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Hubert Sumlin - Live blues at Delta Fish market in Chicago 2006-10-26 21:17:00 Here is an interesting video featuring among others Hubert Sumlin from YouTube. Check out the notes for full details.Notes from YouTube;The Delta
Fish Market on Chicago
's West Side was the site of live blues from the late 1970s until it closed in the mid 1990s. Owned by Oliver Davis (who was himself a fine guitarist in the Elmore James style), the market imported live catfish from Mississippi on a weekly basis, selling it to the many former Mississippians who'd relocated to the area. On weekends in the warm months there were free, informal live blues sessions that started in the afternoon and went on until late at night on a stage set up in the large parking lot, often drawing an audience of hundreds of people from the surrounding neighborhood. Most of the major names in Chicago blues played there over the years, mainly just for the fun of playing. This clip is from the film "Hubert Sumlin - Living The Blues", and features Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Sam Lay and others
And She Could Be Jiving Too... 2006-11-02 04:45:00 Right now I have the blues and that famous line by BB King keeps coming to mind;
Nobody loves me but my mother,
and she could be jiving too....
Alberta Hunter Videos 2008-03-08 23:11:00 YouTube has a few cool videos of AlbertaHunter
. Most of them when she is older. I like "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning" because her voice is more powerful and colorful then in some of the other videos. But having said that, you have to watch this first one, which can not be embedded. It shows what a powerful force she was.Alberta Hunter performing "My Castles Rockin" (DVD Preview)If she could sing like that at 82, then imagine her in her prime. This next one is kind of funny. They way only the blues can be.'My Handy Man'Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This MorningNotes from YouTube; - After a very hard youth (she ran away from home at the age of 12), Hunter managed to become one of the best and most popular entertainers of the 20's. Her discography spans the whole 20's decade and t
Blues Quotes - B.B. King & Duke Ellington 2008-03-05 02:43:00 “I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”B.B. King“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”Duke Ellington Read more:Blues
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Blues Terminology: John The Conquer 2008-03-04 03:23:00 This is a repost from Mar of 2006.In 1954 Muddy Waters had a hit with the Willie Dixion song "Hoochie Coochie Man" and ever since I first heard this song I wondered what Muddy meant when he sang that line "I got the John the Conqueroo." It is part of the verse that goes;I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too,I got the John the Conqueroo, I'm gonna mess with you,I'm gonna make you girls, lead me by my hand,Then the world will know, the Hoochie coochie Man. According to Answers.com"John the Conquer root, refers to a number of roots to which magical powers are ascribed in American folklore, especially among the hoodoo tradition of folk magic among African Americans. The root, in turn, is named after a folk hero called High John the Conqueror."Who was John the Conqueror?"John the Conqueror Read more:Blues
Elizabeth Cotten - Frieght Train 2008-03-01 23:29:00 I'm nursing this old headache that I've got. But I did want to post a little something. The video that I had in mind can not be embeded; but it is a gem. So please check it out. It is Elizabeth
Cotten in her own words, the way I like to present the blues muscian of days gone by. She tells the story of how she got her guitar and how she wrote the song Frieght Train
.The video that I am posting is a good one too, but the one above is much better so be sure to check it out.Elizabeth Cotten - Freight TrainNote from YouTube; Elizabeth Cotten on Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 3) Now I'm off to rest my aching head.
Friday blues Funny - Calhoun Tubbs 2008-02-29 04:37:00 Calhoun TubbsAccording to Wikipedia; Calhoun Tubbs David Alan Grier portrays an old bluesman whose songs invariably insult or otherwise offend his audience. Catchphrase: "Wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it go!" "Thank you very much!" His catchphrase was also used as the intro to En Vogue's "Free Your Mind". He also always strums the same bar of blues and ends his little songs with "Ahhhhahaha" Read more:Friday
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Big Mama Thornton - Female Harmonica Player 2008-02-19 23:03:00 Now I do get excited by female blues guitar players (like Memphis Minnie in my last couple of post), but let me tell you, if you are a female that knows how to play a harmonica, I'll make Mrs. F. sleep on the floor.You probably don't understand, but that is OK. Consider if you will Big MamaThornton
. Son when I tell you that she could rip it up, you better believe that.And if you don't, then see for yourself.Ball and ChainBig Mama Thornton - Down Home ShakedownIncludes John Lee Hooker Big Mama Thornton - Rock me (Oregon 1971) Read more:Female
I Feel Like Going to Church - Memphis Minnie 2008-02-17 13:53:00 Children, I feel like going to church on this Sunday Morning. So I thought a little Gospel blues would help wash away our sins.Sing along if the spirit moves you. Sorry but the video is just a static picture.Let Me Ride - MemphisMinnie
Notes at YouTube - Memphis Minnie, recorded Tuesday, 15 January 1935 Decca Read more:Church
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Big Joe Williams Videos 2008-02-16 14:22:00 BLUES PLAYLIST: BIG JOE WILLIAMS, PART 1BLUES PLAYLIST: BIG JOE WILLIAMS, PART 2There are some great videos on YouTube that can not be embedded :(Well I guess I'll just have to link to them. Take this video of Big Joe Williams
playing Baby Please Don't Go for example.Note the guitar playing and the foot stomps and taps. Dude had rhythm.Please click link to see video >>>Baby Please Don't GoPlease click link to see video >>>Big Joe Williams
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