Friday, 9/7/12
timeless
Mississippi Fred McDowell, “Write Me A Few Of Your Lines”
Blues Maker, 1969
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timeless
Mississippi Fred McDowell, “Write Me A Few Of Your Lines”
Blues Maker, 1969
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summer in the city
The Black Keys, Lollapalooza, Chicago (Grant Park), 8/3/12
“Howlin’ For You”
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“Little Black Submarines”
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“Lonely Boy”
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
What, if anything, does it mean that, in the year 2012, not one but two of the headliners at Lollapalooza—Jack White and the Black Keys—are deeply influenced by blues?
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reading table
Life had begun to demand lies in order to be workable.
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At the crest of the hill where the road went up, was an abandoned house, and beyond it the road disappeared off into the blue sky.
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It’s odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It’s so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seemed impossible to find among the facts. If there was a hidden design, living almost never shed light on it.
—Richard Ford, Canada (2012)
basement jukebox
Otis Rush, singer, guitar player
Where did “Black Magic Woman” come from?
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” 1958
If you take the words from ‘Black Magic Woman’ and just leave the rhythm, it’s ‘All Your Love’—it’s Otis Rush.
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“I Can’t Quit You Baby,” 1956
mesmerizing, pres. part. Spellbinding, enthralling. E.g., Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Sonny Boy Williamson II (AKA Aleck [or Alex] “Rice” Miller)
Live, Europe, 1960s
“I’m A Lonely Man”
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“Bye Bye Bird”
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If they would create a time machine, I’d use it just to listen this guy.
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lagniappe
reading table
evening
is such a downer . . .
meadow butterfly—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
rock ’n’ roll
country
gospel
blues
jazz
A world without American music: what would it sound like?
The Blasters, “American Music,” Champaign, Ill., 1985
(Originally posted 7/5/10.)
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Merle Haggard, “Lonesome Fugitive,” Buck Owens Ranch Show, 1966
(Originally posted 4/6/12.)
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Slim and the Victory Aires, “Alright Now,” Paducah, Ky., 2008
(Originally posted 3/11/12)
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Johnny Shines (1915-1992), vocals, guitar; David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915-2011), guitar; Big Walter Horton (1917-1981), harmonica; “For The Love of Mike,” 1978
(Originally posted 10/4/11.)
Von Freeman, tenor saxophone; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone (first solo); Willie Pickens, piano; Dan Shapera, bass; Robert Shy, drums; “Oleo” (S. Rollins), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 1988
(Originally posted 5/3/12.)
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lagniappe
radio
All Pops, all day:
Tune in on July 4th, Independence Day . . . as we celebrate the professed (although according to historians, not actual) birthday of Jazz great and American Hero, the trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong, by playing 24 hours straight of his music, from midnight to midnight.
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encore*
Dave Alvin with the Blasters, “4th of July,” Berwyn, Ill. (Fitzgerald’s), 2010
*By popular demand (see Comments).
Today, for our 1,000th post, we revisit a few favorites—more tomorrow.
Junior Wells (vocal and harmonica), Buddy Guy (guitar), “Cryin’ Shame” (AKA “Country Girl”), live, Chicago, 1970 (Chicago Blues)
(Originally posted 7/8/10.)
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Buddy Guy, “Let Me Love You Baby,” live, 1960s
(Originally posted 3/12/10.)
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Magic Sam, “All Your Love,” “Lookin’ Good”
Live, Germany, 1969
(Originally posted 11/21/09.)
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Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Sadie,” live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973
(Originally posted 4/29/11.)
Happy (Day After) Father’s Day
Nas (son) with Olu Dara (father), “Bridging the Gap” (2004)
(sampling Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy”)
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lagniappe
Here’s more from the old man.
David Murray Octet, “Dewey’s Circle” (DM, tenor saxophone; Olu Dara, trumpet; Butch Morris, cornet; George Lewis, trombone; Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone; Anthony Davis, piano; Wilber Morris, bass; Steve McCall, drums), Ming (Black Saint, 1980)
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Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy” (Chess, 1955)
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lagniappe
reading table
People are mysterious, unfathomable—like divinities: natural objects for reverence. But our habits of thought turn the people around us into objects, the means for our self-protection.
—Lama John Makransky, “Family Practice,”
Tricycle, Summer 2001
passings
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson, singer, guitar player, songwriter
March 3, 1923-May 29, 2012
“Deep River Blues,” 1960s
Country musicians who love blues, blues musicians who love country (as I frequently encountered years ago working at Alligator Records): stories of race and music are often complex, resisting reduction to black and white.
basement jukebox
Bobby “Blue” Bland, “That’s the Way Love Is” (Duke 1962)
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O.V. Wright, “That’s How Strong My Love Is” (Goldwax 1964)
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Jimmy Ruffin, “What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted” (Motown 1966)
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lagniappe
found words
You’ve got [Cubs left fielder] Alfonso Soriano out there with Mickey Mantle’s knees. I’m not talking metaphor here. I think he really has Mickey Mantle’s knees.
—Jim Memolo, WGN Radio, Sunday’s post-game call-in show, following the Cubs’ third straight loss to the White Sox
Michael Burks (7/30/57-5/6/12), “Twenty-Four Hour Blues”
Live, Belgium (Zingem), 5/5/12
One day he makes these sounds, the next no sound at all—not the world I would have designed.
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