Blues for Aficionados

James Booker

RESURRECTION OF THE BAYOU MAHARAJAH

Rounder Records   1993

Notes: "For Booker fans, then, this album and its companion (Spiders on the Keys, Rounder 2119) are cause for celebration.  Here is James Booker as his New Orleans fans knew him--passionate and dazzling; alternately extroverted or painfully lost in his own world.  For if James Carroll Booker lll was one of the greatest pianists of the century, he was also plagued by what many of his friends considered to be mental illness, and by a lifelong battle with drugs and alcohol (a problem Booker traced to his prescription after being hit by an ambulance when he was a boy)."

Real New Orleans music.  You can hear the wooden floors.

Medley: Slow Down / Bony Maronie / Knock On Wood / I Heard It Through The Grapevine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zya7-ekMXw

Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5Aoq32N4g

St. James Infirmary (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, LA / 1977-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRKcW_s6YQ

Medley: Life / Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / It Should Have Been Me (Live At The Maple Leaf Bar, New...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7w0yYjXNs

Cheers

Grew up w Clarence brown, buddy guy, Johnny winter, many many rare blues LPs’ from parents record collection.

   Love blues,....blues strayed it all, no blues, no rock, no metal, it all stems from southern blues, Midwest blues, etc. !!

Eddie Boyd

FIVE LONG YEARS

Boyd(piano, organ, vocals), Buddy Guy(guitar), Jimmy Robinson(bass), Fred Below(drums), Big Mama Thornton(vocal, Hound Dog)
Evidence  1994

Notes: "Eddie Boyd was born November 25, 1914 in Coahoma County, Mississippi and spent his childhood on the fabled Stovall's plantation in the heart of the Delta.... Boyd discovered his musical salvation when he journeyed overseas to co-headline the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival.  During the historic European tour(produced by German promoters Horst Lippmann and fritz Raul), Boyd recorded the impressive contents of this disc in Hamburg and London, backed by three of the finest Chicago sidemen available.  Fleet-fingered guitarist Buddy Guy, versatile bassist Jimmie lee Robinson, and crackling drummer Fred Below offer superb support as Boyd convincingly rolls through a virtual greatest hits program."

Five Long Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hd3PwHujl4&list=OLAK5uy_kIDIqFdu4zUbCsYA_cSo8r7N93i3OnCEc

Eddie's Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKe1vIwdxg

I'm coming home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMqvSNPfWds

Blue Monday Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWb7I5jcYrY

Hound Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3yE2RBxp8

Cheers

My recent record show purchase...
Check out....
Steve Miller Band "Rock Love"

song..."Blues With Out Blame"

Stormy Monday 
Allman Brothers