Trina Hamlin - Sizzling Blues Harmonica

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Trina Hamlin is known for her sizzling blues harmonica and her energy-packed singing and guitar work. Her pure voice and unspoiled powerful presence have gained the singer-songwriter from Minneapolis a steady national following since she began playing solo shows on the downtown New York City club scene. ...... She has shared stages with Ricki Lee Jones, John Hiatt, Duncan Sheik and Paula Cole and performed on The Late Show with Conan O’ Brian with the “Suits” Her music has been heard in the CBS-TV movie “Friends at Last,” starring Kathleen Turner as well as on the WB’s “Dawson’s Creek”.

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The Nob Hill Boys - Traditional Bluegrass

Good honest stuff with skilled playing

Bio

The Nob Hill Boys are an established bluegrass unit whose commitment to tradition is clear in every aspect of their per- formances. This award-winning band has produced three CDs and entertained audiences all across the Midwest for the past six years in venues of all sizes from coffeehouses to festivals to a performance on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?

My father was a big fan of Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, and for good reason. These guys could rock.

This one's my fave:

Skip McDonald (Axe) - Bought for a Dollar Sold for a Dime 2010

Little Axe is the stage name of Skip McDonald an American blues musician. McDonald played jazz, doo-wop, and gospel when young, and moved to New York as a teenager with his band of friends, called The Entertainers.

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American-born Brit-based guitarist Skip McDonald is reunited with such past collaborators as Bernard Fowler and Doug Wimbush as he negotiates a sure and certain path through trippy rock, deep blues and unsettling dub. Totally on the money.

Johnnie Taylor "These Last Two Dollars"

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Peter Green - In the Skies 2009

Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and best known as the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac. This is a reissue of the 1979 album - with several excellent tracks

Robert Johnson : Traveling Riverside Blues

Wikipedia

"Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written and recorded in Dallas, Texas by the bluesman Robert Johnson. Johnson's June 20, 1937 recording has a typical 12 bar blues structure (though as is common in downhome blues of this era, the length of each verse is in fact thirteen-and-a-half bars of 4/4), played on a single guitar tuned to open G, with a slide. It was first released on the 1961 compilation LP King of the Delta Blues Singers.

Robert Johnson is often considered the King Of The Delta Blues Singers.



Led Zeppelin's version


Eric Clapton's version

Bobby Rush - Hen Pecked 2005

Rush received recognition for his music after the release of his twenty second album Rush, when he was awarded "Best Male Soul Blues Artist" at the Blues Music Awards

I remember this song and performance - good fun


this is a nice track

Skip James - I'm So Glad

Lyrics here - Nehemiah Skip James)

Wikipedia

As is typical of his era, James recorded a variety of material — blues and spirituals, cover versions and original compositions — frequently blurring the lines between genres and sources. For example, "I'm So Glad" was derived from a 1927 song by Art Sizemore and George A. Little entitled "So Tired", which had been recorded in 1928 by both Gene Austin and Lonnie Johnson (the latter under the title "I'm So Tired of Livin' All Alone"). "one of the most extraordinary examples of fingerpicking found in guitar music."

Here is the original


This worthy version was recorded for the TV documentary


This is the version I remember

Andrew ''Jr. Boy'' Jones - Gettin Real 2009

Andrew 'Jr.Boy' Jones is a bluesman from Texas, a protege of Freddie King, Andrew was also the guitarist in Charlie Musselwhite's band for several years.