Has anyone mentioned The Best Of Little Walter Volumes 1 & 2 on Chess Records?
Blues for Aficionados
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.
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Hubert Sumlin HEART & SOUL with / James Cotton(harmonica) Blind Pig Records 1989 Notes require a mircoscope. Long time member of Howlin' Wolf's band. Wiki: Hubert Charles Sumlin was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. Born: November 16, 1931, Greenwood, MS Died: December 4, 2011, Wayne, NJ Chunky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuopW_6AJ50 Sitting on Top of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTe67h-1Ds The Red Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_8kHH91Cj4 Your Foxy Self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRc0QJ7rPg Cheers |
Houston Stackhouse CRYIN' WON'T HELP YOU Genes 1994 Notes: Houston Stackhouse never attained the position he rightly deserved among Bluesmen, probably because of the sparsity of his recordings. Never a hard Delta musician, nor a composer of great note, he gleaned his repertoire from his fellow musician friends and relatives, and favorite records. Born September 28, 1910 Wesson, Mississippi Died September 23, 1980 (aged 69) Helena, Arkansas wiki Excellent Booklet with many stories of his life and career. Kind Hearted Woman Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdqWbIfJh8 Bricks In My Pillow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWTGH-eVBk My Babe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIagfNUNzM Cryin' won't Help You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcG-4Ir9-0 Cheers |
One long-time favorite is the debut album by Lou Ann Barton entitled Old Enough, released in 1982 on Asylum Records. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama, produced by Jerry Wexler (Aretha, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Dylan, etc.) and Glenn Frey (?!). Musical accompaniment by The Swampers (whose members include the superlative drummer/bassist duo of Roger Hawkins and David Hood), The Muscle Shoals Horns, and Jimmie Vaughan (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)---with whom Lou Ann often tours. Sitting right next to Old Enough on the LP shelf is Jump Children by Dave Bartholomew (I named my son after him, Dave’s surname). The recordings were made in New Orleans (no duh ;-) between 1950 and ’60, and released on Imperial Records. My copy is a 1983 pressing on Pathe Marconi. Then there is Mose Allison Sings on Prestige Records. Blues and Jazz co-existed in Mose, but he was a favorite of a fair number of hipper Rockers. Look at some of the titles on this album: "The Seventh Son", "Eyesight To The Blind", "Don’t Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me", "Parchman Farm", "Don’t Get Around Much Anymore". Recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. |
Otis Spann DOWN TO EARTH / THE BLUESWAY RECORDINGS MCA 1995 Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. -- Wikipedia Born: March 21, 1930, Jackson, MS Died: April 24, 1970, Chicago, IL My Home Is In The Delta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEVkVx6_Q7o Down To Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFX_3MlgZN8 Chicago Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzkWhSvoqEg I'm A Fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oeh_wSmlek Cheers |
Big Bad Smitty MEAN DISPOSITION Genes 1991 Notes: Big Bad Smitty is 300 pounds of the most authentic Blues to emerge in many a year. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1940, Smitty first picked up a guitar at age ten, picking out Muddy waters' 'Still a Fool' and by his later teen years was playing out at Delta Jukes, fish fries and picnics in the Greenville area...By his thirties Smitty had travelled to St. Louis playing such North and East side clubs as The Club Caravan, Tubby's red Room and Sparggin's Hacienda Lounge where he still plays regularly. Still a fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF6Fbp2vYCc How many more Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwT8ARsTM0 Long ol' Lonesome Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d38HVjatMs You don't Love Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oS5B-2M2bY Cheers |
Carrie Smith CONFESSIN' THE BLUES Evidence / Disques Black and Blue 1993 Notes: "I've been around this kind of music all my life," Carrie Smith told me one afternoon at her East Orange, New Jersey, home. It's not new to me. I was born in Georgia, but my family moved to Newark, New Jersey when I was about seven. Sarah Vaughan lived two blocks down from me. From my childhood, I was brought up in the church. My mother could sing. In fact, my whole family are good singers. And my father, he's excellent! He was a Baptist minister." Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMCV3WC_vw Confessin' the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_lVDSBbu8 Country Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2avnK2u0E Mama (He treats your daughter mean) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ygACDFp4 Trouble In Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdNgmFeKNI Cheers |
Byther Smith
ALL NIGHT LONG Delmark 1997 Walked All Night Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvgwzDYLUOw Look Over Your Shoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGC9gmxiiE Thinking Real Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKXF1Lya84 Cried Like A Baby Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY7tY4-45o Cheers |
