Blues for Aficionados

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

Little Whitt  & Big Bo

MOODY SWAMP BLUES

Vent Records   1995

Notes: "Little "Whitt" Wells was born on a small farm in Ralph, Alabama on Feb 19th, 1931.  "Big Bo" McGee was born on October 9th, 1928 in Mississippi and Alabama!!  His house was built on the state-line between Emelle, Alabama, and Porterville, Mississippi:  "We would eat breakfast in Alabama and sleep in Mississippi!" he quipped."

There is no more impressive Blues Credential than to be Born in, die in, or be Buried in two or more different places.

I can't be Satisfied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaFy_d1b4I

Walking Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZIb3J9XbQ

Mean Old World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOmxhP4-vJ4

Sweet Home Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-GsrdyYjY

Two Trains Running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhlSir7_i8

Cheers

Robert Jr. Lockwood

STEADY ROLLIN' MAN

Delmark Records   1970

Notes: "Robert Jr. Lockwood's music shows the influence of not only his stepfather Robert Johnson but also that of Jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham.  By the mid-50s he found himself in the enviable position of being THE studio guitar player in Chicago.  He can be heard on classic blues songs like Little Walter's "My Babe" and "Boom, Boom, Out go the lights";  Sonny Boy Williamson's "Nine Below Zero" and "Eyesight to the Blind."  He also recorded with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Eddie Boyd, Willie Mabon, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and others.  This 1970 session was Robert's first album as a leader!"

Steady Rollin' Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-E4bP7aGMA

Take a Walk with Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZiyttmFHM

Worst Old Feeling  (alternate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsjtYQdm2g

Lockwood's Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4BXwVqwhR0

Blues and Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9tM2XeduU

Ramblin' on my Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4t11Oqx0xQ

Cheers

Magic Sam

WEST SIDE SOUL

Delmark Records   1967

Notes: "Samuel Maghett was born February 14, 1937 on a farm in central Mississippi, eight miles east of Granada.  Bt the time he was thirteen, like most other kids his age, he was doing a full day's work, but found time to start learning how to play the guitar by stretching strings tied to nails driven into a wall in a manner similar to Big Joe Williams' primitive one-string guitar.  The Maghett family got its first taste of big-city life when the moved to Chicago in 1950." 

I need you so bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MoKLnUtoN0

I feel so good (I wanna boogie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFmx3jy2sI

Sweet home Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFmx3jy2sI

I found a new love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UDs5nwcF4

Lookin' Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRcjfB1YAs

Cheers

Taj Mahal

DANCING THE BLUES

Private Music    1993

Blues Ain't Nothin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU2OoZ8C5Rc

Hard Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5tBc8JGNs

Going to the River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blhBJh0y-0

Mockingbird    (with Etta james)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PMxmpNL3Q

Blue Light Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAYpDEcM3Q

Cheers