Friday night blues blogging
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…
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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…
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 night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night solo blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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,…
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…
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…
Friday night blues blogging
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…