Blues for Aficionados

Various Artists

SOUTHERN JOURNEY VOL.1: VOICES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH

The Alan Lomax Collection
Rounder  1997

Excellent Booklet Included.

Bright Light Quartet - Po' Lazarus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esDe-Qz1ru4

Bessie Jones - It Just Suits Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZTLZg4suOA

Almeda Riddle - Poor Wayfaring Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_pbnHXjbGc

Sidney Carter - Pharaoh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqppEveiQvo&t=14s

Cheers

Various Artists

THE BEST OF THE CHICAGO BLUES

Twofer   2 Albums in one
Vanguard   1973 / 1987

No notes, just a list of every CD Vanguard has ever issued.

Homesick James - Somebody Been Talkin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDU_4MKezw8

Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet - Rocket 88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eWmTYr2jhM

Junior Wells - When My Baby Left Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4A7yhKS64

Junior Wells -  Tobacco Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai97X82DIYo

Otis Spann's South Side Piano -- S. P. Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a39fw817EQc

Buddy Guy -  Sweet Little Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR96a7tokYM

Cheers

The Muddy Waters Tribute Band

YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME (When I'm Dead and Gone)

Telarc Blues    1996

Notes: "Muddy Waters, hallowed be thy name.  As the prime architect of Chicago Blues, this blessed son of Mississippi Delta sharecroppers belongs to to the celestial hierarchy of American originals.  With a manner of musical expression rivaling the break of day for simplicity and rightness, Waters let his deep, rumbling voice and deft bottleneck playing resonate in now-classic songs that vented the hopes, dreams, joy, heartbreak, and pain of disenfranchised blacks living in the industrial North after World War ll.  In doing so, Waters cut the cornerstone for rock'n'roll and marked popular culture for all time."

Honey Bee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxVXft2cow

You Can't Lose What You Never Had
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lPcFJvgIU

Going Down Slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkp_QYaIBg

Trouble no More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij349CGRXe4

Cheers

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

KIDNEY STEW IS FINE

Delmark   1993

Notes: "The occasion here is the only time that Vinson, McShann and T-Bone Walker appear together on record.  Would that it could have happened more frequently!  Another southwesterner , Oklahoma-born Hal Singer is on tenor, but he is given relatively little to do.  Vinson did not like what he called "a lot of music" behind his vocals."

Recorded in France by the Black and Blue Label.

Just a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cChwWIPAGQ

Somebody Sure Has Got to Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYat1FAs7w

Old Kidney Stew Is Fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1gKMs7Ttn0

Wait a Minute Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geD4B9MsRm4

Things Ain't What They Used to Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZuMDpiTwo

Cheers

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

MEAT'S TOO HIGH

Eddie Vinson(alto sax / vocals), Stan Greig(piano), Les Davidson(guitar)
Paul Sealey(bass), Martin Guy(drums)
JSP Records  1982

Home Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrf9xVcp7A

Meat's Too High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XU0ZwEKp2Q

Investigation Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgPKHpAyJ8Y

Old Maid Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5vsXCH_vqM

Travelin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBASHEyuHo

Cheers