Filed under: News , R.I.P. The Louisiana music scene has lost one of its most cherished members as Bobby Charles passed away on Thursday at age 71. Charles, originally from Abbeville, crafted several hits, including 'Walkin' to New Orleans' for Fats Domino and 'I Don't Know Why I Love You (But I Do)' for Clarence "Frogman" Henry. But his best known song started, as so many great ones do, in a bar. Legend has it Charles was walking out of a club when he said, "See you later, alligator." When someone responded, [...]
Kenneth, formerly Kenny, Vasoli has been making music on a professional level since the tender age 15, first with his successful pop-punk band The Starting Line , currently on hiatus, and now with his heavier, more experimental band Person L . Person L , started as a side project while TSL was still up and rolling, was planned as an outlet for some Vasoli’s heavier influence’s like At The Drive-In , Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu . The results on the bands first disc, the 8 track Initial, showed these heavier elements, [...]
The Morning Benders are working hard to get their new album “Big Echo” on shelves by March 9th, but as a teaser/treat they are offering their first single “Promises” available as a free download on their Myspace blog . But that’s not all! Some additional Morning Benders news is that they have a local, and some not so local shows on their tour schedule. You can see them here at The Troubadour on Thursday, March 25 or if you want to make the journey there are also shows set for Saturday, March [...]
We all know Chuck Berry as that duck-walking, guitar-slinging rocker from the late 1950s-early 1960s, the guy who wrote and recorded classics like "Maybelline," "Johnny B. Goode," "Roll Over Beethoven" and many, many more. Berry did all of these for Chess Records, the seminal Chicago blues and rock label that was also home to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. But many people know little about Berry's excursion away from Chess in the late 1960s: by 1966 Chuck wasn't cranking out top-selling records any more. Berry thought if he left the small Chess label [...]
Since you asked for it, Matt, a bit of history: The year 1621 brought us not only the first Thanksgiving, but the first Thanksgiving Day football game. Naturally, it was the Pilgrims vs. the Indians. The Indians, not wanting to be politically incorrect, wore a picture of a Native American on their helmets. By helmet, I mean a decorative maple leaf, which covers the loins. Records show that they used a thirty-five-pound turkey as a football. It is hard to throw a spiral with a thirty-five-pound turkey, and darn near impossible to kick one through the [...]
In 2003, acclaimed movie director Martin Scorcese produced a series of seven films, each created by another acclaimed director, and they called the whole thing "Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues." The series aired on PBS and my favorite episode was "Godfathers and Sons," directed by Marc Levin ( not the idiot right-wing talk radio guy). Levin paired Public Enemy rapper Chuck D with Marshall Chess, son of Leonard Chess and heir to the Chess Records legacy, in Chicago and the film followed them as they produced an album combining contemporary hip-hop musicians with veteran blues and jazz [...]
Another famous song with lots of versions From earlyblues.com “Catfish Blues” was another example of animal-symbolism in blues which according to Paul Oliver (see “Screening The Blues”) extended along the lines of the ‘black-snake’ motif made famous in recordings by Victoria Spivey and Blind Lemon Jefferson in the 1920s; interestingly, both from the state of Texas. Blues singers adopted the persona of animal-like characteristics, which is how most Southern whites perceived the blacks, using that persona for powerful, sexual imagery The original The 'famous' version “Catfish Blues” was [...]
Mississippi Man is well on their way to releasing their second EP but first they’re testing out new tunes every Monday at their November residency at the Silverlake Lounge. In between writing songs and writing residency diaries, singer and guitarist David Knight speaks about how fast the band is moving and what he misses most about the deep South. This interview by Britt Witt.
BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 7 1- Sintonia Mr. Hurricane Band 2- Crossroads – Elmore James 02.58 3- The things I used to do – Guitar Slim 02.59 4- Baby what you want me to do – Billy Branch 05.07 5- Aberdeen Mississippi – Bukka White 03.05 6- Lousian down home blues – C.J. Cheiner 03.55 7- Going down – Bernard Allison 04.17 8- Let´s spend the night together – Muddy Waters 03.08 9- Who do you love – Ted Hawkins 05.11 10- John Henry – Big Bill Broonzy 03.30 11- Just like I treat you – Hubert Sumlin 03.54 [...]
I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I've heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old blues music which seem to always adorn Uncut covers when they ask bands to name their formative influences, but some of the really scratchy old recordings Craig put on his CDs were amazing, so erm... this is the podcast I guess. [...]
Thank technology for letting three musicians in three different parts of the country be a band together. Former Ghosts is Freddy Ruppert (This Song Is A Mess But So Am I), Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), and Nika Roza (Zola Jesus). It’s a bit goth, but in a sort of uplifting way that flourishes on the album Fleurs and Rupert bears his soul with Shakespearean style. Make their L.A. show your Halloween destination. This interview by Daiana Feuer.
By: David SchultzA dramatized history of Chess Records, Cadillac Records turns out to be a threadbare and homogenized account of the rise of the label’s most well-known stable of stars: Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Etta James. The movie peaks early with its opening scenes ripped from the pages of Can’t Be Satisfied, Robert Gordon’s wonderful biography of Muddy Waters
" The Things That I Used to Do " is a song written by Guitar Slim (aka Eddie Jones) and his 1953 recording of it in New Orleans, was arranged and produced by a young Ray Charles. It was released on Specialty Records in 1954 to become a bestseller, staying in the rhythm and blues charts for 42 weeks'. I can't find that version but Buddy Guy discusses him here Wikipedia Ray Charles's arrangement and piano accompaniment emphasizes the religious tone of intense but philosophical regret in the singer's [...]
On Tuesday night the parking lot outside Merriweather Post Pavilion was expectantly converted into a hippie convention. There were the aging members of the love generation who chased swigs of straight bourbon-whiskey with drags from their Marlboros and temporarily satisfied their anticipation for the show with stories from the glory-days. All the while the new-age hippies listened with one ear, as they peppered the tailgating crowd with the usual solicitations: “Mali…Doses! You guys looking?” Of course there were plenty of takers; the Allman Brothers Band had come to town and everyone [...]
Melody Nelson Genre: Self Medicated Rock From: London, London and South East, United Kingdom Melody Nelson have earned a reputation as London’s loudest band. Inspired by sonic pioneers Love , Muddy Waters , Serge Gainsbourg and repeated listens to garage rock and psychedelia collection Nuggets the band were formed in London’s East End by Irish-Jamaican-Londoner Aidan O’Connell [...]
Lot of people talking about young girls being pregnant as of late. I think that poet, philosopher and master bluesman, Muddy Waters said it best; "Young girls make strong babies."
Really really good folk-rock song, really like the singer's voice. He is a woman to man transgender, but his voice on this kinda sounds like a 13 year old boy, so maybe he'd jsut started hormone treatments. Either way, its an awesome song. Come On Forest Fire Burn the Disco Down - Rae Spoon Imogen Heap (dont know who that is, but i've heard the name before, whoever she is, she has a very good voice) and Jeff Beck team up for an awesome blues rock song. The guitar is awesome, love [...]
Levon Helm’s voice is nothing short of a national treasure. It should be protected by the government as if it’s an endangered species.
Filed under: Around the World Did Bo know? That'd be Bo as in Diddley , of course. AKA Ellas McDaniel, the rock 'n' roll architect who passed away last year. And did he know that the famous beat that came to have his name on it -- clap along: duh-duh duh-duh-duh DUH DUH ... the engine driving ' Hey, Bo Diddley ,' 'Bo Diddley Was a Gunslinger,' 'Who Do You Love?' ... perpetuated by Buddy Holly in ' Not Fade Away ,' Johnny Otis with [...]
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