"Going Down Slow" mp3 by St. Louis Jimmy, 1941. available on That's Chicago's South Side "Going Down Slow" mp3 by Howlin' Wolf, 1961. available on Moanin' in the Moonlight by Jason Gross Every song has a story and this blues standard is no different. It began life with James Burke Oden (1903-1977), a blues pianist who bounced around from his native Nashville to St. Louis and eventually to Chicago, following fellow [...]
Finally, the songs about chickens!!! A few weeks ago when I picked my daughter up from school, she brought me into one of the first grade classrooms to show me the results of the latest "chicken project." Every year, a local farmer brings half a dozen chicken eggs to each first grade class for them to incubate. I remember her being so excited about this last year when her class was responsible for helping the eggs hatch…they even made a cool video of all the kids playing with the newborn little chickies. She loved the experience so much [...]
Going into Dan Auerbach's show at First Avenue's Mainroom on Saturday night, I had a few mild reservations. One was about whether on not fans of the Black Keys would show up in the same numbers that they have for his last three or four sold out shows in Minneapolis, and another was regarding how his stellar guitar sound could potentially be overwhelmed by having five other musicians up on stage with him instead of just Patrick Carney behind him on the kit. It turns out that those concerns weren't really warranted, for the Mainroom was as full as its [...]
My Soul - Phish Smokestack Lightnin - Howlin Wolf Statesboro Blues - Taj Mahal Spoonful - Willie Dixon
Unlike Willie Dixon I'm the first son, but I think if you were the Seventh Son you would have a lot of luck, and a lot of big brothers to help teach you how to play those guitar chords. LOL. Willie Dixon & Chicago Blues Old Stars - Seventh Son The Chess Box
Every now and then you find a clip on YouTube that is just so delightful. This is an example, I call this clip the "SqueezeMyLemon All Stars." I would have loved being at this show. But it just so happens that this was filmed in 1963, I was two years old at the time. Can you imagine seeing Otis Spann, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Joe Williams, Willie Dixon, Victoria Spivey, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Johnson and Memphis Slim all on the same stage. American Folk Blues Festival 1963
Photography by Julie Rey Say whaaaat ? We already got enough songs for Volume Two, or as the French Canadian says, "Volume Deux, eh"? Fuck yeah! Or as the French Canadian would also say, " Québec Devienne Souverain !" Seems like just the other day we squeaked out our first twenty songs in our first volume of our much hailed and heralded Mixtape By Numbers , but our amazing members down in the society weren't content to stop at 20 [...]
Cadillac Records 27x41 Original Movie Poster Movie Review I saw Cadillac Records yesterday. It is a musical biopic that is now showing in theaters, it was written and directed by Darnell Martin. The film explores blues music starting in the early 1940s to the late 1960s. It chronicles the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company founder Leonard Chess, and some of the musicians who created and recorded Chicago blues music. Cast Adrien Brody [...]
So, er, welcome to the New Economy. We're scouring our bookshelves for rare books to sell in hopes that we can put off the inevitable move out of Chez Tart for some months longer. Yes, that housing bubble you've heard of? We're caught under it and it popped right over our heads, ouch. The self-imposed budget will keep us going through the New Year and into the spring but how much further? Time to clean house and see what our acquired goods can acquire us! You may laugh but I bet you all have some crap laying around too! I [...]
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Musicians are notorious for taking this old adage to heart, liberally "borrowing" (either intentionally or subconsciously) chords, melodies and/or lyrics from each other. Some say that it's, in fact, the essence of all forms of music, especially modern popular music. This is certainly the case with folk and blues idioms. Bob Dylan, and he'd be the first to admit it, wouldn't be the caliber artist he is without riffing on other songwriters. Sometimes this musical flattery is taken in stride, while other times it's repaid with a big fat [...]
D o you enjoy the blues? I enjoy the blues. A lot of hipster douches come into the store and act like "Oh, the blues are in now, I should get hip and start listening to the blues," but they are easy to spot, because they only seem to ask about John Lee Hooker, and most of those questions are whether or not he sometimes went by the name Earl. Or, they just pick up a re-issue of King Of The Delta Blues Singers and call it a day. There's no interest in exploring what is beneath the [...]
[This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of our collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, an old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.] Happy Friday people. It's been a few weeks since our last staff playlist here - with a barrage of concerts and festivals, it's been tough to get the whole staff together - but we're back with a grab bag of goodies. This week's list is [...]
Siempre se ha dicho que algo tiene el agua cuando la bendicen. Lo mismo se podría aplicar al gran William James Dixon , el tipo que compuso innumerables temas que con el paso del tiempo se convirtieron en inmortales del blues y del rock, piezas memorables que fueron interpretadas por muchas de las bandas que en los 60 y en los 70 definieron nuevos conceptos para el rock. No habría entradas suficientes para enumerar la lista de los grupos que incluyeron alguna de las composiciones de Willie Dixon [...]
You can call the project Blues: Yours, Mine, and Ours .
Willie Dixon - Insane Asylum I've made you 23 mix CDs, Sarah. Three weeks and 23 mix CDs, Sarah. They sit atop my desk. They're stacked like orphans, Sarah. Stacked like potatoes, like flapjacks soggied in syrup and milk. They call to me each day, the wee urchins. They say, take my back, mama, won't you please, please? It's painful. It's downright excruciating. What do you say to a CD? What do you say to 23? What would you say to 23? Would you tell them they were premature? [...]
I'm chomping on a piece lusciously moist & decidedly decadent red velvet cake, slathered with a thick cream cheese frosting. I declined this piece at first but after the cake's journey via Fed Ex & pedigreed lineage was explained to me, I... visit for more mp3's & random revelations
by David Klein It feels appropriate that as I struggle to put together a proper survey of songs featuring the number 29, we are smack dab in the dog days of summer, a time when I traditionally feel that I've had too much of a good thing and start longing for the crispness and less jaded priorities of fall, as well as the feeling of wearing a jean jacket again. My late-summer listlessness has found expression in a less-than-critical but still heartfelt list, which appears oddly enough on the 29th of August. That being said, [...]
Lately Chess Records has been on my mind. I have been listening to a lot of the music of the artist of Chess. If you don't know, Chess Records was an American record label, based in Chicago, Illinois. The brothers Leonard Chess and Phil Chess were the owners and operators of the company. Chess Records is one of the most important record labels in blues history and rock and roll too. If it were not for Chess Records we would not have some of the recordings that are considered the foundations of blues and rock and [...]
Boogie Woogie Flu
R. O. pre-K.
Culture Bully
SupDudeSupGuy
SqueezeMyLemon
T S U R U R A D I O
Love Shack, Baby
JamsBio Magazine
Swan Fungus
The Stranger Dance
MUSICA PARA CADA DIA
The Catbirdseat
The Pop Filter
Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations
Merry Swankster
Azealia Banks - '1991' [Listen]
New Music Tuesday
Today’s MOKB on SIRIUS XMU Blog Radio Playlist : 5/29/12
