Monday, 1/17/11
by musicclipoftheday
Back in the ’70s, when I was at Alligator Records, I worked with this guy—coproducing albums, booking live performances, traveling to New York for a series of “showcase” performances (little pay, big exposure) at the Bottom Line (opening for Buddy Guy & Junior Wells). But I was a fan before that. In college I had a weekly radio show, where I often played his first album, released in 1973. Now, like so many others I worked with (Hound Dog Taylor, Big Walter Horton, Fenton Robinson, Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, et al.), he’s gone.
Son Seals, August 13, 1942-December 20, 2004
“I Think You’re Fooling Me,” live (TV broadcast), 1987
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
“Your Love Is Like A Cancer” (The Son Seals Blues Band, Alligator, 1973)
Vodpod videos no longer available.**********
lagniappe
reading table
for . . . Son Seals, who left to work a better room
—Andrew Vachss, Mask Market: A Burke Novel (2006)
music clip of the day 
How come I’ve never heard of this guy before? I knew I was going to enjoy the clip when he started playing his guitar at the beginning. And then he started to sing – what a voice!
Awesome!
These bring back memories. I saw Son Seals in Cambridge, MA, in the early 1980s. His “How Blue Can You Get?” brought down the house: “I gave you twenty-seven children, and now you wanna give ’em back!”