23-10-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1959-1968

23-10-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1959-1968 # Al Smith, Snooks Eaglin, Lonnie Donegan, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Witherspoon feat: Ben Webster, Lightnin' Hopkins, Reverend Gary Davis, B.B. King, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Lee Hooker,Cream

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1959-1968

 

Albert B. Smith was born in Bolivar County, Mississippi, on November 23, 1923. His family moved to Pace, Mississippi, in 1927. He danced with a jug band on the streets of Rosedale, Mississippi, when he was 7. He learned how to play the string bass in a school band after hearing Big Joe Williams and other Delta bluesmen at his mother's barrelhouse...
Al Smith
Night Time Is The Right Time
Tears in My Eyes
from Hear My Blues 1959
As a rule, people who appreciate the late Jimmy Witherspoon have a very favorable reaction to Al Smith -- that is, if they get a chance to hear him. Neither of the two albums that Smith provided for Bluesville (Hear My Blues in 1959 and Midnight Special in 1960) are well-known. While Witherspoon was a big name in the blues world, Smith was a gospel singer who dabbled in secular music. But when Smith did venture outside the gospel realm, his approach was quite comparable to Witherspoon's -- like Witherspoon, he favored a jazz-influenced approach to blues and R&B...

When they referred to consistently amazing guitarist Snooks Eaglin as a human jukebox in his New Orleans hometown, they weren't dissing him in the slightest. The blind Eaglin was a beloved figure in the Crescent City, not only for his gritty, Ray Charles-inspired vocal delivery and wholly imaginative approach to the guitar, but for the seemingly infinite storehouse of oldies that he was liable to pull out on-stage at any second...
Snooks Eaglin
Looking for a Woman
Careless Love
Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
from New Orleans Street Singer 1959
Folkways Records released New Orleans Street Singer in 1959 and the album set the world of folk and acoustic blues fans on fire. Snooks Eaglin was in the early stages of his long R&B career when folklorist Harry Oster heard him playing solo on the streets of the French Quarter...

The "King of Skiffle" was huge in pre-Beatles England and even managed a hit or two stateside.
Lonnie Donegan
The House of the Rising Sun
Talking Guitar Blues
from Skiffle Folk Music 1960
To look at Lonnie Donegan today, in pictures taken 40 years ago when he was topping the British charts and hitting the Top Ten in America, dressed in a suit, his hair cut short and strumming an acoustic guitar, he looks like a musical non-entity. But in 1954, before anyone (especially anybody in England) knew what rock & roll was, Donegan was cool, and his music was hot. He's relatively little remembered outside of England, but Donegan shares an important professional attribute with Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols -- he invented a style of music, skiffle, that completely altered the pop culture landscape and the youth around him, and for a time, completely ruled popular music through that new form.

Author of one of the funkiest, most soulful, Hammond B-3 styles of all time, with rock-solid basslines and blues-drenched solos.
Jack McDuff
Dink's Blues
Blues and Tonic
from The Honeydripper 1961
The remaster of Jack McDuff's hard swinging 1961 album The Honeydripper was overseen by Rudy Van Gelder himself... The date featured the big tenor Jimmy Forrest, drummer Ben Dixon, and Grant Green on guitar in his recording debut. Green not only held his own with McDuff on the title track, "Dink's Blues," and "Blues and Tonic," ... Green was always more than a sideman as this date attests, and though he was part of the rhythm section, his playing is a standout on this date. McDuff was already in full possession of his voice as an organist, and his hard bop leanings began to subside here as he embraced a more soulful approach, no doubt informed by the effect Jimmy Smith was having on jazz with his crossover. This is an excellent date and should be picked up by anyone interested in McDuff as a great place to start, or for any serious collector because of the gorgeous sound of the remaster itself.

13-05-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

13-05-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Sol Hoopii, Hazel Scott, Lonnie Johnson, Helen Humes, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tony's Monstrosities, Archie King, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Leroy Bowman And The Arrows, Hal Singer, Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra, Ruth Brown<<

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Sol Hoopii - Farewell Blues 2:52
Sol Hoopii - Hula Girl 3:06
from Hawaiian Music (Honolulu - Hollywood - Nashville 1927-1944)
Music of Hawaii
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop. Hawaii's musical contributions to the music of the United States are out of proportion to the state's small size. Styles like slack-key guitar are well known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part of Hollywood soundtracks. Hawaii also made a contribution to country music with the introduction of the steel guitar.[1] In addition, the music which began to be played by Puerto Ricans in Hawaii in the early 1900s is called cachi cachi music, on the islands of Hawaii...

Though she didn't call it third stream, and it wasn't associated with the genre, Hazel Scott was another musician who found a successful way to blend jazz and classical influences. Scott took classical selections and improvised on them, a practice dating back to the ragtime era.
Hazel Scott
Calling All Bars (Leonard Feather) 2:51
Hungarian Rhapsody Nº 2 in "C" Sharp Minor (Franz Liszt) 3:23
Hazel's Boogie Woogie 2:21
C Jam Blues (Barney Bigard / Duke Ellington) 3:47
from Complete Jazz Series 1939 - 1945
A brilliant pianist who also had a warm singing voice, Hazel Scott gained some recognition in the early '40s for her swinging versions of classical themes. This valuable CD has all of her early recordings through May 1945, most of which have been rarely reissued. Scott is first heard on four songs with a pickup group organized by Leonard Feather called the Sextet of the Rhythm Club of London. While that unit features clarinetist Danny Polo and altoist Pete Brown, the next 16 selections (four of which are V-discs) put the spotlight entirely on Scott, who is backed by either J.C. Heard or Sid Catlett on drums. She shows off both her technique and her creativity on six classical works, swing standards, and a couple basic blues originals, singing on "People Will Say We're in Love" and "C Jam Blues." The final four numbers are quite a bit different as Scott is showcased as a fairly straight and sophisticated singer with orchestras conducted by Toots Camarata. Overall, this CD is highly recommended, reminding today's listeners how talented a pianist Scott was in her early days.

Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific

brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals.
Lonnie Johnson
Swing Out Rhythm (Lonnie Johnson) 2:37
Devil's Got the Blues (Lonnie Johnson) 2:58
Blues in My Soul (Lonnie Johnson) 2:57
The Loveless Blues (Lonnie Johnson) 3:15
from Blues In My Soul 1937/1946
Although Johnson is in peak form on this collection spanning from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, many of the tracks are plagued by poor fidelity, making the set somewhat difficult for casual fans to digest and more for dedicated listeners.

Hazel Scott