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.

23-06-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1961-1966

23-06-2020  FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1961-1966  >>Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, The Tornadoes, THE BEATLES, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, THE BEATLES, Muddy Waters, The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love<<

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1961-1966

A giant figure of R&B and rock & roll, the New Orleans singer and pianist contributed scores of beloved classics to pop history. 

Fats Domino 

I Hear You Knocking (Bartholomew, Domino, King) 1:57

I Miss You So (Scott, Henderson, Robin) 2:19

Ain't That Just Like A Woman (Demetrius, Moore) 2:42

from I Miss You So 1961

The most popular exponent of the classic New Orleans R&B sound, Fats Domino sold more records than any other black rock & roll star of the 1950s. His relaxed, lolling boogie-woogie piano style and easygoing, warm vocals anchored a long series of national hits from the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Through it all, his basic approach rarely changed. He may not have been one of early rock's most charismatic, innovative, or threatening figures, but he was certainly one of its most consistent.

Domino's first single, "The Fat Man" (1949), is one of the dozens of tracks that have been consistently singled out as a candidate for the first rock & roll record. As far as Fats was concerned, he was just playing what he'd already been doing in New Orleans for years, and would continue to play and sing in pretty much the same fashion even after his music was dubbed "rock & roll."...

The most elemental of the electric blues giants, one of few to both inspire and draw from rock & roll idols. He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century.

John Lee Hooker 

A New Leaf (David Arnold / John Lee Hooker) 2:30

Blues Before Sunrise (Leroy Carr / John Lee Hooker) 3:49

Let's Make It (John Lee Hooker) 2:27

from Burnin' 1962

From the vaults of Vee Jay Records comes an abundance of classic John Lee Hooker reissues, featuring original art work, running orders, and budget prices from the Collectables label. With the amount of Hooker material available on the market, some of it is of dubious quality, but you can't go wrong with these reissues. Burnin' was released in 1962 and combines 12 tracks of electric material performed by Hooker backed by a band... All of the Hooker Vee Jay reissues are recommended.

The Tornados were an English instrumental group mostly active in the 1960s.

The Tornadoes 
Telstar (Meek)
Swinging Beefeater (Meek)
Love And Fury (Duke)
from Telstar 1962
The house band for pioneering record producer Joe Meek. Their original and classic line-up comprised Alan Caddy (guitar), Clem Cattini (drums), Heinz Burt (bass), George Bellamy (rhythm guitar) and Roger LaVern (keyboards). Their instrumental material was composed and produced by Meek, and frequently had a futuristic sound which reflected Meek's interest in electronics and sound manipulation. Although their first single "Love And Fury" bombed, the follow-up "Telstar" caught the public imagination and was a number one hit in both the UK and USA (they were the first British group ever to top the US Hot Hundred).

The most popular and influential rock act of all time, a band that blazed several new trails for popular music.
The Beatles
I Saw Her Standing There  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Misery  (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Anna (Go to Him) (Arthur Alexander)
Chains (Gerry Goffin / Carole King)
from Please Please Me 1963
Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins. As the songs rush past, it's easy to get wrapped up in the sound of the record itself without realizing how the album effectively summarizes the band's eclectic influences. Naturally, the influences shine through their covers, all of which are unconventional and illustrate the group's superior taste... "I Saw Here Standing There" is one of their best rockers, yet it has surprising harmonies and melodic progressions... The Beatles may have played notoriously rough dives in Hamburg, but the only way you could tell that on their first album was how the constant gigging turned the group into a tight, professional band that could run through their set list at the drop of a hat with boundless energy...

27-05-2020 > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1983-1971

i'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1983-1971 # Albert King, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Muddy Waters, J.J. Cale, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Houston Stackhouse, Hound Dog Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Free, Long John Baldry, Ten Years After

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1983-1971

One of the most important post-war blues guitarists, renowned for his massive tone and unique way of squeezing bends out of a guitar string.

Albert King 

I'll Play the Blues for You, Pts. 1-2 (Jerry Beach) 7:18

Can't You See What You're Doing to Me 4:17

from Stax Profiles Rec. 1968-1983

As part of the Stax Profiles series, blues guitarist Albert King is spotlighted with material recorded in the late '60s and early '70s for the Memphis-based label. Since this midline compilation only contains 11 cuts, it's easy to dwell on what was left off...  Without a doubt, the main jewel of this set is the previously unreleased version of "Born Under a Bad Sign" recorded on December 6, 1983, and featuring King disciple and then up-and-coming guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. For whatever reason, this version was left off the King/Vaughan collaboration In Session.

Mississippi blueswoman Jesse Mae Hemphill specialized in a folk-derived non-commercial blues indigenous to her region. A Mississippi singer/guitarist, Jessie Mae Hemphill weaves strong Delta traditions into her idiosyncratic style. Hemphill comes from a musical background -- reportedly, her grandfather was recorded in the fields by Alan Lomax in the '40s. Jessie Mae learned how to play guitar as a child by watching her relatives perform. Throughout the '60s and '70s, she sang with various Mississippi bar bands. In the early '80s, she decided to pursue a solo career.

Jessie Mae Hemphill 

She-Wolf (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 4:41

Jump, Baby, Jump (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 3:23

Black Cat Bone (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 4:57

Boogie 'Side the Road (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 3:47

from She-Wolf 1981

This compact disc reissue gathers up all the original tracks from Jessie Mae's 1980 debut album for the French Vogue label along with four remixed bonus tracks, all seeing their first domestic release. Recorded by folklorist Dr. David Evans (who also contributes second guitar on 13 of the 15 tracks here) in various locales around Memphis and Mississippi, the music stays down-home and primal throughout. There's a strong sense of rhythm that permeates this record, whether it comes from the fife and drum-derived percussion work of Calvin Jackson and Joe Hicks or simply Jessie Mae's own foot-operated tambourine driving the beat home... The blues, real and raw.

05-20-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1959-1962

05-20-2020  FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1959-1962  >>Herbie Mann, THE BEATLES, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Joe Meek & the Blue Men, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Bo Diddley, Lorez Alexandria, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker<<

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1959-1962

Prolific and widely known flutist, beloved in jazz circles, has covered many world music styles. Herbie Mann played a wide variety of music throughout his career. He became quite popular in the 1960s, but in the '70s became so immersed in pop and various types of world music that he seemed lost to jazz. However, Mann never lost his ability to improvise creatively as his later recordings attest.

Herbie Mann 

Old Honkie Tonk Piano Roll Blues 4:45
Minor Groove 7:36

from The Complete Recordings: 1958-1962

Starting his career as a practitioner of cool jazz and bop, Herbie Mann was one of the first musicians to embrace world influences into his sound. Incorporating the rhythms and melodies of Cuba, Africa, and South America, as well as the Middle and Far East, into his work, Mann was also known for his high-profile collaborations, appearing alongside the likes of Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan and numerous others...

...Hamburg was the Beatles' baptism by fire. Playing grueling sessions for hours on end in one of the most notorious red-light districts in the world, the group was forced to expand its repertoire, tighten up its chops, and invest its show with enough manic energy to keep the rowdy crowds satisfied. When they returned to Liverpool at the end of 1960, the band -- formerly also-rans on the exploding Liverpudlian "beat" scene -- were suddenly the most exciting act on the local circuit. They consolidated their following in 1961 with constant gigging in the Merseyside area, most often at the legendary Cavern Club, the incubator of the Merseybeat sound...

