Skip James - Hard Time Killin Floor Blues Blind Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine Elmore James - I Need You Lucille Bogan - The Tricks ain't Walkin No More Carter Family - John Hardy was a Desperate Little Man Fred Williams and the Jewels Band - Tell Her Bob Dylan - Ballad of Hollis BrownJohn Prine - Rocky Mountain Time Tom Waits - Train Song Tom Waits 9th and Hennepin Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your...
Today is the birthday of Bukka White. He was born November 12, 1909 and passed away February 26, 1977. According to Wikipedia Bukka White (November 12, 1909 -- February 26, 1977) was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Christian name by his second (1937) record label, (Vocalion). Born Booker T. Washington White near Houston, Mississippi,...
The above cover of Leonard Cohen's "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" is Beck's Record Club's last jaunt through Songs of Leonard Cohen, presumably paving the way for the album-lenght cover of a Skip James album with Wilco. This video is pretty understated, which has kind of been the overall theme of this album-length cover, since the group was less inclined to massacre songs by other artists,...
I have always thought that blues music reflects what is going on in the US well. Right now unemployment is high, this is not the first time that this has happened in this country. And blues musicians have documented it and offered over the years some hope and escape from the frustration of not having a job. The Y! Raddish Blog put together a play list of blues songs about Unemployment. I thought it...
"Stuff To Spy For" in Dan Burns new book, James Lessor and Skip Moore have become private investigators. Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs , still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security...
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 [...]
It’s Halloween and time for some scary songs — sorry, but no “Monster Mash.” We’re talking about really scary songs. Here are 20, arranged chronologically, that’ll give you the chills: <strong> 1. Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman”</strong> (1930s): The demon runs wild, and betrayal runs rampant.
It’s Halloween and time for some scary songs – and, no, I don’t mean Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash.” I mean really scary songs. Here are 20, arranged chronologically, that’ll give you the chills: Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman”...
What a great film. The Cohen Brothers at their best in my opinion. It’s a wonderfully clever retelling of Homer’s Iliad in the style of a 3 Stooges movie set in an alternate universe during a time period much like Depression/Dust Bowl era America. But as this is not a film blog, I digress [...]
Coming from a farming community in Far North Queensland, 8 Ball Aitken is the oldest son of an impoverished family of twelve children. 8 Ball spent his adolescence on a banana plantation, living in a rough tobacco shed with resident rats, bats, snakes, and spiders as his sleeping companions. He started work as a farm labourer aged fifteen, doing back-breakingly hard work on the mango and banana plantations...
For all of Philadelphia's rich history across the American musical spectrum, from jazz to rock and rap, landmarks of blues history are thin on the region's ground.
Here are some of my favorite songs featuring falsetto singing. I tried to cover quite a few genres, but I wanted to keep it to 10 (although I did include two Handel). Handel Nube Sole Si Fugge il Duol Handel - Amor Nel Mio Penar Skip James - Drunken Spree Carl Story - I've Found a Hiding Place Ken Parker - My7 Whole World is Falling Down Eddie Kendricks - Can I? Curtis Mayfield - Power to the People...
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