Hooker died of tuberculosis in Chicago, April 21, 1970 at the age of 40." Calling all Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yLTTQ9c6gBlue Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHWZZtkMJUSwear to Tell the Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWm-ybWDFoBlues in D natural https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQynjFhpYNwCheers |
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Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets featuring - Sam Myers RACK ’EM UP Black Top Records 1989 Notes: "Anson was born in Plano, Texas, in 1955, and grew up hearing Blues records at an early age. By the time Anson was sixteen years old he was playing professionally and recording with the regionally popular group known as the Bees Knees." "Sam Myers hails from Jackson, Mississippi, where he began his professional career in the mid-fifties. Sam got a double dose of Blues from his earliest years as a musician when he spent most of his time in the musically fertile Mississippi Delta but spent summers on the Chicago Blues Scene." Are You Out There https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02WiiXMQ-YRack ’em Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30nqTlqkDATell Me What I Have Done Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxcrDcjtm420 Miles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6VppToH1uACheers |
Floyd Dixon WAKE UP AND LIVE Alligator Records 1996 Notes: "A musical genius excelling at vibrant and exuberant jump Blues, rockin' piano boogie and sophisticated West Coast Blues...impeccable piano technique, fabulous timing, and a voice like a fog horn." --- Living Blues
Wiki:
Born: February 8, 1929, Marshall, TX
Died: July 26, 2006, Orange County, CA
Wake Up and Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgtM-puhnXMHey, Bartender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lRpVwa4UYyou know that'll get it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xKHvha8-EI wanna Rock Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ne9UeUUz1ECheers |
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James Cotton LIVE AT ANTONE'S NIGHTCLUB Antone's records & Tapes 1988 Notes: "Tunica, Mississippi sits about halfway between Helena, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. During the Great depression, when James Cotton was growing up there, all three were 'ballin' towns' and regular stops for the Blues legends on their way north out of the Delta. By the time he was school age, James was dancing for tips on street corners in Tunica, on his way through Helena and Memphis to Chicago and international renown." wiki:
Born: July 1, 1935, Tunica, MS
Died: March 16, 2017, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX
Blow Wind Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRFln18jZoEyesight to the Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFHAPxkhgM
Midnight Creeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56UEct1iYuMHoochie Coochie Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTVMZB_lSICheers |
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Solomon Burke SOUL OF THE BLUES Black Top Records 1993
Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke was an American preacher and singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. -- wiki Great Soul Singer, just talks too much. I guess that's the Preacher in him. Along About Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHWdhHUysQ
Good Rockin' Tonighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoyV3ySzMlQCheers |
Keegiam,
Son House - Death Letter Blues
Very Poignant Lyrics. He didn't receive a phone call, he didn't get in his car or board a bus. He got a letter and took off down the road. Speaks volumes about how some people lived.
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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown GATE SWINGS Gitanes Blues Productions 1997 He always said, "I was born in Louisiana and raised on the Texas side."
Wiki: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas known for his work as a blues musician, as well as other styles of music. He spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B styles.
Born: April 18, 1924, Vinton, LA Died: September 10, 2005, Orange, TX
Caldonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baNuq5guKfcMidnite Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3mZfR7xBIToughen Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MllaJYdvz_4Take me back baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrB7E8c8AiYBits and Pieces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Naz9HkFs4Cheers |
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Eddie Boyd FIVE LONG YEARS Boyd(piano, organ, vocals), Buddy Guy(guitar), Jimmy Robinson(bass), Fred Below(drums), Big Mama Thornton(vocal, Hound Dog) Evidence 1994 Notes: "Eddie Boyd was born November 25, 1914 in Coahoma County, Mississippi and spent his childhood on the fabled Stovall's plantation in the heart of the Delta.... Boyd discovered his musical salvation when he journeyed overseas to co-headline the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival. During the historic European tour(produced by German promoters Horst Lippmann and fritz Raul), Boyd recorded the impressive contents of this disc in Hamburg and London, backed by three of the finest Chicago sidemen available. Fleet-fingered guitarist Buddy Guy, versatile bassist Jimmie lee Robinson, and crackling drummer Fred Below offer superb support as Boyd convincingly rolls through a virtual greatest hits program." Five Long Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hd3PwHujl4&list=OLAK5uy_kIDIqFdu4zUbCsYA_cSo8r7N93i3OnCEcEddie's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKe1vIwdxgI'm coming home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMqvSNPfWdsBlue Monday Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWb7I5jcYrYHound Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3yE2RBxp8Cheers |
James Booker RESURRECTION OF THE BAYOU MAHARAJAH Rounder Records 1993 Notes: "For Booker fans, then, this album and its companion (Spiders on the Keys, Rounder 2119) are cause for celebration. Here is James Booker as his New Orleans fans knew him--passionate and dazzling; alternately extroverted or painfully lost in his own world. For if James Carroll Booker lll was one of the greatest pianists of the century, he was also plagued by what many of his friends considered to be mental illness, and by a lifelong battle with drugs and alcohol (a problem Booker traced to his prescription after being hit by an ambulance when he was a boy)." Real New Orleans music. You can hear the wooden floors.
Medley: Slow Down / Bony Maronie / Knock On Wood / I Heard It Through The Grapevine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zya7-ekMXw
Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5Aoq32N4g
St. James Infirmary (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRKcW_s6YQ
Medley: Life / Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / It Should Have Been Me (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7w0yYjXNsCheers |
Zuzu Bollin ZUZU BOLLIN TEXAS BLUESMAN A cast of thousands, including Duke Robillard and David "Fathead" Newman. Antones Records & Tapes 1991 Notes: "An important chapter of Zuzu Bollin's history must be written in Austin. After hearing Zuzu in Dallas one night in 1988 Clifford Antone, owner of Antones's nightclub, befriended him and invited him to begin performing at his club....Antone made plans to record him, and you can hear the results on this record. Zuzu's story has a bittersweet ending. He died in 1990. That Zuzu did not live to complete the Antone's sessions is a great loss to us all, but thankfully we still have these wonderful recordings. Fans of Texas Blues owe a debt of gratitude to Chuck Nevitt and Clifford Antone for caring enough to capture Zuzu just the way he would have liked: Texas Style." ANTONES is / was a well known blues club in Austin, Texas. He also owns / owned a record store that sold / sells blues CDs, LPs, Tapes and associated stuff. I spent many a dollar there. My routine was, Waterloo records, then walk a block to Tower Records, then walk a block to Antone's Blues record store. Those were the days.
Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFv0FOCsI9M
Zuzu Bollin – Zu's Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB7gvpI2KxE
Rebecca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYyizQvlGG0
Kidney Stew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBchUpap0lo
Blues in the Dark
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