Blues for Aficionados

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

Floyd Dixon

WAKE UP AND LIVE

Alligator Records  1996

Notes: "A musical genius excelling at vibrant and exuberant jump Blues, rockin' piano boogie and sophisticated West Coast Blues...impeccable piano technique, fabulous timing, and a voice like a fog horn." --- Living Blues
Wiki:
Born: February 8, 1929, Marshall, TX
Died: July 26, 2006, Orange County, CA

Wake Up and Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgtM-puhnXM

Hey, Bartender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lRpVwa4UY

you know that'll get it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xKHvha8-E

I wanna Rock Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ne9UeUUz1E

Cheers

Mike Flanigin "West Texas Blues"