I have just discovered ……… Earl Hooker
Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
And damn fine he is too. Check him out HERE
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EARL HOOKER: Simply the Best
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Back in the late '50s and early '60s, Chicago blues was at its peak, and for the price of a drink or two one could hear the unbearably exciting guitar work of Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk, and Hubert Sumlin blasting out of small clubs along the south and west sides of the city. But if you were to ask any of these fretboard whizes who was...
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If Food Be the Music:Central Michel Richard
Diner's journal by Frank Bruni (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
The music at Central Michel Richard in Washington.
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CHICAGO BOB & THE SHADOWS: Just Your Fool @ VBR
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Chicago Bob played the harmonica and sang for several decades before releasing some solo recordings late in his career. Born Bob Nelson on July 4, 1944, in Bogalusa, LA, he frequently sang in local churches as a boy and began working the New Orleans bar circuit as a teen during the late '50s. In 1959, he moved to Gary, IN, and toured with Earl Hooker. A bit later, in the early '60s, he began working...
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Ford Transit Connect Hits the Right Note with Legendary Blues Man Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang
Auto Spectator (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2008 – Ford's Transit Connect is nimble enough to get legendary blues man Eddie Shaw, his band the Wolf Gang and all their gear to the hottest music clubs in cities around the world.When the blues resurgence was in full swing in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Eddie Shaw was in the mix. Shaw, a tenor sax, was right in the midst of some of the seminal blues recordings going down in a few Windy City...
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Monday Morning Blues : Elmore James
bag of songs (Free subscription) | 10/15/2007
Elmore James was one of the true pioneers of electric slide guitar whose influence san still be heard in modern day players for the Allman Brothers to The White Stripes. More from Allmusic guide : No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues...
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EVENT: Annual Peavine Awards to be Held in Cleveland, Mississippi Thursday. 10/4...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/29/2007
As part of the DSU Year of Delta Heritage, the ninth annual Peavine Awards will celebrate excellence in the Delta Blues on October 4. According to historian Steve LaVere, founder of the Peavines, "this year's awards will honor three Delta Bluesmen who created a unique Blues sound: John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker, and Tony Hollins." The celebration will be at the Grapeland Grill on Highway 61 in Cleveland,...
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LIVING CHICAGO BLUES SERIES Vol. II
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/16/2007
Nowhere has blues been so transformed as in Chicago. To this day, gritty, electric blues fills its night air. Alligator's Living Chicago Blues series was created to record and bring attention to the city's overlooked or undiscovered talent. The hope was blues would "not be resigned to mere history". In Jim O'Neal's excellent liner notes, originally written in 1978, it is interesting to observe how...
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CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Delmark Records New Releases - Reissues for the End of August
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/26/2007
Sleepy John Estes On The Chicago Scene - Delmark DE 619 This 1968 recording was originally issued as Electric Sleep, the title a riff on the Muddy Waters LP title Electric Mud. But the similarities ended there; whereas Mud was psychedelic and musically quite a departure from a traditional blues sound Electric Sleep simply combines a country blues artist with an electric blues band. This 2007 reissue...
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Music DVD Documenarty: Pinetop Perkins - Born in the Honey
Blogcritics.org (Free subscription) | 06/05/2007
Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins is a national treasure. Forget Mount Rushmore and to hell with the Grand Canyon – old rocks and dead men are no match for a timeless spring of eternal blues. When Pinetop Perkins was born in 1913, William Howard Taft was President of the 48 United States- Arizona had been a state for just over a year! Taft was the 27th President; George W. Bush is the 43rd. Perkins has...
