Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born Rudy McDaniel, June 11, 1956) is an American free jazz bassist born in New York.
This version of Love Supreme always brings a smile
another pretty good one
.... at 63, Gregg Allman holds his own; few have bettered his trademark throaty holler, and aided by his trusty Hammond B-3 the veteran sustains an appealing presence throughout the idiosyncratic variety (and yes, that is Dr John’s understated piano fills in the left-hand speaker).Guardian
Gregg Allman is the archetypical survivor, a hero with the Allman Brothers Band in the 70s, and a man whose famously wild career has involved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, six marriages and a liver transplant.
I was thinking about the late Son Seals today. He used to have a tremendously hot band that came up to play Toronto from time to time back in the 80s. Tuffy P and I almost saw him in Chicago a few years after that. I say almost because we paid our cover at some little place in Old Town and went in and the place was jammed. I mean you couldn't move in there. It was so crowded it was dangerous and we decided to bail.
I came across a Juke Boy Bonner record on vinyl back in my teens and I could never understand why he wasn't a big name.
"Worried Life Blues" is a blues standard that has become "one of the most covered of all blues songs."Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather recorded "Worried Life Blues," a mid-tempo, 8-bar blues, in 1941.
Oh lordy lord, oh lordy lord
It hurts me so bad, for us to part
But someday baby, I ain't gonna worry my life anymore
Mr. Stark was from South Carolina. He died in 2005. I don't know much more about him except that his career was revived when he was in his 70s with help from the Music Maker Relief Foundation.
