Big Mama Thornton - Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
in post does anybody remember laughter? from snuhthing/anything .
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Women Who Rock --
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
From Big Mama Thornton to Lil' Kim, from Janis Joplin to Courtney Love, from Loretta Lynn to Linda Ronstadt, women have strugled, schemed and-most important-sung their way to the top (or almost the top) of the male-dominated music business. Now in her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Atlantic Monthly), music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard, and...
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A Promising Start Leads To A Senseless End
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
The music business is filled with tragic stories, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of individual tales of opportunities lost and potential unfilled. One of those is the story of Johnny Ace. Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) was a Memphis native and a regular on the local music scene from an early age. A contemporary [...]
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Great Vintage Blues 11: Big Mama Thornton
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton grew up a preacher’s daughter in Alabama, where she...
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Heroes of Memphis Soul Music
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
This article discusses about the geniuses who helped create the music of Memphis soul.
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KT Tunstall grateful for "cathartic" gigs
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
KT Tunstall reveals that she finds her busy schedule of gigs "cathartic".
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Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters - Cry Baby
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Mr. Garnett Mimms “Listen - Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters - Cry Baby - MP3″ Greetings all. Today’s selection is one of the first soul records that I became aware of way back in the day, and – I’m ashamed to say – that I only recently grabbed myself a copy of the 45 (despite the fact [...]
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Ain't but one bullet here
Freeborn John (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Big Mama Thornton died in a boarding house in 1984. She improvised a lot of the hit Hound Dog - "So I started to sing the words and join in some of my own. All that talkin' and hollerin'--that's my own." - after Lieber and Stoller wrote it for her. Her income from that song, a big hit record for her that sold two million copies? " I got one check for $500 and I never seen another." She lived the archetypal...
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Hound Dog
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Via this post at Metafilter, here's Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy: This is great too - Down Home Shakedown, with Big Mama heading a bunch of harp players, including Walter "Shakey" Horton, Doc Ross and John Lee Hooker, queueing...
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interview with tom waits..(”..we are monkeys with money and guns..”)
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
“..I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumours and so much gossip that I was afraid. Frankly, his gambling debts, his animal magnetism, coupled with his disregard for the feelings of others… ..His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping-sprees, the face-lifts, the ski trips, the drug busts and the hundreds of [...]
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Wednesday's Worse
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
By popular demand, I am reprising one of our Tuesday artists, Big Mama Thornton, doing her tour de force "Ball n' Chain," followed by perhaps the earliest video of the cover version by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. I never got to meet Big Mama, but I did get to talk to Janis once, backstage at the Mid-South Coliseum in 1968 when she appeared on a big Stax-Volt show.
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BEE HOUSTON & HIS HIGH STEPPERS: (1997) The Hustler @ 256 CBR
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Texas born, Los Angeles blues guitarist Bee Houston became known as Big Mama Thornton's guitarist during the waning years of her career. He was also a rough but wonderful, although largely unknown, singer. Unfortunately he died before the current rave for Blues got under way. This CD contains not only his entire Arhoolie LP issued in the 1970s, but also most of a second, earlier but unissued session....
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Half a league onward!
The Flypaper Theory (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Hey, I was only trying to save lives . When everybody's dropping nukes nobody wins. That's all I was saying in my last musical post. And yet... Our widdle Wintermute's feewing bewittled . Well, I'll see his T-Bone Walker (how daring!) and his Big Mama Thornton (how bold!)and I'll raise him a couple of Winifred Atwells. And here's a some more insanity by the extraordinary Ms. Atwell. Here's her chart-topping...
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But Tuesday's Just As Bad
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton's original 1952 recording of "Hound Dog" was a monster hit for its time, especially for a black artist, selling two million copies. A version with slightly reworked lyrics was recorded in 1956 by a respectful young white fellow named Elvis Presley and sold four million copies. Here's a 1965 video version by Big Mama featuring Buddy Guy on guitar accompaniment:
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iVoryTowerz Radio Salutes Elvis
iVoryTowerz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Now, don't get the wrong idea. The underground podcast is not in search of kitsch this week. Instead the mission is to find the essence of the King of Rock 'n Roll. And to answer the musical question: why was Elvis Presley so influential? He didn't invent rock, but he certainly propelled it forward at a crucial moment. And no, this is not one long musicology lesson, although it wouldn't be iVoryTowerz...
