Feelin The Blues

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 10:53 AM

Following the Woodsongs link above, check out show 344-- Mike Seeger with a gourd banjo, and Precious Bryant-- a kickass blues woman!

~S~

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 11:47 AM

Thanks Susan, I'll check it out.

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:47 AM

It's A Girl Thang with audio archives.

BluesLand/ with audio archives.

~S~

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:57 AM

Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women with audio.

~S~

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: FG180
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 02:25 PM

The "Howlin Wolf London Sessions" is a great album, you can hear the great man himself teach young wipper snappers (eric clapton & mick jagger) amongst others, how to play his songs.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:56 PM

Susan I'm glad you mentioned the Uppity Blues Women. They're a kick. I've seen and met them a few times, always a good show. Gay plays the harp in that group that is leading me to you Ms. Azizi....

Don't let your study on the blues go without checking out some of the great harmonica blues players out there! Here is a great link to get you started on the best players out there (hey, where's my name?!). I have seen many of these folks in concert also. I see they even mention Pat Hayes, a friend of mine from MN who plays a mean harp with the Lamont Cranston Blues Band.
Check it out my dear!
I just met Jimmie Wood Saturday night, he played with Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts. He did a couple of fine lead solos also.
Peace back at you, Rustic

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:13 PM

Greetings all!!

I appreciate all of the links to & information about the Blues.

But more than that, I appreciate the spirit of acceptance & sharing that this thread demonstrates.

This thread truly is Mudcat at its best!
We met as strangers and now we are family.


Peace & love,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:15 PM

Yes, isn't it wonderful when one person's request becomes a repository of related information that can benefit so many others as time goes on? When I add my little bits and pieces to this kind of thread, I always like to think of people months later, doing a Mudcat search like we always hope new members will do-- and finding a goldmine like this one.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,WYS
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 12:16 PM

Try the hour-long weekly show True Blues archived weekly online at the BBC. Playlist included. The "listen again" link is in the orange box on the righthand side of the screen.

Kinda nice to leave USA culture for a UK DJ's view of the blues.

~S~

Blues music is deceptively simple. Three chords, sometimes two, occasionally only one - but behind this basic format lies a highly complex and intoxicating language of loss, torment, despair, ... and joy.

Yes, joy. Often the blues is seen as being essentially downbeat or moody but this is only half the story. A lot of early blues was conceived as dance or party music and it should be remembered that this music's basic twelve-bar format was an integral ingredient in the formation of rock 'n' roll.

True Blues presented by Euron Griffith tries to reflect all aspects of the blues and to do so in a way that, hopefully, doesn't treat the genre as a museum piece.

Blues music has evolved over the past hundred years and True Blues reflects this, playing a wide range of blues styles from classic Delta and Chicago Blues through to contemporary exponents like Keb Mo, Eric Bibb, Robert Cray and Kelly Joe Phelps.

Also featured are new artists like the White Stripes, who have famously fused the blues with punk and pop to create a heady and highly distinctive sound.

This is a specialist music show but it's not for specialists. It's for everyone.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 01:48 PM

Completely biased, but the best blues number is Robert Petway's "Catfish Blues".
Another fun one is "Baby Please Don't Go" by Big Joe Williams, with Sonny Boy Williamson on Harmonica.
Some other good names, apart from Son House who was the very best, are Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell and Robert Lockwood.
A recording to look out for is the plantation recordings by the lomaxes.
Prefer country blues, but Chicago style is great for dancing. Loads of compilations with the likes of Little Walter, Muddy, Willie Dixon (wrote Hoochie Coochie Man, of course), Otis Spann and Howlin' Wolf.
Am sure you don't get it in the States, but there's a French channel, "Mezzo" which often has lot's of blues content, including early footage.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:08 PM

..ran across a documentary, somewhat dated (early 90's) called "Deep Blues." The late Robert Palmer, from Rolling Stone magazine, takes a tour of the South (starts out in Memphis and ends up in Mississippi) in search of blues artists who're playing 'authentic' blues. He captures some memorable performances: R.L. Burnside playing on his front porch, Jessie Mae Hemphill playing in an obscure juke joint, the late Junior Kimbrough and his band playing to patrons in the bar that he owned...Bud Spires blowing blues harp accompanied by Jack Owens on the guitar, being faithful to the 'traditional' sound - that'll take you back to Robert Johnson's era....

Seems like these artists are working from a traditional Mississippi Delta blues background, but putting their own spin on it and taking the style a little bit farther on.

There's also a scene from an authentic blues 'herbalist' who explains the meaning of lines that show up repeatedly in old blues tunes like, "got my Mojo workin'" and "John the Conqueror Root" ...

And great footage of juke joints and people having a blast drinking and digging blues, especially in places like Greenville, Mississippi.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Leadbelly
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 03:17 PM

Dear Ms. Precious One (= Azizi),

again, this was a very interesting thread contributed by you. But please don't tell all of us that when starting this topic "you don't really know that much about the Blues". Please be fair. Perhaps this was a nice stimulus and indeed it was. Bur I don't believe in lack of knowledge.
By the way, what do you take before or while posting? Really interested, Manfred (remember?).

Thanks so far!

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM

In this archival footage with Paul Butterfield, Son House explains the Blues about as well as anyone can.
Son House

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: matt milton
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:13 PM

Some blues people I only just came across recently who aren't as well known:

Robert Pete Williams
Rosa Lee Hill
Robert Belfour (still playing!)

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:43 PM

Leadbelly, re your 10 Feb 08 - 03:17 PM post:

Kudus to you on your play on the meaning of the name azizi.

I'm sorry that you doubted my statement that I started this thread because I didn't know much about the Blues, but it is the truth.

In the two years plus three days since starting this thread, I have learned more about this wonderful music genre. This is thanks in large measure to information and suggestions from Mudcatters.

As to your question "By the way, what do you take before or while posting?", I'm not sure what you mean. I guess I take some breaths, but they're not necessarily deep.

:o)

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 01:54 PM

Oops, make that three years and three days.

Time flies when you're having fun...and not.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Leadbelly
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 02:15 PM

Azizi,

I like you!!!

That's it,

Manfred

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 06:13 PM

Thanks, Manfred.

I like you too. And I like all the other folks who posted to this thread over the years, and those folks who may post to it in the future.

Positive vibrations!

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Tweed
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 09:41 AM

Muddy Waters
Fred MacDowell
Jessie Mae Hemphill,(link to a video from that Deep Blues film of Mz Jessie doing "You Can Talk about Me")
R.L. Burnside
Slick Ballinger,
Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett
Blind Mississippi Morris (Morris doing Wolf's "Smokestack Lightnin'")
And of course Tweed ;~)

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Tweed
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 10:24 AM

Whoop, sorry 'Zizi...

Jessis Mae's videw link fixed.

Forgot to put the URL in the quotes in my agitated state and over exuberance. Try and check her out as she was really something else. Feisty as hell and carried a revolver and a little dog in her lap most of the time.

Tweed

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 12:22 PM

Thanks, y'all!

I'm so excited! This feels like Christmas time!

Keep 'em comin!

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: dilly daly of Adelaide
Date: 05 May 10 - 08:29 AM

Any suggestions on web sites that contain guitar tab/notes of 1920,1930s songs of the Delta/Mississipi blues ?