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Alexandra

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Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 5:43am

 bokey wrote:

He does a couple excellent versions of Voodoo Chile also.He and Hendrix were definitely from the same planet.
 

Most definitely.  Wow, bokes, thanks for posting—I thoroughly enjoyed that one. I love watching his face while he plays—-so blissed out and in that "zone." He makes it look so frickin easy, doesn't he? I can't believe he can let go and just play with his left hand—since all I've ever played is acoustic, I'm trying to think of how that's even possible! And wouldn't you love to be the guy playing rhythm guitar with him?

WOW. {#Notworthy}
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Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 3:33am

Quote: Prematurely taken from this world, Magic Sam may have had the talent to become the greatest exponent of West Side Blues, perhaps even eclipsing both Otis Rush and Buddy Guy.
We will never know, yet more than 30 years following his death, the music of Magic Sam still remains vital and alive to this day.




Freddie King's Boogie Funk, based on Magic Sam's Boogie. Freddie King played some
time in Magic Sam's band. Both died of a heart attack (age 42 and 32) and didn't live
long enough to know how influential they would become. I read that Freddie King
played about 300 gigs a year, until his death.



Tremendous version of Going Down (5:20), as well, BTW.  No mistake about it, not even in this poor sound quality.

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Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 12:33am

 Alexandra wrote:
Holy crap, I'd never heard Stevie's cover of Little Wing until Bluesville played it today. . . . . and just. . . . . WOW.


 

 
He does a couple excellent versions of Voodoo Chile also. He and Hendrix were definitely from the same planet.




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Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 7:51pm

Holy crap, I'd never heard Stevie's cover of Little Wing until Bluesville played it today.....and just.....WOW.


 


Alexandra

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Posted: Sep 7, 2011 - 4:40pm

I know it's technically jazz, but......two of my very favorite Louis Jordan classics...


And then, to be fair....



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Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 4:49am

 Geed wrote:
the blues

 


{#Arrowd} Buzz, I hope you'll post some pics of the blues gods!


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Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 9:36pm

the blues


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Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 8:02pm

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Phils Folk Fest had an acoustic blues workshop on Sunday morning. Tom Rush, Jorma Kaukonen, Bavid Bromberg and Roy Book Binder. Freakin awesome.
 
There were 2 other groups involved, but they didn't belong on the same stage with these gods. 
 
dang
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Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 8:01pm

Phils Folk Fest had an acoustic blues workshop on Sunday morning. Tom Rush, Jorma Kaukonen, Bavid Bromberg and Roy Book Binder. Freakin awesome.
 
There were 2 other groups involved, but they didn't belong on the same stage with these gods. 
Alexandra

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Posted: Aug 23, 2011 - 7:54pm

I heard a superb recording of this on XM's "Bluesville" on the way home tonight....I don't think this is quite the one, but close. I absolutely loved the reverb on the guitar as it sings out its little riffs, and the wandering bassline in other parts....and it was very, very crisp.



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Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 10:24am

{#Lol}




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Posted: Aug 13, 2011 - 12:02am

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Definitely trumps me - I think you've got something in the works.

Anyway - maybe see you around here tomorrow - getting late for me.  Good night to ya.

 
All in fun, I didn't intend it to be meaningful, just having fun. Yours might have possibilities, though . . . if you can cover that bald spot. {#Roflol}

'Night, JL


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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:55pm

 OlderThanDirt wrote:

I think that trumps both of us. {#Lol}

 

Definitely trumps me - I think you've got something in the works.

Anyway - maybe see you around here tomorrow - getting late for me.  Good night to ya.
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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:52pm

 justlistening wrote:
{#Lol} Yeah but this is Muddy and Etta we're talkin' about. 

 
I think that trumps both of us. {#Lol}
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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:49pm

 OlderThanDirt wrote:

See rule #8.
 

