Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I think it would be only fair to describe this podcast as a little bit messy. We recorded it immediately after first Craigcast two weeks ago, and so by the end of it we were all fucking hammered. I promise I have tried to edit out as much of the madness as I could, but [...]
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Like many bluesmen, Mississippi Fred McDowell was as familiar with spirituals and gospel music as he was with the deep blues. It wasn’t unusual for bluesmen to play the gutbucket music on Saturday night and the sanctified music on Sunday morning. This collection finds the great guitarist and singer playing several selections of blues accompanied by only his percussive slide guitar playing before...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Saw the Maysles Bros. new Rolling Stones flick Get Yer Ya-Yas Out the other day -- my review will be up over at Box Office momentarily I think -- and one of the best scenes is Mick and Keith doing an unplugged version of "You Gotta Move." Mick, at his most transparently disingenuous, prefaces it by saying "We've been trying to find out who wrote it, but we don't know." Actually,...
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I’ve heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old [...]
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I won't argue plagiarism in the music business. It happens & has been happening for a century or more (how many versions of Stagger Lee are there?) The real crime is how these original artists were treated. Don' talk about royalites not received now. Most NEVER received any royalties. $5 or $10 or $20 (maybe!) to record a song and then the music company owned the rights and the artist never saw...
BluesHound (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
http://www.youtube.com/v/mtlVSedpIRU'f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read more: mississippi fred mcdowell you gotta move
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to Bonnie Raitt performed at Lenox Music Inn on August 25, 1973
Dennis The Peasant (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Hey, Kiddies... 'Tis time for some blues music for (mostly) electric guitar... This is Jeff Beck playing Ray Charles' Drown In My Own Tears. He's OK, I guess... If you like talent. Speaking of talent, here's Johnny Winter playing Be...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
Fred McDowell of Como, Missisippi was one of the great originals of modern blues music. After playing guitar and singing the blues and gospel music for friends and family for many years and developing a completely unique style, he was “discovered” in the late 1950’s and went on to have a successful late life recording career. He toured and influenced many young rock and blues musicians,...
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Hi all, I'm giving away my album which was released couple of months ago here in Israel. Here are couple of words about it (on the bottom - the downloadable link) : Armed with a 12 strings acoustic guitar, an intoxicated banjo and a cheeky Weissenborn, amongst other soaked instruments, Israel's Yair Yona adapts his British Folk influences and his love for the groundbreaking guitar works of John Fahey,...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
Vanessa and I went to hear Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal in Prospect Park last night and I was, once again, reminded of why Bonnie Raitt is literally one of the coolest women alive (Taj was awesome too, of course!)....
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
In the folk and country blues revival of the 1960s he was listening to Broonzy, Brownie McGhee and Lightnin' Hopkins and beginning to collect old 78 rpm records from the 1920s and 1930s. This brought him into contact with other collectors, including John Fahey, Ed Denson, Bernie Klatzko, Tom Hoskins and Nick Perls. Collecting the 78s developed into searching for the artists who had recorded them, with...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Woke Up this Morning with My Mind on Jesus by Mississippi Fred McDowell (MP3 Download) Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) by Blind Roosevelt Graves (MP3 Download)
Rullsenberg Rules (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Happy clapping.Psychos. 4oD. Very heaven.
rashbre central (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
The ghost of Mississippi Fred McDowell haunting the fingers of Rock Freebase on guitar, Larry Love’s larynx looser than Howlin’ Wolf. Devlin Love’s vocals as sweet as Sister Rosetta and Harpo Strangelove’s harmonica cooking up a Sonny Terry vibe - welcome to the Delta Blues alive and kicking in 2009. In Brixton.
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