It's time to make rafters weep...to enter into the groove...to reach into music heaven...to tap, tap, tap. Join us in this adventure in the Blues...to hear tracks you may otherwise never hear...'cause Blues is my business...and business is good!
Crossing the Sahara for Desert Blues with the Tuareg to Agadez in Niger...trucks will travel
"B" is for BOMBINO (Niger)
"FERNWEH"
Reply to this Blown away by the beauty of this song...mesmerizing African Blues
"B" is for BONGA (Angola)
"MONA KI NGI XICA" (The child I leave behind)
Reply to this Soul evolved from Rhythm & Blues. One of the best voices was an American preacher
"B" is for SOLOMON BURKE (1940 - 2010)
If I fall short...dont make the grade...if your expectations are not met in me...there's always tomorrow
"DON'T GIVE UP ON ME"...one of my favourite favourite songs
"NONE OF US ARE FREE"...a poignant lament
Reply to this When have you seen a drummer accompanying a band by drumming up and down walls, tables, water pipes, chairs etc and you groove to the band but can't take your eyes off the drummer?
When it's Rob Hirst ex Midnight Oil that's when!
"B" is for THE BACKSLIDERS (Australia)
Dom Turner on guitars & vocals, a legend of slide & 12 string guitars, Rob Hirst on drums and Ian Collard on harmonica
"YOU THREE"
Reply to this The guitarist that others are measured by...been following him since he was a young tucker...age shall never weary him...many years of gigs left to be ministered by him in
"B" is for RAY BEADLE (Australia)
BLUESFEST 2014
"TEMPTATION"...when it'd be wicked not to
Reply to this It's great when a top band dedicates a whole CD to one of their influences...here the work of the late JUNIOR KIMBROUGH
in the album "Chulahoma"
"B" is for THE BLACK KEYS
"EVERYWHERE I GO"
CHULAHOMA...the full album...get into it
Reply to this When a voice can take you places ya never been before
"B" is for BOBBY BLUE BLAND
"GOING DOWN SLOW"
Reply to this My first ever Blues LP was Clarence Gatemouth Brown's "Gates on Heat"...led me on a journey in the blues that I can't get off.
My second Blues LP was Johnny Otis introducing his teenage son Shuggie Otis (something to look forward to in the week of the Letter "O"😉...but let's get into the "B"s!
Gatemouth's use of guitar, electric violin and Hammond organ still blows me away.
"B" is for CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN
"THE DRIFTER" with CARLOS SANTANA...stunning
Another gem from the "Gates on Heat" LP...where musicians get political
CLARENCE GATEMOUTH BROWN with CANNED HEAT
"PLEASE MR NIXON"
Reply to this The harmonica can be a Blues Kit in your pocket. When a Master plays it...it develops a life of it's own.
One such Master was Carey Bell who played with Robert Nighthawk, Lowell Fulson, Eddie Taylor, Louisiana Red and Jimmy Dawkins and was a frequent partner with his son, guitarist Lurrie Bell.
"B" is for CAREY BELL on harmonica & his son LURRIE BELL on guitar...Brilliant
"MUST I HOLLER"
Can't get enough of a good thing...father & son in the lounge room playing oh so cool
"WHEN I GET DRUNK"
Reply to this Sometimes harp (Harmonica) players are the lead singer taking a lyrical leap. But sometimes they are so good they are an integral separate part of the band. The harmonica player with MUDDY WATERS was a master in his own right...so good that "Mojo" was his middle name!
Saw him as the "Special Guest" in a gig with Willie Murphy & the Angel Hearted Hipsters in Auckland, NZ...sporting his ammunition belt of harps for every occasion.
"B" is for GEORGE "MOJO" BUFORD
Here on harp with the great Muddy Waters..."QUEEN BEE"
Reply to this Originally known as the lanky, longhaired white second guitarist in RL Burnside's band, following RL's death in 2005 he became a force in his own right...often playing the Clarksdale and other Nth Mississippi blues spots I discovered him with his 2003 solo CD "Stingray".
"B" is for KENNY BROWN
"YOU DON'T KNOW MY MIND"
And back in 2003 this track took me there
"IF DOWN WAS UP"
Reply to this Are you ready...ready to be blown away?
I discovered this guy with the Fat Possum Records "Not the same old blues crap Vol 1"...discovering the Mississippi porch blues bands such as T-Model Ford, Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside. So I bought the early RL Burnside records and other Fat Possum recordings and entered another world...raw blues...backyard gigs that could set the World alight
"B" is for R.L BURNSIDE
Get ready...turn it up..."LET MY BABY RIDE"...turn it up some more
Ride if you dare...she asked me why...I just went on and told her
"IT'S BAD YOU KNOW"
Reply to this R.L Burnside's drummer was his son Cedric. Following RL's death in 2005, Cedric had to go alone. Seen him a number of times with Lightnin Malcolm...the Two Man Wrecking Machine.
"B" is for CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNIN MALCOLM
Dedicated to Cedric's Dad
"R.L. BURNSIDE"
Reply to this Those that know the Dancing Ones...stomped the floors with us know...NO JAZZ.
In Vietnam, The Cockle took Denise & I and the Travel Camel to his favourite Jazz Bar...thinking it was a hoot to do so. Fantastic jazz it was...exceptions therefore made...great night
A Blues/Jazz Master from my collection...this is for you Nick
"B" is for CHARLES BROWN
"THESE BLUES"
Reply to this When Black meets White...Blues meets Rock
In 1965, Rock innovator Chuck Berry recorded with two young white guys Paul Butterfield on harp and Mike Bloomfield on guitar...all later legends in their own right
"B" is for CHUCK BERRY, PAUL BUTTERFIELD & MIKE BLOOMFIELD
"IT WASN'T ME/SAD DAY LONG NIGHT"
Reply to this Legendary Australian blues band...Denise & I have been seeing them for over 20 years years, Shane and Al playing in heaps of other bands cause they need to always be playing!.
Shane Pacey on vocals & guitar, Ebden Hale on guitar, Al Britten on bass
"B" is for BONDI CIGARS
"INTENSIVE CARE"
Reply to this Presenting one of the foremost women of the Blues...Oz's own Fiona Boyes...spends half of her time in USA and the other half in Oz...always blows audiences away...always with a massive smile
"B" is for FIONA BOYES...go get 'em gal
"EASY BABY"
"BLUES FOR HARD TIMES-GUYS BE WISE"
Reply to this Long John Baldry was the pioneer of blues-based pop music in UK and influenced or worked with artists such as Rod Stewart, Elton John and the Rolling Stones
"B" is for LONG JOHN BALDRY
"DON'T TRY TO LAY NO BOOGIE WOOGIE ON THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL"...extraordinary song
"FLYING"
Reply to this For Dangerous Dave & Merry Jo
How many superlatives can you give this guy?
"B" is for ELVIN BISHOP
"FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE"
From Dancing Dave's Blues Bag
ELVIN BISHOP & LITTLE SMOKEY SMOTHERS
"THAT'S MY PARTNER"
Reply to this Now you are warmed up...HANG ONTO YOUR HATS
The man who makes rafters weep....the Master of the Telecaster...I said hang onto your hats...seatbelts on...when your body gets a message...and ya body gets right into a groove
"B" is for ROY BUCHANAN (1939 - 1988)
"WHEN THE GUITAR PLAYS THE BLUES"...the Ultimate Blues track
Keep your seatbelts on...even better than Hendrix
"HEY JOE"
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