Blues for Aficionados

Otis Clay

I'LL TREAT YOU RIGHT

Bullseye  1992

Notes: "Otis Clay is very simply one of the premier deep soul singers working today.  Robert Cray will readily admit, "I went to school on that guy" and along with O.V. Wright and Syl Johnson, Clay put in some of the most gospel and Blues-based soul efforts of the early seventies.  While Otis also had hits in the soul heyday of the sixties, he is even better today.  His gospel fire drives his energetic blend of R&B, Soul and Blues to ecstatic heights."

I Can Take You To Heaven Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-mziNxBgGw

Thanks a Lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDZ1YW4i34

Leave Me and my Woman Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVgcKjb66w

Love Bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HNlEoSkUI

Cheers

Albert Collins

COLD SNAP

Alligator Records  1986

"Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man , was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster".  Wiki
Born: October 1, 1932, Leona, TX    Died: November 24, 1993, Las Vegas, NV

I Ain't Drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrWZu6Mg7U

Too Many Dirty Dishes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qYXIHNydA

Bending Like A Willow Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1FOCw-AA0

A Good Fool Is Hard To Find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDjRGWp-87M

Lights Are On But Nobody's Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8nBqCLpNk

Cheers

Johnny Copeland

CATCH UP WITH THE BLUES

Verve - Gitanes    1993

John Clyde Copeland was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer. In 1983, he was named Blues Entertainer of the Year by the Blues Foundation. He is the father of blues singer Shemekia Copeland. In 2017, Copeland was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Wikipedia

Born: March 27, 1937, Haynesville, LA       Died: July 3, 1997, New York, NY


Catch Up with the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=193Dw3yuKaA

Making a Fool of Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zp93YB0YBU

Cold, Cold Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqOHpf7EUc

Rolling with the Punches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ae8NAMguI

Cheers

Johnny  Copeland

TEXAS TWISTER

Rounder Records  1986

Notes:  "Johnny Copeland moves people in Mobile and he moves people in Manhattan.  He has won the American Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Award as Entertainer of the year, and copped Europe's Grand Prix du Disque de Montreux for Blues, Soul and Gospel.  Whether he is in Oakland or Osaka, West Africa or West Memphis, Copenhagen or Corpus Christi, Johnny's Blues are a universal language."

I De Go Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWj61FQCEwg

Everybody Wants A Piece of Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecoBgzIEh80

It's My Own Tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q811KbnJ0mI

Honky Tonkin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5YaaPm4DQ

Cheers

James Cotton

LIVE AT ANTONE'S NIGHTCLUB

Antone's records & Tapes   1988

Notes: "Tunica, Mississippi sits about halfway between Helena, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee.  During the Great depression, when James Cotton was growing up there, all three were 'ballin' towns' and regular stops for the Blues legends on their way north out of the Delta.  By the time he was school age, James was dancing for tips on street corners in Tunica, on his way through Helena and Memphis to Chicago and international renown."

wiki:
Born: July 1, 1935, Tunica, MS
Died: March 16, 2017, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX

Blow Wind Blow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRFln18jZo

Eyesight to the Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFHAPxkhgM

Midnight Creeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56UEct1iYuM

Hoochie Coochie Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTVMZB_lSI

Cheers