christopher3393 Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 "(Come back baby) I Wish You Would" - Billy Boy Arnold [Chicago, Illinois] - 1955 I Wish You Would · The Yardbirds 1963 I Wish You Would · John Hammond 1967 I Wish You Would David Bowie 1973 🤪 Link to comment
Popular Post christopher3393 Posted April 25, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2021 Speaking of yer daily blues, "Everyday I Have the Blues" Original: Pinetop Sparks, 1935: Lowell Fulson, 1950: ...and now a word from the Blues Foundation: “Everyday I Have The Blues” – B.B. King (RPM, 1954) “Everyday I Have the Blues” is one of the most ubiquitous of all blues songs, a required number in the repertoires of the countless bar and lounge bands of many genres. Its late entry into the Blues Hall of Fame reflects the fact that no strong consensus emerged as to which of the hundreds of recorded versions was most deserving. But it often is associated with B.B. King, and so the first of his own many versions gets the honors. Issued as a single on the RPM label, it was recorded on March 2, 1954, in Los Angeles with a session crew including arranger/tenor saxophonist Maxwell Davis and pianist Willard McDaniel. It made the Billboard R&B charts in January 1955, just weeks before Joe Williams and the Count Basie band hit with it again. Earlier recordings included a No. 1 1952 rendition by Williams, a 1950 hit by Lowell Fulson, and a 1948 version by Memphis Slim entitled “Nobody Loves Me.” Its origins have been traced back to a 1935 record by Aaron “Pine Top” Sparks. B.B. King, 1955: Every Day I Have the Blues · Joe Williams · Count Basie ('59 version, better sound): and now, a cover from the notoriously "overrated" ERIC CLAPTON - Everyday i Have The Blues - 1995 😏): finally, a recent recording from a little known Chicago artist, Jimmy Burns, 2020: fas42 and Iving 2 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 ...so...contemporary blues...hmmm... I think this speaks for itself and doesn't need an intro: Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 More contemporary...a little "country blues"? Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band 🤪 https://www.rockandbluesmuse.com/2021/04/06/review-dance-songs-for-hard-times-rev-peytons-big-damn-band/ Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 More contemporary (that I like but maybe not as much as the classic stuff): latest from long time contemporary Chicago player Joanna Connor: 4801 South Indiana Avenue “We chose the album title ‘4801 South Indiana Avenue’ because it was the actual street address of the hallowed funky blues sanctuary ‘Theresa’s Lounge.’ We want the listener to open that door, walk in and feel to their core some of the magic that a place like that brought night after night. It was an honor to bring this to you, the listener.” bluesman 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Let's see...Chicago... does John Primer count as contemporary? "John Primer (born March 5, 1945, Camden, Mississippi, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at Theresa's Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the 21st century." from a 2020 album: pretty old school sound. Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 ...speaking of Chicago, what do these folks think of the future of the blues? https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/03/11/ae/chicago-blues-musicians-listeners-have-hope-for-the-genres-future/ How about Buddy Guy? Still alive. Contemporary? This guy should know something about the scene: https://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/427728963/buddy-guy-i-worry-about-the-future-of-blues-music This classic performance from the past still sounds very alive and present to me and I'd trade a bunch of contemporary recordings to just have access to music like this: orresearch 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 another contemporary woman...from Belgium, with a blues rendition of an old spiritual --- Ghalia Volt performs "Wade in the Water" live: recent album release: https://www.rockandbluesmuse.com/2021/01/14/review-one-woman-band-ghalia-volt/ orresearch 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 A young contemporary blues/ rock/Americana guy: Marcus King ...who loves his guitar: ..and teamed up with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys for his first solo album, El Dorado, which was nominated for a grammy in 2020: story orresearch 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Contemporary female duo Larkin Poe: They've done a lot of classic blues covers over the last decade. One example: Blind Willie Johnson - Good Moves On The Water,1929: Larkin Poe - God Moves On The Water, 2020: Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted April 29, 2021 Author Share Posted April 29, 2021 17 hours ago, fas42 said: Everyone dabbles ... Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 Track from a 2021 Grammy nominee Best Traditional Blues album, CYPRESS GROVE by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes: Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Iving said: Listened to “Leaving Town Blues” this afternoon and thought of this thread. Off “Jumping At Shadows - The Blues Years [Disc 2]” [info: recording (Unissued Version) Session for Radio 1 'Top Gear' Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London. First broadcast on May 23, 1970] Bonus - a nice “reflection” [on Peter Green] by Rory Gallagher: imo a really important topic wrt evolution of and integrity of music [cf. Trains!] – could spend my whole life here but better not … Welcome back to the lving! Evolution and integrity of the music: nice way of putting it, thanks. Iving 1 Link to comment
Popular Post christopher3393 Posted May 1, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2021 59 minutes ago, orresearch said: yeah, when I was a kid everybody covered this and everybody knew the song, everybody danced to it. I consider it solidly in the R+B domain, but who cares? Wilson Pickett added a funkier beat to the original and just stepped it up: cambridgehank and orresearch 2 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 from the 2021 Grammy winning Best traditional Blues Album, by veteran Bobby Rush, Rawer Than Raw: Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 4 hours ago, Iving said: There are a couple of versions of Nina Simone performing “Chilly Winds Don’t Blow” in my Library. The first is unambiguously Blues, even if on the smooth Jazz side of things. It's from the 1964/5 Album "Pastel Blues". Thanks, the first would be my clear preference. Such is the issue of taste? Link to comment
Popular Post christopher3393 Posted May 3, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 from another 2021 Grammy Contemporary Blues Album nominee. Their music is growing on me. Actually didn't care for several of the nominated albums. So it goes. North Mississippi Allstars - "Mean Old World" (feat. Jason Isbell and Duane Betts) North Mississippi Allstars - "Call That Gone" orresearch and Iving 1 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 ...Got a black cat bone got a mojo too, I got John the Conqueror root, I'm gonna mess with you... —"Hoochie Coochie Man," Muddy Waters orresearch 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Junior Kimbrough - "Do the rump", '97 The Black Keys - "Do the Rump", 2002 Cat Power - "Do the Romp", 2005 A,J. Ghent, "Do the Rump", 2018 ssh 1 Link to comment
Popular Post christopher3393 Posted May 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2021 R.L. Burnside: "Goin' Down South", "67 R.L. Burnside: "Goin' Down South", '94 · North Mississippi Allstars, "Goin' Down South", 2000 Calvin Jackson and Mississippi Bound: "Goin' Down South", 2000 Delta Moon: "Goin' Down South", '04 Philippe Ménard "Going Down South", '16 (start at 1:30) Muddy Gurdy: "Goin' Down South", 2018 The Black Keys - "Going Down South", 5/3/2021 orresearch and Iving 1 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: Apologies for obsessive posting two more CB. No worries. Much appreciated. A little more Gary Clarke Jr. paying tribute to the tradition sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 Mick Fleetwood And Friends - Oh Well, Pt. 1 orresearch 1 Link to comment
Popular Post christopher3393 Posted May 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2021 Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (1948) I Can't Be Satisfied · The Rolling Stones '65 I Can't Be Satisfied · Muddy Waters, '77 The Rolling Stones - I Can't Be Satisfied , '98 "Can`t be Satisfied" - Buddy Guy, '04 Gregg Allman - I Can't Be Satisfied, '11 Joe Bonamassa - "I Can't Be Satisfied", '15 Professor Bones plays Muddy Waters - I CAN'T BE SATISFIED, '15 orresearch and Iving 1 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 Time for Blues? Inspired by another thread: Music About Time... B.B. King's first hit record: 3 O'Clock Blues, 1951 ...with Eric Clapton, 2000 Gary Clark Jr., 2014 Iving 1 Link to comment
christopher3393 Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Iving said: You Don't Love Me Blues - T-Bone Walker (1945) Jump Blues! You've tapped a big vein! Could easily fill a long thread by itself. Dance music, fun music, often with playful double-entendres, a blend of emerging urban blues and big band jazz, swing, boogie-woogie, big in 40s-50s, big influence on emerging rock and roll. My parents loved this stuff. 1949: Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five Iving 1 Link to comment
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