I had such a strong affinity for early delta blues, it really took me a while to warm up to post-war rhythm & blues. My natural snobbish instinct was to agree with Son House's rant in Festival! . And I still do think that he's right. It's not the BLUSE. Upbeat, with rhythm and energy... Call it jump blues if you want, but for so many days, it's what keeps me going. [ FYI - that's Little Walter on the cover ] [...]
Ray Charles hit the road and ended up at number one fifty years ago this week.
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Today is January 8th, which means two things around here. It's the fourth anniversary of the Boogie Woogie Flu, and , of course, Elvis's birthday. So, in celebration of these two miraculous events, I, T-Bone Carruthers, Mayor of Fluville, offer you four groups of four songs, four square and for today. They are: four versions of Bob Dylan's answer song to "Norwegian Wood," four songs covered by Elvis on his Memphis Record , the same four songs performed by the King, and four songs about him. Think of them as little EPs. Not too [...]
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 [...]
Percy Mayfield - Please Send me Someone To Love ( buy ) Speaking of Ray Charles : Percy Mayfield was one of his inspirations, and he even wrote songs for the Genius ("Hit The Road Jack"). This is one of his most beautiful songs.
"I Don't Want To Be The President" (P. Mayfield) Percy Mayfield, Atlantic 3207, 1974 LISTEN Tongue firmly in cheek, Percy Mayfield teamed up with producer Johnny "Guitar' Watson back in 1974 for this musical declaration of non-service to his country as Commander-In-Chief - something about it limiting his ability to "frolic". The record was made some 20 years before Bill Clinton's unfortunate dalliance with an intern. So, besides being a great songwriter, Mayfield was a quite the political prognosticator. More likely, [...]
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE Percy Mayfield Specialty : 1950 Available on: Poet of the Blues Specialty : 1990 [Buy It] WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Shirelles Scepter : 1961 Available on: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Varese : 1999 [Buy It] LOVE GOES TO BUILDING ON FIRE (DEMO) The Talking Heads CBS : 1975 CBS Demo Recordings [Unreleased] TEENAGER IN LOVE [...]
WHAT TIME IS IT? The Jive Five Beltone : 1962 Available on: Our True Story Ace : 1991 [Buy It] I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS Roland Kirk Quartet Mercury : 1962 Available on: Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Polygram : 1990 [Buy It] TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ed Pauling & The Exciters Federal : 1965 Available on: The "5" Royales : Catch That Teardrop : The Best of the Home [...]
Ray Charles -- Greenbacks As I was relaxing after work at my favorite fancy cocktail bar the other night, I was surprised to hear this rare old Ray Charles track come on the stereo. The bartender told me he put the mix together himself, but didn't know much about that song so I filled him in. What makes Greenbacks so great isn't just the ironic lyrics -- If you want to have fun in this man's land Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands -- but that it [...]
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