Sixeyes (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Nick Cave put his own spin on the oft recorded story about Lee "Stag Lee" Shelton, and called his take "Stagger Lee", on the classic 1996 album Murder Ballads . I say "his take" because other recordings have various versions of the name (and details) likely due to the story spreading across the US orally in the late 1800's (Stagolee, Stack O' Lee, Stackerlee, Stackoo...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Eric Clapton: Chapter 19.
the minor premise (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Anyone who has had small children while living in Germany knows about a treat that delights children of that nation, the Kinder-Überraschung (literally Child-Surpise, but known to most Americans as the Kinder Egg). A Kinder-Überraschung is a hollow chocolate egg containing a small plastic toy which usually requires some assembly. These eggs generally cannot be found in the U.S. due to laws...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Veteren blues vocalist and East Bay Resident Jackie Payne performed live at Peoples Park on Saturday, November 3 at the event "Single Payer Healthcare Not War", despite a frenetic touring schedule. Hear his interview on musicians' problems with health and healthcare given after the show, followed by a song from his set (9 minutes).
Cameron K's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
John Alexander Veliotes was born in 1921 in Vallejo, California. His father owned a grocery store in a predominantly black neighbourhood in Berkeley, California where John and his brother Nicholas grew up. He took up drums as a teenager and later learned piano and vibraphone. After attending a Count Basie concert he was so impressed by Joe Jones‘s drumming he decided to take the study of percussion...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Someday we'll be able to see this stuff in hi-def on our computers, but for now, I kind of like the ultra crappy quality of Youtube uploads, and it's free (that won't last for ever, bet your undershorts on that). Here's a few of my favorite clips, some rare, some fairly common, all great. Amos Milburn & his Chicken Shackers....what's a shacker? The Johnny Burnette Trio take first prize on Ted Mack's...
SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
F3966: johnny the greek. Credited by Frank Zappa as being the inspiration for cultivating his own Viva Zapata! crop of facial hair, Californian bluesman, Johnny Otis was born Ionnis Veliotes four days before Christmas in 1921. From Wiki: "In the 1960s he entered journalism and politics, losing a campaign for a seat in the California Assembly (one reason for the loss may be that he ran under his...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Collectors of Golden Oldie R&R, R&B and Country music hits are, I'm sure, well aware of the quality received from British outlets, especially Ace Records with their almost flawless sound reproduction and copious liner notes in series such as The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll and Teen Beat, among many others. Acrobat Music & Media Ltd. is almost as good with their Jukebox Hits series...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
GUS JENKINS - Bluestown Biography (born March 24, 1931, Birmingham, Ala; died December 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.) Gus Jenkins was a blues pianist and singer who recorded for Chess in the early 1950s but then moved to the West Coast, where he became a popular musician in the Los Angeles area blues scene. Jenkins was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where he learned to play the piano. After performing...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
JOHNNY 'BIG MOOSE' WALKER - Bluestown Biography (born June 27, 1929, Greenville, Miss; died November 27, 1999, Chicago, Ill.) Johnny ''Big Moose'' Walker, like Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins , and Jimmy Walker (no relation), is one of the elder statesmen of Chicago piano blues. Born in Mississippi, Walker played piano at juke joints and house parties in and around Mississippi and southern Illinois...
The Water Tower Project (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Found in the files: The Last Blues Club in L.A. © Nat Bocking 1994 November 1963 was the tragic end of the Kennedy era and a time of rising civil rights consciousness and when Laura Mae Gross moved from her native Mississippi to Los Angeles and purchased a small bar on Central Avenue . Its previous owner had gotten rich selling drinks to jazzmen resting between gigs at nearby recording studios...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
ETTA JAMES: [1999] The 20th Century Music Collection [Movie Play] **New Link!!** by request Few R&B singers have endured tragic travails on the monumental level that Etta James has and remain on earth to talk about it. The lady's no shrinking violet; her autobiography, Rage to Survive, describes her past (including numerous drug addictions) in sordid detail. But her personal problems have seldom...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
An occasional feature in which we explain and evaluate a SportsCenter anchor's pet phrase. Today's phrase: "I know a cat named Way Out Willy." Anchor: Neil Everett Context: Willy Aybar of the Tampa...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Filed under: Around the World Did Bo know? That'd be Bo as in Diddley , of course. AKA Ellas McDaniel, the rock 'n' roll architect who passed away last year. And did he know that the famous beat that came to have his name on it -- clap along: duh-duh duh-duh-duh DUH DUH ... the engine driving ' Hey, Bo Diddley ,' 'Bo Diddley Was a Gunslinger,' 'Who Do You Love?' ... perpetuated by Buddy Holly in '...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Miss Etta James “Listen – Etta James – Tighten Up Your Own Thing – MP3″ Greetings all. I hope the middle of the week finds you all well. I’ve pretty much reduced my free time to sitting out on the front porch praying for gaps in the clouds, through which the rarest of the rare, i.e. rays [...]
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