Working Real Hard

Soul Blues

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Blues for the Soul
Give It Up to Love

I Feel Like Going To Church - Fred McDowell - Woke Up This Morning

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)

Guitar Tube

Steve Marriott (British R&B)

The Small Faces was a mod group founded in 1965 and included Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. They were very influential in my youth and had a string of hits including Itchycoo Park, Lazy Sunday, All or Nothing and Tin Soldier.

After they disbanded Steve helped form Humble Pie (1969-1975 and 1980-1981)

I like Black Coffee


A very R&B tune is Thirty Days In A Hole


Steve was influenced from an early age by his heroes including Buddy Holly, Booker T, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Muddy Waters. In later life he became disillusioned with the music industry and turned his back on the big record companies remaining in relative obscurity. He returned to his music roots playing the pubs and clubs around London and Essex. He died on 20 April 1991 when a fire thought to have been caused by a cigarette swept through his 16th-century home. He was listed in Mojo as one of the top 100 greatest singers of all time. I agree!

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All Or Nothing ~ Live From London [DVD] [1985]
Small Faces - Ultimate Collection
Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore

Waitin Around to Die

The Late Great Townes van Zandt...


Marie - this may be the saddest song I know


Talking Thunderbird

Blues Song In The Spotlight: Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man

Lyrics:

I'm a drunken hearted man
my life seem so misery

I'm the drunken hearted man
my life seem so misery

And if I could change my way of livin'
it t'would mean so much to me

I been dogged and I been driven
eve' since I left my mother's home

I been dogged and I been driven
eve' since I left my mother's home

And I can't see no reason why
that I can't leave these no-goods womens alone

My father died and left me
my poor mother done the best that she could

My father died and left me
my poor mother done the best she could

Every man likes that game you call love
but it don't mean no man no good

Now, I'm the drunken hearted man
and sin was the cause of it all

spoken: Oh, play 'em now

I'm a drunken hearted man
and sin was the cause of it all

And the day that you get weak for no-good women
that's the day that you bound to fall



Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings

Robert Johnson @Amazon.com

Stone Love

Ruthie is currently on tour with the Blind Boys of Alabama. (June 2009)Every time I hear her I feel energised.



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The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
The Truth According to Ruthie Foster

He Was a Philosopher of the blues

I'm TELLING YOU, MAN, the wold is a place."

"Say, the world is a place, huh."

"That's just what I'm saying."

We were walking back to the car after dinner in Hyde Park, and Johnnie was in an expansive mood. He often got like this, expecially after a good meal and wine. The first time I met him, when he was still working with a downtown civic group, he had started explaining the relationship between jazz and Eastern religion, then swerved into an analysis of black women's behinds, before coming to a stop on the subject of federal Reserve Bank policy. In such moments his eyes would grow wide; his voice would speed up; his round, bearded face would glow with a childlike wonder. That was part of the reason I'd hired Johnnie, I suppose, that curiosity of his, his appreciation of the absurd. He was a philosopher of the blues.

Chapter thirteen, Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama

Still I long for your Kiss

Lucinda Williams' blend of folk, rock, blues and Americana has earned her legions of fans over a 30 year Grammy award-winning career as a songwriter and performer.

Lucinda has worked with a multitude of artists including Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, David Crosby and Ryan Adams and her songs have been recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and Tom Petty.

Her 2008 release Little Honey debuted in Billboard's Top 10 and has received critical acclaim, featuring in both Rolling Stone and Time magazines' best of year album charts

Lucinda Williams - Still I Long For Your Kiss
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Happy Woman Blues

Ramblin'