nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Mitch's solo project, "Keeper Of The Flame" is Mitch's tribute to the blues masters that inspired his career. On it he plays piano and sings duets with John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry), Earl King, and Lee Allen (Fats Domino). Hooker enjoyed these sessions so much that he asked Woods to join him in his own recording "Boom Boom". Cotton blasts and wails on harmonica, John...
LORD CELERY (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
I had hoped to write more about our trip back to the States over the course of this past week, but I've been a little under the weather. As I'm feeling better this evening, and while John and I both assemble and post our trip photos to Smugmug, I thought I'd share with my readers the faces of the people (and the six doggies) we were so happy to spend time with while in the US. Click on any of
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
in post the great umbilical from snuhthing/anything .
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Website Read the review John Sayles interview
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Today was the first Jazz Fest Thursday since Katrina. Thursdays were relatively low-key days. Today seemed to fit that mold. Here’s a short account of one attendee’s low-key day: Arrive some time after 11:00 a.m. Go first to the Gospel...
JUkeboxmafia (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
If You Just Woulda Said Goodbye Walkin' Willie RSVP - 113 MP3 File Here is one I know almost nothing about. Who is Walkin' Willie? I have no idea. What we do have is a nice mixture of New Orleans-y sounds. A Chris Kenner-y vocal, Toussaint-y piano and female chorus, overlaid with an Earl King-y guitar riff. If you know anything about this one, please let me know...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Tomorrow I'm off to the US for what has become virtually an annual trip. Kicking off in Memphis I will be going to Clarksdale, Mississippi, for the Juke Joint Blues Festival, then on to Shreveport, Lafayette, a week in New Orleans for Jazzfest and the Ponderosa Stomp and then back to Memphis for the Beale Street festival. Getting away from the unseasonably cold weather - and from work - for two and...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
------------- 1. Albert Collins - Give Me My Blues (4:15) 2. Greg Piccolo - The Freeze (5:43) 3. Smokin' Joe Kubek Band - Can't See For Lookin' (4:41) 4. Rick Holmstrom - Guitar Boogie Shuffle Twist (3:32) 5. Earl King & Roomful Of Blues - Somebody's Got a Tail (3:55) 6. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Homesick Boy (3:11) 7. U.P. Wilson - Bluesola (3:26) 8. Bobby Radcliff - You Haven't Hurt Me...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
You can't get away from Professor Longhair, a.k.a. ‘Fess. Piano freaks who appreciate all players and who don't just specialize in jazz or classical will tell you it's a dead heat between him, Ray Charles, and Booker T. Jones for the title of Greatest American Keyboard Player of All Time — and by “greatest” I [...]
IckMusic (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
The Meters. Dr. John. Professor @#!% Longhair. Earl King. ‘Nuff said.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Your birthday today: Be self-confident and trusting: it will make you enjoy your home and friends more. You have good judgment and a fine sense of character, but should not let it predominate your friendships, by constantly analyzing them. There is nobody written into the book, so you are alone in your celebrations of this day, unless you count these notables: P'u Yi , Sir Thomas More , Charles Dickens...
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
The Meters, Earl King, Professor Longhair, and Dr. John show the folks at Montreux (I think) what Mardi Gras is all about. Happy Mardi Gras, y'all.
Home of the Groove (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
As I mentioned in my note on the last Toussaint post, we started out the evening last Saturday shivering in a cold North wind to view the annual Krewe du Vieux parade, which winds through the Faubourg Marigny and French Quarter. As you can see from their website, Krewe du Vieux is a large aggregation of paraders of various bents (and I do mean bent) whose yearly Carnival themes are highly satirical,...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
Yours truly massaging the wheels of steel… Funky16Corners Radio v.41 - 2007 Year In Review Playlist Joe Tex – You're Right Ray Charles (Dial) Edwin Starr – Headline News (Ric Tic) Lorraine Ellison – Call me Anytime You Need Some Loving (Mercury) Superlatives – I don't Know How (To Say I Love You) Don't Walk Away (Westbound) JJ Barnes – Chains [...]
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
Please Come Home For Christmas About twenty years ago, I bought a 1968 Seeburg LS2 jukebox. This was during the time when all the bars and pizza places and stuff were clearing out their old vinyl jobs and upgrading to these shiny new CD machines. You could pick up one of the old ones for next to nothing. So I did. In addition to being a simple and easy way to play 160 sides of pure analog vinyl goodness...
