Sunday morning: Lazy
If you’re not wide awake yet, this should do the trick.
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Friday night blues blogging
This is Rory Gallagher playing solo on Too Much Alcohol. And this is Ray Wylie Hubbard appearing on Letterman performing Mother Blues. Son Seals was a professional musician at 13…
Friday night blues blogging (because I don’t have any cats)
Last week I posted a version of this song by the Asylum Street Spankers. Here’s a different interpretation, and a different spelling of the title, by Blackberry Smoke. This is…
Friday night
This evening’s proceedings will begin in a recording studio and finish up at the White House. This the Tedeschi Trucks band live in the studio with Learn How to Love.…
Friday night: RIP Richie Havens
It wasn’t planned that way but the first performer to take the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 was Richie Havens, who passed away earlier this…
Friday night
Moose at Classic Blues Videos gets a hat tip for the opener. This is Joe Louis Walker with Let’s Rock a While Tonight. I didn’t note it at the time…
Friday night
This is an instrumental by Kelly Joe Phelps called Spit Me Outta the Whale. The instrument is a National Steel Guitar. This is the Band of Heathens with Medicine Man,…
Friday night
Good evening. Let’s begin with Moreland & Arbuckle covering Bo Diddley’s Hey Mona. This is Albert Collins performing on German television in 1985. This is If Trouble Was Money. And…
Friday night: Wolf, Wells and King
I once posted an abbreviated version of this Howlin’ Wolf performance but now that someone’s been good enough to upload the whole seven minutes, here’s How Many More Years one…
Friday night
The opening number has Andrew Winton on a custom-made double-neck lap steel guitar covering an old gospel blues called Nobody’s Fault But Mine. This is Rory Gallagher with a song…
Friday night blues blogging
With a tip of the hat to Moose at Classic Blues Videos, tonight’s opener is a Muddy Waters performance of I’m A King Bee featuring George Buford on harp. This…
Friday night: RIP Stompin’ Tom Connors
Thomas Charles Connors, a Canadian institution, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 77. There’s a quick look at his life and career here at the Toronto Star. He…
Friday night: Johnny "Clyde" Copeland
According to the Wikipedia bio, while Johnny Copeland’s early recordings didn’t burn up the charts he was popular as a touring act. It’s easy to see why; he obviously loved…
Friday night: Brown, Brown and Jordan
My father has to take some of the blame for my interest in the blues. He had a collection of 78s and albums that included material like tonight’s offerings. And…
Friday night: Solo blues
This is Gary Clark Jr. with Nextdoor Neighbour Blues. As far as I can tell it’s an original. Son House was a preacher before he was a blues musician and…
Friday night blues blogging
Good evening. This is Billy Branch and the Sons of the Blues with their cover of Little Walter’s Juke. One of the guitarists in that last clip was Lurrie Bell.…
Friday night Joe Walsh blogging
When I took a quick look back to see what Joe Walsh material I had previously posted I discovered that those videos had all been disappeared. But that’s okay; there’s…
Friday night Francine Reed blogging
This is Francine Reed. She takes requests. This first tune is One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show. Apparently she has a right to sing the blues. She certainly has the…
Friday night
Let’s start with an instrumental: Bobby’s Bop by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters. Honest I Do was originally written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1957. This is Mississippi Heat…
Friday night
This is Ruthie Foster performing solo in a TV studio with Runaway Soul. If memory serves, Women Be Wise was on Bonnie Raitt’s first album. Or maybe it was the…