Album of the Week - 11-12-22

Afternoon folks!

This week we've got some excellent Chicago blues with Magic Sam and another album by a friend of his, Luther Allison. There's a bunch of other blues rock and rock with Hot Tuna (a double, live album), Ten Years After, most of Stone The Crows first album, the tragically under-appreciated Jesse Ed Davis, Van Morrison, Steeleye Span and finishing it off with a large anthology of The Easybeats who are mostly known in the U.S. for their hit "Friday On My Mind."

Enjoy!

Here 'tis:

Magic Sam - Black Magic

Luther Allison - Luther's Blues

Hot Tuna - Double Dose

Ten Years After - Watt

Stone The Crows

Jesse Davis

Van Morrison - T.B. Sheets

Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten

The Easybeats

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Listening to "Crazy Love" by Jesse Davis. There's some old memories there. I think this must be the version of Crazy Love I heard first back in the day. Of all of the versions, it just feels right to me. And, I hadn't heard it in years. Appreciate it..

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Hey Joe, GREAT sounds man!

Any Hot Tuna and Ten Years After was loved in L.A. But Jesse Ed Davis flew under the radar. Few realize how much music he was on. He was a great player. That is a great album! He was something. And what a tragic story and ending. I saw him on the last Rod Stewart & the Faces tour in 75. He played only part of the tour (but yes in L.A.), and said to be whence he picked up that worst habit. He had just played most of the guitar on Rod Stewarts first big solo album, so Rod wanted him. It was weird seeing the Faces with two amazing guitarists. Ronny Lane was down and out though, it was Tetsu's first tour. The early 70's Faces played then with a full white floor mat, like a wrestling mat almost, and custom all white Ampeg SVTs with those 8x10 cabinets, in all white. So, it changed whatever color the lights were. The whole fn stage and equipment. It was an incredible effect. They were filming it, but no footage ever saw the light of day of the two guitar Faces shows with Jesse Ed Davis that I know of.

Thanks for the great soundscape as always!

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I mean, I listened to and remember many, many licks and tunes
but to know your depth of orientation is another plateau altogether

thanks for the insights!

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@QMS Well Captain... I bet I would feel the same way if I went on a half-dozen different kinds of boats with you, even after my paltry couple thousand hours at sea. Music for me it was the great escape. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It spoke to me, deeply. Seeing it performed on the B & W TV as a child was amazing to me. Then seeing it in person as a teen, my mind was blown. In between taught myself how to bang a guitar, and was pretty serious about it (had a Les Paul custom (white-gold hardware) stolen), for not having technical training. As a teen to young adult in Hunt. Bch. our gang of rockers were largely the intellectually inclined, and nothing in or on an album was not studied to death. There may have been some interesting molecules involved. One might miss the boldface caps font instructing : THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD at the bottom corner of the paper inner liner on Let It Bleed. Or that that was Byron Berline on Country Honk fiddle. Ad infinitum. Being in L.A. though, and almost always somewhere from poor to broke, every band came through, and I got to see lots of them, but missed a ton of great ones too. Too poor to see them all. They were my music school. Music was the glue of the gang, and seemingly of a generation. Not for the first time (the 50's), but way bigger than ever before. Dylan to Hendrix, the Brit invasion to San Francisco to ELP, drugs hit electricity, and for a decade and a half it was an insane explosion of creativity that maybe has never been matched. And maybe never will. We were soooo lucky to live in such a time and experience such an event musically.

peace, love, and good vibrations all!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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