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.

11-03-2021 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1972-1983

11-03-2021 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1972-1983 # Rory Gallagher, Koko Taylor,Robin Trower, Junior Wells, The Numbers Band, Otis Rush,Albert King, Peter Green, The Blues Band, Brian Auger, Pete York, Chris Farlowe,Led Zeppelin,Tom Waits

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1972-1983

 

Influential Irish guitarist who played an earthy, stripped-down brand of blues-rock that touched everyone who heard it.

Rory Gallagher 

Whole Lot of People (Rory Gallagher)

Used to Be (Rory Gallagher)

from Deuce 1972

Released in November 1971, just six months after his solo debut, Rory Gallagher's second album was the summation of all that he'd promised in the wake of Taste's collapse, and the blueprint for most of what he'd accomplish over the next two years of recording. Largely overlooked by posterity's haste to canonize his next album, Live! In Europe, Deuce finds Gallagher torn between the earthy R&B of "Used to Be," a gritty blues fed through by some viciously unrestrained guitar playing... "There's a Light", too, plays to Gallagher's sensitive side, while stating his mastery of the guitar across a protracted solo that isn't simply spellbinding in its restraint, it also has the effect of adding another voice to the proceedings...

Accurately dubbed "the Queen of Chicago blues" (and sometimes just the blues in general), Koko Taylor helped keep the tradition of big-voiced, brassy female blues belters alive, recasting the spirits of early legends like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thornton, and Memphis Minnie for the modern age.

Koko Taylor 

I'm a Little Mixed Up(Criss Johnson)

What Kind of Man Is This? (Koko Taylor)

from South Side Lady 1973 

Cut during the period when she was between Chess and Alligator, this 15-song selection, cut in a French studio and live in the Netherlands in 1973, is a potent set that finds Koko Taylor ably backed by the Aces, guitarist Jimmy Rogers, and pianist Willie Mabon. Lots of familiar titles -- a live "Wang Dang Doodle," studio remakes of "I'm a Little Mixed Up" and "Twenty-Nine Ways" -- and a few numbers that aren't usually associated with Chicago's undisputed blues queen.

One of rock's prime guitarists due to his uncanny ability to channel the blues-psych, Fender Strat-fueled playing style of Jimi Hendrix.

Robin Trower 

Day of the Eagle (Robin Trower)

Bridge of Sighs (Robin Trower)

Too Rolling Stoned (Robin Trower)

from Bridge Of Sighs 1974

Guitarist Robin Trower's watershed sophomore solo disc remains his most stunning, representative, and consistent collection of tunes. Mixing obvious Hendrix influences with blues and psychedelia, then adding the immensely soulful vocals of James Dewar, Trower pushed the often limited boundaries of the power trio concept into refreshing new waters. The concept gels best in the first track, "Day of the Eagle," where the opening riff rockingly morphs into the dreamy washes of gooey guitar chords that characterize the album's distinctive title track that follows. .. One of the few Robin Trower albums without a weak cut, Bridge of Sighs holds up to repeated listenings as a timeless work, as well as the crown jewel in Trower's extensive yet inconsistent catalog.