Blues for Aficionados

Mississippi Sheiks

STOP AND LISTEN

Yazoo  1992

Fascinating Booklet of their history.  Early 1900s Mississippi.

Notes: "The Mississippi Sheiks were probably Mississippi's  most commercially successful blues musicians, although they fit none of the musical stereotypes of their time and place.  The off-shoot of a string band that catered to square dance audiences, the Sheiks displayed more white influence than any other popular Blues stars.  Still their work drew favorable comments from such unadulterated Mississippi stylists as Son House and Howlin' Wolf, who even preferred them to Charlie Patton."

Stop And Listen Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEpsNgvYO8

Sitting On Top Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWu3NusPBgU

I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzi7VOSMs4

She Ain't No Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmtqw9Pc-MM

Cheers

Robert Nighthawk - Houston Stackhouse

MASTERS  OF MODERN BLUES

Testament Records  1994

Another excellent Booklet. 

wiki:
Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967)[1] was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He was the father of the blues musician Sam Carr. Nighthawk was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983.[2]

wiki:
  Houston Stackhouse (September 28, 1910 – September 23, 1980) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. He is best known for his association with Robert Nighthawk.[1] He was not especially noted as a guitarist or singer, but Nighthawk showed gratitude to Stackhouse, his guitar teacher, by backing him on a number of recordings in the late 1960s. Apart from a brief tour in Europe, Stackhouse confined his performing to the area around the Mississippi Delta.

Robert Nighthawk:

Maggie Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzVX_jZffQ

Black Angel Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1M4a91xHic


Houston Stackhouse:

Kansas City Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNM5Hbry8s8

Big Road Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FVv5ID_Fw

Cheers

Johnny Nocturne Band

SHAKE 'EM UP

Bullseye Blues    1994

Notes:"The Johnny Nocturne Band offers power-house renditions of instrumental jump Blues and Jazz tunes from the late 40s and early 50s.  Hailing from Northern California, the band, featuring the swinging Brenda Boykin on vocals, are favorites on the club and festival circuits.  SHAKE 'EM UP was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs and features material from Duke Ellington, Little Esther, Big Maybelle, Jimmy Rushing and others."

In support of the DANCE wing of the Dance / Art split in Jazz

Reelin' And Rockin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIYwPcYskE

Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-3uXt2S9I

I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-7fiQLahY

New Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kv92IL0Ok

Fool's Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK-JMn7Ses

Cheers

Allen Toussaint

THE BRIGHT MISSISSIPPI

Nonesuch    2009

Real New Orleans Music.  Blues with a little sophistication.
Jay Bellerose (drums and percussion)

West End Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPsgMa74Lk

Long, Long Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkSlStHxyPA

Singin' the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91HEDiFpiAc

St. James Infirmary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZcU4SniIc

Bright Mississippi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCHddHp8OAw

Cheers

Ollie Nightingale

I'LL DRINK YOUR BATH WATER, BABY

ECKO    1995

Notes: "Ollie Nightingale began his singing career in the early 1950's as lead singer of the Memphis based gospel group, the Dixie Nightingales.  He was born Ollie Braxton Hoskins in bateville, Mississippi, on Sept 6, 1936.  With some early vocal training by his grandmother and only a little coaxing, Ollie quickly became successful singing in the church choir.  It was the influence of the church that later began to characterize his recordings."

David Ruffin, future lead singer of The Temptations, was a teenage member of the Dixie Nightingales.

Babysitting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_okszAXKM4

Changing for the Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2W626QcRw

I'll Drink Your Bath Water, Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Mek3CqDXI

That's What You Are to Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxJvzAebgw

Cheers