The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
Through the week of the 20th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2009. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to soundtracks, and several points in-between. Right now, on the AllMusic Blog, we [...]
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Someday we'll be able to see this stuff in hi-def on our computers, but for now, I kind of like the ultra crappy quality of Youtube uploads, and it's free (that won't last for ever, bet your undershorts on that). Here's a few of my favorite clips, some rare, some fairly common, all great. Amos Milburn & his Chicken Shackers....what's a shacker? The Johnny Burnette Trio take first prize on Ted Mack's...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the genre change remarkably, but he never appreciably altered his mournful Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins' nimble dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem easy, and his fascinating...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Okay, this is a little far afield from the mission statement, but I just love this record so I thought I'd share it anyway. From 1955, here's the greatest rock piano man of them all, Amos Milburn , and his signature tune "Chicken Shack Boogie." Actually, this is a remake. Milburn cut the original, hit, version in 1948; it's a sleazy barrelhouse gem, very proto-rock 'n' roll, but also a tad...
Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
Steinski - Beat Rock (CD) Vibrations/Harmonia Mundi/Disques Office, 2008-06-18 Steinski a remis ça. Cette fois, il a puisé dans sa collection de 45 tours pour en extraire les rock'n'roll les plus sauvages, étranges et groovy de son âge d'or. Continue reading
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
WATCH IT! 1956 – B&W – 40 min This video was created at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Some of the greatest of all time including Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton, Martha Davis, Nipsey Russell, and Cab Calloway are featured. Willie Bryant – The Clown Prince of Mirth is the host! Opening number features Lionel Hampton and his [...]
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Tonight, the topic is song titles that contain the word middle . I have these: Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road - Loudon Wainwright III In The Middle - Rodney Atkins In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson In The Middle Of The Night - Amos Milburn In the Middle of the Night - Dave Grusin Malcolm in the Middle - TV Theme Man In The Middle - The Bee Gees Meet In The Middle - Diamond Rio Middle...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
A fascinating new book about the early independent labels of rock 'n' roll underscores again the central role that radio played in turning rock 'n' roll into the musical language of modern American popular culture.
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 03/22/2009
Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring fabulous R & B artists: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown. Sarah..........da best!
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!)...
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