The Jimmy Reed Highway was a band formed to pay tribute to blues singer and songwriter Jimmy Reed. You might recognize Kim Wilson on harp and vocal and Jimmie Vaughan on guitar. The song is High and Lonesome. Ain’t no hurry Don’t you worry I ain’t evil I’m just bad
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Let the Gentlemen do their thing
It’s New Year’s Eve — time once again for the traditional laying on of the Monster Gentlemen. Be of good cheer.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Trios
You can cover a lot of territory with drums, bass and guitar. This is the Taj Mahal Trio with their version of an old country blues song called Corrina. This is the Ronnie Baker Brooks Band with what I guess could be called the power trio approach to the blues
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Christmas music, if we must
Happy holidays. Stay safe.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
It’s almost Christmas. Time for some blues. That’s Lurrie Bell on guitar sitting in with Mississippi Heat but this instrumental is all about the harp. This is Dallas Hodge and the All Stars performing I Got Bad Trouble. This is a nice band. They could have mixed the horns a
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Duets
Tonight’s episode is a bit of a change of pace. The opener is Bruce Cockburn and Colin Linden on Austin City Limits performing Cockburn’s A Dream Like Mine. Want to watch two very good guitarists have some fun with each other? This is Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler on See
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Slide with rhythm section
And later on even some second guitar. But first up is Roy Rogers with his version of last week’s closer: Terraplane Blues. This was taped in 1993, the same year John Campbell died at the age of 41. The guitar he talks about at the beginning is a 1934 National
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Solo slide
We begin with Lincoln Durham performing on an Austin, Texas TV show a couple of years back. The song is Reckoning Lament and it’s from an album called The Shovel and the Howling Bones….
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I like opening with Kelly Joe Phelps. He makes me pay attention. This is Big Shaky….
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 killed 246 people in seven states. At its height, the Mississippi River was 60 miles wide south of Memphis, Tennessee. This is Eric Bibb accompanied by Staffan Astner on Flood Water….
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging
This is what YouTube is for: Gatemouth Brown on stage with Canned Heat at Montreux in 1973….
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night: Slide
We’ll ease into it. This is Kelly Joe Phelps with Down to the Praying Ground. David Jacobs-Strain gets a little help here from Bob Beach on harp. The song is Get Out My Life, Woman, written by Allen Toussaint. And this is John Hammond with Mother-in-law Blues. Have a good
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night oldies
Getting nostalgic again. Starting with Junior Walker and the Allstars performing on Hullabaloo. Remember Hullabaloo? Where the dancers worked at least as hard as the musicians. This is Shotgun. King Curtis will introduce the Kingpins while providing the recipe for Memphis Soul Stew. This performance is from a European tour
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Gov’t Mule blogging
This is called Lola Leave Your Light On and it’s from an episode of the Conan O’Brien Show. This song has grown on me. The first night I watched this, it wasn’t what I was looking for and I dropped it and went on looking. But the tune popped into
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Strength In Numbers blogging
If you’re not familiar with the band Strength In Numbers, the list of personnel might lead you to expect a bluegrass supergroup. But the tunes on offer here aren’t traditional music and since each of the players is a virtuoso on at least one instrument, even if bluegrass isn’t your
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night John Fullbright blogging
Because he’s growing on me. This is called All the Time In the World. And remember: never go to southern Oklahoma at night. As you may have gathered from the first tune, Fullbright was born and raised in Oklahoma. He’s 24. This is called Fat Man. Fullbright gets a little
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night oldies
All of these clips are from the Sixties. A couple of the tunes are older than that. The intricate fingerstyle guitar and the minor key on this first song are typical of Skip James. This is Crow Jane. There are a number of clips from this session on YouTube. In
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Clapton covers Johnson blogging
That would be Eric Clapton covering the songs of Robert Johnson, in case that wasn’t obvious. I stayed away from Crossroad Blues because that would be too obvious. This is Love in Vain. And I do believe that’s a photo of Robert Johnson on the table to Clapton’s right, which
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