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.