Tag: tunes

It’s a low key, acoustic set this evening. The opening clip is from Peter Seeger’s Rainbow Quest — Brownie McGhee performing solo on Don’t Pity Me. Lyle Lovett takes the lead on My Baby Don’t Tolerate with backup by John Hiatt, Guy Clark and Joe Ely. At the break, Hiatt

Etta James passed away earlier today at the age of 73. So the set orginally planned for this evening gets bumped to next week. Apparently the song that comes to mind for a lot of people when they think of James is At Last. But it was never a particular

Tonight’s opener features the same group of musicians who held down the middle slot in last week’s episode: Lou Ann Barton and Omar Kent Dykes on vocals, James Cotton on harp and Jimmie Vaughan on first guitar. This is another Jimmy Reed tune called Good Lover. Drown in My Own

To begin, Eric Bibb teams up with some serious instrumental talent on a traditional country blues: Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad. Jimmy Reed’s Caress Me Baby features James Cotton on harp and Jimmie Vaughan on guitar. The singers, in order, are Omar Kent Dykes and Lou Ann Barton. Bonnie

Happy New Year.

The opening song was recorded at Studio City Sound in Los Angeles. It seemed worth mentioning since Kara Grainger is Australian. This is Sky is Falling. This next tune is called Family Tree. The guitarist and singer (and songwriter, if I’m not mistaken) is Darrell Scott and as he’ll inform

It’s still not a Christmas carol but the sentiment seems appropriate. Doesn’t it? Best wishes to everyone. I’m off the grid ’til Boxing Day.

I really hope you didn’t come here expecting Christmas carols. Welcome to another Friday night. The band on this first one is billed as Blues Caravan. As far as I can figure out, Mississippi Lawnmower Blues was written by Aynsley Lister and he’s the one with the duct tape on

The opening tune is called Linda Lu and it was originally written and recorded by Ray Sharpe. It has since been covered by a number of different artists and this time it’s the Taj Mahal Trio. Welcome to another Friday night. Freddie King is going to slow it down. As

A few months ago I posted Ray Charles covering this song but it was Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five who first made Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ popular. Welcome to another Friday night. How about a little country blues? This is Sue Foley with Fool Me Good.

Tonight’s opener is an instrumental by Kenny Vaughan called Shimmy. Welcome to another Friday night. This is the Robben Ford Trio with a cover of Willie Dixon’s Spoonful. They speed it up some. VOLUME ALERT! If you cranked it up for that last one you might want to bring it

Tonight’s set begins with another instrumental from Roomful of Blues but this one features the horn section. This a T Bone Walker tune called Two Bones and a Pick. Welcome to another Friday night. Three Handed Woman has been recorded by a lot of different artists — from Louis Jordan

To start us off, here’s an instrumental by the rhythm section from Roomful of Blues. Welcome to another Friday night. Duke Robillard was one of the founding members of Roomful of Blues and also spent some time with the Fabulous Thunderbirds after Jimmie Vaughan left the band. This is the

No reason in particular other than that they cheer me up. Welcome to another Friday night. This is "B" Movie Box Car Blues….

This is the Memphis Slim Quartet on Wish Me Well and comes with a shout out to Moose at Classic Blues Videos. Welcome to another Friday night….

Our theme for this evening is people going places. Welcome to another Friday night. Since the camera spends so much time on Doc Watson’s hands, I have to wonder if this was shot as part of an instructional video. This is a country blues called Travelin’ Man….

We have a bit of an automotive theme going this evening. And we’re starting with a bang. This is Karen Lawrence and Blue By Nature with Cadillac Blues. Welcome to another Friday night….

I’m been hanging around the Music Fog people again. Welcome to another Friday night. In the course of introducing this song Ray Wylie Hubbard gives voice to a sentiment that I’ve often felt as a blogger: the problem with irony is that not everybody gets it. This is called Screw You, We’re From Texas….

Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch passed away on Wednesday at the age of 67. Jansch was an influential acoustic guitarist who came to prominence in the sixties playing sophisticated arrangements of traditional Scottish and Irish music. He went on to a long career as both a performer and a songwriter. You may hear echoes of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page in this first performance. Page is only one of the guitarists who was influenced by Jansch and was so influenced by him that at one point Jansch considered pursuing legal action for copyright infringement. In the end he thought better of it because the song itself is traditional and in the public domain. This is Black Waterside….

All three of these performances are from the same show, recorded in 2003. But the first tune has been in the band’s repertoire for decades. This is She’s Tough. Welcome to another Friday night….