nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The best of Eaglin's terrific series of Black Top efforts so far -- song selection is absolutely unassailable (lots of savage New Orleans covers, from Lloyd Price and Professor Longhair to Willie Tee and Earl King), the band simmers and sizzles with spicy second-line fire (bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Herman Ernest III are a formidable pair indeed), and Eaglin's churchy, commanding vocals...
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
I’m pretty sure this video was recorded in New Orleans, which would be appropriate. It’s Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble performing Earl King’s classic “Let the Good Times Roll,” a.k.a. “Come On.”
Home of the Groove (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Here's another New Orleans rarity that, like the previously posted Johnny Moore (Deacon John) 45, came out on the Wand label, based in New York. Wand issued a number of singles by New Orleans artists between 1966 and the mid-1970s, leasing virtually all of those tracks from various production companies in the Deep South - in this case, Sansu Enterprises. It features the great Earl King , performing...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Mitch's solo project, "Keeper Of The Flame" is Mitch's tribute to the blues masters that inspired his career. On it he plays piano and sings duets with John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry), Earl King, and Lee Allen (Fats Domino). Hooker enjoyed these sessions so much that he asked Woods to join him in his own recording "Boom Boom". Cotton blasts and wails on harmonica, John...
LORD CELERY (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
I had hoped to write more about our trip back to the States over the course of this past week, but I've been a little under the weather. As I'm feeling better this evening, and while John and I both assemble and post our trip photos to Smugmug, I thought I'd share with my readers the faces of the people (and the six doggies) we were so happy to spend time with while in the US. Click on any of
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
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Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Today was the first Jazz Fest Thursday since Katrina. Thursdays were relatively low-key days. Today seemed to fit that mold. Here’s a short account of one attendee’s low-key day: Arrive some time after 11:00 a.m. Go first to the Gospel...
JUkeboxmafia (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
If You Just Woulda Said Goodbye Walkin' Willie RSVP - 113 MP3 File Here is one I know almost nothing about. Who is Walkin' Willie? I have no idea. What we do have is a nice mixture of New Orleans-y sounds. A Chris Kenner-y vocal, Toussaint-y piano and female chorus, overlaid with an Earl King-y guitar riff. If you know anything about this one, please let me know...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
Tomorrow I'm off to the US for what has become virtually an annual trip. Kicking off in Memphis I will be going to Clarksdale, Mississippi, for the Juke Joint Blues Festival, then on to Shreveport, Lafayette, a week in New Orleans for Jazzfest and the Ponderosa Stomp and then back to Memphis for the Beale Street festival. Getting away from the unseasonably cold weather - and from work - for two and...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 16/03/2008
------------- 1. Albert Collins - Give Me My Blues (4:15) 2. Greg Piccolo - The Freeze (5:43) 3. Smokin' Joe Kubek Band - Can't See For Lookin' (4:41) 4. Rick Holmstrom - Guitar Boogie Shuffle Twist (3:32) 5. Earl King & Roomful Of Blues - Somebody's Got a Tail (3:55) 6. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Homesick Boy (3:11) 7. U.P. Wilson - Bluesola (3:26) 8. Bobby Radcliff - You Haven't Hurt Me...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
You can't get away from Professor Longhair, a.k.a. ‘Fess. Piano freaks who appreciate all players and who don't just specialize in jazz or classical will tell you it's a dead heat between him, Ray Charles, and Booker T. Jones for the title of Greatest American Keyboard Player of All Time — and by “greatest” I [...]
IckMusic (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Meters. Dr. John. Professor @#!% Longhair. Earl King. ‘Nuff said.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Your birthday today: Be self-confident and trusting: it will make you enjoy your home and friends more. You have good judgment and a fine sense of character, but should not let it predominate your friendships, by constantly analyzing them. There is nobody written into the book, so you are alone in your celebrations of this day, unless you count these notables: P'u Yi , Sir Thomas More , Charles Dickens...
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
The Meters, Earl King, Professor Longhair, and Dr. John show the folks at Montreux (I think) what Mardi Gras is all about. Happy Mardi Gras, y'all.
Home of the Groove (Free subscription) | 26/01/2008
As I mentioned in my note on the last Toussaint post, we started out the evening last Saturday shivering in a cold North wind to view the annual Krewe du Vieux parade, which winds through the Faubourg Marigny and French Quarter. As you can see from their website, Krewe du Vieux is a large aggregation of paraders of various bents (and I do mean bent) whose yearly Carnival themes are highly satirical,...
