A Passion For The Blues

Subject: A Passion For The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM

Hi to Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt: North Yorkshire,& all fellow List Members

Ragamuffin Brian Here: peering over "The Parapet" after a long cold night on the "Night Owl Catering Stand". It's frost white & 7 degrees below out there! I could almost be in Chicago!!

Couple of footnotes to add to the Ragamuffin Webcast "A Passion For The Blues".

Due to an audio technical fault in the original streaming program, a revised, & much improved audio quality version of the program has now been uploaded back onto the streamer. Also, the Playlist, so ably composed by my sidekick "Miscreant Mike", has now had a link added which will take listeners through to a full version of a Blues Collectors article: "The Highway Of The Blues", reprinted from an old back issue from the National Geographic. For those who have never read this particular article, we both highly recommend it's reading & viewing!! (Link From The Playlist Website)

Right, amendments having been posted, our very best wishes to you ALL at the start of this New Year!!

"There is no love, no deeper love, than that of a child for its Mother
'cept for the music, & all that it gives
From one gray haired old fool to another!!!"

Ragamuffin Brian


"The ol silver fox and me have been a tad waylaid
of late in our salt mines, resurfacing on my
birthday with a new Ragamuffin show. In the
current show from the studio at the back of the
'stoke woods we put the spotlight on the
creativity of Alice Stuart. Two classic styles:
Alice wrenching the soul out of the blues with her
electric guitar and vocals; Alice's great
interpretations of classic country blues of
Nehemiah Skip James and Blind Willie McTell.

Alice began her career in the early 60s in
Seattle, going down to San Francisco for the 1964
Berkeley Folk Festival and getting a recording
deal with Arhoolie Records. Met Frank Zappa and
joined the Mothers of Invention for six months
(check out the list on Freak Out, Alice is there
in line with Igor Stravinsky and Howling Wolf) in
1966. Recorded two albums for Fantasy in 1970 and
1972.

Scorched the walls of all the clubs up and down
the West Coast during the 1970s. Came to Europe
with her trio Snake as support on Van Morrison's
ground breaking Its Too Late To Stop Now tour.
Knocked me flat on my arse at the Colston Hall.
Alice hung up her guitar to raise a family till
the 1990s.

Alice Stuart's talent shines through like the
proverbial diamond in the mud. Enjoy

Happy Noo Year

Ragamuffin's Mike and Brian

Ragamuffin Radio streaming from:
http://www.ragamuffin.fsbusiness.co.uk/ragaradiohome.htm

Playlist:
http://www.iowrock.net/grassroots/pages/alicestuart.htm

Alice Stuart performs:
Big Boss Man - (Luther Dixon) - Can't Find No
Heaven, Burnside Records
I Don't Want You Hanging Around (Patrick Sky) -
Crazy With The Blues, Country Con Fusion
I Ruined Your Life (Alice Stuart) - Can't Find No
Heaven, Burnside Records
Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell) - Crazy
With The Blues, Country Con Fusion
-
Live from San Francisco Radio 1977:
Natural Woman - (Alice Stuart) - with six piece
soul blues band
Alice Stuart interview
Everyone Knows - (Alice Stuart) - as above
-
Hard Time Killing Floor (Nehemiah Skip James) -
Can't Find No Heaven, Burnside Records
Crazy With The Blues - (learned from Clara Smith
recording) Crazy With The Blues, Country Con
Fusion
New York City - (Alice Stuart) Alice Stuart and
Prune Rooney live from Sirens, Port Townsend Blues
Festival, Washington State
I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight (Chris Wall)
Alice Stuart and Prune Rooney live from Strawberry
Music Festival, California

"Yeah, Skinner said, 'He still carries that 350
with the Halliburton case, the one he's carried
for years. He loves music, really high rock 'n'
roll. He has tapes of Alice Stuart that he made
himself on the Nak" - Hunter S. Thompson's
Generation of Swine, Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2