Afternoon folks!

Let's start this weekend off with a King-size bang... first up, an album from Albert King from his Stax period, then one from B.B. King accompanied by a bunch of rock musicians and studio folks in 1971. After that we have a live album recorded in the early sixties featuring a whole bunch of Chess records blues superstars. Following that is a disc of demos, outtakes and alternates from Little Feat's Last Record Album sessions. Finishing up we move into some prog rock with a live album from the band Curved Air.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great holiday weekend!

Afternoon folks!

Unsurprisingly, there's some blues here for you. Starting off is the bonus disc of a later release of Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live with a whole bunch of material that was not in my vinyl rip of the original album. Following that is a compilation album of T-Bone Walker tunes and an album from a fine but lesser-known Texas blues guitarist in the T-Bone tradition, Long John Hunter. After that, it's on to a classic album from John Mayall's Blues Breakers in the Eric Clapton period followed by New Orleans Meters. We finish up with some rock and roll from British guitarist Chris Spedding who has likely performed as a session musician on or produced stuff you might have heard.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Afternoon folks!

Ok, ready to tiptoe through the blues? Starting out we've got an album of Chicago blues harmonica play Junior Well's early recordings, followed by a compilation album of guitarist Earl Hooker's recordings. After that there's a live album of Muddy Waters and Otis Spann from 1958, originally recorded to an acetate record the first couple of cuts have some occasional noise, but it's worth it. Following that is a mostly acoustic album from John Lee Hooker. Then it's on to blues rock with an audiophile remaster of The Band's "Music From Big Pink" and then we finish up with an album from Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Afternoon folks!

It's a feast of blues this week. Starting off in New Orleans with an album from barrelhouse piano player Champion Jack Dupree, we then move on to an album from Taj Mahal, with a stellar version of Horace Silver's "Senor Blues." Following that we go to a live album from Muddy Waters and then a raw, rootsy album from Big Bad Smitty. After that it's blues-rock time with a live Hot Tuna album and we finish up in the diversity department with a folksy kind of album from The Be Good Tanyas.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Afternoon folks!

This week we've got blues in big portions starting off with an album from Muddy Waters in the early 70's and followed up with some serious Detroit blues from the 50's with Eddie Burns and John Lee Hooker. After that there's a compilation album of Piedmont blues from Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Terry and another comp from Taj Mahal. Then there's a live album from Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady before they became Hot Tuna and we finish up with a talented guitarist in the folkish category, John Renbourn.

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!

Guess what, there's some blues here. Heh. First we've got one of two Luther Johnsons that played in the Muddy Waters band, Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson, not to be confused with Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson, fronting the Muddy Waters band for his own album. After that blues harmonica player Junior Parker and jazz organist Jimmy McGriff contribute an album. Following that, it's blues guitarist Freddie King finishing off the blues section. Moving on to blues rock, there's an album from Johnny Winter and after that, in a more acoustic country blues vein is a fine album from Jorma Kaukonen and an album from the David Bromberg Band. Finishing off is my personal favorite album by Traffic.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Have you ever felt like we're rushing down the river of history headlong into the unknown known? By unknown known I mean we may have an idea of the destination, but it's so unfathomable, like a bad dream, that we deny its possibility. The rivers of history have done that before.

Like all rivers, this one too, has branches that empty into it, some large, some small. The larger tributaries are the true believers that will ride the currents no matter what may come. The smaller tributaries are those that see the rough waters ahead. The true believers are convinced the river will widen into a slow rolling and calm future. The smaller tributaries are those that see the rapids and the waterfall dead ahead and the dangers of such.

Years of manipulation have muddied the waters so that the large tributaries may easily swallow up the smaller ones into one inevitable flow that will engulf us all. Into that unknown known.

It appears pretty certain that we're headed down that river, whether we like it or not. There's a new reality over those rapids and down the waterfall, and just like the force of a mighty river there are mighty forces that will carry the willing and unwilling, marching in lock step or kicking and screaming, into whatever great body of water that lies ahead.

Afternoon folks!

This is another good week for the blues. Starting off we've got a late 70's Muddy Waters album, followed by a collection of Chicago blues acts (Carey Bell, Magic Slim & The Teardrops and Johnny "Big Moose" Walker) and finishing off with a compilation of LaVern Baker singles. After that, it's blues rock time with a greatest hits comp from Wet Willie, a later 70's Climax Blues Band album, an Elvin Bishop album and a Pretty Things album. We finish off in the diversity department with a hard to pigeonhole stylistically, but nonetheless interesting album from Don Nix.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!