A friend dropped off another Blues LP today ... a nice treat! Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGhee – On The Road (Folkways mono 1961 repress)
From the Jazzy side of the blues.Jimmy Smith and his Hammond B-3 "Got My Mojo Workin" Verve Records 1966. Jimmy and Oliver Nelson Big Band with Kenny Burrell doing some Muddy Waters.
right now spinning a copy of a Chess LP compilation from the '80s called Wizards of the Southside, which was my intro to Chicago blues as a teen back then... found it today for 7€ at Black & White Records in Helsinki... while all the songs are well known, it still takes me back to a time and place in high school when they were fresh sounds to my ears as all my peers listened to Springsteen, Prince etc.
Getting ready for an afternoon of Stevie Ray ... 6 titles - 12 LP's! Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble – Texas Hurricane - Analogue Productions 45rpm Box set (2014)
spinning Lightnin' Hopkins Talking Some Sense LP today... Lightnin' was my fave bluesman as a teen in the '80s most likely because I had more of his albums than anybody else - or I should say cassettes - which for some reason were in all the cutout bins at the time... haven't really listened to him since then because he's basically hardwired into my backbone... it was nice to find this record recently, though, and it still speaks to me like it did 40 years ago (how'd that happen?!)
Junior Wells great release "Come On In The House" on Telarc,1996.Junior with some of the best slide guitarist. This one featuring a young teenage Derek Trucks.
As much as i love Derek's band with wife Susan,i sure miss the days of the Derek Trucks Band..they were one smoking band back in the late 90's and 2000's. Live At Georgia Theater-great 2 disc set from 2004
The only one I have listened to repeatedly is East-West by the Butterfield Blues Band. Summer of 1966 I was going into 8th grade and my older brother, who was a bassist in a band and who I got all of my music from, brought this one home. The title cut is what hooked me, but I usually listened to the whole side and then flipped it over. When I got the cd I was amazed that Mary, Mary was not the first song on the album!
