Afternoon folks!
This week is (surprise) a great blues week. Starting off, we've got one of my favorite T-Bone Walker albums which features a lot of his classic compositions, after that there's an album from blues harmonica player Papa Lightfoot. Finishing up, we've got two great New Orleans artists, Snooks Eaglin with a compilation album and Dr. John with a live album.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
There's a buncha great music for you this week. Starting off, we've got an album compilation of some of guitar wizard Earl Hooker's best early recordings followed by an album from Magic Sam. After that is a sort of unusual Etta James album with lots of lush string arrangements from her early years at Chess when they were trying to figure out what sort of material was going to attract the largest audience for her talents. Following that, there's an early album from Danny Gatton, showcasing a wide variety of genres and always amazing guitar chops. Speaking of guitar chops, we finish off this week with an album from jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
This week finishes off my collection of the American Folk Blues Festival recordings, I am pretty sure that's all of them that were made and commercially distributed. It's an excellent series that features quite an array of blues musicians. Also this week, from the diversity department is an interesting live album from Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men worth checking out.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
This week the American Folk Blues Festival series continues with albums from 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1980 (the years in between no albums were produced for the series). There's some amazing talent on these albums, so check them out. Rounding out the week in the diversity department we have Van Morrison and The Chieftains.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
This week there's a bunch of recordings from the American Folk Blues Festivals from 1963 through 1967, there are a lot of outstanding performances from some of the best blues musicians of the time. Check it out! Finishing off in the diversity department is an album from Dread Zeppelin of their best material, who knew that Led Zeppelin would sound so good as a reggae band fronted by an Elvis impersonator?
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
There's some great blues for you all to listen to this week. Starting off, there's an album of mostly live recordings from the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe from 1962 with a great lineup of talent including Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Matt Guitar Murphy and Sonny Boy Williamson. Following that are albums from Eddy Clearwater and west coast harmonica player William Clarke. After that it's on to the rock department with a band you've likely heard of, Los Lobos recorded live and we finish up in the diversity department with a 1980's album from Canadian folk-rock guitarist and songwriter Bruce Cockburn.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
This week we start off with a great album from Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, formerly of the Muddy Waters Band. Following that is a live album from jazz and blues guitarist Floyd McDaniel and a studio album from Henry Butler a talented blues piano player. Finishing up we have a large collection of live performances and demos by the Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
We've got some cool blues this week. Starting out, there's an album from Chicago blues harmonica player Billy Branch and guitarist Lurrie Bell. Following that is an album from Big Jack Johnson and one from Lonnie Brooks. After that we move on to some blues-rock from Little Feat recorded live in Holland back in 1976. Finishing up in the diversity department is an album from Muscle Shoals songwriter Donnie Fritts and there are a bunch of good songs on the album.
Enjoy the music and have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
Here we go. Starting off we've got a couple of live albums, one from Albert King and one a compendium of live performances at the Montreux Blues Festival over the years by Luther Allison. After that, we have an album of zydeco from Clifton Chenier. Then shifting gears to blues-rock we have Roy Buchanan's for many years unreleased first album and some later live recordings. We finish up in the diversity bag with Los Straitjackets doing a kind of revved-up surf/rockabilly kinda thing.
Enjoy the tunes, have a great weekend!
Afternoon folks!
Another week, more stuff for your ear buds to sample. Starting off, we've got Big Daddy Kinsey's tribute album to Muddy Waters, followed by an album by Ronnie Earl with significant parts of Muddy Waters' band including the great Pinetop Perkins who really shines on this. After that we've got an album from Alvin Youngblood Hart that sadly didn't get the attention that his breakthrough album did. Then we've got Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder in their younger days with an album retrieved from the vault and resurrected. Finally, there's a later album from Levon Helm full of great stuff.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