Byther Smith ADDRESSING THE NATION WITH THE BLUES JSP 1994 Notes: "I'm just a working man" is how the genuinely humble Byther Smith neatly describes himself. A modest statement perhaps, but one which also reveals just what makes him such a great Blues artist--in its own environment, the Chicago Blues has always been, and remains, Black working-class music. The Windy City still teems with Blues artists, but once beyond the 'Blues for the tourists' coach trips... there remains a small number of singers and musicians who adhere to that wisest piece of Blues advice, "find your own thing"--and Byther definitely falls into the latter category. Born April 17, 1932 Monticello, Mississippi Died September 9, 2021 (aged 89) MississippI I was coming Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elc09qWyRSQ Hello Mrs. Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDrWIS7qHc Addressing the Nation with the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4erORyjVY What Have I Done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ld5UuO-0Y Cheers |
Johnny Shines JOHNNY SHINES WITH BIG WALTER HORTON Testament 1966 / 1969 / 1995 G. B. Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT0vmQBFiLo You don't have to Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbcv8AzQwM Hello Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qh1bWjZ30 Sneakin' and Hidin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_0V-qSVZg Cheers |
The Johnny Shines Band MASTERS OF MODERN BLUES Testament 1967 / 1994 Notes: One of the most arresting though obscure Blues artists to have recorded in postwar Chicago was singer-guitarist Johnny Shines. His recorded output was small; he made but 12 recordings, and only half of these were issued. On this recording Shines is supported by several of the finest musicians in the modern Blues. On harmonica is Big Walter Horton, in whose playing this simple instrument has been brought to astonishing levels of emotional expression and virtuosity; on piano is Otis Spann, long mainstay of the Muddy waters band; Lee Jackson is on bass, while Fred Below, perhaps the finest drummer in the Blues, rounds out the rhythm section. Rollin' and Tumblin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLAOy0oJyJM Mr. Tom Green's Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvtQL8btW8Q Sweet Home Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqdIJZoe3PQ Walkin' Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0a223eLEog Two Trains Runnin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkk4zuSxBXk Cheers |
Preston Shannon MIDNIGHT IN MEMPHIS Bullseye Blues 1996 Notes: "Memphis is a city steeped in music folklore and tradition and any new name emerging from this mystical melting pot is worth investigating. Preston Shannon is that name, a singer/guitarist who evokes memories of Otis Redding and Bobby Womack with his gruff vocals; Albert King, Freddie King and T-Bone Walker influences filter through his guitar technique." "This album is dedicated to God..." --- Preston Shannon Only in the Blues could an album about women and sex be dedicated to God. Midnight in Memphis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBfwmZYjO2w The Streets will Love you to Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wj5_XAZ6KU Round Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iaPjAL-zY The Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZrl1DBUas8 Cheers |
Son Seals LIVING IN THE DANGER ZONE Alligator Records 1991 Wiki: Frank "Son" Seals was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. In 2009, Seals was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Born: August 14, 1942, Osceola, AR Died: December 20, 2004, Chicago, IL Frigidaire Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyHKGNJcDg I Can't Lose The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttCP_YFPms Tell It To Another Fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5CoQCv6Lk Danger Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddLRF6lYm8 Cheers |
Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women HOT FLASH Alligator 1991 Wiki --- Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1987 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Lewis separated from the band in 1992 and was replaced by Andra Faye.[1] The group then featured Rabson on piano, vocals and guitar, Adegbalola on vocals and guitar, and Faye on vocals, bass, mandolin, violin and guitar.[1] An announcement on the group’s website in November, 2009, stated Saffire had retired and amicably disbanded. Rabson died on January 30, 2013, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, after a long battle with cancer. She was 67.[2] Andra Faye is now living and playing in the Indianapolis, Indiana area. The other side of the story? Great song titles. Billy Branch on harmonica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axwow-Ti3n4 No Need Pissin’ On A Skunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4r9s-6-h2c Sloppy Drunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nUHgQFYteQ Tom Cat Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vsBSBHU-PA One Good Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7UnrtR4Qg Dirty Sheets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0jBxbOv_Q Cheers |
Otis Rush RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME HighTone Records 1971 / 1985 Wiki: Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018)[1] was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the styles of other 1950s artists Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, his sound became known as West Side Chicago blues and was an influence on many musicians, including Michael Bloomfield, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. Born April 29, 1934 Philadelphia, Mississippi Died September 29, 2018 Chicago, Illinois Right Place, Wrong Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxl8hIsDmc Tore Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCkxIvyyJMM Take a Look Behind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGN76ksRT58 Your Turn to Cry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pfyhl_GCxo Cheers |
