Know this one? Sometimes called 2.19 Blues, but not here. Am I allowed to butt in?
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Looks like you’ve had the power on, power off sitting the cold and dark blues, jc!Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostThe more the bluesier, Padraig. Roll on!
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Indeed, cloughie...'Dark was the Night, Cold was the living room'!Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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Hudson Woodbridge was born 8th January, 1904 in Smithville, Georgia but soon earned the name Tampa Red for the town where he grew up, and the colour of his hair. He was a bit of a wizard on the guitar (and kazoo too, I would suggest), and made a huge success with Georgia Tom Dorsey. Their success created the craze for hokum music. The duo went on to tour as the Hokum Boys - Dorsey characterized his hokum legacy as "deep moanin', low-down blues, that's all I could say!" He then broke with Red and picked up the Bible.
Red carried on and here he is, with a band, in the mid-thirties giving it yahoo on kazoo on 'Let's Get Drunk and Truck' - single entendre, would you say?
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostHudson Woodbridge was born 8th January, 1904 in Smithville, Georgia but soon earned the name Tampa Red for the town where he grew up, and the colour of his hair. He was a bit of a wizard on the guitar (and kazoo too, I would suggest), and made a huge success with Georgia Tom Dorsey. Their success created the craze for hokum music. The duo went on to tour as the Hokum Boys - Dorsey characterized his hokum legacy as "deep moanin', low-down blues, that's all I could say!" He then broke with Red and picked up the Bible.
Red carried on and here he is, with a band, in the mid-thirties giving it yahoo on kazoo on 'Let's Get Drunk and Truck' - single entendre, would you say?
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I have every intention of doing so, Global, and hope you'll be truckin' along too.Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
Meanwhile, I know it's a Sunday (
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Ishmon is another bluesman who gave up the juke joints for the pulpit, by the way.Comment
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This day in 1897 saw the birth of Vivian 'Sam' Chatmon in Boltmon, Mississippi. Sam was a sometime member of the Mississippi Sheiks, and may have been Charley Patton's half-brother. Here he is recorded by Alan Lomax at home in 1978 on 'Bumblebee Blues'.
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Fred McDowell's birthday today, born 12th January, 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee. Here's Mississippi Fred in '65 on astounding slide guitar form, backing Big Mama Thornton on the song he wrote with Willie Mae Thornton, 'My Heavy Load'.
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I know I celebrate Robert Wilkins' birthday every year with a real favourite of mine. On 'Beggars' Banquet' by the Rolling Stones is 'Prodigal Son', one of the top Stones' tracks, in my opinion. I've loved it since I first heard it - a good few years back I discovered it was originally done by the Rev Robert Wilkins who gospellised one of his early songs, 'That's No Way to Get Along'. So, following tradition, here's Wilkins at Newport in '64, already in his mid-seventies, giving an amazing reading of the song, solo on his 12-string. I only mention this as it's Wilkins' birthday today, according to my Blues Calendar, born 16th January in Hernando, Mississippi...and if you had 10 minutes handy it saves you having to go to church.
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No need to apologise.....Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI know I celebrate Robert Wilkins' birthday every year with a real favourite of mine. On 'Beggars' Banquet' by the Rolling Stones is 'Prodigal Son', one of the top Stones' tracks, in my opinion. I've loved it since I first heard it - a good few years back I discovered it was originally done by the Rev Robert Wilkins who gospellised one of his early songs, 'That's No Way to Get Along'. So, following tradition, here's Wilkins at Newport in '64, already in his mid-seventies, giving an amazing reading of the song, solo on his 12-string. I only mention this as it's Wilkins' birthday today, according to my Blues Calendar, born 16th January in Hernando, Mississippi...and if you had 10 minutes handy it saves you having to go to church.
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Hammie Nixon's birthday today, born in Brownsville, Tennessee on 22nd January, 1907. Hammie was a renowned harmonica, kazoo and jug band player and gets some credit as taking the harmonica from being merely a novelty toy, to being an important rhythm instrument in a band. He played for over fifty years with Sleepy John Estes, and here they are bemoaning the lot of the train-hopping hobo, particularly around the aforesaid Brownsville, on 'Hobo Jungle Blues'.
And while I'm here, I shouldn't allow the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great Willie Johnson to pass without comment, born this day in 1897 in Independence, Texas. 'If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down'.
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Here's Huddie Ledbetter in 1935, very early in his career with a flat-out blues record, inspired by Lemon Jefferson's 'Matchbox Blues' on 'Packin' Trunk Blues'. Huddie William Ledbetter was born 23rd January 1888 in Mooringsport, Louisiana.
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King of the Slide Guitar, Elmore James was born 27th January, 1918 in Elmore Brooks, Richland in Holmes County, Mississippi. He was shown how to play slide guitar by Robert Johnson himself, and travelled with Sonny Boy Williamson until war intervened and he was drafted into the navy.
'In 1943, he was drafted into the United States Navy during WWII and participated as a coxswain during the invasion of Guam. Eventually he returned to Mississippi for Xmas in 1945, where he eventually settled with his adopted brother Robert Holston, who owned a electric shop. It was at this shop where James created his signature electrical guitar sound, which was devised by using parts from the shop and an unusual placement of two DeArmond pickups. He also applied his newly acquired electrical engineering skills to hot-wire his amplifier to give more power and distortion, so unlike most guitarists of the time, he really could ‘turn it up to 11’! This gave his slide guitar a unique edge, which was paired with his melodramatic, almost frantic voice that marked him out as a rare talent. Whether you know it or not this move could singlehandedly be the birth of garage rock as we know it.'
Few bluesmen have had the influence that Elmore had on British r'n'b, with Peter Green, Brian Jones, Eric Clapton among many others citing his importance in their guitar development.
Here he is with his Broomdusters, backing Big Joe Turner on this 1954 top ten r'n'b hit, 'TV Mama'.
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Where would Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac with Jeremy Spencer have been without that riff, or for that matter Yardbirds witn Jeff Beck.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
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