Album of the Week 8-31-24
Afternoon folks!
We've got a bunch of great stuff from New Orleans this week, starting off with Champion Jack Dupree (with Mickey Baker on guitar and Hal Singer on sax) and followed up by a great compilation of stuff, some from names you probably know and other stuff not, all of which is worth a listen. After that we've got an album from Aretha Franklin - some of it is a little schmaltzy, but the rest of it is solid r&b.
After that, it's on to George Thorogood, Blue Cheer, an EP from Dr. Feelgood and J.J. Cale's best album. We finish off with an album from Dutch prog-rockers Focus (with guitarist Jan Akkerman, who's about the same calibre as Jeff Beck).
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Here 'tis:
Champion Jack Dupree Meets Mickey Baker & Hal Singer – I'm Happy To Be Free
Urban Blues ~ New Orleans Bounce
Aretha Franklin ~ Aretha Arrives
George Thorogood & The Destroyers ~ Bad To The Bone
Comments
did Focus do an album called Hocus Pocus?
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seems to dredge up some distant memories or imagined reality
Thank you for emptying your music storage devices for us
Always a pleasure!
evening qms...
your memory banks are well-functioning. while they didn't do an album by that title, "hocus pocus" was their biggest hit (at least in the u.s.) from their second album "moving waves."
i will probably post that album one of these weeks soon, i ran it through the cleaner last week.
have a good one!
More JJ Cale!
Always!
Thanks, joe!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
heh, i'll see what i can dig up for you. i'm pretty sure that i have a couple more of his albums around here somewhere, though i don't know what condition they're in.
have a great weekend!
@on the cusp I went through 2 vinyl
I went through 2 vinyl copies of Naturally. Big JJ Cale punter here. Rec'd!!.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
evening orlbucfan...
heh, that's my second copy of naturally you're listening to. i still have the first one but its grooves are worn out.
Dear One
says his first 4 albums were great. This suggest a downhill trend.
Our weekend is going great, hope yours is the same!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
heh...
well, i've posted the first 3 to youtube, along with a greatest hits collection. i think that i have troubadour (the 4th album) somewhere, but i have no idea of what sort of shape it's in.
Blue cheer!
Hi Joe,
Thanks for the great stack o'disk man!
Hadn't heard that Blue Cheer album in 45 years or so. They were VERY popular in my circles in socal. And yeah man Jan in Focus is an awesome player. There is a great Hocus Pocus on utube from the In Concert TV series I think it was (or Don Kershner's Rock Concert). A great Dutch band! That old JJ Cale is great too. I don't have any JJ vinyl due to a room mate having all of it.
That Jack Bruce and Robin Trower was great last week too! Did not get the attention it should have at the time.
Thanks again for the awesome soundscapes!
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
evening dystopian...
heh, one of these days i'll get around to not only posting the original hocus pocus from "moving waves," but i have a great version of it from "live at the rainbow."
you have to watch out for both roommates and ex-girlfriends/wives, they are sneaky and your vinyl collection can suffer.
it's odd, there are some great albums that wind up in the dollar bin and that trower/bruce album is one of them.
have a good one!