The Beatles

Ain't She Sweet [U.S. Version] 2:15

Cry for a Shadow (George Harrison / John Lennon) 2:23

from The Beatles with Tony Sheridan: First Recordings

The Beatles entered a recording studio for the first time 50 years ago, in 1961. It wasn’t actually the group’s gig, since they were essentially the backing band for singer Tony Sheridan, but the way recording was done at the session and at a second session in 1962, with instrumental parts laid down first and vocals added later, it’s possible to catch a faint, nascent glimpse of the international pop phenomenon the Beatles would become a couple years down the road. Orchestral big-band leader Bert Kaempfert had discovered the group playing in a German nightclub, signed them to a recording contract, paired them with Sheridan in the studio, and then released the songs through Polydor Records in Germany in 1961 and 1962. These early tracks have been released multiple times over the years in both mono and stereo mixes (with reverb added), and this set from Time Life Music includes both versions. Everything’s here, really, kind of frozen in time, since the original tapes were lost in a fire at Kaempfert's warehouse in the early '70s. Sheridan handles almost all of the vocals, and there are only two tracks without him, a version of John Lennon singing “Ain’t She Sweet” and an early George Harrison instrumental called “Cry for a Shadow,” both of which are featured here in mono, stereo, and medley versions.... Everything has a beginning. This two-disc set collects the earliest recordings of perhaps the most important recording act in pop music history. That’s the story, and the rest is history.

Rock & roll's prime innovator, thanks to his detailed songwriting, dazzling lyrics, and clear, economical guitar licks.

Chuck Berry 

I'm Talking About You (Chuck Berry) 1:48

Thirteen Question Method (Chuck Berry) 2:13

from New Juke Box Hits 1961

Chuck Berry's fifth Chess Records album, New Juke Box Hits, was recorded and released in the midst of the legal difficulties that would put him in jail the following year. That distraction seems to have kept him from composing top-flight material, while the attendant publicity adversely affected his record sales, such that the album contained no hits. The included single was "I'm Talking About You," later successfully recorded by the Rolling Stones, and the album also contained "The Thirteen Question Method" and "Don't You Lie to Me," worthy minor entries in the Berry canon. Elsewhere, Berry filled out the record covering others' hits -- Nat "King" Cole's "Route 66," B.B. King's "Sweet Sixteen," Little Richard's "Rip It Up." The result is a good rock & roll set, but not in the same league with Berry's earlier albums.

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O T H E R  H U N D R E D  S O N G S

Peggy Lee - The Train Blues from Blues Cross Country

James Brown - Night Train from Night Train

Nina Simone - Work Song from Forbidden Fruit

Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo - Today I Sing the Blues from Aretha

B.B. King - You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now from My Kind of Blues

Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is a Busy Man from Slim's Shout
John Lee Hooker - Taxi Driver from John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues

Elmore James - I Can't Hold out (Talk to Me Baby) from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland Special from Slim's Shout

B.B. King - My Own Fault aka It's My Fault from My Kind of Blues

Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying from The Sky Is Crying

Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Lightning Hopkins - Down Baby from Sings the Blues

Freddie King - Texas Oil from Let's Hide Away and Dance Away

Jimmy Reed - Tell Me You Love Me from Jimmy Reed (Live at Carnegie Hall)

Slim Harpo - Tip On In from Sings Raining in My Heart

John Lee Hooker - I'm Mad Again from The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker

Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble from Ride with Me, Baby: The Singles 1952-1961

Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved a Woman from Freddy King Sings

Jimmy Reed - I'm Mr Luck from Jimmy Reed (Live at Carnegie Hall)

Roosevelt Sykes - I Hate To Be Alone from The Honeydripper

Memphis Slim - New Key to the Highway from U.S.A.

Jimmy Reed - Boogie in the Dark from Live At Carnegie Hall

Chuck Berry - Come On from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Jerry Lee Lewis - What'd I Say from Jerry Lee's Greatest!

Laurel Aitken - Low Down Dirty Girl from Jamaica Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961

Chuck Berry - Thirteen Question Method from New Juke Box Hits

Owen Gray - Get Drunk from Jamaica Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961

The Carter Bros - Voodoo Cha Cha form Mighty Instrumentals R&B-Style 1959-1960-1961

Etta James - Seven Day Fool from The Second Time Around

Nina Simone - Gin House Blues from Forbidden Fruit

Junior Parker - Foxy Devil from Seven Days

The Mar-Keys - Sack O' Woe from Last Night!

Oscar Brown Jr. - Work Song from Sin & Soul… And Then Some

Carmen McRae - Strange Fruit from Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

Bobby Bland - St. James Infirmary from Two Steps From The Blues

Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright from The Cobra and Chief Recordings

April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger! from Teach Me Tiger!

