
Here's to that deepest, most fleeting of pleasures - the Vermont fall. Yesterday there was that first September chill in the air. It's inevitable in New England - the only question is when, not if, it will come. It always sends my thoughts back to childhood - playing soccer, carving pumpkins... all the real and imagined nostalgia the limbic system can conjure. Here are some tracks, old and new, I thought of during that first crisp breeze: The last song on Bon Iver's recently released self-titled album, "Beth / Rest," was often cited by fans as the least [...]
Chris Thomas King (born October 14, 1962 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American blues musician and actor. He is the son of blues musician Tabby Thomas. In the 2000 movie O' Brother, Where Art Thou?, he played legendary bluesman Tommy Johnson. On the "O Brother…" soundtrack he plays Skip James' "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues". In the 2004 movie Ray, he played bandleader Lowell Fulson.
BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 16 1- Sintonia 2- PERCY MAYFIELD. Please send me someone to love. 3- JAMES BOOKER. Black night. 4- CHRIS THOMAS KING. Canned heat blues. 5- STEFAN GROSSMAN. St. James Infirmary. 6- BASIN STREET CAFÉ. Barrelhouse ploker. 7- CLAUDIO GABIS. Negro como un blues. 8- LAS BLANCABLUES. Bendición. 9- BOBBY RUSH. Mama talk to your daugther. 10- LURRIE BELL. Blues had a baby. 11- FREDDIE KING. Someday after a while. El archivo se encuentra en: http://sharebee.com/3c88da8b Una producción de Carlos Díez [...]

BLUES SYNDICATE 67 1. I Think I Love You Too Much. THE JEFF HEALEY BAND 2. Same Thing. JOHNNY COPELAND 3. T-Bone Walker – The Come Back. T BONE WALKER 4. I Wanna Get In Your Head, Before I Get In Your Bed. JOHNNY DRUMMER 5. What Did You Think. RANDY GARIBAY AND CATS DONT SLEEP 6. Blues From Mississippi. KING EDWARD 7. Can't Get You Off My Mind. LLOYD JONES 8. I Guess I Showed Her. ROBERT CRAY BAND 9. Black Rooster. BIG JACK JOHNSON. 10. Gambling Woman. CHRIS THOMAS KING 11. Three Straight Days Of Rain. LARRY [...]
With an R&B movie soundtrack special . Featuring music from film soundtracks, and including Ray Charles, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, the Blues Brothers and Ry Cooder. Some excellent tracks including Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Ry Cooder — Down In Mississippi

The blues is the music of hard times, and hard times often drive people to drink. So the blues is a rich source of drinking songs. I wasn't about to let this week pass without sharing some of them. Memphis Slim : When I've Been Drinking [ purchase mp3, CD not available ] When people think of the blues, they tend to think of guitars and harmonicas, and of the electric sound of the classic Chicago groups. But there is also a long tradition of [...]
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town [...]