Showing posts with label Elmore James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elmore James. Show all posts
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Take 5 - It Hurts Me Too

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Today's Take 5 playlist is devoted to the blues classic "It Hurts Me Too." We start with Tampa Red's recording. Amo...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James Steve Franz

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The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James Steve Franz BlueSource Publications: St Louis Initially published in 2002 and reprinted in 2008...
Saturday, November 02, 2019

Take 5 with Junior Wells

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This installment of Take 5 looks at five songs by the popular Blues Hall of Famer, Junior Wells. Wells was a significant part of the post-Wo...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Down Home Blues • Chicago: Fine Boogie

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Various Artists  Down Home Blues • Chicago: Fine Boogie  Wienerworld If you are thinking about a gift for the blues lover in your...
Friday, December 04, 2015

Dust My Rhythm & Blues: The Flair Records Story

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Dust My Rhythm & Blues: The Flair Records Story Ace (UK) A compilation " Dust My Rhythm & Blues: The Flair Records Story ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Legendary Ike Turner: The Kat Sure Could Play!

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Ike Turner's life may have been a controversial one, but their can be little doubt of his significant contribution to the blues, rhyth...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Modern Records Classic Delta Downhome Sessions

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The Modern Record labels are perhaps best known for classic blues and R&B recordings by the likes of Hadda Brooks, The Cadets, Ett...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Elmore James Shook His Money Maker

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One of the greatest bluesmen of all time, Elmore James is the subject of a new collection of his later recordings on the reactivated Budd...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Louisiana Red at the 2008 Ponderosa Stomp

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2008-0429_Ponderosa_Stomp-610 , a photo by NoVARon on Flickr. We mourn the passing of Iverson Minter, better known as Louisiana Red on Feb...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James

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Among the greatest of all Blues artists, Elmore James’ influence is heard in the music of countless musicians today, whether his cousin Home...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Homesick James Could Still Shake His Moneymaker In His Eighties

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Cousin of the late Elmore James, the late Homesick James Williamson was perhaps described among the second-tier of slide guitarists performi...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Remembering Robert Lockwood Jr.

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Robert Lockwood at 2005 Pocono Blues Festival In light of my retrospective of some of the music of Robert Lockwood in the past few weeks,...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

John Primer's Blues Life

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There are few blues performers as accomplished in a traditional blues vein as John Primer. A member of Muddy Water’s last band as well as lo...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Joe Louis Walker Keeps a Witness For the Blues

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One would be hard-pressed to name any other blues performer in the past two decades who has produced such a body of recorded work to stand-u...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

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Guitarist Chris James and bassist Patrick Ryan have been working together for quite some time, playing the clubs in Chicago, touring with Sa...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Robert Lighthouse's Blues For New Orleans

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Robert Lighthouse is a Swedish native (real name Palinic) who settled in the Washington DC area about two decades ago and has established hi...