Blues for Aficionados

Robert Jr. Lockwood

STEADY ROLLIN' MAN

Delmark Records   1970

Notes: "Robert Jr. Lockwood's music shows the influence of not only his stepfather Robert Johnson but also that of Jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham.  By the mid-50s he found himself in the enviable position of being THE studio guitar player in Chicago.  He can be heard on classic blues songs like Little Walter's "My Babe" and "Boom, Boom, Out go the lights";  Sonny Boy Williamson's "Nine Below Zero" and "Eyesight to the Blind."  He also recorded with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Eddie Boyd, Willie Mabon, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and others.  This 1970 session was Robert's first album as a leader!"

Steady Rollin' Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-E4bP7aGMA

Take a Walk with Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZiyttmFHM

Worst Old Feeling  (alternate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsjtYQdm2g

Lockwood's Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4BXwVqwhR0

Blues and Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9tM2XeduU

Ramblin' on my Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4t11Oqx0xQ

Cheers

Magic Sam

WEST SIDE SOUL

Delmark Records   1967

Notes: "Samuel Maghett was born February 14, 1937 on a farm in central Mississippi, eight miles east of Granada.  Bt the time he was thirteen, like most other kids his age, he was doing a full day's work, but found time to start learning how to play the guitar by stretching strings tied to nails driven into a wall in a manner similar to Big Joe Williams' primitive one-string guitar.  The Maghett family got its first taste of big-city life when the moved to Chicago in 1950." 

I need you so bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MoKLnUtoN0

I feel so good (I wanna boogie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFmx3jy2sI

Sweet home Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFmx3jy2sI

I found a new love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UDs5nwcF4

Lookin' Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRcjfB1YAs

Cheers

Taj Mahal

DANCING THE BLUES

Private Music    1993

Blues Ain't Nothin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU2OoZ8C5Rc

Hard Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5tBc8JGNs

Going to the River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blhBJh0y-0

Mockingbird    (with Etta james)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PMxmpNL3Q

Blue Light Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAYpDEcM3Q

Cheers

MUDDY WATERS get the best.

Taj Mahal

LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Private Music  1991

Born in NYC!!!   Why, I never heard of such a thing!

Ev'ry Wind (In The River)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgREPFYiAB0

River of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqzX8RT5Jg

Big Legged Mommas are Back in Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rAvxZbgQk

Bonus:

Taj Mahal and friends.  Blues at a different level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7eOIfFfyBw

Corrine, Corrina (Feat. Taj Majal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGUd1Vc8tI

Cheers