Fred McDowell AMAZING GRACE Testament Records 1969 / 1994 Notes: The superb Mississippi singer and bottleneck-guitarist Fred McDowell is but the latest to bear witness to the continuing , fructifying interrelationship of the the two musics, performing Blues for his friends and neighbors during the week and religious music with his fellow worshippers on Sunday. Jesus is on the Main Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCBKJinuQ60 I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTSvaxj6sA You Got To Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVHKk0HUz0 Amazing Grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Dwh2mQdhc Cheers |
My favorite Bukka White (sorry for saying "Bukka," Booker): "1963 isn't 1962" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dSF0SKsSAw&list=PL6xp58Fk-rbmXh0Z9A_sMzwRsjAMwPFIk |
Snooky Pryor
TOO COOL TO MOVE Antone's Records 1992 Notes: At twenty he joined the army. From 1943 to 1945 he was stationed in the South Pacific in Saipan, New Caledonia, Guam and other islands. Here he pursued his music by playing bugle and entertaining the troops. It was in New Caledonia, where, missing his new bride, he wrote "Telephone Blues", which was to be his first recording. It would also mark the beginning of the great postwar era of Chicago Blues. Married to Luella Pryor since 1941, he has raised seven children and eighteen grandchildren in the farm town of Ullin, Illinois. Too Cool To Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTgI0sN64w Keyhole in Your Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcoyIBaR6E Bottle It Up and Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvOOJCDVB0g Cheatin' and Lyin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYacNGDOTQ Cheers |
Fred McDowell MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL Rounder 1995 Notes: What you hold here in this compact disc is an authentic document. The real thing. Recorded one day during Easter Week, 1962, in Como, Mississippi. The studio: the living room of Fred's house. The studio audience: Fred's wife, family and neighbors. The ambient sounds: Fred's dog and a number of unidentified children. Thirty-three Easters have passed since this session. And the music remains as immediate and compelling as it was the day it was recorded. For old friends and new, this collection is a wonderful testament to a man who has been called "the point of entry" into the Blues for a great many people. Done Left Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJzwAQxH-U All The Way From East St. Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLO5TRRy89U Shake 'Em On Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7TuwWFWmk John Henry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOt19i_oRY Cheers |
Snooky Pryor IN THIS MESS UP TO MY CHEST Antone's Records 1994 Wiki: Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, United States.[3] He developed a country blues style influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller). In the mid-1930s, in and around Vance, Mississippi, Pryor played in impromptu gatherings of three or four harmonica players, including Jimmy Rogers, who then lived nearby and had yet to take up playing the guitar.[5] Pryor moved to Chicago around 1940. While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.
Born: September 15, 1921, Lambert, MS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLME5DJPL0 Pay for All Our Sins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJrDUqH3j4w Take it Easy Greasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvfU1VmjGw Slow Down Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcexOun5Xc Judgement Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL44FiuiQEY Cheers |
John Primer THE REAL DEAL Atlantic Records 1995 John Primer (born March 5, 1945, Camden, Mississippi, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at Theresa's Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the 21st century.---Wiki I called my baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTPYIQXlSE Tomorrow might not be the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2TeXPRKmQ Stop draggin' that chain around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOTg_kKbJWg Tired and worried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWhywlqMZU Cheers |
Want the real deal? RL Burnside in his back yard, 1978. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvf12Bi6v8&list=RDS-G-VpZ34UM&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meC4pmw5u84&list=RDS-G-VpZ34UM |
Yikes, it's great to see you all sharing Jr. Kimbrough. Asie Payton anyone? Cedell Davis? Robert Belfour? RL Burnside? These guys aren't going to be mentioned in "Jazz for Aficionados," so thanks Rok for creating BFA. I'll be back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UWL6rBdXM |
More Blues Blues to Bechet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5s9kuNBuoM Jeep's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcEGOLfUTE Blee Bop Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13_lIfGAak Swingin' the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHnHPPcKCiE Cheers |
Billie and DeDe Pierce NEW ORLEANS: THE LIVING LEGENDS Riverside / Original Blues Classics 1961 / 1990 Notes: The singing of the Blues to the accompaniment of cornet and piano was one of the earliest forms taken by Jazz when it first found its way onto phonograph records in the 1920s. The records of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ida Cox are examples of "classic" Blues, and thirty-five years ago the "race" catalogues of record companies were full of them. To most collectors of such records, the "classic" Blues style is fascinating--and all but extinct. But in New Orleans, thanks to a durable couple named Billie and DeDe Pierce, and also to a rather fantastic little dance hall named Luthjens, this tradition has been kept very much alive. Billie Pierce (piano and vocals) DeDe Pierce (cornet) Albert Jiles (drums) Billie and Dede Pierce - Vocal Blues and Cornet in the Classic Tradition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBeaIKw0T8 Cheers |
