The J. Geils Band cranked that blues classic 180 degrees in 1970.
John Lee Hooker doubled down and reclaimed it in October 1992.
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Posts Tagged ‘blues’
Saturday Matinee – John Lee Hooker, Peter Wolf & the J. Geils Band & John Lee Hooker
Saturday, 13 April 2019Saturday Matinee – Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Allman Brothers Band with Eric Clapton
Saturday, 30 March 2019
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers Live. From the Utoobage comments: “He had six fingers on his left hand.”
Little Walter’s Jump, 1967. From here:
“Little Walter‘s harp is accompanied by Hound Dog Taylor (guitar), Dillard Crume (bass), and Odie Payne (drums), at the 1967 “American Folk Blues Festival” in Germany just months before his death.”
Who else was at that venue? Bukka White, Skip James, Koko Taylor, Son House and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. All blues greats, without a doubt. So let’s go with this:
Yeah, Eric Clapton ripped off “Key To The Highway,” but he also paid many cool tributes, including this version with The Allman Brothers Band.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more you know what.
Saturday Matinee – Rail Bicycling, Eliese LeGrow Bo Diddley & Dick Dale
Saturday, 23 March 2019
Rail bicycling looks like fun out in the open, but it would spook the hell out of me on the bridges. One rogue gust of wind blows you away, one mis-timed tunnel and you go splat. Nice vid with nice music.
Elise LeGrow took Bo Diddley’s classic and made it nasty.
Bo Diddley was a national treasure who got ripped off big time by the recording industry, partly due to his own ignorance of copyright law. The vid is from about 2008.
We lost another Great One this past week.
R.I.P. Richard Anthony Monsour aka Dick Dale (1937- 2019).
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here in 24 or more.
Saturday Matinee – G-AAH, Billy Strings, Billy Gibbbons & Stéphane Grappelli
Saturday, 8 December 2018Aviator Amy Johnson was honored with an Underwood typewriter animation.tribute [via]. She achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman pilot or aviatrix to fly solo from England to Australia. She flew the G-AAAH Jason, a second-hand trainer airplane.
Billy Strings [h/t windbag].
Billy Gibbons with ratrods [h/t Octopus].
Great early morning road trip music back when I was running early morning road trips. 1930s sunrise swing always worked for me.
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Saturday Matinee – Teensy Weensy Weaponry, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, John Lee Hooker w/ Carlos Santana, Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Etta James & others
Saturday, 27 October 2018
Small firearm demonstration [via].
One of the greatest spaghetti western themes ever, composed Ennio Morricone, performed live by the The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Sarah Hicks.
John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Paul Butterfield, Etta James and others, live at The Fillmore West, San Francisco on 18 July1986 [via]. I think that’s Elvin Bishop stepping in about 00:06:40.
Have a great weekend, folks, see you back here tomorrow for other inane stuff.
Saturday Matinee – Fishbone, Ry Cooder & Justin Johnson
Saturday, 6 October 2018
Fishbone was, and is, one of the tightest high-speed ska bands I ever heard. [The above is dedicated to Professor Christine Ford, whose evil testimony under oath has been proven to be fabricated in order to impune the character of an innocent man.]
One of the best slide guitar players in the business. Ry Cooder‘s 1988 swamp rock take on Elvis‘ “All Shook Up” was awesome.
Killer stuff from Justin Johnson. Turn it up. It’s the musical equivalent to stress on the 405 through L.A. at rush hour and I love it.
Have a great weekend, folks, see you back here after I tear up my kitchen tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – The Marshall Tucker Band, Sam The Sham & James “Super Chikan” Johnson
Saturday, 8 September 2018
In the late 70s, there was a shift away from hard rock, pop, disco, and other over-produced gag-inducing genres, and I took a liking to Country Rock Jazz fusion. The Marshall Tucker Band caught my ear with “The Last of the Singing Cowboys,” one of the prettiest songs ever written, featuring one of the greatest country rock vocalists ever: Doug Gray (and yeah, that’s one silly-ass hat on the guitar player.)
Domingo “Sam” Samudio is still live and howlin’ in this vid from 2000. IIRC, Sam took his nic “The Sham” because he only knew 3 chords. “Little Red Riding Hood” is probably my favorite STSATP song – even in elementary school we got the innuendo. “Oh, That’s Good” was fun due to our juvenile misinterpretation of the lyrics: “He operated on my 3rd leg…”
Okay, um, let’s move on.
Never heard of James “Super Chikan” Johnson? Crank it up.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow for more inanity.
