Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
1. “I Got A Mind To Give Up Living” Paul Butterfield Blues Band East-West 2. “That’s All Right Mama” Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup 3. “Every Day I Have The Blues” B.B. King 4. “Piney Brown Blues” Big Joe Turner 5. “Baby, Please Don’t Go” Big Joe Williams 6. Blues In The Night Bobby “Blue” Bland Ask Me ‘Bout Nothing (But The [...]
ßench (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Phil The Ex-Fireman took this photo of me Wednesday night in Halifax .He took me on a Tour of a few Pubs I knew in my Yoof............ Phil wishes you web-people to know this................When he was a Postman.He delivered letters to the mailbox of Halifax's famous Bluesman Champion Jack Dupree . When he was in the Fireservice .Working at The Shay . Derby County were playing............Phil asked...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
This collection features classic New Orleans R&B from artists like Champion Jack Dupree, Fats Domino, Guitar Slim, and others. Remastered edition with 22 tracks. Thanks again to Mamma B. Tracks: 1. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Roy Byrd 2. Heavy Heart Blues - Champion Jack Dupree 3. Careless Love - Fats Domino 4. Crescent City Bounce - Archibald 5. Her Mind Is Gone - Roy Byrd 6. She Won't Leave No More...
Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
A friend of mine mentioned Jerry Wexler to me. I said who? Here’s what he wrote me - Bad week for R&B, what with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler dying. Wexler was THE reason that Atlantic Records and Stax Records were different from Motown. Twenty essential Jerry Wexler recordings 1. Professor [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
There was a time, in the first half of the 1900s, when boogie and blues pianists were as urban and commercial as Jay-Z, making black pop and party music about no money, mo’ problems. Classic Piano Blues (Smithsonian Folkways) stars Meade “Lux” Lewis, Champion Jack Dupree, James P. Johnson, Sammy Price and other masters in [...]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce. Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in...
Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
£13 inc vat for the excellent double CD “The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions” Read a review HERE Read about Champion Jack HERE Great stuff. It really is. And the liner notes are a text-book example of how it should be done. Fine work indeed.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Apollo Sunshine: 2007-10-11, Omaha [mp3,ogg,flac] "Magnolia" [mp3] other Apollo Sunshine music blog posts at Largehearted Boy My Morning Jacket: 2008-06-17, Montreal [mp3,ogg,flac] "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2" [mp3] My Morning Jacket:...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
''Blues pianist and vocalist Champion Jack Dupree doesn't talk much about the good old days, doesn't listen to contemporary blues and at 81 is enjoying more success than in his youth. 'The more I play, the better I feel, ' Dupree says. 'You almost can't explain it ; all I want to do is make music and make people happy. This is what keeps me going!' -- Ron Wynn Tracks 1. They Gave Me Away 2. Hometown...
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I don't think Champion Jack ever took the Hippocratic Oath. This song is almost silly with it's other-man side of the black snake/ice man blues tales - The song almost ends up like a lesser Lil’ Johnson track - warm, but not bawdy - but there is a certain darkness that runs under the song [...]
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
No Buts, No Maybes Goin' Back To New Orleans HENRY ROELAND BYRD Yes, it's that time of year again, folks. As we gear up here for the annual pilgrimage to the Crescent City, I figured we'd check in with the man behind the curtain, the progenitor... the guy Allen Toussaint refers to as "The Bach of Rock" - the one and only Professor Longhair . 'Roy' Byrd came up on the streets of New Orleans in the twenties...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Jesse “Tex” Powell (Baritone Sax) “Blow Man Blow” Jubilee Records. Powell had an amazing career from the little research I’ve done. Like his more famous contemporary, saxophonist King Curtis, he straddled the worlds of Jazz (he played with Coltrane in the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and again in the Johnny Hodges Orchestra in the late forties/early [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Last updated January 25, 2008 2:38 p.m. PTListen Up: North Mississippi All Stars'"Hernando" (Songs of the South)The Allstars' new album is named after the town in which the trio grew up, but don't look for the expected Hill Country blues influences. Of course, "Hernando," given plenty of downhome grit by legendary producer Jim Dickinson (father to guitarist Luther and drummer Cody Dickinson), is well-rooted...
ßench (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Click here to read more about The Champion . I got a great Email yesterday From Champion Jack Duprees grandson.Just a few corrections regarding my post on October 17th 2006 Jack didnt live in Ovenden,Halifax until he died.He & his wife moved to Hanover.Divorced & died in Germany (not Halifax as I had said). The KKK burned alive both Jack,s parents. The Childrens Home Jack was brought up in wasnt run...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Champion Jack Dupree. Atlantic Records. 1961.
