Blues for Aficionados

The Holmes Brothers

LOTTO LAND:
Stony Plain   1995
        
Don't Spare Your Sword
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7DLhp2_LDw

Basement Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWGtCtDHC1I


PROMISED LAND: 
Rounder 1997

Train Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71LmHeKv4yc

Start Stoppin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoHvQasHBg

There's a Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IMkJzeDy_Q


SOUL STREET:
Rounder   1993

Walk in the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncvf98Belvs

I found a Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrXBtyZkKY

Cheers

Two perhaps not as well known.  Both these sets were recorded at a time when the blues were resurgent and new young talent was paying tribute to those who set the tone of what would become Chicago Blues or for most of us on the "southside" "The Blues"  The fathers and sons album partially recorded  at Sulliavan and Adler's acoustically perfect,  Auditorium Theatre  in Chicago at what was called  Super Cosmic Joy Scout Jamboree: Muddy, Otis, Bloomfield, Butterfield, Dunn, Boooker, Lay and other guests.  (yeah I was lucky enough to be there).    Another is the two volume set of Fleetwwood Mac with Willie Dixon (IMHO the best Blues songwriter), Otis Span, Big Walter, Honeyboy Edwards, Buddy Guy, SP Leary,  and a few drop-ins,  recorded at Chess Studios in 69 and released under various names as" Fleetwood Mac in Chicago", "Get off in Chicago", "Blues Jam in Chicago" etc. "  This was Fleetwwood Mac (Green, Kewin, Spenser, McVie and Fleetwood) not the pop band line-up.

Michael Hill's Blues Mob

HAVE MERCY

Alligator Records  1996

Blues from the Bronx???  

Lost in the Sauce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLT4Wzo7UcE

She's Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5YvdPgMa_I

Rest in Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9c7Tpe4ks

Cheers

Earl Hooker

BLUE GUITAR

Paula Records  1991

Excerpts from the Notes: "Before the age of ten while Earl Hooker and his family lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Earl taught himself to play the guitar.  At the age of ten his family moved to Chicago.  That following year he attended Lyon and Healy Music School...In the early 1940's he occasionally worked the streets for tips with Bo Diddley and others.... In 1949 he toured for several years with Ike Turner's group throughout Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida...frequently appeared with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas...In 1965 he appeared with the Beatles on the Ready Steady Go show on BBC-TV...  He was thought to be one of the finest but underappreciated guitarists in modern Blues music.  Earl Zebedee Hooker died of tuberculosis in Chicago, April 21, 1970 at the age of 40."

Calling all Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yLTTQ9c6g

Blue Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHWZZtkMJU

Swear to Tell the Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWm-ybWDFo

Blues in D natural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQynjFhpYNw

Cheers

John Lee Hooker

THE HEALER

Chameleon Records 1989

Notes: "When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that’s when the Blues started,"says John Lee Hooker. No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing: a man and a woman, a broken heart, and a broken home -- you know what I mean?"

I’m in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2J0nntpcts

Baby Lee with Robert Cray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2zgDAsYA8

Sally Mae with George Thorogood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppvSAckZJuE

Rockin’ Chair with John Lee Hooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHcf1HNtJ18

That’s Alright with Charlie Musselwhite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOyR0o7M75w

Cheers