Blues for Aficionados

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

Clifford Curry

THE PROVIDER

Appaloosa  1993

Notes: "Clifford Curry is truely a living legend.  Walking, talking Rhythm & Blues history.  For nearly forty years he has been a mainstay in the Southern music scene.  From the chitlin circuit of the 50's and 60's to the big ballrooms of the Carolina coast in the 70's and 80's.  Recently he has been playing the oldies revival shows as one third of "The Legends" with his old friends Archie Bell and Maurice Williams.  This album represents a return to Clifford's roots and a new page in his career."
Wiki:
Born: November 3, 1936, Knoxville, TN
Died: September 7, 2016, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN

The Provider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQOYtPFgns

Helpless and Homeless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtK5rEWPx68

Bit By A Rattlesnake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SPnEsKb_Q

Soldier in the Army of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFIQcZbFTgM

Cheers

Jimmy Dawkins

KANT SHECK DEES BLUZE

Earwig Music Company   1991

Notes: "There are no Jimmy Dawkins imitators.  The man's guitar playing is relentless and intense, combining piercing sustain and staccato attack with a phrasing unique to him.  Not only is he one of America's great Blues guitarists, no one else even sounds much like him."

James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues. Wikipedia
Born: October 24, 1936 Tchula, MS
Died: April 10, 2013, Chicago, IL

Kant Sheck Dees Bluze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm6VFUAyhrI

Made The Hard Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZmo9PvI-M

I Ain't Got It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOOZaIWYhvQ

Cheers