Blues for Aficionados

Earl King

HARD RIVER TO CROSS

Snooks Eaglin (guitar), Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (Tenor, baritone, flute)
Black Top Records    1993

Wiki:
Earl Silas Johnson,  known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as "Come On" (covered by Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and "Big Chief" (recorded by Professor Longhair), he was an important figure in New Orleans R&B.
Born February 7, 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Died April 17, 2003 (aged 69)


Hard River to Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VCH7bPArg

Seduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSsDSX6kQE

Big Foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nIX-bwoNI

No city like New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gij7NlGGt1g

Cheers

Booker T Laury

NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES

Bullseye Blues   1994

Notes: "Everybody who hears this music will buy this record," he says matter-of-factly.  Lots  'em wants to play the Blues now, lot of them can't play, down there playing, wishing the could play."

Wiki:
Lawrence Laury was an American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer. Laury worked with Memphis Slim and Mose Vinson but did not record his debut album until he was in his late sixties.
Born: September 2, 1914, Memphis, TN
Died: September 23, 1995, Memphis, TN


Blues on the Prowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffios-wc-YQ

Blues with a Feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkGfWoS7HQ

Woke up this Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0pWC-vUGY

Early in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLTMYoxvnhk

DB Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BQG4Y6YpM

Cheers

Texas Blues

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QII1YfFVhNU

Johnny Winter:

Born in Texas, but spent a lot of his young life in my hometown in Mississippi.   Nice clip.

Cheers

Leadbelly

ALABAMA BOUND

with / The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet: (Willie Johnson, William Langford, Henry Owens and Arlandus Wilson)
RCA Heritage Series   1940 / 1989

Notes:"Huddie William Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on Jeter plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana, the only child of farmer Wesley and part-Cherokee Indian Sally Ledbetter.  When Huddie was five, his family moved to nearby Leigh, Texas, and it was while growing up there that the young boy's interest in music began to develop under the encouraging eye of his uncle Terrell, who bought Huddie his first instrument, an accordion."


Whoa, Back Buck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKD0wDpujZE

Midnight Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyFLUTyDUo

Pick a Bale of Cotton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKvlSSy44Y

Gray Goose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEswHQ9fKo&t=51s

Rock Island Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awJUF4l6co

Easy Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aZLxqdI28

Cheers