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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 |
Chris Thomas King - Red Mud
Chris Smither - Another Way to Find You
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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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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. |
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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... |
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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
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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 |
Mike Flanigin "West Texas Blues" |
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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Hey rok, when I saw this thread listed in the "suggested" list on the right side of my screen, I figured "Oh no, here's another source of fantastic music I've been unaware of." Very happy to see you just started this one and there are only 28 posts. Easier to stay current with than JFA. Thanks! For me, this may still the most amazing blues performance ever. 100% Delta. Sheer passion, abandon, unbridled emotion: Son House "Death Letter Blues" (live in Europe about 60 years ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY |
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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 |
Playing my newly acquired
John Lee Hooker"The Country Blues of..."
Craft Recordings From the original stereo master’s Kevin Grey 60th Anniversary |
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By the way: In early-67 (I think it was), a band I hadn't heard of came to play at The Continental in Santa Clara (a converted roller rink, complete with horrible acoustics) just off Highway 101. They were named The Steve Miller Blues Band, and had a rhythm guitar player who did no singing named Boz Scaggs. Their debut album hadn't yet been released. |
