Blues for Aficionados

Son House

THE ORIGINAL DELTA BLUES

Columbia / Legacy     1965 / 1998

Notes: "...Persuading them to lose the carefully acquired skills of several decades and play in the fashion of their youth required a certain amount of tact.  Thirty years on, it seems prescriptive and high handed.  Eddie  J. House Jr.--Son House--provided no surprises of that kind when he got his second chance.  He had not played music at all for seven or eight years, and probably not with any regularity since the early 1940s, when he left his native Mississippi to live and work in Rochester in upstate New York.  Unlike some of his contemporaries, he was not about to "go electric", or to break into a recent R&B hit like "High Heel Sneakers."   His repertoire and guitar techniques really were frozen in the past."

wiki:
Born: March 21, 1902, Lyon, MS
Died: October 19, 1988, Detroit, MI


Pearline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvFa3qteu8

John The Revelator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QnBIarHc0

Death Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjo

Levee Camp Moan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjo

Preachin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmR7jjOoFOw

Cheers

Alberta Hunter / Lovie Austin

ALBERTA HUNTER with LOVIE AUSTIN'S BLUES SERENADERS

Riverside / Original Blues Classics  1961 / 1991

Notes: "A top performer during the 20s, Miss hunter appeared on Broadway and then became the first blues singer to hit the European continent.  She has spent many years abroad--including more than twenty five trips to the European and Pacific theaters of war with the USO during World War ll, and later in Korea."

"During the 1930s and '40s Miss Austin worked in the pit band at the Monogram Theater in Chicago, and also travelled with her own shows.  Since the late '40s she has worked as pianist at a Chicago dancing school."

Complete Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpaOrUxzwlk

Cheers

Etta James

TELL MAMA

Chess   1987

I'd Rather Go Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcus42ihkTI

Tell Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_wbyv1TgIQ

I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zN2wEJ6IJE

Steal Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFO42jOm-w8

Cheers

Etta James

ETTA JAMES ROCKS THE HOUSE

Chess  / MCA     1963 / 1992

Notes: "ROCKS THE HOUSE captures James in peak form, riding the momentum from her first string of hits late in 1963.  It's Etta in her natural environment, working a very live crowd and feeding off their frenzied response to her inspired interpretations of Blues standards and then-current R&B hits."

All that was missing, was a real blues band and someone who knew how to record a live performance.

I just want to make love to you   (Willie Dixon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kLevTive8

Woke this morning       (B.B. King)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6rU6pWmi8

Baby what you want me to do      (Jimmy Reed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5JxpZEMTvc

Money    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaoEWvU2hL8

Cheers

Etta James

LIFE, LOVE & THE BLUES

Private Music  1998

Miss James with proper support.   The baddest album cover in Bluesdom!!
If you can't 'dance' like that, stay outta Juke Joints.

Running out of lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-nJMf5llw

Cheating in the next room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F_z8wtZJs

Born under a Bad sign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70UkfQeXQ_c

Here I am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQVN9s_ZKh4

Spoonful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8fFlcG-r6I

Hoochie Coochie Gal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAUAEYVkF8

Cheers