29-05-2021 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1979-1991

29-05-2021 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1979-1991 # The Blues Band, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Ernestine Anderson, Phil Guy, Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials, Chicago Bob & The Shadows, Lazy Lester, Tinsley Ellis, Bob Dylan, Champion Jack Dupree, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

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1979-1991

 

England's the Blues Band is led by ex-Manfred Mann vocalist Paul Jones and guitarist/vocalist Dave Kelly, who, before forming the group in 1979, had been a member of the John Dummer Blues Band and issued several solo recordings on his own (Kelly had also received praise for his playing by such blues legends as Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker). ..

The Blues Band 

Talk to Me Baby (Elmore James)

Two Bones and a Pick (T-Bone Walker)

from Official Blues Band Bootleg Album 1979-1980 (2001)

The Blues Band is a virtual who's who of the British blues scene. An '80s supergroup of sorts, the band consists of Paul Jones, solo artist and former member of Manfred Mann (lead vocals and harmonica ); Dave Kelly, solo artist and former member of the John Dummer Blues band (lead vocals and slide guitar); Tom McGuinness, former member of Manfred Mann and McGuinness Flint (lead guitar and back-up vocals); Hughie Flint, also former McGuinness Flint (drums); and Gary Fletcher, formerly of Sam Apple Pie (bass and backup vocals). Although formed in 1979, the band released its debut album, The Bootleg Album, in 1980 as supposedly a one-time live project. The album was originally a private pressing, recorded live and released by the band themselves, but it sold so well it was re-released intact by Arista after signing the band to a contract... A superb package and a must for any fan of British blues music.

Acknowledged as the most successful and influential band of the heavy rock era, with a catalog that continues to inspire... Drawing upon postwar electric blues, early rock & roll, and psychedelia, Zeppelin created a titanic roar in their earliest days but even then they weren't merely heavy...

Led Zeppelin 

Poor Tom (Jimmy Page – Robert Plant)

Walter's Walk (Jimmy Page – Robert Plant)

Darlene (John Bonham – John Paul Jones – Jimmy Page – Robert Plant)

from Coda 1982

Released two years after the 1980 death of John Bonham, Coda tied up most of the loose ends Led Zeppelin left hanging: it officially issued a bunch of tracks circulating on bootleg and it fulfilled their obligation to Atlantic Records... it amounts to a good snapshot of much of what made Led Zeppelin a great band: when they were cooking, they really did groove.

A neo-beatnik songwriter who grew weirder and wilder in the '80s, earning a cult following that only grew larger as the years passed.

Tom Waits 

Underground (Tom Waits)

16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six  (Tom Waits)

Gin Soaked Boy (Tom Waits)

from Swordfishtrombones 1983

...And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." ... The music can be primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice. He seems to have moved on from Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong to Kurt Weill and Howlin' Wolf (as impersonated by Captain Beefheart)... Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.

A fine vocalist, equally gifted at singing spirited blues, swing numbers, or jazzy pop standards, going back to the early '40s.

Ernestine Anderson 

Goin' to Chicago Blues (Count Basie / Jimmy Rushing) 4:49

In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) 7:21

Down Home Blues )George Jackson) 6:04

from When The Sun Goes Down 1984

On one of her best Concord recordings, Ernestine Anderson (who is joined by tenor man Red Holloway, pianist Gene Harris, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Gerryck King) is quite soulful and bluesy throughout this strong program... Actually, all eight songs (which also include "Goin' to Chicago Blues" and "Down Home Blues") are well worth hearing. Recommended.

Phil Guy was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Phil and Buddy Guy were frequent collaborators and contribute both guitar and vocal performances on many of each other's albums.

Phil Guy 

Tina Nu 7:24

Good Thing 6:43

I Once Was a Gambler 5:07

from It's A Real Mutha 1985

Guy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge area.[3] He then relocated to Chicago in 1969, where he joined his brother's band, at the time when his brother was becoming known as an innovator in blues guitar.[3] The brothers collaborated extensively with Junior Wells in the 1970s. Guy recorded a number of albums under his own name in the 1980s and 1990s, branching out into soul and funk. He can be seen in his self-described hippie phase in the film Festival Express, in which the Guy band tours southern Canada by train in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and the Band. Guy worked with Maurice John Vaughn in 1979, notably converting him into a blues musician.

Fiery, flamboyant hard-rocking blues dance band out of Chicago led by slide guitarist Lil' Ed Williams.

Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials 

Old Oak Tree 4:31

You Done Me Wrong For The Last Time 6:14

You Don't Exist Any More 4:03

from Roughhousin' 1986

Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials were among the premiere party bands to come out of Chicago during the '70s and '80s. Often compared to Elmore James and Hound Dog Taylor, fiery, flamboyant slide guitarist Lil' Ed Williams and his group have continued to play dedicated, rough-edged, and hard-rocking dance music, establishing an international reputation that has lasted into the new millennium.

