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Post by monsterjones on Feb 3, 2014 9:27:25 GMT -5
You bluesguys may dig my band, Kathy & the Kilowatts....here is a recent tune we penned in the style of Slim Harpo....called "Bird In the Hand"
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2014 10:54:00 GMT -5
Great Blues!!! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by kh1958 on Feb 14, 2014 22:03:49 GMT -5
Michael Burks was excellent--such a powerful guitar player who appeared so stoic but played with controlled fury, I saw him a couple of times at the now closed Pearl at Commerce in Dallas. The second time, Lucky Peterson joined his group, sitting in on organ, guitar and bass--that was literally one of the greatest blues concerts I've heard since my first in 1974. It was an electrifying evening, and the news of his death not too long thereafter was shocking and sad.
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Post by kh1958 on Feb 14, 2014 22:09:28 GMT -5
Not exactly blues, Desert blues from Mali , but this record, by the late guitarist Lobi Traore, is rather astounding. Bamako Nights, Live from Bar Bozo 1995. label.glitterhouse.com/news.php?show=455I like this quote from a review (it's true): "This doesn’t just rock, it sears the ground for a hundred metres all around."
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Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2014 22:25:14 GMT -5
Michael Burks was excellent--such a powerful guitar player who appeared so stoic but played with controlled fury, I saw him a couple of times at the now closed Pearl at Commerce in Dallas. The second time, Lucky Peterson joined his group, sitting in on organ, guitar and bass--that was literally one of the greatest blues concerts I've heard since my first in 1974. It was an electrifying evening, and the news of his death not too long thereafter was shocking and sad. I was just reading about this great blues artist today. So young to lose -54 alligator.com/artists/michael-burks/
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Post by 57vintage on Feb 20, 2014 9:17:18 GMT -5
Laurence Jones's "Temptation" and Albert Castiglia's "Solid Ground", both on Ruf Records and both scintillating blues albums.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2014 9:10:33 GMT -5
Country Pete McGill
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2014 7:44:54 GMT -5
Jarekus Singleton
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Post by bscott on Jun 6, 2014 12:19:16 GMT -5
Steve Hill from Montreal. He is also a solo artist. On this clip he is playing acoustic. However he plays electric more often and plays bass drum with one foot, hihat or snare with the other and has recently taken to taping a drum stick to the headstock of his guitars to bang on a cymbal. Very good live show. Highly recommeneded www.musimax.com/musique/steve-hill-prestation-3-mars-2014-1-de-2-1.1258635
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2014 15:11:24 GMT -5
Fatback Deluxe
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Post by musicman on Jun 30, 2014 15:00:39 GMT -5
Just caught this guy on youtube...
Bryan Lee - aka Braille Blues Daddy.
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Post by jlhooker on Jun 30, 2014 16:06:27 GMT -5
I saw Bryan Lee in Orleans several times.He used to play at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street.One night,when I was there,Kenny Wayne Shepard opened for him. This was back in the late 80's and early 90's.Bryan is very good and totally blind.It is amazing to watch him set up his equipment on stage.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2014 5:13:09 GMT -5
Rory Block. Great Blues
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Post by dadfad on Jul 10, 2014 7:46:34 GMT -5
I've known Rory for a long time. I first met her at a gig she did in a small club, probably mid-eighties. After her set we were talking back-stage. I mentioned that a couple of years earlier, I was at Robert Johnson's grave. (Little Zion Baptist, as pointed out to me a few years before by both Queen Elizabeth and an old church grave-digger, not Zion Baptist where Columbia put up a tombstone. At that time it was unmarked.) As I often did (do) when I visit a gravesite to pay my respects, I usually play one of their tunes, share a few drinks, etc. At Robert Johnson's grave that visit, I had a slug of whiskey, poured out a shot for Dead-Robert, then played one of his tunes as usual. When I was done I took my slide and stood it up on the ground over his grave and went to stomp it into the earth with my boot-heel. (I'd done the same thing for Fred McDowell and several years later for Son House.) When I tried to stomp it in, it wouldn't go into the ground, and there was sort of a "scruntch" sound. I moved away some of the dirt and buried these was a Rory Block cassette. It didn't look like it had been buried there too long, so looked at it and noticed there were several Robert Johnson tunes on it that she'd covered. So I re-buried it, along with my slide. And went on my way. I mentioned that to Rory, and apologized for damaging her cassette. She laughed and said "I doubt if he was playing it much anyway!"
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Post by monsterjones on Jul 22, 2014 12:25:15 GMT -5
Original Texas Blues from Kathy & the Kilowatts at the Continental Club called "Expense of Love"
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