Nice. I haven't heard that album... live right? I thought it was interesting the mix of Cream and JLH, they added alot of power to the songs, but also gave them a completely I guess more polished sound...
What's this all about? I never knew these 2 recorded together. Than again I usually check her 30's stuff with Teddy Wilson, etc, rather than her 50's material.
A few more recent personal discoveries:
J.B. Hutto & the Hawks Hawk Squat LP on Delmark. Raw raw 60's shit, sounds like Elmore James with a tough R&B band.
Frank Frost - Jewel LP - more rawness with NICE harp.
My favorite blues 45: John Lee Hooker, "Big Legs, Tight Skirt"
What's this all about? I never knew these 2 recorded together. Than again I usually check her 30's stuff with Teddy Wilson, etc, rather than her 50's material.
A few more recent personal discoveries:
J.B. Hutto & the Hawks Hawk Squat LP on Delmark. Raw raw 60's shit, sounds like Elmore James with a tough R&B band.
Frank Frost - Jewel LP - more rawness with NICE harp.
My favorite blues 45: John Lee Hooker, "Big Legs, Tight Skirt"
I didn't either but a friend sent me the track claiming its the case. ia m trying to find out where he got it from.
What's this all about? I never knew these 2 recorded together. Than again I usually check her 30's stuff with Teddy Wilson, etc, rather than her 50's material.
A few more recent personal discoveries:
J.B. Hutto & the Hawks Hawk Squat LP on Delmark. Raw raw 60's shit, sounds like Elmore James with a tough R&B band.
Frank Frost - Jewel LP - more rawness with NICE harp.
My favorite blues 45: John Lee Hooker, "Big Legs, Tight Skirt"
I didn't either but a friend sent me the track claiming its the case. ia m trying to find out where he got it from.
The Big Legs, Tight Skirt is whats up.. track is
Probably not BB King with Billie Holiday, more likely Billie Holiday w/some other guitarist (Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Kenny Burrell). Would be cool to hear though if it was them.
Nice. I haven't heard (The Cream by John Lee Hooker)... live right? I thought it was interesting the mix of Cream and JLH, they added alot of power to the songs, but also gave them a completely I guess more polished sound...
The band Cream did NOT back up Hooker on that album...The Cream is merely the album title (as in "the cream of the crop"). The band Cream would have already been broken up for ten years or so by the time this Hooker album came out in 1978.
Some blues faves of mine: - just about everything Jimmy Reed ever did on the Vee Jay label (ever hear The Legend - The Man, this greatest-hits album where Jimmy is interviewed between tracks? it's reissued on CD and hearing his half-drunk Southern drawl relate how he wrote "Big Boss Man" or "Bright Lights - Big City" is a hoot)
- Lowdown Backporch Blues, Louisiana Red (early sixties recording on Roulette, including the classic "Red's Dream" where he imagines going to the White House and appointing Ray Charles, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley and Big Maybelle to the U.S. Senate)
- Rooster Blues, Lightnin' Slim (Louisiana swamp blues lives)
- any compilation of blues on the Excello label
- Billy Boy Arnold's sides on the Vee Jay label ("I Wish You Would,"Rockinitis," etc.)
yesssss, "Snatch It Back and Hold It" pre-funk funky blues
His soulish tracks on the Bright Star and Blue Rock labels ("You're Tuff Enough," "Up In Heah," etc.) were amazing, as well...Mercury compiled a bunch of them in the late nineties on You're Tuff Enough, which reissues the Blue Rock LP of the same name plus some extras.
That other album Jr. did on Blue Rock (Junior Wells Sings Live At The Golden Bear), was dull as dirt and should be avoided, but Delmark just put out Live At Theresa's 1975, which not only has the band throwing down some hellafied shuffles, but also has some bizarre, un-P.C. stage raps from Junior himself.
Nice. I haven't heard (The Cream by John Lee Hooker)... live right? I thought it was interesting the mix of Cream and JLH, they added alot of power to the songs, but also gave them a completely I guess more polished sound...
The band Cream did NOT back up Hooker on that album...The Cream is merely the album title (as in "the cream of the crop"). The band Cream would have already been broken up for ten years or so by the time this Hooker album came out in 1978.
Some blues faves of mine: - just about everything Jimmy Reed ever did on the Vee Jay label (ever hear The Legend - The Man, this greatest-hits album where Jimmy is interviewed between tracks? it's reissued on CD and hearing his half-drunk Southern drawl relate how he wrote "Big Boss Man" or "Bright Lights - Big City" is a hoot)
- Lowdown Backporch Blues, Louisiana Red (early sixties recording on Roulette, including the classic "Red's Dream" where he imagines going to the White House and appointing Ray Charles, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley and Big Maybelle to the U.S. Senate)
- Rooster Blues, Lightnin' Slim (Louisiana swamp blues lives)
- any compilation of blues on the Excello label
- Billy Boy Arnold's sides on the Vee Jay label ("I Wish You Would,"Rockinitis," etc.)
you're absolutely right... I was thinking of the Hooker and Heat records.
yesssss, "Snatch It Back and Hold It" pre-funk funky blues
His soulish tracks on the Bright Star and Blue Rock labels ("You're Tuff Enough," "Up In Heah," etc.) were amazing, as well...Mercury compiled a bunch of them in the late nineties on You're Tuff Enough, which reissues the Blue Rock LP of the same name plus some extras.