Chicago Bob played the harmonica and sang for several decades before releasing some solo recordings late in his career... In later years, Chicago Bob worked primarily with two bands -- the Heartfixers and the Shadows -- but continued to perform both on his own and with others. Though his releases appeared sporadically over the years, he continued recording into the '90s.

Chicago Bob & The Shadows 

Just Your Fool (Little Walter) 2:58

Your Time to Choose 5:07

Bogalusa Boogie (Clifton Chenier) 2:49

from Just Your Fool 1987

Atlanta-based singer/harmonica man Chicago Bob originally released this album in 1987, backed by the Shadows, the house band at the popular Blind Willie's blues club. This was also Bob's first album after leaving the Heartfixers, which also featured guitarist Tinsley Ellis. Bob (real name Robert Lee Nelson) shows a fine flair for songwriting on "Call My Landlady," "Your Time to Choose," "Stop What You're Doing" and "Bogalusa Boogie," injecting verses that are a cut above your standard blues couplets and show a sharp eye for imagery. Bob also peppers the presentation with solid versions of J.B. Lenoir's "Mama Talk to Your Daughter," Jimmy Rogers' "In My Bed All Alone" and "Sloppy Drunk," Lazy Lester's "If You've Think I've Lost You," Jimmy Reed's "Little Rain," Little Walter's "Just a Feeling" and the title track....

Swamp blues vocalist and harp-man of the 1950s and '60s who earned an impressively long revival beginning in the 1980s.

Lazy Lester 

I Done Got over It (Guitar Slim) 2:27

I'm a Man (Bo Diddley) 4:00

Alligator Shuffle(Leslie Johnson) 2:45

from Harp & Soul 1988 

After a lengthy hiatus from the music business, Lester was in the midst of his comeback when he waxed this album for Alligator. The overall sound is redolent of those Louisiana swamp blues classics, but with a cannily updated contemporary edge that works well.

A fiery guitarist and talented songwriter who plays a unique blend of Memphis R&B, southwest blues, and urban funk.

Tinsley Ellis 

I've Made Nights By Myself (Albert King) 2:36

Lucky Lou (Jody Williams) 3:21

from Georgia Blue 1988

A hard-rocking, high-voltage blues guitarist most often compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tinsley Ellis is hardly one of the legions of imitators that comparison might imply. Schooled in a variety of Southern musical styles as evidenced by his 1988 Alligator debut Georgia Blue (a label he has been signed to three different times) Ellis draws not only from fiery Vaughan-style blues-rock, but also Texas bluesmen like Freddie King and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the soulful blues of B.B. King, the funky grit of Memphis soul, and numerous other electric bluesmen...

Iconic singer/songwriter and musical wanderer who rose to prominence during the '60s folk revival and changed the world of music.  Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives...

Bob Dylan 

Political World  (Bob Dylan) 3:48

Everything Is Broken (Bob Dylan) 3:13

from Oh Mercy 1989

Oh Mercy was hailed as a comeback, not just because it had songs noticeably more meaningful than anything Bob Dylan had recently released, but because Daniel Lanois' production gave it cohesion. 

New Orleans pianist who was a master of hard-driving boogie and blues. A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor...

Champion Jack Dupree 

When I'm Drinkin' (Champion Jack Dupree) 3:26

I Don't Know (Champion Jack Dupree) 4:50

Freedom (Champion Jack Dupree) 5:22

from Back Home In New Orleans 1990

By far the best of Dupree's three albums for Bullseye Blues, this collection was cut during the pianist's first trip home to the Crescent City in 36 long years. With his longtime accompanist Kenn Lending on guitar, Dupree sounds happy to be back in his old stomping grounds throughout the atmospheric set.

A rocking powerhouse of a guitarist who gave blues a burst of momentum in the '80s, with influence still felt long after his tragic death. With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery style that sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble 

Boot Hill 2:15

Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) 6:47

Life by the Drop (Doyle Bramhall / Barbara Logan) 2:27

from The Sky Is Crying 1991

The posthumously assembled ten-track outtakes collection The Sky Is Crying actually proves to be one of Stevie Ray Vaughan's most consistent albums, rivaling In Step as the best outside of the Greatest Hits collection... What makes the record work is its eclectic diversity -- Vaughan plays slide guitar on "Boot Hill"... and he shows the jazzy side of his playing on Hendrix's "Little Wing"...  But it's not just musical diversity that makes the record work, it's also Vaughan's emotional range...  the touching survivor-story ballad "Life by the Drop" are two of the most moving moments in Vaughan's oeuvre.