Roar of a Wolf
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rise from a cotton plantation to the Hall of Fame
Charley Patton
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Karen Dalton: Green Rocky Road (Review)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Folk singer Karen Dalton had a voice closer to Charley Patton than Sandy Denny, a unique voice that most people probably either love or hate.
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New Led Zep film... warning, does not contain acting or warlocks
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Everyone is still a bit stir-mental over Led Zeppelin aren't they? I mean, you see a lot more people wearing Zeptees now dontcha? Long gone are the days when VerZep were the sole property of men dressed entirely in denim...
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Honest Jon’s raid the EMI archive
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
In what can only be described as a project of astonishing ambition, reissue specialist Honest Jon’s Records have dived headlong into the collection of some 150,000 78rpm records stored at the EMI archive in Hayes in order to compile a series of albums which will feature seldom heard and completely forgotten music from all over the world. [...]
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Ground Zero Blues Club Opens in Memphis
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Co-owned by Morgan Freeman, club celebrates Delta blues MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Morgan Freeman is helping showcase authentic Delta blues with the opening of Ground Zero Blues Club in downtown Memphis. The club, co-owned by the Academy Award-winning actor and Delta resident, carries on the mission of the famed Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS -- to celebrate and sustain the...
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JOHN LEE HOOKER: In Person
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century. "The Hook" was a Mississippi native who became the top gent on the Detroit blues circuit in the...
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Charley Patton - A Spoonful Blues
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
in post friday five is a gas from snuhthing/anything .
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Shuffling into Spring
Somewhere on A1A (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
1. Take the Highway… Marshall Tucker Band 2. Lido Shuffle… Boz Scaggs 3. Empire State Express… Son House 4. Zydeco Gris Gris… Beausoleil 5. Hard Rain's Gonna Fall… Bob Dylan 6. Keep it Simple… Keb’ Mo 7. [...]
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REVIEW: Eric Sardinas - Eric Sardinas And Big Motor
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
Fans of slide guitarist Eric Sardinas will be happy to hear that he’s limbered up his trusty Dobro for a fourth album, Eric Sardinas And Big Motor, just out on the the Favored Nations label. Last heard on 2003’s Black Pearls, Sardinas’ newest effort again showcases his signature brand of blues-tinged rock, and helps kick [...]
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Out on Highway 61
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Did scholars and collectors define our image of Delta blues?
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CHARLIE PATTON: Founder of the Delta Blues
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
A cornerstone of any blues collection, Charley Patton is where it starts. As compilations go, Founder of the Delta Blues originally started life as a double-record set featuring all of Patton's best-known titles, and soundwise was miles above all previous versions. Its compact disc incarnation here trims the tune list to 24 tracks, but includes all the seminal tracks: "Pony Blues," "High Water Everywhere,"...
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Sick as a Dog in the Morning
Kid Vinyl (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Ok, so it's been a long time coming. It was released in 2006 (end of, in my defence) and, for those in the know, was one of the best albums of that year or last, depending on when they first heard it. From the moment the R.L. Burnside-esque, buzzing, loud riff interrupts the polite acceptance speech [...]
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Paramount Records - the Great Pre-War Blues Label.
Havering On (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
One name is for many blues record collectors and for fands of the pre war music that was spawned in the Mississippi Delta and then took hold in cities like Chicago and Memphis is Paramount Records. The label was started around 1916 by the New York Recording Laboratory of Port Washington, Wisconsin. The company was a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company, who made not just chairs but also other...
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Album Review: Doom & Gloom - Early Songs of Angst and Disaster 1927-1945
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Think you're having a bad week? When a little perspective is in order, pop in this new compilation from Trikont (via Light in the Attic in the USA). As 1927-1945 predated the era of made-for-tv movies, the job of chronicling disaster was left to the writers of popular song. I have to admit, [...]
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300 lbs of joy
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 01/19/2008
Howlin’ Wolf - “The Real Folk Blues” Recorded in Chicago, Illinois between 1956 & 1965. (In the mid-’60s, Chess Records released a great series of compilations by some of its best blues artists, all of them called THE REAL FOLK BLUES) Personnel: Howlin’ Wolf (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Hubert Sumlin*, Willie Johnson, Otis “Smokey” Smothers, Jody Williams [...]
