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Category Archives: Music
Today’s Music: Professor Longhair, “Go to the Mardi Gras”
The Mardi Gras is only a week away. The inimitable Professor Longhair celebrates with “Go to the Mardi Gras,” released in 1950. H/T to Mathew Tyler Wilson.
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Blues Piano, Mardi Gras, Mathew Tyler Wilson, Professor Longhair
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Today’s Music: “Cold Morning Shout”
Actually, I’ve never heard of Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod before; just happened to run across them at the Fraulini Guitars site, but they cook up some nice rags-and-blues guitar pickin’ here. Enjoy!
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Video
Tagged Craig Ventresco, Fraulini Guitars, Meredith Axelrod, Ragtime Guitar
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Today’s Music: “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
Big Joe “Boss of the Blues” Turner was a Kansas City blues belter who started out in the 1920’s at the age of 12 playing in K.C. dives and, by the ’30’s and ’40’s, was performing with a whole host of … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Joe Turner, Bill Haley & His Comets, Shake Rattle and Roll
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Today’s Music: Little Walter, “Juke” and “My Babe”
Marion Walter Jacobs, AKA ‘Little Walter’, along with Big Walter Horton and a couple of others, defined the ‘Chicago Saxophone’ sound on the harmonica way back in the 1950s. Instead of playing first position ‘country’ harp, Walter moved to second … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues Harp, Juke, Little Walter, My Babe
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Today’s Music: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
From the classic 1965 blues album ‘Hoodoo Man Blues,’ Buddy Guy and Junior Wells at their peak. First up, Kenny Burrell’s signature tune, ‘Chitlin’s Con Carne’ followed by a live performance of ‘Hoodoo Man Blues’ at some music festival:
Today’s Music: Albert Collins, “I Ain’t Drunk”
The Ice Man definitely cometh here, with Albert Collins bearing down on his humbucked, minor-key-tuned Fender Telecaster with nothin’ but the blues. I’m glad I got a chance to hear Albert live down on Lincoln Ave. in Chicago before he passed … Continue reading
Today’s Music: Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Here’s Kim Wilson, the guy Muddy Waters once called the ‘greatest harmonica player since Little Walter,’ tearing it up with his band The Fabulous Thunderbirds which once included Stevie Ray Vaughn’s older brother Jimmie on guitar, playing some of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues Harp, Jimmie Vaughn, Kim Wilson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
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Today’s Music: ‘Chitlin’s Con Carne’ by Kenny Burrell
This is what jazz-blues fusion really sounds like. Smooth with a bite and some soul power. Kenny Burrell from nearly 50 years ago, and he’s still playing great. H/T to Mathew Tyler Wilson.
Etta James, Dead at 73
Yet another great blues/R&B singer has passed. Here’s her obit from the NY Times and a video of her most well-known song, “At Last”:
R&B Godfather Johnny “Hand Jive” Otis Dead at 90
R.I.P., Johnny. Read the Billboard obit here.