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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
At the time of this 1979 recording, Johnny Shines was a living link to blues mythology. A traveling companion to Robert Johnson in the '30s, and a translator of Delta blues language into an electric context in the '40s and '50s, Shines was largely ignored by the industry until the blues revival of the '60s. Fortunately, he was still a dynamic performer in his later years, as this live document shows....
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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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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 11/02/2007
Tracks 1. Kidman Blues (Big Maceo) 2. Bedroom Blues (Sippie Wallace) 3. Buzz Me (Sippie Wallace) 4. Tennessee Woman Blues (Johnny Shines) 5. Delta Pine Blues (Johnny Shines) 6. Ride, Ride Mama (Johnny Shines) 7. Evil Hearted Woman Blues (Johnny Shines) 8. (Now I) Got the Blues (Memphis Slim) 9. Don't Ration My Love (Memphis Slim) 10. Mistake in Life (Memphis Slim) 11. Grinder Man Blues (Memphis Slim)...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
RUMFORD, RI - Sweetspot Records announces a February 19, 2008 release date for The Tinge, the latest album from singer/songwriter/cornetist Al Basile, with national distribution by City Hall. The Tinge is Basile's sixth solo album and the follow-up to his 2006 CD, Groovin' In The Mood Room, which reached #14 on the Living Blues chart...
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Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
. Notes from the original release of "Chicago/The Blues/Today Vol. 3": Johnny Shines and Walter Horton sit around a table in Johnny's apartment drinking a little from a fifth of Teacher’s, and after the television set in the next room is shut off the talk goes back to their early years in the blues. “Robert Johnson'” Shines laughs and shakes his head. “I ran with Robert for two years when I was first...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Call him a scholar, educator, performer, singer, guitarist. David Evans is all of these and, above all else, a preservationist revered for his knowledge of the blues and a commitment to its survival. He has worked preserving the blues for the last forty-five years. He received a Grammy for best album notes for Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (Snapper, 2003)...
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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/17/2007
Big Walter Horton, sometimes known as Shakey Walter Horton, is one of the most influential blues harmonica players of all time, and a particular pioneer in the field of amplified harmonica. He isn't as widely known as his fellow Chicago blues pioneers Little Walter or Sonny Boy Williamson II, due mostly to the fact that, as a rather shy, quiet individual, he never had much taste for leading his own...
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Hillbillies and Hitmen (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
I worked on Bitter Water Blues today and wrote 947 words. Seems like I’m finally getting back into a decent pace. I loaded the CD player with mood music and started typing. After a while, I stopped hearing the individual songs…started surfing on the vibe and moving it through to the words in my head. It was a damn fine day. The five CDs: Pinetop Perkins Live Top Albert Collins and the Icebreakers Live...
