Blues for Aficionados
Various Artists A VISION SHARED: A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE AND LEADBELLY Columbia / Folkways 1988 Notes: "They left home as teenagers. They traveled around the country during hard times, learned from other performers, and forged styles of their own which influenced thousands of younger musicians. Huddie Ledbetter (1885-1949), a Louisiana-born black man with the nickname "Leadbelly", and Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), an Oklahoma-born white man, shared a love of music, a keen appreciation of their fellow human begins, a political consciousness, and an ability to turn their experiences into songs that fired the imaginations of audiences around the country." Sylvie -- Sweet Honey in the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvY9Yg2k-c I Ain't Got No Home -- Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSrR1X65EA Rock Island Line -- Little Richard & Fishbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPmGqcafKw The Bourgeois Blues -- Taj Mahal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvfAfwS9k8 Gray Goose -- Sweet Honey in the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffJoYCjPi8 This Land is Your Land -- Peter Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnoQAjt775g with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc watson & The Little Red School House Chorus Cheers |
Various Artists BEST OF THE BLUES: "A SUMMIT MEETING" Pairs Record / Buddah Records 1988 Notes: "The Blues is the backbone of America’s music. Jazz, rock, country and western, swing, pop, --- none of these would be what it is without the Blues. The Blues is a deceptively simple musical form capable of infinite variety. On this splendid collection you’ll hear old Blues and new Blues, happy and mean Blues, country Blues and city Blues, vocal Blues and instrumental Blues--all of it real, honest and direct." Recorded in NYC!!! Blasphemy ! Kidney Stew -- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv-1DfRgcc Ball and Chain -- Big Mama Thornton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZivvODnV8 They Called Me Mr. Cleanhead -- Eddie Vinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgzmQ4EdWs That’s Alright Now Mama -- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LWCbPfeHk Got my Mojo Workin’ -- Muddy Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_0frQkG_4 Confessin’ the Blues -- Jay McShann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWMivXDp14 The Drifter -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4it8guF3c Cheers |
Albert Collins - Robert Cray - Johnny Copeland SHOWDOWN! Alligator 1985 Notes require a microscope. T-Bone Shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88a0iBy9B4 Lion's Den https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCSB0jNgqM Black Cat Bone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYn4h35W5c Bring Your Fine Self Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHtO0SdOL4 Cheers |
James Cotton - Junior Wells - Carey Bell - Billy Branch HARP ATTACK! Alligator 1990 Notes: "If there is one sound that says "Chicago Blues" to the world, it’s the sound of a harmonica blown through a hand-held microphone blasting through an amplifier. The pressurized, distorted sound of the electrified Blues harp was there from the earliest days of post-World War ll Windy City Blues, and Chicago’s harp players have always been the standard against which all others are judged." Down Home Blues (vocals- Cotton 1st, Branch 2nd, Wells 3rd Bell 4th) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-GSMUY5GE Somebody Changed the Locks (junior wells vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FE2SQ7BSJY Who (billy branch vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRrH2QVAzI Keep Your Hands out of my Pockets (junior wells vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fhGxeWXdg&t=205s Cheers |
