During the years 1984-1986, the ISU Priaire Room played host to an astonishing list of Blues legends, including Albert King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Albert Collins, Koko Taylor, and, as mentioned in an earlier post of mine, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells. All tickets for students were free or a dollar (with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan who played the Braden Auditorium for $2 a ticket). For SRV, I was second in line and bought the entire second row for $60 total. The guy in front of me, first in line, bought the entire first row. This was before the era of ticket limits. I want back the dorms with 30 Stevie Ray tickets and sold 29 of them for face-value to my friends and neighbors--good karma. ISU didn't set out to do this but the school provided me with invaluable Blues education.
Tonight it's The Very Best Of John Lee Hooker (Budah Records) - Basically a Vee Jay compilation with the wrong track listing on the back but it sounds great, the cover is cool with the Whiskey and Women theme and sometimes you just have to get down with the Hook.
I've really slacked off on my Blues listening recently and need to get back on board. This week needs to be a Blues week.
Medicine Show Man Vol. 2 - Pink Anderson (Prestige Bluesville |Original Blues Classics) Recorded by Samuel Charters in New York City, 1961 Remastered for CD by Kirk Felton at Fantasy This is a great acoustic solo album. Unfortunately the CD is no longer in print. Potential buyers beware CD-Rs copies are now being secretly issued and packaged inside authentic CD sleeves.
Just finished watching the Netflix doc on Keith Richards, so now have to have this Little Walter album:
Little Walter did some great stuff on Chess. I just checked and that LP has a nice tracklist IMO. I'm just glad I was able to get the complete Chess set when it came out. That sucker goes for crazy prices now! Edit: It might actually be a better value if you got this (if nothing else, you need the extended cut of "Hate To See You Go". Little Walter - His Best
Good call. Yes, I got it when it first came out along with a Chess Records t-shirt which I still have. But there's minimal duplication with the one I posted above as well as the other one below, so I figure I need all three.
Those European tour DVDs that that Otis Rush is from are just Amazing. Otis backs Joe Turner too. Little Walter is just so f in good. I have that double cd best of. I'd love love love to get a full on comp of his with outakes ect... Maybe the only performer i'd want something like that from. His playing and songs just get me. Little Walter!
Well that would be the Complete Chess set I referenced above. Five CDs total loaded with outtakes and about an hour of previously unreleased (globally) material. It was like $60 new and now people want crazy money for it. Hip-O put out some good blues stuff, it's just a shame that Univeral cleaned house and the label was shut down. Even bigger shame that they shut down before they produced Volume 2 of the Complete Howlin' Wolf ! Little Walter - The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967) Oh, and I second your opinion on the American Folk Blues Festival DVDs (the U.S. ones at least), they are excellent!
J.B Lenoir And His African Hunch Rhythm - ‘I Sing Um The Way I Feel’ I think Willie Dixon features on this tune as well. Superb .
Gregg Allman {Low Country Blues} It's not a traditional blues thing. But, if you listen it is. Blues all over it. I think T Bone just wanted to see Gregg do this type of thing. It's a cool listen.
This is my favorite Little Walter album. Go for the circa 1990 CD version of this album, much better sound than the later compilations mentioned above and better sequencing. Never intended to be a best of (originally released circa 1969, years after the original Best of LW), get this for what it is, a great collection of some of his best.