{#Lol} Yeah but this is Muddy and Etta we're talkin' about. 
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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:47pm

 justlistening wrote:

lol, blues can definitely be more about the music than the lyrics - and I think you've got the advantage on 12a

- but sometimes lyrics don't have to be complicated to smoke:

I don't want you to be no slave
I don't want you to work all day
I don't want you to be true
I just want to make love to you

I don't want you to wash my clothes
I don't want you to keep my home
I don't want your money too
I just want to make love to you

Well I can see by the way that you switch and walk
And I can tell by the way that you baby talk
And I know by the way that you treat your man
I wanna love you baby, it's a cryin' shame

I don't want you to bake my bread
I don't want you to make my bed
I don't want you cause I'm sad and blue
I just want to make love to you


 
You might want to look at rule #8, but if you can get by that, you just might have a hit.

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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:42pm

 OlderThanDirt wrote:
 Alexandra wrote:

HOW TO SING THE BLUES



Woke up this mornin, found the world still turnin round, (instrumental repeat)
Woke up this mornin, still ain't heaven bound, (instrumental repeat)
Woke up this mornin, ain't no blues to be found. (instruments do something)

Got the early in the mornin, bed still own me blues, (i  r)
Gotta get up, gotta go read that awful useless news. (i r)
Gotta get up, gotta get movin, got too much to lose. (i d s)

Gotta get up, gotta go join this day, ( )
Gotta get up, got a bunch of bills to pay. ( )
gotta get up, can't let ol' slothful waste my time away. ( )

Gotta get up, just cain't stay in bed, (
Gotta get up, that's what the clock just said, (
Gotta get up, else their gonna think I'm dead. (big instrumental finish, hopefully big enough to overcome the inanity of the above.)
(Submitted in support of Alexandra's rules #1 and #12a, and in spite of many of the other ones.)
 
lol, blues can definitely be more about the music than the lyrics - and I think you've got the advantage on 12a

- but sometimes lyrics don't have to be complicated to smoke:

I don't want you to be no slave
I don't want you to work all day
I don't want you to be true
I just want to make love to you

I don't want you to wash my clothes
I don't want you to keep my home
I don't want your money too
I just want to make love to you

Well I can see by the way that you switch and walk
And I can tell by the way that you baby talk
And I know by the way that you treat your man
I wanna love you baby, it's a cryin' shame

I don't want you to bake my bread
I don't want you to make my bed
I don't want you cause I'm sad and blue
I just want to make love to you



justlistening

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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:41pm

 lily34 wrote:
jimmie vaughan is coming in early october. i'm thinking about getting a ticket.

 

He played near me about 6 months ago - could not get tickets for the night I could go - I was bummed.  I think he's an underappreciated guitar player - I bet his show would be great! Hope you can get a ticket.
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Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 11:16pm

 Alexandra wrote:

HOW TO SING THE BLUES



Woke up this mornin, found the world still turnin round, (instrumental repeat)
Woke up this mornin, still ain't heaven bound, (instrumental repeat)
Woke up this mornin, ain't no blues to be found. (instruments do something)

Got the early in the mornin, bed still own me blues, (i  r)
Gotta get up, gotta go read that awful useless news. (i r)
Gotta get up, gotta get movin, got too much to lose. (i d s)

Gotta get up, gotta go join this day, ( )
Gotta get up, got a bunch of bills to pay. ( )
gotta get up, can't let ol' slothful waste my time away. ( )

Gotta get up, just cain't stay in bed, (
Gotta get up, that's what the clock just said, (
Gotta get up, else their gonna think I'm dead. (big instrumental finish, hopefully big enough to overcome the inanity of the above.)

(Submitted in support of Alexandra's rules #1 and #12a, and in spite of most of the other ones.)

Alexandra

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Posted: Aug 9, 2011 - 8:12pm

HOW TO SING THE BLUES

by Lame Mango Washington
(attributed to Memphis Earlene Gray with help from Uncle Plunky, revisions by Little Blind Patti D. and Dr. Stevie Franklin)

1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning...."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, " adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:

a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass

Bad places:

a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:

a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied

No, if:

a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.

13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Cuba Gooding Jr. cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
 

14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.

Other acceptable Blues beverages are:

a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee

The following are NOT Blues beverages:

a. mixed drinks
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water

15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.

16. Some Blues names for women:

a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

17. Some Blues names for men:

a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

18. Persons with names like Sierra, Ashley, Justin, and Cody can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19. Make your own Blues name (starter kit):

a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Melon,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)

For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Lame Mango Fillmore, etc.

20. I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. I don't care.


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