Elvis Presley - I Want You with Me from Something for Everybody

Bo Diddley - Aztec fom Bo Diddley Is a Lover

The Ventures - Orange Fire from  The Colorful Ventures

Del Shannon - Runaway from Runaway With Del Shannon

Dion - The Wanderer from Runaround Sue

Ray Martin and His Orchestra - Shadrack from Dynamica

Elvis Presley - Gently from Something for Everybody

Roy Orbison - Pretty One from Lonely and Blue

The Ventures - Bluer than Blue from The Colorful Ventures

Duane Eddy - Pepe from The 1961 British Hit Parade Part 1 Vol. 1

Wanda Jackson - Lonely Weekends from Right Or Wrong

The Shadows - Shadoogie from The Shadows 1st Album

The Ventures - Torquay from The Ventures

The String-A-Longs - Wheels from Hit Parade 1961

Mary Wells - Please Forgive Me from Bye Bye Baby, I Don't Want to Take a Chance

Sam Cooke - You're Always On My Mind from My Kind of Blues

The Shirelles - What's Mine Is Yours from Tonight's the Night

Nat "King" Cole - Illusion from The Touch of Your Lips

Oscar Brown Jr. - Hazel's Hips from Sin & Soul… And Then Some

Frank Sinatra - Falling In Love With Love from Swing Along With Me

Ray Charles - Moanin' from Genius + Soul = Jazz

The Mar-Keys - Sticks & Stones from Last Night!

Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper  from The Honeydripper

Wes Montgomery - Movin' Along from Movin' Along

Grant Green - A Wee Bit O'Green from Grant's First Stand

Jimmy Smith - Motorin' Along from Home Cookin'

Ray Charles - Dawn Ray from The Genius After Hours

The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson - On Green Dolphin Sreet from The Swingin's Mutual

Yusef Lateef - The Centaur and the Phoenix from The Centaur and the Phoenix

Paul Desmond - I've Got You Under My Skin from Desmond Blue

Zoot Sims - Jive At Five from Down Home

The George Shearing Quintet - Lullaby of Birdland from The Swingin's Mutual

Mark Murphy - Twisted from Rah!

Ella Fitzgerald - 'Round Midnight from Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

The Latin Jazz Quintet + Eric Dolphy - Spring Is Here from Caribé

Wes Montgomery - I'm Just A Lucky So And So  from So Much Guitar!

Miles Davis Quintet - Something I Dreamed Last Night from Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet

Milt Jackson, John Coltrane - The Late Late Blues from Bags & Trane

Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient from Eastern Sounds

Baby Face Willette - Face to Face from Face to Face

Grant Green - No. 1 Green Street from Green Street

João Gilberto - Samba da Minha Terra from João Gilberto

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jazz-A-Samba from Afro-Jaws

Chico Hamilton Quintet - Trio from The Chico Hamilton Special

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Tin Tin Deo from Afro-Jaws

Marty Manning - You Stepped Out Of A Dream from The Twilight Zone

Miles Davis Quintet - When I Fall In Love from Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet

The Three Suns - Smoke from Fever & Smoke

Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto - Contrabajeando from Piazzolla interpreta a Piazzolla

The Three Suns - Fever from Fever & Smoke

The Outlaws - Crazy Drums from Dream of the West

Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line from Jump Up Calypso

Dave 'Baby' Cortez - Dave's Special from The Happy Organ and Other Great Recordings

Henry Mancini - Something for the Cat from Breakfast at Tiffany's

Harry Belafonte - Monkey from Jump Up Calypso

Caterina Valente - Taboo from Superfonics

Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger - The Elfin Knight from Classic Scots Ballads

Arthur Lyman - Havah Nagilah from Yellow Bird

Patsy Cline - South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) from Showcase

Edith Piaf - Les ballets du coeurs from Edith Piaf 1957/1961

Nino Rota - Finale from La dolce vita

Jacques Loussier - Finale from Jacques Loussier Trio: Play Bach N° 3

La dolce vita