Jack White has revealed his latest strange bedfellow and it's none other than 71-year-old singing legend, Mr. Tom Jones . According to this month's MOJO Magazine , Jones is the latest participant in Third Man Records' infamous Blue Series , which has previously offered releases from Stephen Colbert, John C. Reily, and Insane Clown Possee. For his part, Jones recorded a rendition of "Jezebel" from his 2002 album Mr. Jones , along with a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Evil" . As White notes, "He impressed the shit out of everybody." [...]
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I was not at work today and ended up taking a sunny stroll to Crouch End , a leafy enclave of North London I'd not visited for years. My first stop was the excellent Flashback Records where I bought a CD called Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan . It's a new Righteous Records release that compiles original versions of the folk and blues songs Bob Dylan recorded on his early 90s acoustic albums Good As I Been To You and [...]
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Mississippi Sheiks - I´ve Got Blood In My Eyes For You ( buy ) "She looked at me, began to smile, hey-hey babe, can't you wait a little while?" The Sheiks stood out from the country blues crowd by incorporating honky tonk country and popular song in their sound, which is why both black and white audiences cherished their records in the segregated thirties. Lonnie Chatmon´s fiddle was the cream on the cake.
The Mississippi Sheiks The World is Going Wrong and here's Bob Dylan's cover, World Gone Wrong.
It's 1:40 PM on New Year's Eve, but this post will appear on New Year's morning. I am swamped with reviews, sitting in the living room where my ten year old twin brothers tug at each other's hair and scream "choo choo" while playing with newly-bought toy train sets. But in the interests of this post and to keep it timely, I must transport myself mentally to a better time and a better place. Tonight I'll be dining at the East Village's Mermaid Inn (the New Year's menu looks delectable), finally catching Almodovar's Broken Embraces at Sunshine [...]
It's not very often Shane or myself really wants to give anyone else the chance to talk - especially about music on our own blog - but after the countless hours of work required to get the Mississippi Sheiks tribute record out the door, Steve Dawson has earned a few moments of your time. Plus, with such an amazing collection of artists talking about music that influences them, well, it's better to get the goods right from the horse's mouth. So here is Steve's own two cents on a project that means more to him than [...]
In the liner notes to Bob Dylan's 1993 record, World Gone Wrong , he gives a play-by-play look and commentary into it's ten songs. Well, sort of. In a few pages of a CD booklet he divulges his sources and interprets the meaning of the songs - mostly traditional folk and blues tunes, all old, and for the most part pretty dark - all the while riffing a free association into a look at something that Greil Marcus called "the old, weird America." Here's a sample. Dylan's talking about a Civil War ballad, called "Two [...]
The Dean of American Rock Criticism "Unless you are very rich and very freaky, your relationship to rock is nothing like mine. By profession, I am surfeited with records and live music. Virtually every rock L P produced in this country is mailed to me automatically, and I'm asked to go to more concerts than I can bear. I own about 90 percent of the worthwhile rock albums released since the start of the Beatl es era, and [...]
We bloggers always say we are passionate about music. We talk about how much we love a new random band whose CD has shown up in our mailbox and with enthusiastic hyperbole, we try to bring attention to the songs (and our blog). But in reality, the passion comes from the people writing the songs that inspire their peers and listeners. That passion sky rockets when you get to hear a musician talk about an artist that helped define a sound, and in the case of Vancouver guitar wizard (and his lovely wife) Steve Dawson , that [...]
ART: John Lewis Krimmel, Dance in a Country Tavern , 1820 Charlie Parker used to hang out in Charlie's Tavern, a musician's bar in midtown New York. To the dismay of his acolytes, he liked to play country records on the jukebox. There was reluctance to question the taste of mighty Bird, but finally a brave jazzman asked him. "How can you stand that stuff?" Bird looked at him and said, "The stories, man. Listen to the stories!" [...]
The Mississippi Sheiks had three unique selling points. The first and most important: they wrote great songs. Secondly, their extremely competent fiddle player Lonnie Chatmon gave them a sound all of their own. And last but not least they managed to mix black country blues with white country music and pop, finding themselves a mixed audience - a rarity in the blues field at the time - in the process. But although the Sheiks sounded relatively white at times, they still earned a lot of praise from such famous contemporaries as Son House, Howlin´ Wolf and Muddy Waters. The latter once [...]
Read an amazing news article yesterday. A recent study said that one in every 100 Americans are currently in jail. There are 230 million adults living in the Land of the Free, and 2.32 million of them are behind bars. For some groups this percentage is even higher: every one in 36 adults with a Hispanic background is doing time, and one in 15 black adults. Even worse: one in 9 black men between the ages of 20 and 34 are locked up as we speak. Staggering figures, right? Makes you think. But don´t worry, as a European I´m not going [...]
I can't recall when I first heard the classic Corrine, Corrina . It is one of those songs that seem to have been in my memory forever. It may have been Ray Peterson's hit version in the early 1960s, or it could have been one of my Grandmother's Bing Crosby records spinning on the old record player. However it got burned into my memory, Corrine, Corrina has remained a favorite. Bo Carter (of the Mississippi Sheiks) is credited with writing Corrine, Corrina . It was during a session in New Orleans the [...]
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