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

Various Artists

LEGENDS OF THE BLUES: VOLUME ONE

CBS Records   1990

Nice informative booklet.

St. Louis Blues    (Bessie Smith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxw09D8co_c

Nothing in Ramblin'       (Memphis Minnie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5OWVi3H1dk

Match Box Blues    (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aq0xcqLHJs

Hard Day Blues    (Muddy Waters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgJtCccbHE

Stop Breakin' Down Blues   (Robert Johnson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz_R96Bmq-k

Cheers