Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
"If you don't want my peaches, don't shake my tree." That's a line from one of the versions of Blind Lemon Jefferson's perfect song from 1927 - "Matchbox Blues." I don't think Albert King used those lines in this version with Stevie Ray, though. Our peaches up here in Yankeeland begin to ripen right about now. I get a good crop from this tree every other year, but this is the second great year in a...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
This week’s big new album releases include a pair of big comebacks lead by B.B. King’s One Kind Favor, the finest album from the blues icon in decades. The T-Bone Burnett-produced album features King’s own versions of blues classics. Mark Kemp says “King is heartbreakingly intimate on standards like Blind Lemon Jefferson’s ‘See That My [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
in post SUNDAY MIXTAPE - NUMBER 106 from Communications Major, English Minor .
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Some righteous shit on a sweltering Tuesday night during these dog days. I spent an hour today reading Light in August and listening to this song on repeat. As Cee-Lo once put it,”just ended up being some food for my soul.” From the impossibly recommended Goodbye Babylon Download: MP3: Blind Lemon Jefferson-”All I Want Is That [...]
merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, text comments, interactive power tab, looping, frame advance, zoom, and other useful controls. Works on PC or Mac also includes access to Truefire TV
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
Of all the Paramount bluesmen, perhaps only BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON's life is more full of colorful myth than Tommy Johnson's. He was born on a Terry Mississippi plantation in 1896, one of a large family. He learnt to play the guitar from an older brother. Around 1911, he left home, and soon fell with CHARLEY PATTON and WILLIE BROWN, from whom he is assumed to have learned musical and stage technique....
The Weight (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
B.B. King is releasing a new album, his 24th, on August 26th, featuring the songs that influenced him back in the 1950s. It is titled 'One Kind Favor', a reference to a Blind Lemon Jefferson song that Widespread Panic has covered since 1997. The track does not appear on the album though. Fleetwood Mac is set to tour in early 2009 for the first time since 2004. Despite the rumors started by
Billboard (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
B.B. King returns to his blues roots with the help of producer T Bone Burnett on "One Kind Favor," due Aug. 26 via Geffen.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I’d like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then.” At 82, King wondered whether he could really re-create what he calls “the B.B. [...]
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
disc 1 ------------- 1. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (3:00) 2. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Easy Rider Blues (2:54) 3. Charlie Patton - High Water Everywhere (3:03) 4. Ma Rainey - Prove It On Me Blues (2:41) 5. Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long Now (3:24) 6. Furry Lewis - Mistreatin' Papa (3:07) 7. Ida Cox - Give Me A Break Blues (2:52) 8. Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Oh man. I've had nothin' but bad luck, since the day this gal came and knocked at my door. Well, it was this morning and I'm aware that's not a long time... but still... it's Friday 13th and I didn't...
MoreWriting 10 latest works (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
For Ric Von Schmidt for the quote... and to the memory of the great Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
I've simply fallen in love with Laura Gibson and her new six song EP Six White Horses: Blues & Traditionals, Vol. 1 . It's quiet. It's haunting. It's full of covers and reinterpretations. But it's also wonderfully original. And I love it. I'd like to just stop here and let my brevity stay the course, as it does on the EP, but I'll add a little more to try and get you to love it, too. The texture of...
ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
In his youth he played on street corners for dimes and pennies! He was born on 16 September, 1925 on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. He spent his youth playing on street corners for dimes. Today B.B. King (Riley B. King) averages 250 'packed to the rafters' concerts around the world each and every year.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century. "The Hook" was a Mississippi native who became the top gent on the Detroit blues circuit in the...
