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.
Notes: "Little Walter was a singular figure among the Chess artist roster by virtue of the fact that he was the only one whose popular appeal rested principally on his skill as an instrumental virtuoso."
wiki:
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, the first and, to date, only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.
Notes: "That the Blues are the wellspring of Jazz has never been better illustrated than in recent years when almost to a man the ranks of Jazz turned again to the Blues for inspiration. Not today's rock 'n roll, but the deeper Rhythm & Blues and country Blues singing of such men as Champion Jack Dupree, Muddy Waters and Lighting Hopkins, is a direct and living link to the Blues-singing wanderers who first spread this music throughout the South."
Imperial / EMI Blues Series 1950-1954 / 1991 2CD Set
Notes: "While rightly considered the true father of modern blues, Walker's career as a Blues performer was far more broadly comprehensive than just that--as if that alone were not enough--encompassing virtually every major development in black folk-based popular music of the 20th century."
wiki:
Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles.
Notes: "The occasion here is the only time that Vinson, McShann and T-Bone Walker appear together on record. Would that it could have happened more frequently! Another southwesterner , Oklahoma-born Hal Singer is on tenor, but he is given relatively little to do. Vinson did not like what he called "a lot of music" behind his vocals."
Notes: "Muddy Waters, hallowed be thy name. As the prime architect of Chicago Blues, this blessed son of Mississippi Delta sharecroppers belongs to to the celestial hierarchy of American originals. With a manner of musical expression rivaling the break of day for simplicity and rightness, Waters let his deep, rumbling voice and deft bottleneck playing resonate in now-classic songs that vented the hopes, dreams, joy, heartbreak, and pain of disenfranchised blacks living in the industrial North after World War ll. In doing so, Waters cut the cornerstone for rock'n'roll and marked popular culture for all time."
James Cotton - Junior Wells - Carey Bell - Billy Branch
HARP ATTACK!
Alligator 1990
Notes: "If there is one sound that says "Chicago Blues" to the world, it’s the sound of a harmonica blown through a hand-held microphone blasting through an amplifier. The pressurized, distorted sound of the electrified Blues harp was there from the earliest days of post-World War ll Windy City Blues, and Chicago’s harp players have always been the standard against which all others are judged."
Notes: "The Blues is the backbone of America’s music. Jazz, rock, country and western, swing, pop, --- none of these would be what it is without the Blues. The Blues is a deceptively simple musical form capable of infinite variety. On this splendid collection you’ll hear old Blues and new Blues, happy and mean Blues, country Blues and city Blues, vocal Blues and instrumental Blues--all of it real, honest and direct."
A VISION SHARED: A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE AND LEADBELLY
Columbia / Folkways 1988
Notes: "They left home as teenagers. They traveled around the country during hard times, learned from other performers, and forged styles of their own which influenced thousands of younger musicians. Huddie Ledbetter (1885-1949), a Louisiana-born black man with the nickname "Leadbelly", and Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), an Oklahoma-born white man, shared a love of music, a keen appreciation of their fellow human begins, a political consciousness, and an ability to turn their experiences into songs that fired the imaginations of audiences around the country."
I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were listening to before they started recording.
I agree completely. They even used the phrase "Rock & Roll" in the music back then.
Love Joe Turner, @rok2id! I was fortunate to see/hear him live in the mid-80's, back by The Blasters. I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were listening to before they started recording.
with Pete Johnson's Orchestra Arhoolie 1947, 1948, 1949 / 1992
Notes: "This is an album of Kansas City music. One fact no one listening this record should forget--all this is fundamentally dance music, not primarily a form of entertainment. Boogie-woogie was the name for a dance step long before it became the tag for a type of music."
A million miles away ;-) As a young lad I’m assuming…From what departure point?
From Washington County.
I've been to the Presley house in Tupelo. Typical style for that time. I just recently purchased three of his CDs, including the Gospel CD. He has a great voice, made for that type of music.
WHOOPIN’ THE BLUES: THE CAPITOL RECORDINGS, 1947-1950
Capitol Records 1995
Notes: "You see, I don't play like nobody else. I play my own style. Somebody say, "Well, you don't play like so-and-so, I say, "well they don't play like me." --Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry(harmonica, vocals), Johnny Winter(guitar, piano) Willie Dixon(bass), Styve Homnick(drums) Alligator Records 1984
Notes: Back when the Blues was being called folk music, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were some of the first people to be recorded, and they were one of the first country Blues harp and guitar duets I heard. I loved them, but I always felt like Sonny was never quite in his element. Brownie's a great guitar player but he has that mellow, pretty Carolina style and Sonny's voice was always more raspy -- it had a lot of the Mississippi Delta quality to it. So when Sonny asked if I'd produce an album with him, I tried to make a record with a lot of Delta feel to it, like we had cut the record in Mississippi. That why I played a lot of slide on it. -- Bruce Iglauer
Hidden Charms by Willie Dixon (Capitol Records 90595). Produced by T Bone Burnett, songs arranged by Willie, the great Earl Palmer on drums and Red Callender on upright bass . Recorded at Ocean Way Studios (Ry Cooder’s favorite studio), mastered for vinyl by Bernie Grundman.
@dabel: Neither album should be too hard to acquire, though neither has to my knowledge been reissued.
The Emitt Rhodes debut came out around the same time as did McCartney's, and the reviews (include those of my friends and myself) favoured Emitt's. I met and worked with him years later (1997), and sitting in his studio were the same organ and Gibson ES335 as are pictured on the album cover!
Fogerty's is his tribute, it seem to me, to his formative influences. Very 1950's, very Southern. Though comprised exclusively of covers, it's my favorite of all his solo albums.
Buddy Guy, Guitar and Vocals Carey Bell, Harmonica Alligator 1993
wiki: Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Wikipedia Born: September 28, 1928, Memphis, TN Died: June 3, 2009, Chicago, IL
One of most-prized musical experiences was seeing and hearing Big Joe Turner backed by The Blasters in the mid-80's, at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. In the band at that time was Lee Allen, the sax player on many of Little Richard's Specialty recordings. An incredible night of music!
Sitting around a little table right above the dance floor were members of Joe's family. The men were in suits, the women very "dolled up", wearing those little hats with attached "veils", little mink stoles wrapped around their shoulders. It looked like a scene from an old movie!
Notes: Born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi on September 5, 1907, the towering 88s ace was a true titan of the Chicago Blues scene for more than half a century. His thundering ivories played an integral role in the development of C hicago blues during its fertile post-war period. Sunnyland was an amazingly prolific sideman on countless recording sessions and bandstands, while his own roof-raising vocals and enduring compositions enriched the genre considerably.
Complete and utter BS. Just another attempt to give credit where no credit is due. Music does not travel with skin color. Nor does religion, language or culture in general.
It's much more likely that he has been listening to Junior Kimbrough CDs.
Notes: Hubert Sumlin was born on November 16, 1931 in Greenwood, Mississippi, one of 13 kids in a closeknit sharecropping family. He began to develop his musical by plunking on a string of baling wire nailed to the wall by his older brother. Around age 11, Sumlin's mother bought him a guitar. He subsequently played in the Baptist church and teamed up with another local boy who played the harmonica, James Cotton. As teens, Cotton and Sumlin worked local fish frys and local spots. Both also later worked at various times with Howlin' Wolf and were ultimately reunited in Chicago as members of Muddy Waters' Band.
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