How about some blues from Poland, from 1972. Karate, album called ’Breakout’ https://youtu.be/u6BYIgnQnrU https://youtu.be/UscnXi8mz_U one more... https://youtu.be/IJWT68OumVs |
Jack Owens & Bud Spires IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE DEVIL Testament Records 1971 / 1995 Notes:"The Bentonia style apparently grew up in isolation in this little country town (Bentonia) on the edge of the Delta between Jackson and Yazoo City. Skip James was the only important Bluesman to bring it to a wider audience. It is distinctive for its high melismatic singing and complex melodies, its minor-keyed, intricately picked guitar parts, and haunting, brooding lyrics dealing with such themes as loneliness, death and the supernatural, in addition to the usual lyrics about love and its problems. Altogether it is one of the eeriest, loneliest and deepest blues sounds ever recorded. Hearing Jack Owens singing out across the fields late at night is one of the most moving experiences I have ever had." Jack Ain't Had No Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A8HJYC_R70 Catfish Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJeTlaZqy4 I Won't Be Bad No More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZSpFoHFY08 It Must Have Been The Devil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQPXLZ9zeo Can't See, Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZvzKfejz0 Cheers |
Ollie Nightingale I'LL DRINK YOUR BATH WATER, BABY ECKO 1995 Notes: "Ollie Nightingale began his singing career in the early 1950's as lead singer of the Memphis based gospel group, the Dixie Nightingales. He was born Ollie Braxton Hoskins in bateville, Mississippi, on Sept 6, 1936. With some early vocal training by his grandmother and only a little coaxing, Ollie quickly became successful singing in the church choir. It was the influence of the church that later began to characterize his recordings." David Ruffin, future lead singer of The Temptations, was a teenage member of the Dixie Nightingales. Babysitting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_okszAXKM4 Changing for the Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2W626QcRw I'll Drink Your Bath Water, Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Mek3CqDXI That's What You Are to Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxJvzAebgw Cheers |
Allen Toussaint THE BRIGHT MISSISSIPPI Nonesuch 2009 Real New Orleans Music. Blues with a little sophistication. Jay Bellerose (drums and percussion) West End Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPsgMa74Lk Long, Long Journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkSlStHxyPA Singin' the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91HEDiFpiAc St. James Infirmary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZcU4SniIc Bright Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCHddHp8OAw Cheers |
Johnny Nocturne Band SHAKE 'EM UP Bullseye Blues 1994 Notes:"The Johnny Nocturne Band offers power-house renditions of instrumental jump Blues and Jazz tunes from the late 40s and early 50s. Hailing from Northern California, the band, featuring the swinging Brenda Boykin on vocals, are favorites on the club and festival circuits. SHAKE 'EM UP was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs and features material from Duke Ellington, Little Esther, Big Maybelle, Jimmy Rushing and others." In support of the DANCE wing of the Dance / Art split in Jazz Reelin' And Rockin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIYwPcYskE Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-3uXt2S9I I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-7fiQLahY New Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kv92IL0Ok Fool's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK-JMn7Ses Cheers |
Robert Nighthawk - Houston Stackhouse MASTERS OF MODERN BLUES Testament Records 1994 Another excellent Booklet. wiki: Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967)[1] was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He was the father of the blues musician Sam Carr. Nighthawk was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983.[2] wiki: Houston Stackhouse (September 28, 1910 – September 23, 1980) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. He is best known for his association with Robert Nighthawk.[1] He was not especially noted as a guitarist or singer, but Nighthawk showed gratitude to Stackhouse, his guitar teacher, by backing him on a number of recordings in the late 1960s. Apart from a brief tour in Europe, Stackhouse confined his performing to the area around the Mississippi Delta. Robert Nighthawk: Maggie Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzVX_jZffQ Black Angel Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M4a91xHic Houston Stackhouse: Kansas City Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNM5Hbry8s8 Big Road Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FVv5ID_Fw Cheers |
Mississippi Sheiks STOP AND LISTEN Yazoo 1992 Fascinating Booklet of their history. Early 1900s Mississippi. Notes: "The Mississippi Sheiks were probably Mississippi's most commercially successful blues musicians, although they fit none of the musical stereotypes of their time and place. The off-shoot of a string band that catered to square dance audiences, the Sheiks displayed more white influence than any other popular Blues stars. Still their work drew favorable comments from such unadulterated Mississippi stylists as Son House and Howlin' Wolf, who even preferred them to Charlie Patton." Stop And Listen Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEpsNgvYO8 Sitting On Top Of The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWu3NusPBgU I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzi7VOSMs4 She Ain't No Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmtqw9Pc-MM Cheers |
