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Recording information : Wessex Studios, London, England (10/20/1965). Personnel: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (vocals, harmonica, drums); Buddy Guy (guitars); Fred McDowell (slide guitar); Big Walter Horton (harmonica); Eddie Boyd (piano, organ); Jimmy Lee Robinson (electric bass); Fred Below (drums). This 2005 release of Big Mama Thornton's 1965 studio session in London is a pristine snapshot of...
James Taylor will release an album of covers, mysteriously titled Covers, on September 30th via Hear Music. Taylor will perform renditions of songs that span several decades, including a pair of Leiber-Stoller tunes (”Hound Dog” and “On Broadway”), Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and even the Dixie Chicks’ version of “Some Days You Gotta Dance.” “An album [...]
The ladies at Aunt Jemima's Revenge are so OVER Omar Tyree. When a book doesn't sell, who's at fault? The writer or the publisher? Did you know that a black woman, Big Mama Thornton , recorded "Hound Dog" three years before Elvis? With Wings and a Halo is a non-profit that seeks to put books in places where kids are in crisis, including in squad cars . Erika is loving reading Jean Thompson's new story...
Big Mama Thornton died on this day in 1984. The blues singer — born in 1926 — was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog," which became a hit three years later when Elvis covered it.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
From Big Mama Thornton to Lil' Kim, from Janis Joplin to Courtney Love, from Loretta Lynn to Linda Ronstadt, women have strugled, schemed and-most important-sung their way to the top (or almost the top) of the male-dominated music business. Now in her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Atlantic Monthly), music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard, and...
The music business is filled with tragic stories, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of individual tales of opportunities lost and potential unfilled. One of those is the story of Johnny Ace. Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) was a Memphis native and a regular on the local music scene from an early age. A contemporary [...]
Mr. Garnett Mimms “Listen - Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters - Cry Baby - MP3″ Greetings all. Today’s selection is one of the first soul records that I became aware of way back in the day, and – I’m ashamed to say – that I only recently grabbed myself a copy of the 45 (despite the fact [...]
Big Mama Thornton died in a boarding house in 1984. She improvised a lot of the hit Hound Dog - "So I started to sing the words and join in some of my own. All that talkin' and hollerin'--that's my own." - after Lieber and Stoller wrote it for her. Her income from that song, a big hit record for her that sold two million copies? " I got one check for $500 and I never seen another." She lived the archetypal...
Via this post at Metafilter, here's Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy: This is great too - Down Home Shakedown, with Big Mama heading a bunch of harp players, including Walter "Shakey" Horton, Doc Ross and John Lee Hooker, queueing...
