Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's been quite a bit of chatter across the site the last few days about compilation CDs, catching up with artists you'd never quite got found to listening to etc. As I was browsing iTunes this morning I came across, again, a series of 5-track downloadable EPs from the redoubtable Rhino label. I've bought a few in my time and was tempted by a few classic Dave Edmunds tracks when I thought "This...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Wilbert Harrison at the piano...this might be the only known footage of him. I never saw this footage of JB Lenoir before, shot in Chicago circa 1964. JB Lenoir again, this time with the great Freddie Below on drums. 1965 JB, at home with cool Kay guitar Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup wonders where the money went. Big Joe Turner with the Johnny Otis Show, 1970. Big Joe at the Apollo, early 50's. Little Walter...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
In its entirety courtesy of AMC's B-Movie viewing site . (Haha I'm Bibi again!) Big Joe Turner! Yeah! Margaret Dumont and Sterling Holloway! uh, yeah!, again.... Lots more there - full sizable, too.
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Sometimes life is good, we got an email from Robert Ross the other day in which he outlines his tremendous experience I am the leader of The ROBERT ROSS BAND based in NYC. I am a singer, songwriter, guitarist, & harmonica player who is known for a wide variety of blues, jazz, and other roots music. I worked with, and recorded with Big Joe Turner on Spivey Records. I have also worked with John Lee...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
We kick off the week with an extended workout with Big Joe Turner, the boss of the blues. Next up is the 21st century music of Mark de Clive-Lowe and Freesoul Sessions. And we end the week with two hours of Jimi Hendrix covers and rare performances featuring Clas Yngström, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Nguyen Le, Art [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Before B.B. became King of the blues, Big Joe Turner was the “Boss of the Blues.”
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Legendary blues singer Big Joe Turner had an amazing career that stretched from the speakeasies of depression era Kansas City to early rock 'n' roll and an autumnal comeback. For this album, he hooks up with the retro jump blues and Roomful of Blues for a nice album of standards and originals. Turner had lost a little bit of range by this point (he was 72 years of age) but he could still bring it,...
silentworker | 11/24/2009
Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so good he could play 4 characters in one three minute song,
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Even though Joe Louis Walker has been receiving critical acclaim for his tough and original blues for years, I think he's been an under-appreciated force in the music for way too long. His latest CD, another of those mid-year Stony Plain releases that I'm just getting caught up on, is titled "Between a Rock and the Blues," and that's a pretty good description of where his music is located....
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tasting through the current releases of López de Heredia the other day in Austin made me feel like Big Joe Turner’s Mississippi bullfrog in “Flip, Flop, and Fly”: I’m like a Mississippi bullfrog sittin’ on a hollow stump/I got so many good bottles of wine, I don’t know which way to jump. I was thrilled to [...]
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
For lovers of lists, here's one I found on the internet. Not a bad selection I have to admit. The Best R&B Male Singers according to DigitalDreamDoor.com http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/ 1. Jackie Wilson 2. Sam Cooke 3. Clyde McPhatter 4. Marvin Gaye 5. Tony Williams (Platters) 6. Curtis Mayfield 7. Smokey Robinson 8. Al Green 9. Roy Hamilton 10. Little Willie John 11. Solomon Burke 12. Ben...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
" The Things That I Used to Do " is a song written by Guitar Slim (aka Eddie Jones) and his 1953 recording of it in New Orleans, was arranged and produced by a young Ray Charles. It was released on Specialty Records in 1954 to become a bestseller, staying in the rhythm and blues charts for 42 weeks'. I can't find that version but Buddy Guy discusses him here Wikipedia Ray Charles's arrangement...
Brookhaven National Laboratory News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
A Band Called Sam, a band carrying on the legacy of the late Sam “Bluzman” Taylor, will perform at Brookhaven Lab on Saturday, November 14, at 8 p.m. in the Berkner auditorium.
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
I was at a union conference yesterday, and spent the evening in the bar. A conference delegate had a guitar with him and could just about manage a twelve-bar: so yours truly sang the blues. It went down very well in the bar, and got an oblique mention at the start of next day’s conference. What they [...]
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silentworker | 11/24/2009
Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so good he could play 4 characters in one three minute song, make them all real...
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