Album of the Week 2-3-24
Afternoon folks!
This week we've got Koko Taylor leading off with a late 70's album followed by a compilation of some great Memphis r&b from people that Sun records discovered, most of whom never became famous. After that we have a bunch of blues rock from George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers with a live album, a compilation from the Climax Blues Band in their early years, an early album from DC musicians The Nighthawks and an album from Brownsville Station. Finishing off, in the diversity department we've got a Bob Weir (Grateful Dead guitarist) album from the early 80's.
Have a great weekend and enjoy!
Here 'tis:
Sun Sound Special: Memphis Beat
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Live
Climax Blues Band - 1969 / 1972
The Nighthawks - Rock 'n' Roll
Brownsville Station - A Night On The Town
Bobby & The Midnites – Bobby & The Midnites
Comments
great discs!
Hi Joe,
Great records there... That Nighthawks was very good. Who covers "Memo From Turner"? They did it great!
The Climax Blues Band was great, someone in my gang's high school circle had that, someone else had the double live NYC one, so we were aware, but there was only barely wee hours airplay and a cult following in L.A. at the time. They only got on the radio with the pop hit in '76. They were a good band. The
Brownsville Station was good too... from the two guitarist days. They were a trio when I saw them after that record. Yeah Cub Koda!
thanks for the awesome soundscapes!
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
yep, the nighthawks were a really great band that never really got their moment in the sun. memo from turner was on the nighthawks album, if that's what you were asking. my guess is that the vocalist on it was mark wenner and the guitarist was jimmy thackery. thackery went his own way later on and put out some solo albums which you might appreciate.
i first heard of climax when they were the climax chicago blues band, which is what got me listening. their first 5 or 6 albums were quite good. as the 70's rolled on though their albums got more and more dominated by pop material.
have a good one!
memo from Turner
Hi Joe,
yeah, I was referring to the cover on the Nighthawks album... it was friggin' great. It is a song that is less-known, super cool (Ry!), and somewhere between off the wall and far out, so almost never got covered. There is a live version by Blondie with poor audio on utub. The Nighthawks nailed it. Thanks!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Heh, long time fav (the original), such that simply
seeing that name as the title of a comment in the sidebar drew me back here. I always imagined that somewhere there was some poor misbegotten soul who was targeted by that musical missile and forever mocked by his peers thereafter.
be well and have a good one
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ROFL!
Too funny! GREAT take! ROFLMAO. The song is so under-the-radar, and strange... those breaks are wild like an acid trip in the song. That haunting melody with the slide sounds sloppy drunk and loose, but with the very complex rapid-fire lyrics... it is all very tight. Loved it at first hear and will never get enough of it. The movie was worth it just for that song.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
the CCBB
yeah, you are right, and me too... It was Climax Chicago Blues Band at my first discovery. Which I thought was a bit redundant, but I guess differentiating styles... the blues were just falling out of favor in most public circles by mid-70's, and disco. Which seemed odd to me at the time after what the two Jimi's did with them (Page and Hendrix). There I was all jacked up about them with nowhere to go. Good thing I found Roy Buchanan (and Al DiMeola) then. Saved me from disco.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein