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....
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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 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.
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 [...]
Here's another song off the 30-year old cassette tape of the live radio broadcast of NRBQ playing at Toad's Place. "Honey Hush" is another Big Joe Turner classic; you can listen to NRBQ's cover of "Shake Rattle and Roll" from earlier this week. In this version, Al Anderson sings (or, more accurately shouts) the lyrics. The Whole Wheat Horns are prominently featured, including an...
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) A Memorial for Jerry Wexler, record producer and former co-owner of Atlantic Records, will be held in New York City on October 30th, starting at 12:00 PM. Invite only, the Memorial will be hosted by his children Lisa and Paul Wexler.
Science Fiction Boogie (2009). Record Label: Goldenlane Records Originally released: 01-JAN-2009. Tracklist: 1. Radar Blues - Artist: Big Joe Turner 2. Death Ray Boogie - Artist: Pete Johnson 3. Skyliner - Artist: Charlie Barnet ...
JIMMY RUSHING: He Ain't Got Rhythem Along with BIG JOE TURNER, Jimmy Rushing helped set the standards by which all other blues shouters would be judged. Rushing, a small, rotund man whose ability to sing over big bands was legendary, could also phrase his lyrics with great skill and incorporate much emotion in his delivery. From the late 1920s all the way up to 1950, Rushing and pianist-bandleader...
From America's heartland, Glenn Patrik sings and plays the kind of blues that made Kansas City a hub where musical pioneers met and exchanged ideas about swing, rhythm, blues, and being spontaneous. It was shortly before World War II and just about the same time that bebop was getting noticed in New York, when Kansas City began its parlay with the blues. Give {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} credit for much...
Ahmet Ertegun (Turkish: Ahmet Ertegün) was born on July 31, 1923 and he passed away on December 14, 2006. He was the Turkish American co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum as well as an inductee into the Blues Hall of Fame. He is described as "one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry". According...
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