As promised a while back , we keep uncovering the pride of Louisville in these pages. So here's a second installment of originals and bonnie interpretations, and diversity's the word once again. And just in case you weren't in the know yet: there's a book coming out soon by and about the divine mr. Oldham, edited by Alan Licht . Can't wait. Bobby "Blue" Bland - Little Boy Blue Bonnie Prince Billy - Little Boy Blue 2 [...]
We're probably the last people on the Internet to have anything to say about Drake 's now month-old (counting its initial full leak) Take Care , which really has less to do with any serious Drake-hate emanating from these parts of the Web as much as it does the exhaustion from even thinking about having to sit through an entire album revolving around whatever too much money/ too much fame/ too many women issues Drizzy is moping about now. Sure, the man is always good for a verse that's more clever than [...]
At age 73, Etta James releases her final album (which includes a Guns n Roses cover)!
A great tune from one of the underrated pioneers of the soul-blues sound.
So, this is our final "official" post before we enter the blissful sleep of the real world. Thanks for reading. But does anyone mourn the passing of a music blog? I mean, c'mon now: this ain't no Rolling Stone . Thank God. But if one were to mourn a music blog, there'd only be one way to do it: the immemorial NOLA dirge, "St. James Infirmary." It's a song recorded by hundreds. Of unclear origins—possibly forked from the old English folk song "The Unfortunate Rake," possibly not. "Written" in the early [...]
"Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" is a 1974 R&B song written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh and first recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland for the ABC Dunhill album Dreamer . While Bland scored a minor hit with the song, landing in the top ten of the R&B charts, it is perhaps best known through cover versions and samples. For his 2001 album The Blueprint , Jay-Z recorded the song "Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)," a Kanye West-produced track built around a sample of Bobby Bland's chartmaking rendition. The Jay-Z [...]
How blue can you get? Presenting a bluer than blue, hand picked six pack. B.B. plays his Lucille live at the Regal, British punkpoppers MC4 reach for the sky, and Lloyd Charmers mourns racial injustice, Jamaican style. Bobby Bland proves once more he was up there with the true soul greats, while the Wooden Shjips go Krautrock, and sixties Japrockers the Jaguars simply feel blue... Like what you hear? Then buy a featured album or two. B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get MP3 [...]
How blue can you get? Presenting a bluer than blue, hand picked six pack. B.B. plays his Lucille live at the Regal, British punkpoppers MC4 reach for the sky, and Lloyd Charmers mourns racial injustice, Jamaican style. Bobby Bland proves once more he was up there with the true soul greats, while the Wooden Shjips go Krautrock, and sixties Japrockers the Jaguars simply feel blue... Like what you hear? Then buy a featured album or two. B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get MP3 [...]
Five covers by the legendary soul singer.
The America's Got Talent semifinalist lets loose on "No Easy Way to Say Goodbye" with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section
More than once someone has asked, "If I wanted to throw a party at my house and I wanted that Texas sound, what should I play?" Well if your house is in Buffalo, New York, then you can play the Goo Goo Dolls and and probably half the crowd would say "Yeah, that's Texas." (And hopefully the other half would correctly recognize the Goo Goos are a local band from Buffalo.) And unfortunately that's sort of the situation here in Texas. This state has many transplants who really couldn't identify a true Texas artist outside the obvious (Willie [...]
The year's biggest night for the blues just got a whole lot bigger...
Creo que fue un pintor surrealista de principios del siglo pasado el que dijo "El hombre no inventa nada, está todo ahí". Qué sería del arte -en cualquiera de sus expresiones- si no fuera por el trabajo que le ha antecedido. Por eso, en este tercer Jueves de Safari, vamos a explorar el mundo del sampleo, esas bases musicales que uno oye cantar hoy, con la extraña sensación de haber escuchado esa melodía en otra parte, en otro tiempo. Una selección de notables samples, que incluso han llegado [...]
Robert Calvin Bland (born January 27, 1930) better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. Bobby "Blue" Bland singing "Members Only" Bobby Blue Bland @Amazon.com Bobby Blue Bland @SqueezeMyLemon
It was 1977, and I think we can forgive the hair. Wasn't that a great performance by Bobby Blue Bland? I love the horns and the amazing vocals.
Mother mother-in-law blues by B.B. King and Bobby Blue Bland. B.B. King @SqueezeMyLemon Bobby Blue Bland @SqueezeMyLemon B.B. King @Amazon.com Bobby Blue Bland @Amazon.com
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Cry Cry Cry ( buy ) "Cry, cry, cry... that's what I want you to do... And think of all the lonely nights that I sat alone and cried over you..." Razor-sharp blues riffs, a piano tinkling faintly in the background, horns kicking in... And then there´s that amazing, soulful voice of course. Every groover worth his salt should own Bobby "Blue" Bland´s masterpiece Two Steps From The Blues . [...]
I'm in the midst of reading Nick Hornby's High Fidelity which features music centrally as it tells the tale of Rob, the thoughtful and confused record storeowner. There are references to songs, albums, and artists throughout, but one chapter in particular struck me as particularly loaded with great tracks. It's chapter seven, in which he describes his past experience as a DJ: For a couple of years, at the end of the eighties, I was a DJ at a club in Kentish Town…I was a good DJ, I think. At any rate, people seemed happy; they danced, stayed [...]
Bobby Blue Bland: I Hate You MP3
"Going Down Slow" mp3 by St. Louis Jimmy, 1941. available on That's Chicago's South Side "Going Down Slow" mp3 by Howlin' Wolf, 1961. available on Moanin' in the Moonlight by Jason Gross Every song has a story and this blues standard is no different. It began life with James Burke Oden (1903-1977), a blues pianist who bounced around from his native Nashville to St. Louis and eventually to Chicago, following fellow [...]
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