My nice new Blues Calendar

[johncorrigan]

Many thanks, jc
Here's Memphis Slim's wonderful version of 'Mother Earth' recorded in the Vee-Jay studio in 1959 from the album with the misleading title 'At The Gate Of The Horn':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JzJX_RXqEzY

JR

Such a great voice, JR. Here's Slim in the early 70s in Paris doing a tribute to Pinetop Smith, among other things...gives the impression of being quite the lad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsODlq2MORM

[johncorrigan]

If it's September 11th then it's Barbecue Bob's birthday, born this day in 1905 in Walnut Grove in Georgia. Robert Hicks was born to a family of sharecroppers and played at picnics with his brother Charley, and his friend Curley Weaver. He also ran a barbecue where he used to cook and sing for the clientele. He recorded over 60 songs but died of pneumonia at only 29. Here he is with his typically upbeat take on the blues, Piedmont-style...'Yo Yo Blues'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcUsVT0TNT0

[johncorrigan]

Calendar tells me that Furry Lewis died this day in 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, where Joni encountered him a few years earlier. Here's a crackin' bit of film of him doing 'Good Morning Jury' - hadn't seen it before.

Tobacco Alert: contains nifty ciggie action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j2Lb0Fub58

[johncorrigan]

Bo Carter, born Armenter Chatmon, died this day in 1964 in Memphis, Tennessee aged 71. 'Cigarette Blues'....not sure this song from 1926 has much to do with B&H, but it's smokin' nonetheless!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfLphccMHOM

[johncorrigan]

Bessie Smith died 26th September, 1937, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, aged 43...here's that great bit of film of her singing 'St. Louis Blues' back in '29.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bo3f_9hLkQ

[Globaltruth]

Bessie Smith died 26th September, 1937, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, aged 43...here's that great bit of film of her singing 'St. Louis Blues' back in '29.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bo3f_9hLkQ

never realised she died so young.
she could have a great career in film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXBZFvFXdA

[johncorrigan]

He doesn't make it into the old Blues Calendar, you won't be surprised to hear, but 'The Killer', Jerry Lee Lewis, is 85 this very day, born 29th September, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana. Hard to imagine a much wilder man, but here's Country Jerry performing Hank Williams' 'You Win Again' in his inimitable style...nobody plays the piano quite like Jerry Lee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06xZyh8VBFQ

[Globaltruth]

exciting performer with some terpitude issues.

How about Jimmy Yancey, not the entertainer that Jerry Lee was but one of the greatest boogie-woogie players ever. Is there any doubt about that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAwM70e18s4

Feb. birthday but guess he didn't make the list either. shame.

[johncorrigan]

exciting performer with some terpitude issues.

How about Jimmy Yancey, not the entertainer that Jerry Lee was but one of the greatest boogie-woogie players ever. Is there any doubt about that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAwM70e18s4

Feb. birthday but guess he didn't make the list either. shame.

Thanks, GT....quality!

[johncorrigan]

5th October 1899 saw the arrival in Sulphur River, Bowie County, Texas of one George Jones...(not THAT George Jones, the one that Tammy Wynette stood by!) George, also known as Dennis, however became known as Little Hat Jones largely because he recorded a song called 'Little Hat Blues' with Texas Alexander. Information about Little Hat says that he had little control over the tempo of his songs, which gave them a distinctive quality, and which you may notice in this recording from 1929.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPEqiOTmE-g

Interestingly he was rediscovered during the folk/blues revival, still in Texas, but unlike some of his contemporaries it didn't lead to a change in his music career.

[johncorrigan]

Joe Lee 'Big Joe' Williams was born this day in 1903 in Crawford, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Big Joe travelled widely throughout his long career but is probably best known for having a nine-string guitar and for writing 'Baby Please Don't Go' recorded most famously, probably, by SirVan. Here's Joe on the nine-string travelling with the American Folk Festival in London in '64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RNptsBorM

[cloughie]

Joe Lee 'Big Joe' Williams was born this day in 1903 in Crawford, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Big Joe travelled widely throughout his long career but is probably best known for having a nine-string guitar and for writing 'Baby Please Don't Go' recorded most famously, probably, by SirVan. Here's Joe on the nine-string travelling with the American Folk Festival in London in '64.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RNptsBorM

No doubt you already know the wonderful guitar work on Them’s version was Mr J Page - the legendary session man of the 60s.

https://theafterword.co.uk/jimmy-page-on-baby-please-dont-go-by-them/

[johncorrigan]

No doubt you already know the wonderful guitar work on Them’s version was Mr J Page - the legendary session man of the 60s.
https://theafterword.co.uk/jimmy-pag...nt-go-by-them/

Thanks, cloughie. I hadn't realised that he had played with Al Stewart...I used to love his early records...I see that 'Love Chronicles' has Jimmy, and a collection of Fairport luminaries on it...a wee time capsule!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yozCWyDEw-M

[johncorrigan]

The old Blues calendar on the kitchen wall informs me this morning that Johnnie 'Geechie' Temple was born this day in 1906 in Canton, Mississippi. He moved to Chicago in the 30s and was a big part of the Chicago scene, playing with Charlie and Joe MacCoy and Big Walter Horton, among others. Not much wrong with this one! (Baby Give Me More of that) Yum Yum Yum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6TAQfk18CI

[johncorrigan]

I missed Blind Lemon Jefferson's birthday yesterday, and I also missed Mahalia Jackson, born 26th October 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 'Queen of Gospel' was a great activist in the civil rights' movement in the States. Here she is on what I can only assume was recorded from a TV monitor where they have to keep moving the aerial, being moved by the spirit on 'How I Got Over'. Spine tingling... and some brilliant hats too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l49N8U3d0Bw