He calls that religion...

The Mississippi Sheiks


The World is Going Wrong


and here's Bob Dylan's cover, World Gone Wrong.

Keni Lee Burgess "Preaching Blues Medley"

I try to limit the number of times I say "Wow." I think it is an overused word. But I think if you watch the YouTube clip below, you will agree with me that Keni Lee Burgess' performance of a Son House and Robert Johnson Preaching Blues Medley rates a "Wow!"

It is simply wonderful. This is not your regular Gospel Blues song that I normally post on a Sunday, but I think it shows very well how to two music forms are fused together by the not only modern day musics, but as I often contend, was fused by the founders of what we call blues music.

Notes From YouTube;

Preaching Blues Medley (including John the Revelator) by Son House and Robert Johnson. Performed by Keni Lee Burgess on Six String Resonator Cigar Box Guitar. Vestapol tuning: Open C (CGCegc).

Blues Quote - Sleepy John Estes

I went up stairs to pack my leaving trunk
I ain't seen no whiskey,

but the blues made me sloppy drunk ~ Sleepy John Estes

Lynn Frances Anderson - Rose Garden

Sometimes - despite your own best intentions songs crop up - and won't go out one's head.

Sorry

Angie Palmer - Tales of Light and Darkness

LastFM

Angie’s music is now being championed by Bob Harris who recently chose her as one of only two female singer-songwriters on his recent “Best of British” show calling her “one of the greatest British songwriters”.

Her new CD “Tales of Light and Darkness”, which like “Road” made the long-cut for the Mercury Music Prize, is a more musically diverse record, with longer storytelling songs rubbing shoulders with shorter simpler songs about “love, loss, and redemption”, again drawing heavily on literature: Steinbeck’s dispossessed (Rose of Sharon), Edgar Allen Poe’s dark visions (Ravens), and the symbolic landscapes of Mikhail Bulgakov (Fool’s Gold) as well as the confessional: the death of a close friend (Columbus for a Day) and starting up alone (Letters from Home). These new songs, she says, continue where Road left off, mixing strong narrative songs with the personal but ‘a personal’ that connects with ‘the universal’ and which all reflect the idea of the age-old metaphysical struggle of good and evil, life and death, light and dark. This is to be expected from an artist of whom HMV Choice said when choosing “Road” as one of their Top Ten, “not since Bob Dylan’s mid-60’s output has a singer jammed songs with so many high-culture reference points

Tales of Light & Darkness

Mean Florida Blues

I don't think there are too many blues tunes about Florida. I recall hearing Muddy Waters singing about going down to Florida where the sun shines damn near every day, but that's about it. Tonight I stumbled upon a violin player named Eddie Anthony. Enjoy this excellent audio cut from 1930.

Earl Thomas & The Kings Of Rhythm - Elijah Rock

I'm a Roadrunner baby

Sometimes I just need a little Bo Diddley. This is one of those times.

Skyport Ade Pottingshed Band

From his Myspace site

bio I started playing in a skiffle group on mandoline, then learned guitar from one of the other members. Played around folkclubs in West London, and ran The Anglers Teddington inthe early 1970s featuring such as Tim Hart & Maddie Prior, Sandy Denny, Alex Campbell, and many others. I moved to Berkshire in 1978 and have been playing around Reading, Newbury, and Basingstoke ever since. I'm called Skyport because I was born at Heathrow, sometimes known as Skyport

Looks to me like a few friends who are accomplished musicians and enjoying themselves

Blues Books - Clapton: The Autobiography

Clapton: The Autobiography

According to Amazon.com;

Readers hoping for sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll won't be disappointed by the legendary guitarist's autobiography. As he retraces every step of his career, from the early stints with the Yardbirds and Cream to his solo successes, Clapton also devotes copious detail to his drug and alcohol addictions, particularly how they intersected with his romantic obsession with Pattie Boyd. His relationship with the woman for whom he wrote Layla culminated in a turbulent marriage he describes as drunken forays into the unknown. But he genuinely warms to the subject of his recovery, stressing its spiritual elements and eagerly discussing the fund-raising efforts for his Crossroads clinic in Antigua. His self-reckoning is filled with modesty, especially in the form of dissatisfaction with his early successes. He professes ambivalence about the famous Clapton is God graffiti, although he admits he was grateful for the recognition from fans. At times, he sounds more like landed gentry than a rock star: bragging about his collection of contemporary art, vigorously defending his hunting and fishing as leisure activities, and extolling the virtues of his quiet country living. But both the youthful excesses and the current calm state are narrated with an engaging tone that nudges Clapton's story ahead of other rock 'n' roll memoirs. (Oct. 9)

Book Details

* Paperback: 352 pages
* Publisher: Broadway (May 27, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 076792536X
* ISBN-13: 978-0767925365
* Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1 inches

Eric Clapton @Amazon.com