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...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
The best that the Lone Star state has had to offer over a 60 year period is right here, from Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Match Box Blues" (1927 ) to Stevie Ray Vaughn's live version of "Flood Down In Texas (Texas Flood)" from 1986. This compilation also features great sides by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, and Albert Collins. As a introduction to the...
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...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Tonight, we'll be discussing songs that have phone or telephone in the title. I have these, which would make a nice playlist: As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone - Loretta Lynne and Conway Twitty Atomic Telephone - The Spirit of Memphis Quartet Broken Telephone - The Be Good Tanyas Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie Hold The Phone - Hank Penny Juke Box and the Phone - Lattie Moore Just Me And My Telephone...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
The frontman of legendary blues rock band Canned Heat has died of a drugs overdose. Robert Lucas passed away a friend's home in Long Beach, California, on Sunday at the age of 46.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
This is a nice Vee-Jay collection with representative cuts from Pee Wee Crayton, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Memphis Slim and a stray track from Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. The big ticket for collectors on this one, however, is the inexplicable bonus of a previously unissued Eddie Taylor number, "Leave This Neighborhood," reason enough for hardcore...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Not many living blues musicians can say they have performed with and recorded for legends like Big Mama Thornton, Sonny Rhodes, Luther Tucker, Jimmy McCracklin, Pee Wee Crayton, Carla Thomas, Booker T. Jones, Percy Mayfield, Etta James, B.B. King, and Jimmy Reed. Ron Thompson can, and that’s just the beginning! Ron Thompson is a legendary rhythm and blues guitarist and master keyboardist whose...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution so total that its tremors are still being felt today. Few major postwar blues guitarists come to mind that don't owe T-Bone Walker an unpayable debt of gratitude. B.B. King has long cited him as a primary...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
While venerable coffee giant Starbucks has been struggling to compete in the beverage department of late, they seem to be hitting the mark with their in-store music selection (that doubles as a check-out impulse buy). For their latest release they've gotten the former Robert Zimmerman to handpick selections for an Artist Choice compilation. Read on for the track list of sixteen songs you've probably...
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
As has been known for a while, Ace Records will shortly be releasing a 2 CD compilation of artists and tunes that Bob Dylan has played during his “Theme Time Radio Hour” shows on XM Radio. Full details on that at this link. Now comes news of another selection of some of Bob’s favorite recordings, [...]
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
Mitch Kashmar is one of the most soulful and powerful blues singers in the business today, black or white; his blues harp playing is second to none for creativity, drive and excitement. He's shared the stage with some of the biggest names in blues over the years, including Big Joe Turner, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Lee Hooker, Pee Wee Crayton, and Johnny Adams....
The Village Voice (Free subscription) | 08/21/2007
Four-disc blues set mingles the paranoiac with the esoteric (By Edd Hurt)
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