Ruth Brown : If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sitting On It [ purchase ] The internet has no tone of voice. If you can find a website that has the lyrics for If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sitting On It, you won't have any idea why this song fits our theme this week. It's all about the tone of voice. Not a word of this song is improper in any way, but there is no doubt what Ruth Brown really means when you hear it. The song [...]
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Tweet " I Found You " from Alabama Shakes is more than just some 602s soul/502s blues throwback, it's more like Ruth Brown meets James Brown with a slight hint of The Starlighters mixed in and there's a difference between the two. It's one thing to be able to throw bands like that in as references, it's another all together that the first time this song came on I was asking myself, "Wasn't this song playing [...]
ESPECIAL RUTH BROWN Ruth Brown nació en Portsmouth (Virginia) y empezó a cantar muy niña, formándose en el coro de la iglesia que dirigía su padre. Un premio en el Apollo de Nueva York la llevó al circuito de clubs. Sus actuaciones en el Crystal Caverns de Washington DC llamaron la atención de, entre otros, Duke Ellington, que recomendó su fichaje al sello Atlantic, una compañía que acabó siendo popularmente conocida como la casa que Ruth construyó. Fueron grabaciones para el sello como 5-10-15 hours las que sacaron el rhythm & blues del gueto. Y aunque el racismo hizo que [...]
Another Chilled Sunday in company with Mr B...... Enjoy the music and please write a comment if you like what you hear Congratulations RubA'Dub - 9 years of fantastic reggae clubbing !! Andy Stott, Blocked Download here (Right Click, Save As). Angelo Badalamenti, Bring It On Home Download here (Right Click, Save As). Bill Withers, [...] Mr B's Sunday Chill Session - XVII is a post from: FAT BERRI'S | Electronic Music Blog
The year's biggest night for the blues just got a whole lot bigger...
Fire in my bones... professor johnson & his gospel singers -angels- fannie bell chapman -he's my rock, my sword, my shield- the radio four -how much i owe- the shaw singers -since he touched me- true loving five -lord, hold my hand- ruth brown -i don't know- quincy jones & bill cosby -hicky burr-
I have been unable to post, while our ten year old computer slowly gave up the ghost. I had to save all of my ideas for our O Canada theme, and put them here . But now we have a new computer, so I'm back. And not a moment too soon. Pete Seeger : If I Had a Hammer [ purchase ] I'm sure my fellow Star Makers must have thought of this one, and rejected it as too obvious. But If I Had [...]
Snow. Snow. Snow. If your reading this from the US or Canada, your probably wondering what all the fuss is about. We've had about a foot of snow in Manchester. All the news channels are running 24 hour, round the clock snow updates. Snow stories. What to do if it snow's features. What snow looks like etc etc. People rushing to the stores to buy bread, milk, eggs & porn like it's the end of the world. It really is just like an episode of The Simpsons. This is what happens when it snows in England, there is no logical [...]
Ruth Brown : Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean [ purchase ] For my last post on this theme, I wasn't about to let this one get by. You see, back in Horns week, I presented a selection of Blues Horns . I mentioned that jump blues collided with post war electric blues, and early R&B began to take shape. The music of Ruth Brown shows what happened next. Brown began her career in jump blues bands in the late 1940s. By 1949, she had come to the [...]
I love this video story by Sweet Baby J'ai, in it she tells the story of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Ruth Brown. Bessie, Billie & Ruth
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6 Easy Pieces: In Dreams Frank Sinatra, Deep In a Dream. Robert Desnos, Description of a Dream. Ray Noble Orchestra, Dreaming a Dream. Ruth Brown, Oh What a Dream. Neko Case, Dreaming Man. Max Romeo, Wet Dream. John Lennon, #9 Dream. Peggy Lee, Street of Dreams. The Electric Prunes, I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night. Artie Shaw, Nightmare. The Kinks, Dreams. The Beatles, Jessie's Dream. Randy
This is a theme post we do each year and it's one of my favorites. Last year, a few weeks after I posted this write-up, Entertainment Weekly totally copied the idea and had a feature article on the subject—okay, given production schedules, they probably had it done way before my post and I doubt that they read 77 Santas. But it's nice to dream. Anyway, as the song says, have yourself a merry
Looking back over the Monday Morning Blues posts I've been doing, I realized the women were getting shortchanged a bit in my selections. Today I'll even up the score a bit and let some of the lovely ladies of the blues serenade you this time around. MP3 : Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton Buy Big Mama Thornton MP3 : Saffire - I Want My Money Back [...]
Huh? The Grammy awards attempted to do some sort of weak R & B tribute that is getting almost universally panned by the armchair critics association... I'll throw myself in with that bunch as well... Who cares if Chris Brown has a sea of orange sweatshirted goons that stomp on command... Maybe some TV producer thinks that's the "Rhythm"...but someone tell those assholes at NARAS/CBS that the B stands for "Blues" not Bad, Boring or Banal... You know it's band when even the funk authorities at [...]
Music pioneer, visionary, record label founder, jazz and R&B collector and producer, Ahmet Ertegun has passed away at age 83 from a head injury. A rock and roll fan until the very end, he slipped and fell at a Rolling Stones concert in October, and later slipped into a coma. He was a giant in the music business. He and a friend Herb Abramson founded Atlantic Records in 1947 and was instrumental in the careers of early R&B artists Ruth Brown , Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , [...]
Music pioneer, visionary, record label founder, jazz and R&B collector and producer, Ahmet Ertegun has passed away at age 83 from a head injury. A rock and roll fan until the very end, he slipped and fell at a Rolling Stones concert in October, and later slipped into a coma. He was a giant in the music business. He and a friend Herb Abramson founded Atlantic Records in 1947 and was instrumental in the careers of early R&B artists Ruth Brown , Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , [...]
Absent Friends, part 1 Grant McLennan, Ballad of Easy Rider. Jackie McLean, Love and Hate. Love, 7 and 7 Is. Gene Simmons, Drinkin' Scotch. Gene Pitney, Every Breath I Take. Ivor Cutler, Pstola. Dewey Redman, Joie de Vivre. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Handel: Bane of Virtue, Nurse of Passions. Pink Floyd, See Emily Play. Desmond Dekker, Dracula. Gy
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