Blues for Aficionados


I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection.  I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post.  This tread corrects that oversight.  All Blues post are welcome.  I will concentrate on the Delta.
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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

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
Etta James

STICKIN' TO MY GUNS

Island Records   1990

I think the title refers to her maintaining her musical style, in the face of all the new more popular stuff.

Whatever gets you through the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSMYG5AZ2E

The Blues don't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asCf74739jE

Your good thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giuj0li3_o4

A fool in love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQUt1RfWbTg

Cheers