I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection. I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post. This tread corrects that oversight. All Blues post are welcome. I will concentrate on the Delta.
Ted Hawkins (October 28, 1936 – January 1, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi.[1] He was an enigmatic figure for most of his career. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, and Europe and Australia, where he and his songs were better known and well received in clubs and small concert halls.
0:00 I Got What I Wanted
3:52 Bring It On Home To Me
7:20 Ladder Of Success
10:31 Green Green Grass Of Home
13:34 Gypsy Woman
17:02 Part Time Love
22:01 He Will Break Your Heart
26:03 North To Alaska
28:29 There Stands A Glass
31:05 Quiet Place
33:40 Country Roads
37:34 Your Cheatin' Heart
"If you really want to tell the truth, just call it Southern Blues. I mean there were great players coming out of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and everywhere. Lay the facts on the line, we were Southern Blues players." Buddy Guy, Living Blues, Dec, 1993
Notes: "In 1981, Buddy and Junior spent a day in a studio in Paris, in the midst of a European tour, getting back to their roots. Instead of their usual electric guitar and amplified harmonica, both played acoustic instruments. Instead of accompaniment by a full band, they were accompanied only by each other."
Poppa Chubby Savoy Brown Walter Trout early Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac Johnny Lang Kenny Wayne Shepard Ronnie Earl early pre-Martin Barre Jethro Tull (w/ Mick Abrahams) Robben Ford John Mayall
Notes: "The Historic final performance from the duo that influenced generations of musicians. Recorded live and acoustic at Buddy Guy's world-famous Chicago Blues Mecca, Legends."
Jr. Wells and Buddy Guy...Mentioned herea few times - Chicawgo Blues, by way of Delta migration. My favorite was not mentioned: "Messsin' With The Kid," which has become a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTieCjUhVw On multiple albums, with and w/o Buddy Guy. Another favorite, not mentioned: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee: From the Album Midnight Special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z90cONlqCmc (They didn't like each other, after a few years, but proceeded to play together for the next 20 or so years...) Not mentioned is the fact that life was hard for some of these musicians because of the lifestyle they lived - their circumstances and times. It is amazing that some of these musicians lived as long as they did. At a concert I produced with fellow SCA members at UCLA, James Cotton got so drunk he couldn't stand up, but wouldn't leave the stage when his time was up. Falling down drunk, he kept playing a mean harmonica, and we had to pull the plug on him, literally, to get buddy guy and albert collins on stage...
Two perhaps not as well known. Both these sets were recorded at a time when the blues were resurgent and new young talent was paying tribute to those who set the tone of what would become Chicago Blues or for most of us on the "southside" "The Blues" The fathers and sons album partially recorded at Sulliavan and Adler's acoustically perfect, Auditorium Theatre in Chicago at what was called Super Cosmic Joy Scout Jamboree: Muddy, Otis, Bloomfield, Butterfield, Dunn, Boooker, Lay and other guests. (yeah I was lucky enough to be there). Another is the two volume set of Fleetwwood Mac with Willie Dixon (IMHO the best Blues songwriter), Otis Span, Big Walter, Honeyboy Edwards, Buddy Guy, SP Leary, and a few drop-ins, recorded at Chess Studios in 69 and released under various names as" Fleetwood Mac in Chicago", "Get off in Chicago", "Blues Jam in Chicago" etc. " This was Fleetwwood Mac (Green, Kewin, Spenser, McVie and Fleetwood) not the pop band line-up.
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."
Notes: "When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that’s when the Blues started,"says John Lee Hooker. No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing: a man and a woman, a broken heart, and a broken home -- you know what I mean?"
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."
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."
Notes: "ROCKS THE HOUSE captures James in peak form, riding the momentum from her first string of hits late in 1963. It's Etta in her natural environment, working a very live crowd and feeding off their frenzied response to her inspired interpretations of Blues standards and then-current R&B hits."
All that was missing, was a real blues band and someone who knew how to record a live performance.
No Notes. Wiki: "Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America.... The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name."
Notes: "The Kelly brothers were formed in Chicago in 1948. One Bishop William Adeair discovered three teenage young men just up from Shelby, Mississippi --Andrew(baritone), Robert(tenor), and Curtis Kelly(high tenor) -- and teamed them up with a 20-year-old former resident of Hernando, Mississippi, Offe Reese(tenor) to found a spiritual group."
Notes: "This album was captured on my 2015 tour. It is a mix of my song catalog from the past 21 years recorded in big venues, small venues, lively clubs, symphony halls and outdoor festivals. People often ask me what my favorite venue is and o that I say, "The one I'm playing in"."
He makes a point of listing the location of each performance.
Minimum packaging. Just track listing. Not even date of CD.
Wiki: Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Wikipedia Born: September 16, 1925, Berclair, MS Died: May 14, 2015, Las Vegas, NV
Notes: "This compact disc derives from the two volumes of B.B. King's rare recordings featured on the Ace albums CHD 201 "One Nighter Blues" and CHD 230 "Across the Tracks". The recordings stem from B.B.'s most productive years during the 50s and are of exceptional sound quality for recordings from that period."
HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET: CLASSIC LIVE PERFORMANCES 1964-94
MCA 1996 2CD set
Notes:"I grew up singing gospel songs and church was really my thing," King once told Robert Gordon. He gleaned his first professional experience in the St. John Gospel Singers, a quartet based in King's hometown of Indianola, Mississippi. Comprised of plantation field hands, the ventured as far away as Greenwood and Greenville, where they performed on radio stations WGRM and WJPJ in 1945-46." After a couple years of this, Riley reckoned the St. John Gospel Singers were ready for the metropolis of Memphis. The other members of the group, who would all one day become preachers, lacked his conviction. When he set out hitchhiking towards the river city, Riley was alone."
If you've ever wanted to hear BB stretch out on Lucille a little bit, here’s your chance. An album of instrumentals that puts Lucille out front for extended solos.
Gene Harris(piano, conductor), Kenny Burrell(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Harry "Sweets" Edison(trumpet), Urbie Green(trombone), and the Philip Morris Super Band GRP Records 1991
Notes:"Bobby King is from Lake Charles, Louisiana. From early childhood he sang in his father's church--the Pleasant Valley Congregation-- with his twelve brothers and sisters." "Terry had arrived in L.A. from Vicksburg, Mississippi and was writing rhythm and blues songs for Louis Jordan and others." "Bobby and Terry are veterans of the soul highway--they never got rich or famous, but experience has deepened and strengthened their music."
The older blues musicians recordings sound great on LPs’, while the cd versions have massive hiss, weak bass, and sound terrible. so many of my favorites, I ripped to my computer, then burned to CDs. I love the little ticks & pops when playing the cd.
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