Well you need some James Harman,he has been around for a long time.One of the best harp players,singers,song writers and frontman,always has a great band. Yes it's Hollywood Fats and Kid Ramos on that live record i posted earlier.When Fats was younger he played in Albert Kings band and Muddy's to,but wasn't in either for a long time. Just start here with his first record and up to his new one just released and everything in between is great to,a few different labels and bands,i have most all of them and not a bad one in the bunch! Just a taste of his first record.
Bit of a Freedie King sesh the last two days, might be heresy to some but my favourite stuff of his are the Shelter discs and Burglar. A mighty fine period of work, some pretty funky playing too.
I knew there was that new one and caught i had the wrong pic.but too late to change it thanks for the correction.
A couple of late-career discoveries courtesy of Fat Possum Records this afternoon. Charles Caldwell - Remember Me T-Model Ford - Pee-Wee Get My Gun
Burglar is one of my favourite albums, irrespective of genre, and the opening track Pack It Up is one of my favourite tunes. The Matt Schofield album I posted a few pages back opens with a great rendition of Pack It Up too. That said, it's hard to go past Let's Hide Away and Dance Away which I listened to this morning:
Have you got My Feeling for the Blues, there’s a few issues of this since it’s first release on CD, any recommendations or one’s to avoid?
I don't want to throw around any reccomendations on sound quality (as I'm stuck playing through cheap computer speakers or even cheaper headphones these days) but I do have this on CD. I'm really only here to discuss the music, which in this case I can tell you is very good indeed
That Charles Caldwell record is great! I only discovered it recently myself, thanks to the Weenie Campbell country blues forums.
Live recordings from the Fillmore West 1966,over 3 nights,and a great band with George Smith on harmonica. This is 5 stars!
I'm digging into some buried blues albums in the pile. Any that are listed will today's favorite blues records. For sure this is one of them. I've perused some threads/posts where these guys get a lotta love on this forum and they should. The only lp they released under their own name and it's live and a Howlin' scorcher. Chicago in sound but from LA, they had the chops. I saw them open up for Los Lobos in '92 (having a heads up from a fantastical Stereophile record review a few months earlier), and 'the the' heated intensity was coming off in waves, their looks and demeanor straight from a page right out of Blood Meridian. So good in fact that Mick Jagger cut a blues album with them called Nature's Game that nobody may ever hear. I have it fortunately, and as others have said on the forum, it would be his best solo record (esp if you like Blue and Lonesome). King King...
Yes that sure is a great one,also have the one they did with Mick.You might like this new live one to,three of the original members with Big Pete on vocals and harmonica and Mike Flanigin on rhythm guitar.Mike from Austin usually on his Hammond B3 with Jimmie Vaughan. They rock pretty good!
That's great news, I would not have known. I love it when a good band fires it back up... sort of like the Blasters, never say die. Now playing another scorcher, albeit a slow cooker. Stormy Monday is the opener and it sounds like the guys were really enjoying laying down some licks together. There's nothing like the hunt and the find, from my pile, that is. In Session...
One of my favorite blues records of all time, mostly because, yes it has John Hammond with the Nighthawks, but I saw the Nighthawks back in their heyday with guitar phenom, Jimmy Thackeray a number of times, and they were in a word... scorching. Hot Tracks...
Muddy Waters - After the Rain. If I made a blues album (and had the necessary talent) this is the album I'd make. The perfect blend of old and new influences.
And I love them both After the Rain is what Electric Mud probably should have been. Less overtly psychedelic and more closely rooted in traditional blues, it feels much more like Muddy's show. Particularly when he lets rip on slide guitar, something which was missing from Electric Mud.
