That John Lee Hooker cover reminds me of a story Delbert McClinton tells on a DVD of his. His tour bus broke down & he & his band rode to the gig on a city bus. Gear & all.
Solomon Burke has done some great late career albums. Crossing styles. The country one is great. Great singer. Great interpreter or songs. Love him.
Ike Turner Risin With The Blues.Ike's last record before going to be with his musician friends&all those children he influenced.It is a killer epitath to a GREAT musical icon.Peace.
Me Too. Solomon has had various stages in his career. the Atlantic / Bell period is amazing. Then two good albums for the Rounder in the 80s and two big albums for the Black Top in the 90s. Since the return of Do not Give Up On Me (for me his most beautiful album) he has not lost a beat. Great character the King of Rock'n'Soul
Skip James - She Lyin'; the best of his '60s comeback albums... guitar is rusty, but he compensates by committing to the vocals like he never would again...
Mike's early pre-Butterfield recordings for Columbia with producer John Hammond,late 1964 and early 1965.In New York and Chicago..great release from Sundazed. with Charlie Musselwhite on harp.
As far as today, many previously mentioned titles qualify on any given day (Geez, the blues folk are fickle ) This (and the next ) post have pretty much been in the top 5 o' mine for about 12 X 4 years: The college age kids that were all on this record which channeled original blues songs knew what they were doing. I think they used available avenues of the time -- record companies wanting to get in on the latest thing as a cash cow-- to encourage a group of their peers to look into the original artists that were the influences here, while adding their own stylistic interpretive spin to each song. Heck even Bob Dylan is on this LP playing piano, credited as "Bob Landy", a pale respelling of his name... Finally digitally available as part of The Greenwich Village Folk Scene Original Album Series.
A participant in the above LP had his album "The Secret Handshake" posted by someone many pages back. This is my third copy of this (first was original Prestige Rechannelled stereo LP, second was an ACE mono reissue circa early 1980's, and then this Japanese import CD from a bout a year later. To me this reflects why Richard Thompson said something like "There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them."
BB KIng {Spotlight On Lucille} Great instrumental album by BB. You keep waiting for his incredible voice to kick in. Such a cool record.
