Friday Blues Funny - Different Types of Music

I guess the blues version would be, "Woke up this morning and saw a flower". Or something like that, LOL.

The Power of Music

This video shows the power of music, I have seen this in my own life with some of the elders in my family. We all seem to go back to the music we love.

Music has the power to heal!

2nd Annual Deep Blues & Film Festival

Got an email letting me know about the 2nd Annual Deep Blues Festival and 1st Annual Film Festival. I just wanted to pass the word on and let you all know about it.

They will be screening the Jessie Mae Hemphill movie Dare You To Do It Again which is where a couple of the videos in my lat post come from.

2nd Annual Deep Blues Festival Expands To
45 Performers with International Acts and a Film Festival

Fri - Sun, July 18-20, 2008 - 11:00am - 10:00pm
Washington County Fairgrounds - Lake Elmo, MN
Tickets on sale at Deep Blues Festival.com

Go here to get more info and to buy tickets; Deep Blues Festival web site
Visit for more info and music; Deep Blues Festival@MySpace
Visit for more info on the blues film festival that is going on at the same time; Deep Blues Film Festival@MySpace

Big Joe Williams Videos

BLUES PLAYLIST: BIG JOE WILLIAMS, PART 1




BLUES PLAYLIST: BIG JOE WILLIAMS, PART 2


There are some great videos on YouTube that can not be embedded :(

Well I guess I'll just have to link to them. Take this video of Big Joe Williams playing Baby Please Don't Go for example.

Note the guitar playing and the foot stomps and taps. Dude had rhythm.

Please click link to see video >>>Baby Please Don't Go

Please click link to see video >>>Big Joe Williams

Howlin Wolf Video - May I Have A Talk With You

Wolf begins by asking that age old question, have you ever been loved, have you ever loved a woman...

Lightnin' Hopkins talks about the blues

Back in 2006, I wrote the following about Lightnin' Hopkins;

If you want to learn how to play blues guitar, a good place to start would be to buy ever piece of Lightnin Hopkins' music that you can find and to study it nonstop. Lightnin's nimble dexterity, his ability to create some of the coolest boggie riffs, his often funny improvised lyrics that fit into whatever situation the bluesman found himself in, all combine to make him one of my favorite blues performers.

Or if like me you just like listening to someone who knows how to play a guitar, then you might want to check this out;

It was true then and it is true now.

Check the man out in his own words.

Lightnin' Hopkins talks about the blues



Lightnin' Hopkins sings Green Onions



Lightnin' Hopkins Mojo Hand 1962

HOWLIN WOLF STORY

I really found this video interesting.

From the notes for this video;

Please help the Howlin' Wolf Blues Society of West Point, MS. Inc.

P.O. Box 1334
West Point, MS. 39773
Fax: (662) 495-2007
tel: (662) 494-2921

email: rramsey@wpms.net

BB King & Tracy Chapman The Thrill is Gone

Of all the songs on the CD Duces Wild, this is my favorite.

I feel like going to Mississippi...

And on my way there I got Mr. Mississippi John Hurt on my mind ...

Mississippi John Hurt - Lonesome Valley Blues



Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues



Mississippi John Hurt - Goodnight Irene

The story that he tells before playing is delightful.



D.C. Blues: Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2

click image for info

Mississippi John Hurt @Amazon.com


Mississippi John Hurt @ SqueezeMyLemon

Black Snake Moan: The Movie.

If I had'a been in my right mind, I might have named this blog "Black Snake Moan" instead of SqueezeMyLemon. But Mrs. F. don't allow me to talk dirty like that. And I can't tell you how she gets her lemon juice niether. But I will say that she knows a one eyed black snake, he's her only true friend.

But I thought the name was a good one, and it looks like the movie may be a good one too. I just hope it has some good blues music in it.

Check out these reviews;

Fast-Paised review: 'Black Snake Moan'

She's gotta have it, but he's not having it

Got the sexual healing blues

For the most part the reviews seem positive.