Album of the Week - 3-4-23
Afternoon folks!
Well, there's a bunch of good stuff this week. Surprise! Blues harmonica player Junior Parker leads off, followed by Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal album that I posted last week was a double album package and I got around to posting the second album "De Old Folks At Home" this week, it's acoustic guitar and banjo blues for the most part. If you listened to the first album (Giant Step) last week, you can click through the first 9 tunes to get to the new album.
After that there's a bunch of 50's Chicago blues from John Brim and Little Hudson who recorded back then for the JOB label - I'll be loading some more cuts from this album later Saturday evening. Following that is a mid-70's Roy Buchanan album, a David Lindley album, a kind of proggish/avant garde album from Adrian Belew, a decidedly proggy Return To Forever album and we finish up with a late 60's album by Fat Mattress - a kind of folk-rock band formed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience's bass player Noel Redding.
Enjoy!
Here 'tis:
Roy Buchanan - A Street Called Straight
David Lindley & El Rayo X - Very Greasy
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Comments
Ahh, Chick Corea
returns me to almost forever ago
thanks joe!
question everything
Good, evening, joe,
This is Fat 'magic'
A little bird informed me of your new diary series, kudos, happy to enjoy tonight.
Hope this note finds you two and family in good health and spirits.
afternoon smiley...
great to see you! i hope that everything is going well and that you're getting good snow.
take care!
Oops my bad
Wrong thread…carry on.
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Taj with Ry Cooder in the Rising Sons
fascinating that they crossed paths so early. They continue to play together.
Another wow pairing was Rick James and Neil Young (The Mynah Birds)
afternoon shahryar...
yep, not too long ago, ry and taj put out an album of sonny terry & brownie mcghee tunes which is quite excellent. perhaps i'll post it one of these weeks.
thanks for the tune!
whatta stack o'records!
Hey Joe!
Awesome stack of records man! Last weeks was too. I don't know how you do it? Hits just keep coming!
Loading Zone and A Street Called Straight were the first two Roy albums I got right when they came out, they remain high on my list of favorites. Guitar Cadenza still blows my mind, and I consider that the definitive 'Messiah'.
I saw that Return to Forever band about the time of this album, they were freakin' amazing, but way over the musical heads of the audience. That Belew is great too. Saw him a couple times the man is not of this earth. Just watch him play guitar. 
Thanks for the great soundscapes!
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