Charlie Musselwhite ACE OF HARPS Alligator Records 1990 No Notes. Wiki: Charles Douglas Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. He has often been identified as a "white bluesman". Born: January 31, 1944 (age 77 years), Kosciusko, MS She May Be Your Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AP6qJGaYCg The Blues Overtook Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxMlKYUSy1I Mean Ole Frisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpWCrZSeU4 River Hip Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrmTczQZ9VQ Cheers |
Amos Milburn DOWN THE ROAD APIECE Aladdin / EMI 1993 Notes: "Like innumerable budding musicians of his generation he was a fervent devotee of Louis Jordan, but Amos reserved his deepest affections for the holy trinity of boogie woogie piano: Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. After some formal piano lessons, Millburn quit school while still quite young to work as a delivery boy and part time musician. With the advent of World War ll, he tacked a few years onto his age for the benefit of recruitment officers and joined the Navy in 1942. Assigned to the Pacific Theater, Millburn received numerous battle stars for his participation in some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict." You are sure this is a Blues disc when you notice his name is spelled as Milburn and Millburn on the CD label. He was also born in 1924, 1927 and 1928. Wiki: Joseph Amos Milburn was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Houston, Texas, and died there 52 years later. Born: April 1, 1927, Houston, TX Died: January 3, 1980, Houston, TX Milk and Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q47HsWASOw8 Down The Road Apiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfMpqpTGYRU Good, Good Whiskey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGstBK1pZc Roll, Mr. Jelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5OmJPtffs Thinking And Drinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_qkwUAXtgY Cheers |
Big Maceo THE KING OF CHICAGO BLUES PIANO Arhoolie Productions 1941-1945 / 1992 Excellent enclosed booklet. Wiki: Major Merriweather, better known as Big Maceo Merriweather, was an American pianist and blues singer. He was mainly active in Chicago through the 1940s. Born: March 31, 1905, Newnan, GA Died: February 23, 1953, Chicago, IL Worried Life Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSPsJFUt_g Detroit Jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw3hDYnzVNQ Texas Stomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pzrqh6elac Ramblin' Mind Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrvcFk-f7eg Texas Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npxlc-BNS_4 Chicago Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7Jnfziauk Cheers |
Memphis Slim AT THE GATE OF HORN Vee Jay 1993 Notes: "Soon after this album Memphis Slim moved to Europe, where he played the role of the expatriate Bluesman to the hilt, cutting countless albums on countless labels doing endless versions of his old songs. He occasionally returned to the United States to perform, often recording yet more albums seemingly in his sleep. He died at 72 in Paris on February 24, 1988 of kidney failure. Many feel that this was his last focused work." The Comeback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVBaQ62VRw4 Steppin' Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcaciW6UQ4Q Messin' Around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-YlvhG5Xs Rockin' The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1RRxAc63wc Slim's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbIuobIt98 Cheers |
The Memphis Horns THE MEMPHIS HORNS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Wayne Jackson (trumpet, trombone) Andrew Love (tenor saxophone) Telarc Records 1995 Excellent booklet with many photos. Short paragraph with background of each song and the artist performing it. You Don't Miss Your Water (william bell) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcux8J123s Take Me To The River (etta james) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaMuYQIEjns Somebody Have Mercy (bobby womack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoN9RJMeV4I Sad Song (marvis staples) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779QdK34Qec I've Been Loving You Too Long (warren haynes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2poJjNLr4 Cheers |
Floyd McDaniel LET YOUR HAIR DOWN Floyd McDaniel & The Blues Swingers Delmark 1994 What a difference a real Blues band makes. Let Your Hair Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsz3GFytqWc Mary Jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65r805gjCY Sent for You Yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qp0TXZ9Qr0 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clIOxXHLtOE Caldonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDAxpotQYz0 Cheers |
Floyd McDaniel WEST SIDE BABY Delmark 1997 Backwater Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlBvu10of1Q West Side Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MSpEChsLE Red Top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YgIae9jZL8 Sweet Home Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1qkjgJ-5v0 Cheers |
Mighty Sam McClain SLEDGEHAMMER SOUL & DOWN HOME BLUES AudioQuest 1996 Nice Booklet with pictures. Explains the origin of each song. When the Hurt Is Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2LNOL4rmk Things ain't what they used to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PuFqeYRPw They call me Mighty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTssy7j9os Hey, Miss Bea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tiPd9VBq8 Cheers |