This is getting some heavy play in my mp3 player as of late...
This has been in heavy rotation in my Spotify Account. Good stuff...
I want to give you all an update on what is going on with me as of late.
I recently started a new job and I am relocating from San Diego to San Francisco.
I'm looking at it as a chance to see a lot more good live music.
Consider the video below of a young street performer called Gabriel Angelo. My wife and I went down to the ferry landing just to see the sights and were amazed to see this kid making wonderful music, playing his horn and tap dancing.
I just hope that my new job does not take up so much of my time that I can not blog about all the music I hope to see.
Just watched the below film, "Nina Simone - The Legend" and it is a wonderful portrait of Ms. Simone and explains some things about her life that I did not know. If you are a fan of her music you will enjoy watching this.
Nina Simone - The Legend from Nina Simone on Vimeo.
As always Joe Bonamassa is smoking hot. Check this one out, because it really shows what it was like to be at this wonderful show.
All I can say on this one is WOW! And I know that WOW is over used, but trust me when I tell you that is what this video evokes.
This video is delightful to me for several reasons.
First the person who uploaded it, recorded it off of his telivision set. Which in my mind means he really liked it, and possible had no other way to record it.
And secondly, he did a reall good job. Which indicates that he, like me is a Freddie King fan. :)
Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/evanfrmheaven YouTube channel for other blues videos.
After re-reading my post on Keith Richards where I dropped the F bomb about how much I love The Rolling Stones, I thought OK, you could be overstating the case a bit.
You know I might be a fan boy or something, then I came across the video below. And I wanted to be even more emphatic about how much I love these guys, and their music and what I think they have done to promote blues and other blues musicians.
Again I could write thousands of words and still not describe how cool this video is.
But I think you can see the love that Muddy Waters had for the Stones and you can also see that they loved Muddy too.
Notes from YouTube: On 22 November 1981, in the middle of their mammoth American tour, the Rolling Stones arrived in Chicago prior to playing 3 nights at the Rosemont Horizon.
Long influenced by the Chicago blues, the band paid a visit to Buddy Guy's club the Checkerboard Lounge to see the legendary bluesman perform.
It didn't take long before Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart were joining in on stage and later Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz also played their part.
It was a unique occasion that was fortunately captured on camera. Now, restored from the original footage and with sound mixed and mastered by Bob Clearmountain, this amazing blues night is being made available in an official release for the first time.
I have posted this video before and I still don't really have words to describe how happy it makes me feel. You just have to watch it, and as you watch it please consider how far this music has come.
We are just going to let this one speak for it self.
I thought after posting the small bit of animation from yesterday, you all might want to hear the real song and see Mr. James play it on guitar.
Collins will be remembered not only for the quantity of quality blues music that he put out throughout his career that has inspired so many other blues musicians, but also for his legendary live performances, where he would frequently come down from the stage and mingle with the audience whilst still playing.[1] This practice was illustrated in Collins' uncredited cameo appearance in the film Adventures in Babysitting. He insisted to Elisabeth Shue that "nobody leaves this place without singin' the blues", forcing the children to improvise a song before escaping.
Another instance of Collins' humorous stage presence was recounted in the film documentary, Antones: Austin's Home of the Blues. Collins left the building, still plugged in and playing. Several minutes after Collins returned to the stage, a pizza delivery man came in and gave Collins the pizza he had just ordered when he left the building. Collins had gone to Milto's Pizza & Pasta through an adjoining alley and ordered while he was still playing.
So I'm sitting in the car waiting on the wife, while she is getting a check up. I'm listening to one of my favorite radio stations here in San Diego and this smoking blues band comes on. And to my surprise, they are from San Diego, and I have never heard of them.
These guys got real skills, they play traditional insturments, acoustic and electric guitars, washboards, harmonicas, jugs and other traditional instruments.
Nathan James, sings and plays guitar, banjo, and harmonica and Ben Hernandez, sings and plays harmonica, jug, washtub bass, washboard and kazoo.
If you would like to listen to the radio broadcast that I heard click here.
The three videos below are an amazing performance by the duo who were winners at the 2007 International Blues Competition! According to the notes at YouTube these were recorded at The New Daisy by The Blues Society on Taiwan.
Keb Mo and Robert Cray in concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 30, 2007 at the Centennial Concert Hall.
In yesterdays post I mentioned that Shemekia Copeland is scheduled to perform at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival. And then it dawned on me that Ms. Copland is one of the young guns in the blues world that I have never written anything about.
She's a three time W.C. Handy Award Winning blues singer and the daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland. She started her career at the age of sixteen. Her debut album "Turn the Heat Up!" came out in 1998 was well received. Her second album, "Wicked", was released in 2000 and featured a duet with one of her heroes, early R&B diva Ruth Brown. After that she was produced by Dr. John on her recording "Talking to Strangers", and in 2005 she released "The Soul Truth", which was produced by Steve Cropper.
So I thought I would share one of her YouTube videos as well as links to her websites and music.
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Scrapper Blackwell was born February 21, 1903 and he died on October 7, 1962. He was a blues guitarist, singer and half a guitar-piano duo with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He played acoustic single-notes in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style.
Buy at AllPosters.comOn hot days like the 4th of July my mother would slice into an ice cold watermelon to help cool us off. My online friend Stephen Bess recently wrote an interesting and informative post on the history of our love of the watermelon. Which got me to thinking about Watermelon Slim.
I think that he is cool enough for a hot summer day like this. For your blues entertainment consider;
I've been trying to figure out how to share all the blues videos that I have on my blues playlist. I think I have it figured out. See the player below.
