Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Born in 1902 just outside Clarksdale Mississippi, supposedly an influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, and so part of the mythic Delta Blues dynasty, here's Son House - music from another world: Bottleneck bonus: Mississippi Fred McDowell, Goin' Down...
HearYa (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
We got a Lee Corso-esque email from a reader named Chris saying “Not so fast my friends.” It actually said “You shouldn’t finish up with Dan without going back to his earlier band, The Barnburners.” I didn’t know that such a band existed, thus proving that I’m not a stalker. Dan, you can hold [...]
Daytrotter (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The Beat Strings: In a different life and in a different place, The Beat Strings lead singer Adam Bolts would be the point-and-shoot, bull’s eyed tabloid fodder that former Libertine Pete Doherty is over there in the UK. He wouldn’t necessarily have to be …
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Like last week’s featured bluesman Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Been on a blues bender of historic proportions the past few days, what with the Deep Blues Festival and the George Mitchell Collection (posts on each collecting dust on the homepage). Fred McDowell factors indelibly into both in terms...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
One of the most talented musicians of his time. Fred McDowell performed to large crowds all over the United States and Europe for several decades. He also spent most of his life working at a service station in Como, Mississippi, where I first approached him. This was in 1967. Fred couldn't have been more excited about doing a rcording session and insisted we hire Johnny Woods, his old friend and a...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Within the first five songs at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night, the North Mississippi Allstars' lead singer and guitarist, Luther Dickinson, managed to wring several different connotations out of the verb “shake.”
New York Times (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Within the first five songs at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night, the North Mississippi Allstars' lead singer and guitarist, Luther Dickinson, managed to wring several different connotations out of the verb “shake.”
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 28/01/2008
This is their first on their own label, recorded on dad Jim Dickinson's ranch, in The Barn. It also marks something of a departure in sound. Named after their hometown, Hernando sees the band make their own soul music - the tempo's come down, and the sound links the swamp rock of Creedence Clearwater Revival and new guitar hero bands like Gov't Mule. NMA were always influenced by other Mississippi...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 31/12/2007
There were so many good and great gigs this year that I have not had time to sit around and count them all up to wrap them into a retrospective. Shucks... Maybe tomorrow... But here are four tracks to consider before I roll out the last seasonal mix. Chico Hamilton – undersung somewhat overall and probably because of spending time out on the West Coast rather than in the belly of the New York beast...
Frederator Studios (Free subscription) | 26/12/2007
Mississippi Fred McDowell Live In New York Produced by Tom Pomposello, Dick Pennington, and Fred Seibert Engineered by Fred Seibert Original LP 1. Shake 'Em On Down 2. Fred's Worried Blues 3. Jesus is on the Cross 4. Mercy 5. When The Saints Come Marchin' In 6. Someday Baby 7. The Lovin' Blues 8. White Lightnin' 9. You Got To Move 10. Louise 11. Baby Please Don't Go Bonus tracks, not included on the...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Recordings from old records, bad tapes, home recordings and friends. 01 Carson Robison and his Pleasant Valley Boys - That Horse Named Pete (3:04) c1950, MGM 10732, 78 rpm 02 Baby Gramps - Bahama Mama (4:31) Live in the 1970's...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
Happy Parts Recordings and the outstandingly rocking Golden Animals are happy to give to you five new songs while the band is busy completing their full-length debut in Joshua Tree. Who are the Golden Animals? They are Tommy Eisner on guitar and vocals and Linda Beecroft on drums and vocals. He looks like Jimmy Page's younger brother. She looks like the sultry free spirit of the hippie wilderness....
Pro-G (Free subscription) | 29/10/2007
What genres are left for SingStar to cover?
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 23/10/2007
Far too many blues-rock bands sound like Blueshammer, the hackneyed faux-blues band featured in a key scene from the film Ghost World, who serve up lame, uninspired riffs swiped from Jimmy Page, who himself swiped them from Mississippi Fred McDowell. In truth, Five Horse Johnson isn't really that far from this depressing prospect; their relationship to the blues is only slightly firmer than that of...
