David "Honeyboy" Edwards WHITE WINDOWS Evidence Records 1993 wiki:
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist. At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with the famed blues musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship. Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines."
West Helena Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjiLY6GbOecBuild Myself a Cave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBKPwQ0E6k61 Highway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtNBzKz-mc
Drop Down Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aGBFMTe8gCheers |
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Joe Williams NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES Red Holloway(leader & tenor sax), Eddie Cleanhead Vinson(vocal & alto sax), Jack McDuff(organ & piano), Phil Upchurch(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Gerryck King(drums) Delos Records 1983 Notes: "Overseas, Jazz is looked on and respected as part of our classical presentation. So, recordings the first Jazz album on a prestigious American classical label like Delos is a giant step toward broadening our audience here in this country." The Blues with Jazz band backing. And, a guy who can sing.
Who She Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jOiIxnEDsJust a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5_RVF9gMYGoing to Chicago Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn3DsNTudA
Alright, Okay, You Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGOvLtkmX0
Sent For You Yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE9YjJlVE4Cheers |
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Sonny Boy Williamson / Willie Love CLOWNIN’ WITH THE WORLD Alligator Records / Trumpet Records 1953-1954 Notes: "Since the earliest years of the century, Nelson Street has served the black community of Greenville, Mississippi as its social and commercial mainstream. Its many cafes, saloons, barbershops, juke joints and dives have played host to some of the best musicians in the Delta. It was here in 1942 that Aleck "Rice" Miller, one of the most extraordinary of all Blues artists, first met and gigged with Willie Love Jr., a Greenville resident whose rolling, swinging piano playing kept him steady demand on Nelson Street and beyond." In most Southern States there was always one place that was a little different from the rest of the state. In Mississippi, that place was Greenville / Washington County. In it’s heyday, the third largest city in the state. Sonny Boy Williamson: (Aleck ’Rice’ Miller) She’s Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_G9HleBUk309 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVQNJTU1N7IClownin’ with the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQyZAK4SAgWillie Love: Take It Easy, Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVgtr0tUwkNelson Street Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSfv4X7f2E Worried Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB79aVOB7RkCheers |
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Howlin' Wolf THE CHESS BOX MCA Chess 3CD Box 1991 Wiki: The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" Several of his songs, including " Smokestack Lightnin'", " Killing Floor" and " Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 54 on its list of the " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Born June 10, 1910 White Station, Mississippi
Died January 10, 1976 (aged 65) Hines, Illinois
Many say Muddy Waters was the Boss of the Blues. Many could be wrong.
Howlin' For My Darling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c
Who's Been Talking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jxaWMFhTg
Goin' Down Slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDAAx-PXGQ
I Asked For Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGoKbPR6kwYAnd 71 more! Cheers |
CHESS BLUES
Various Artists
Chess Records 1992
I picked up this 4 disc CD boxed set in the used bin a few years ago. It provides a 20 year retrospective of Chicago Blues artists on the Chess Label. Its a good mix of famous and more obscure tracks and comes with an excellent booklet.
Disc One 1947 -1952
Highlights:
Muddy Waters - "Rollin' Stone" (The Stone's namesake)
Muddy Waters - "I Can't Be Satisfied"
Howlin' Wolf - "Moanin' at Midnight"
Disc Two 1952 - 1954
Highlights:
Little Walter - "Juke"
Muddy Waters - "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
Howlin' Wolf - "Evil"
Disc Three 1954 - 1960
Highlights:
Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"
Little Walter - "My Baby"
Muddy Waters - "Got My Mojo Working"
Disc Four 1960 -1967
Highlights:
Howlin' Wolf - "The Red Rooster"
Sonny Boy Williamson - "Bring it on Home"
Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" |
mksun,
Very impressive collection. The Best on Chess could be all the Blues a person needs. Except for us
Aficionados of course. :)
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Howlin' Wolf
THE BACK DOOR WOLF
MCA Chess 1973 / 1995
Notes: "Wolf was titanic by several scales. Sam Phillips rermembered him "as about sis foot six, with the biggest feet i'd ever seen on a human being..." Phillips also considered Wolf the greatest talent among his many discoveries, Elvis included. Remembering the impression he made in the Delta in the 1930s, Johnny Shines likened Wolf to "some kind of beast or something," adding that his fearsome presence was a product not of his size but of the sound he was giving off."
The Back Door Wolf
You Turn Slick on Me
Can't stay here
Speak Now Woman
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Wow! Things you can find on a mellow Saturday night. Thank you for everyone contributing. I’m going to be listening to A LOT of blues. I have a contribution-
Jimmy Rogers-Chicago Bound (1970, Chess), compilation of 1950s Chess recordings. Rogers’ back-up band is a who’s who of Chicago blues-Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Walter "Shaky" Horton, Fred Below, Otis Spann.
Chicago Bound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCm_1jwPh8
Walking By Myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu44TfgLlbo
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Paul Butterfield Blues Band Better Days
Blood Sweat and Tears
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Walter Trout "Ordinary Madness"
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Roosevelt Sykes-Dirty Double Mother-recorded in 1973 and released by the BluesWay label. Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "the Honeydripper". He plays piano in a barrelhouse style of blues, in the musical form that got its start in brothels in New Orleans. You'll get a chuckle by listening carefully to the lyrics.
Persimmon Pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2adlvXS1Bg
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