That other album Jr. did on Blue Rock (Junior Wells Sings Live At The Golden Bear), was dull as dirt and should be avoided, but Delmark just put out Live At Theresa's 1975, which not only has the band throwing down some hellafied shuffles, but also has some bizarre, un-P.C. stage raps from Junior himself.
Yeah for real. I just led off my latest mixtape with Up in Heah. Followed by Calvin Leavy's "Brought you to the City", and Willie Joe's "funny thing". I know that other thread makes it sound like mixtapes are a thing of the past, but I must disagree.
That other album Jr. did on Blue Rock (Junior Wells Sings Live At The Golden Bear), was dull as dirt and should be avoided, but Delmark just put out Live At Theresa's 1975, which not only has the band throwing down some hellafied shuffles, but also has some bizarre, un-P.C. stage raps from Junior himself.
His live LP It's My Life, Baby on Vanguard is pretty fantastic.
some more...
Arthur Cruddup is always fun, he's got that "yeah, man!" on LOCK
Slim Harpo is great let's stay home and make out blues.
Sonny Boy Williamson (the 8th?) - Down and Out Blues is a longtime fav.
For pre-war sounds, I gotta go with Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell. There are about 200 different pressings of this material, all with essentially the same tracklist. There is good reason it's been kept in print over the past 50 years.
Any of you hear an album from the Red Devils titled 'King King'? The whole anglo blues band thing travels in dangerous waters, but this album's pretty good. Lester Butler is a great harp player, and Rick Rubin (!) produces - it's on his label, I guess. Appearing in dollar bins around the world...
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Floyd Dixon - Please Don't Go (unreleased version)
Lazy Lester "Courtroom Blues"(excello)
Highly recommended overview of John Lee Hooker...
cosign!!!
absolutely...another favorite of mine is:
Collects a bunch of his incendiary early 60s sides. Great stuff.
Yes, it's live and it never lets up. Highly recommended...
Buddy Guy's version of 'Out of Sight' tops even James Brown's, IMO
mississippi john hurt
pink anderson
scrapper blackwell
bukka white
sleepy john estes
fred mcdowell
robert johnson
blind willie mctell
slim harpo
What's this all about? I never knew these 2 recorded together.
Than again I usually check her 30's stuff with Teddy Wilson, etc,
rather than her 50's material.
A few more recent personal discoveries:
J.B. Hutto & the Hawks Hawk Squat LP on Delmark.
Raw raw 60's shit, sounds like Elmore James with a tough R&B band.
Frank Frost - Jewel LP - more rawness with NICE harp.
My favorite blues 45: John Lee Hooker, "Big Legs, Tight Skirt"
plus...
skip james -- the early stuff
blind boy fuller
fucking J.B. Lenoir
charlie patton blues sides + his gospel stuff under a different name
Dr. Ross
Jesse Fuller
I'm also deep, deep in to the rev Gary Davis and Son House.
I didn't either but a friend sent me the track claiming its the case. ia m trying to find out where he got it from.
The Big Legs, Tight Skirt is whats up.. track is
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
The band Cream did NOT back up Hooker on that album...The Cream is merely the album title (as in "the cream of the crop"). The band Cream would have already been broken up for ten years or so by the time this Hooker album came out in 1978.
Some blues faves of mine:
- just about everything Jimmy Reed ever did on the Vee Jay label (ever hear The Legend - The Man, this greatest-hits album where Jimmy is interviewed between tracks? it's reissued on CD and hearing his half-drunk Southern drawl relate how he wrote "Big Boss Man" or "Bright Lights - Big City" is a hoot)
- Lowdown Backporch Blues, Louisiana Red (early sixties recording on Roulette, including the classic "Red's Dream" where he imagines going to the White House and appointing Ray Charles, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley and Big Maybelle to the U.S. Senate)
- Rooster Blues, Lightnin' Slim (Louisiana swamp blues lives)
- any compilation of blues on the Excello label
- Billy Boy Arnold's sides on the Vee Jay label ("I Wish You Would,"Rockinitis," etc.)
yesssss, "Snatch It Back and Hold It" pre-funk funky blues
His soulish tracks on the Bright Star and Blue Rock labels ("You're Tuff Enough," "Up In Heah," etc.) were amazing, as well...Mercury compiled a bunch of them in the late nineties on You're Tuff Enough, which reissues the Blue Rock LP of the same name plus some extras.
That other album Jr. did on Blue Rock (Junior Wells Sings Live At The Golden Bear), was dull as dirt and should be avoided, but Delmark just put out Live At Theresa's 1975, which not only has the band throwing down some hellafied shuffles, but also has some bizarre, un-P.C. stage raps from Junior himself.
you're absolutely right... I was thinking of the Hooker and Heat records.
my bad.
Yeah for real. I just led off my latest mixtape with Up in Heah. Followed by Calvin Leavy's "Brought you to the City", and Willie Joe's "funny thing". I know that other thread makes it sound like mixtapes are a thing of the past, but I must disagree.
His live LP It's My Life, Baby on Vanguard is pretty fantastic.
some more...
Arthur Cruddup is always fun, he's got that "yeah, man!" on LOCK
Slim Harpo is great let's stay home and make out blues.
Sonny Boy Williamson (the 8th?) - Down and Out Blues is a longtime fav.
For pre-war sounds, I gotta go with Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell. There
are about 200 different pressings of this material, all with essentially the same tracklist.
There is good reason it's been kept in print over the past 50 years.