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!
After more of the fabulous Larry Davis with the exquisite "Teardrops" from Dangerous Dave
An exquisite blues ballad by a band steeped in Rock 'n Roll Fame & Ignomy
"D" is for DEEP PURPLE
"SOLDIER OF FORTUNE"
Upping the volume...one of Deep Purple's famous Blues tracks
"MISTREATED"
Reply to this Some like a Cajun feel...a bit of Zydeco
"D" is for DWAYNE DOPSIE with the CAJUN ROOSTERS
"TOOT TOOT"
Reply to this The Blues came from the slaves brought from Africa...theirs songs of lament and life arising from the plantations where their lives were then spent
I am fortunate to have danced to the continuing Blues culture in West Africa where music is more than a way of life
"D" is for VICTOR DEME from Burkina Faso
"DJON MAYA"...simply beautiful
Reply to this From one of my favourite divas from Mali...of the thrill of love and the beauty of West African women in their finery dancing
"D" is for BAKO DAGNON
"TITATI"
Reply to this A cute ditty with great lyrics from a more obscure piano blues man......Detroit Junior.
"If I hadn't been high"
Reply to this Dangerous Dave is diggin' deep...can't hold back any longer
"D" is for BO DIDDLEY...the Excitement Machine
"HEY BO DIDDLEY"
Listen to my heart go bumpety bump?
BO DIDDLEY & TOM PETTY
"MONA"
I'm a man...I'm a hootchie kootchie man...you & I can have a lot of fun
"I'M A MAN"
Reply to this Out of blues and jazz in Afro American communities in the 1950s and 1960s was a jump blues style called "Doo-wop"
One of the successful Doo-wop bands in Oz...I'm just crazy about you babe
"D" is for DADDY COOL
"COME BACK AGAIN"
From 1971 to 2007...the Lightning Hopkins classic
"MOMMA DON'T TEAR MY CLOTHES"
Reply to this Keeping the cool going...a splash of blues idioms...soul & funk
"D" is for DARONDO
I've good to you...I've been nice to you
"THE WOLF"
Make room before you scream...Give it up baby...Give me give me your thing...Give it to me
"LEGS"
Riding the groove a bit longer...not ready to get off just yet
"LET MY PEOPLE GO"
Reply to this Ain't too hip...incredible acoustic with harmonica the way only Magic Dick knows
"D" is for MAGIC DICK...with SHUN NG
"PAPAS GOT A BRAND NEW BAG"
MAGIC DICK with J.GEILS back in 1993
"WHAMMER JAMMER"
Reply to this I can go on and on...cool cool cool...but who invented cool?
Who rolled his fingers over the keys...and invented cool...slow blues that grabs the soul...a bit of sax...a bit of guitar
"D" is for the guy who invented cool...CHAMPION JACK DUPREE on piano
with KING CURTIS on sax and CORNELL DUPREE on guitar
"POOR BOY BLUES" from 1971
Doing the boogie woogie in 1998
"SHAKING MOTHER FOR YOU"
Reply to this Digging deep in the cellar for some 1950s...my dream came true
"D" is for FATS DOMINO
"I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN'"
"AIN'T THAT A SHAME"
"WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS"
Reply to this Blues rock...by a progressive British band ya might of heard of
"D" is for DIRE STRAITS
"SULTANS OF SWING"
I wonder where you are tonight...slow blues...scratching across your back
"FADE TO BLACK"
Do anything for you...don't want it no more
"SIX BLADE KNIFE"
Reply to this The Week of the Letter "D" would not be complete without a bit of BLUEBEAT...the beat of Jamaica before Reggae
"D" is for DESMOND DEKKER"
"ISRAELITES"
I told ya once...I told you twice...this is Bluebeat..it's party time
"IT MEK"
Reply to this Denise & I had seen this band at a Blues Festival and saw they were playing at the Annandale Hotel, a hip joint in Sydney.
Right up the front as usual...rocking away...when a bunch of young rockers chatting with us...thinking we are really cool. Then one of them let's the cat out of the bag why they thought we were so cool...
They thought we were the parents of the band!!!!!!!
"D" is for DIRTY LUCY...unique sound...oodles of talent
"NOTHING IS FREE"
From the blues scene in Poland...slow blues
"D" is for DEVIL BLUES
"COME FLY WITH ME"
Time for one more...
"D" is for LEFTY DIZZ
"AIN'T THAT NICE"
Reply to this Dancing One......you have almost gone and emptied the vault!! Wow....such great sounds.
But you know...only the doctor knows when you feel good....and this doctor feels good.
He's a one man band as well.......Dr. Ross
"Feel So Good"
Reply to this Maybe it's time to slow done a bit....maybe have a cup....
K.C. Douglas will "Make Your Coffee"
Reply to this One more trip down memory lane.....wish it had video.....
The Doors......."Been Down So Long"
Reply to this A funky funky from Dancing Dave's Blues Bag
"E" is for ROBERT "BLUEBIRD" EALEY with TONE SOMMER
"WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT (LET'S PUSH IT)
What happens when you find a cigarette in your backyard? A backdoor blues tale for the ages
Cruisey & Bluesey
Reply to this Some brilliant modern White Rap Blues from Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
"E" is for EVERLAST
"ENDS"
The Single from the best selling Album
"WHAT IT'S LIKE"
My heart belongs to you
"WHITE TRASH BEAUTIFUL"
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