A Slant Truth (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
It’s Old School Friday once again. This weeks theme is “I Can Drink to This.” Well, truth be told, I can drink to just about anything, but this weeks theme instantly made me think of Screaming Jay Hawkins’ “Alligator Wine.” Amos Milburn is better known for “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer,” but here’s a tune [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Spike Jones Buy: iTunes Genre: Alternative Artist: Spike Jones Song: Holiday for Strings Album: Spike Jones: Greatest Hits!!! Otis Redding Buy: iTunes Genre: Soul...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
The American soul singer Al Wilson was best known in the UK for his up-tempo version of the Oscar Brown Jr morality tale The Snake, which became a northern soul anthem, and the 1973 ballad Show and Tell.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
… of Jerry Leiber. He’s 75. Leiber and partner Mike Stoller are in the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. By the time they were 20, in just three years of working together, their early songs had been recorded by a collection of true all-stars in the rhythm and blues genre including [...]
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Joe Louis Walker was born in 1949 in San Francisco. His father and mother were really into the blues (T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Meade Lux Lewis, Amos Milburn, Pete Johnson) and under this influence 14 year old Joe started to play guitar. When he was 16 he left home and started answering guitar player ads in the paper. He became good friends with guitarist Mike Bloomfield (Butterfield Blues Band) who...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
I never cease to be amazed by what shows up on archive.org . This particular video is worth watching if only for the unique way Big Joe Turner interprets "Shake Rattle and Roll" for the cameras (at 43 minutes in) a real live feel to it. Other performances include: Cab Calloway in full mop o' hair mode for "Minnie the Moocher" with shadow play; "Bad Bad Whiskey" (amen!) sung by Amos Milburn; The Delta...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/16/2007
Nowhere has blues been so transformed as in Chicago. To this day, gritty, electric blues fills its night air. Alligator's Living Chicago Blues series is "all about exposing Chicago blues talent to new audiences". The hope was blues would "not be resigned to mere history". As a minimum, each volume features four artists with session players as historically rich as the recordings themselves. They are...
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 08/08/2007
Mondo 71 R McDonald visits the USA part 2: the south (mostly) Ronald goes to Arkansas Alleee 1 Edith Massey * Big Girls Don't Cry Ronald goes to Maryland Chocolate Dandies * Birmingham Breakdown Cackle Sisters * Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia Ronald Goes to Georgia Hoagy Carmichael * Georgia on My Mind Stars of the Bars * A Little Boy's Prayer Ronald Goes to Tennessee Bo Carter * Please Warm my Weiner...
