The Blues, the beginning of Rock and Rock as we now know it. It's a musical genre, a feeling, a philosophy, and for some, a way of life. The Blues can lift you up one day only to describe an awful feeling inside the next. From 'Blues Power' to 'Folsom Prison Blues' the music is a powerful medium through which many men and women have articulated the highs and lows of life on earth. Below are my top ten Blues musicians of all time ranging from the originator Robert Johnson to the modern day shredder Jack White. 1. [...]
Oregon native ZZ Ward hammers out an electro-blues cover of Son House's 'Grinnin' in Your Face' for Record Store Day.
"Bukka White, Son House, Robert Johnson...for a town with two street lights, it was pretty amazing that you could find those records." Daniel Lefkowitz and Jared Elmore 's space-folk project Futur Primitif tour Europe at the end of the Summer including a stop-off at The G-Man's favourite little festival End of the Road . No stranger to the delightful Dorset setting (Lefkowitz is a former member of Low Anthem who have played the festival more times than [...]
Wading into the history of the Delta Blues can get as murky as wading into the Mississippi itself. Case in point being someone like Willie Brown. On paper Willie Brown would not be considered an important Delta Blues musician. His entire recording career consisted of only 6 songs recorded for Paramount Records in 1930. Of these, only two songs have ever been found. He may have recorded as or with an artist named Kid Bailey. He probably recorded the song “ Make Me a Pallet on the Floor ” for blues historian Alan Lomax in 1941. However, one can never [...]
This is an old one but it is a good one. A wonderful documentary that has everybody that is anybody in the blues in it. Of course it has Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, The Rolling Stones, Willie Dixon, Son House and many others.
Jack White 's debut solo album is set to be released on April 24th, 2012, however, despite White's attempts to stop it being leaked (including sending promotional copies in the form of vinyl records only), it was leaked on April 15th. The album portrays the jigsaw pieces of White's career coming together to create thirteen exemplary tracks. A wide variety of genres are covered in the album from blues to garage rock, including White's signature catchy riffs, and distorted vocals. Styles from all of his projects including The White Stripes , [...]
SINGLE REVIEW: We like our jangle garage psyche and this track by Black Manila called "Fiasco" is right in the sweet spot of all groovy things 602s. Naming their top 5 influential bands as The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, T-Rex, The Stooges and John Lee Hooker. These are some pretty big corner stones that Liam Ramsden, Conrad Armstrong and Gareth Hoskins aka Sun King are taking on but would also say something a little New Wave is ingrained too. This new track by them is less drone than the VU with more of a sculptured song as there [...]
Depeche Mode : John the Revelator [ purchase ] Son House : John the Revelator [ purchase ] John the Revelator, aka John the Divine or John of Patmos, is thought to be a different person than John the Evangelist, who may or may not also have been John the Apostle, who was definitely a different person than John the Baptist. Now we're straight on all the Johns in the New Testament. John the Revelator, [...]
A musical alchemist and stirring modern-day storyteller, Otis Taylor is just as apt to experiment well beyond the Delta tradition as he is to explore the raw passions of this nation's fight for racial justice. This isn't your grandfather's blues. Witness the forthcoming Contraband, due February 13 from Telarc/Concord, this haunting mixture of ominous guitar and banjo work (yes, banjo), [...]
Download great new covers of Joan Baez, Smokey Robinson, The Cardigans, Son House, and a song from Mulan!
Son House - Death Letter Blues Simply beautiful.
"Oh, I'm gonna get me a religion, I'm gonna join the baptist church... I'm gonna be a baptist preacher, and I sure won't have to work..." The great Son House was a religious man. He even became a preacher for a spell, rejecting the blues as the devil's music. But he had a healthy sense of humor, too. Son House - Preachin' The Blues Pt. I MP3
"Oh, I'm gonna get me a religion, I'm gonna join the baptist church... I'm gonna be a baptist preacher, and I sure won't have to work..." The great Son House was a religious man. He even became a preacher for a spell, rejecting the blues as the devil's music. But he had a healthy sense of humor, too. Son House - Preachin' The Blues Pt. I MP3
It’s no secret to native Texans, but to all you recent immigrants to the Lone Star State may have noticed lately, it’s F-ING RELENTLESSLY HOT OUTSIDE! With Temperatures hovering above 100 and no relief in sight, it’s hard to stay pleasant. Heat waves and droughts like this one are so damned oppressive, and may make you just feel flat-out angry and depressed at the world, your fellow man, and especially those teasing bastard clouds, hanging there just laughing at us and our collective misery. F those assholes, seriously its thundering as I write this with no rain to show for [...]
"In the late 1960's, the Seattle Folklore Society and KCTS public television video taped various acts that came through town." Thanks to Mr. Dante Fontana for the find!
Another Wild Weekend has started on the good foot, as I just bought me a ticket to see Patti Smith play an acoustic gig in an Amsterdam church in June. I'm cool, so on to the music posthaste. Edition #56 brings you brand new sounds by the Futurebirds and Yuck, and oldies to treasure courtesy of Son House and Vera Hall. Have a wild one. Let's warm up with a track from one of the finest roots reggae albums known to man: In The Light ('77) by Horace [...]
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