It’s Friday evening and Those Delta Rhythm Kings are here to ask the musical question: Let’s Do It Like Monkies. This is Harriet Nelson fronting a German outfit called the Barrelhouse Jazzband. The song is Fine and Mellow. And finally, Lucky Peterson performs Every Day I Have the Blues. Have
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging
Allow me to present Robert Cray performing Love Struck Baby at a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vince Gill brings Keb’ Mo’ to the Grand Ole Opry. The song is Henry. And finally, Buddy Guy is joined by John Mayer in a performance of What Kind of Woman is This.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: RIP Phil Everly
Phil Everly, the younger of the two Everly Brothers, who were among the first 10 artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away last Friday. He was 74. Here are a few selections from among their many hit records. Their first hit was Bye
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Is it Friday again already? This is Slave by Frog & the Beeftones. To slow things down, this is Gary Moore with Still Got the Blues. And to pick things back up again, this is Colin James with Man’s Gotta be a Stone. Have a good weekend.
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I missed last Friday night for health reasons. I wanted to play catch up on the next couple of evenings but repeated blackouts in this neck of this woods made that a little difficult. Since they appear to have that straightened out now, have a few tunes. This is the
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The members of the Guy Forsyth Band look like they’d already been working hard when they got to this one. It doesn’t slow them down any. The tune is Red Dress. This is Big Head Todd and the Monsters covering I’ll Play the Blues for You, originally recorded by Albert
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Rory Block is a country blues guitarist who mixes original material with a lot of covers of traditional blues musicians. Here she is with Robert Johnson’s If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day. This is Kelly Joe Phelps with Hard Time They Never Go Away. Roy Rogers was the Artist
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The sing was orginally written as Death Don’t Have No Mercy by the Reverend Gary Davis. This is Lucky Peterson. Cindy Cashdollar is joined by Sonny Landreth on an instrumental version of Skip James’ Hard Time Killing Floor Blues. And finally, here’s Hot Tuna with Hesitation Blues. Have a good
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This is Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers live in a radio station studio performing an instrumental called Hobart’s Blues. I have no idea who Hobart is. Here’s another “live in studio” performance. This one is Moreland & Arbuckle with Tall Boogie. I’m closing with slow and intense — this is
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It’s Friday night and here to start the party is Angela Strehli with Mean Mistreater. This performance is from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Ceremony. Gary Clark Jr. with John Mayer and Booker T. Jones perform Born Under a Bad Sign. Coco Montoya is another graduate
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It may not come as much of a surprise to you that I have a few tunes to share. I’ll start with Rory Gallagher covering Blind Boy Fuller’s Rag, Mama, Rag. Here’s an unplugged version of Deep Elem Blues by Levon Helm & His Dirt Farmer Quartet. And to close,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Rock & Roll blogging: RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed passed away last Sunday at the age of 71. Here are a few tunes to remember him by. This performance of Dirty Boulevard is taken from an episode of David Sanborn’s Night Music in 1989. One of Reed’s best known songs is Sweet Jane. This performance is from
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This is Sonny Landreth playing a solo instrumental and showing off his technique. Just Got Back From Baby’s is originally a ZZ Top tune from their first album. This is Buddy Whittington. And here’s Buddy Guy performing at a show held in Austin, Texas as a tribute to Stevie Ray
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This is Tab Benoit performing at the 2007 Blues Music Awards. He loves him some gumbo. This is taken from a show that featured a number of harp players paying tribute to Little Walter. Sugar Ray Norcia performs Mean Old World. And to close, this is the Royal Southern Brotherhood
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This is fun. This is the Guy Forsyth Band performing 105. Eventually there’s tuba. Now that we’re warmed up, let’s get mellow. This is the Grateful Dead with Sugaree. Up tempo again. Seriously. This is Death Letter Jubilee by The Delta Saints. Have a good weekend.
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To begin, here are George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Bottom of the Sea. This is from a concert held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBC Radio 2’s Saturday Night Blues show. This is Colin James, with a little help from Colin Linden, performing Limelight. And this one is
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Covers
This is Davy Knowles at a music festival in Colorado a couple of years back covering Cream’s version of Outside Woman Blues. The Delta Saints began playing together as college students in Nashville in 2007. They’re covering the Beatles. And here’s Gov’t Mule covering Pink Floyd’s Money at a festival
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Good evening. Here’s a young Johnny Winter performing Mama, Talk to Your Daughter (h/t to Moose). There’s a slight skip in the first minute of this clip. It’s a small price to pay to watch Junior Wells have fun with a long version of Little Red Rooster. And to close:
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