The Ghost of Blue Edwards
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I like Cream, does that count?
Why aint they no blues thread?
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Hopper
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I spoze it kinda depends on who ya ax, eh, Blue? A lotta peoples probably think Cream started the blues. My own damn self, I just sez they butchered the blues. In his ole age, Clapton is purty good at it, but back then? Naw.
Hopper
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Tellya what, Blue...I spect you be knowwin Cream's cover of Crossroads, right? Compare that to these two versions: The first is Robert Johnson's orginal version, done back in 1937. The second is a somewhat "modernized" cover, with electric guitar, and stuff, done by Homesick James Williamson (Elmore Jame's cousin) in 1962, who has his own damn style. If ya thinks Cream's version is mo betta than them, well, then, ya just aint knowwin and likin da blues, I would hafta sez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKLJH23j5HM&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKLJH23j5HM&feature=related
Hopper
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Well, with alla this here bad news comin down bout the Jazz and they free agents, what mo betta time fo a blues tune er two, I ax ya? This here first tune, from 1929, is by the legendary delta bluesmen Leroy Carr (piano) and Scrapper Blackwell who also done such classics as "Blues Before Sunrise," "How Long Blues," "East Saint Louis Blues," and "Midnight Hour Blues," all later covered by many later, includin by guys like Clapton. This particular toon is called "Straight Alky Blues." 30 years later, the same tune was done, Chicago-style, by the great lectric bottleneck-guitar playin J.B. Hutto, who called it "Too Much Alcohol." I done put in that version too, to kinda show how the delta country blues changed as it went north, and got more louder, and stuff, as times got more "modern," ya know? Afta dat, them theevin Limeys started stealin it.
Kinda goes without no kinda sayin, I knowz, but, they both ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFrsNjcKUw&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TKzaipusrY
Kinda goes without no kinda sayin, I knowz, but, they both ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFrsNjcKUw&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TKzaipusrY
Hopper
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It's gittin long bout mid-July, so howze bouta lil summatime tune, eh? Here's one cut back in 1953 for Chess Records, sung by John Brim, with Little Walter on harp. Some white boys, Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth both made covers of it later on, like, in the 80's er sumthin, mebbe, I really dunno. It's called "Ice Cream Man," eh? It ROCKS!
Warnin for the unwary: Do not, NOT, I say, click on the next video, put in here by Vinny just to stink the joint up. Unless ya likez losin yo lunch, mebbe. It aint no blues, that's fo sho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACFbC5dF7w
Warnin for the unwary: Do not, NOT, I say, click on the next video, put in here by Vinny just to stink the joint up. Unless ya likez losin yo lunch, mebbe. It aint no blues, that's fo sho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACFbC5dF7w
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Hopper
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I caint believez I aint put no Little Walter tune in hear yet, eh? Here's a cover of Big Bill Broonzy's fine-*** tune, "Key to the Highway." Aint NOBUDDY who can play no harp like Little Walter, eh!? But that aint da onliest thang. Walter can sho nuff putz sum feelin into his saingin, too, know what I'm sayin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioznZMpyZOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioznZMpyZOI
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Hopper
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Well, it's been heavy on my mind, and I done decided that I just can't leave it be. Everybuddy and his brutha, from Brownie and Sonny, to da Rollin Stones, to Clapton and a million others has covered that tune, although Little Walter's cover is the best, I figure.
But even Little Walter leftz out one of Big Bill's best lines:
"I'm goin...to west Texas....
I'm goin down behind the sun....
Gunna ax da good Lawd...
What evil has I done?"
Anywaze, long-*** story, short: Here's Big Bill's original version, eh? It ROCKS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUWfhZtOQ0&NR=1
But even Little Walter leftz out one of Big Bill's best lines:
"I'm goin...to west Texas....
I'm goin down behind the sun....
Gunna ax da good Lawd...
What evil has I done?"
Anywaze, long-*** story, short: Here's Big Bill's original version, eh? It ROCKS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUWfhZtOQ0&NR=1
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Hopper
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This here little Bo Diddley blues tune, brought to y'all courtesy of Hymie, has done been covered by peoples like Creedence and Clapton, mungst others, but aint NOBUDDY who ever done it as good as Bo his own damn self, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE04QjySIeo
P.S.: When ya goes to Hymie's don't forget yo credit card. Better yet, sumbuddy else's credit card, but, either way, yo gunna wanna run up a big-*** bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE04QjySIeo
P.S.: When ya goes to Hymie's don't forget yo credit card. Better yet, sumbuddy else's credit card, but, either way, yo gunna wanna run up a big-*** bill.
Archie Moses
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Alright! Vinyl is awake.
Hopper
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Jimma
Jimmy Reed was a Mississippi boy who went up north when he was about 20 years old, first playin in the streets of Chicago, and later across the state line in Gary, Indiana. Jimmy played both harp and gittar and influenced his self a lotta peoples, too. Among the hundreds of artists who have recorded Reed’s songs are Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina Turner, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, and Aretha Franklin. Couple of his classics, here: "Baby, whatcha wants me to do," and "Big Boss Man," which I kinda included as a tribute to the mods here, ya know? Jimi Hendrix backed up Jimmy Reed as a sideman for a spell. That right there, all by it's own damn self, tells ya that Jimmy, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQN21IbRCNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di1-bB1w4wM&feature=related
Jimmy Reed was a Mississippi boy who went up north when he was about 20 years old, first playin in the streets of Chicago, and later across the state line in Gary, Indiana. Jimmy played both harp and gittar and influenced his self a lotta peoples, too. Among the hundreds of artists who have recorded Reed’s songs are Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina Turner, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, and Aretha Franklin. Couple of his classics, here: "Baby, whatcha wants me to do," and "Big Boss Man," which I kinda included as a tribute to the mods here, ya know? Jimi Hendrix backed up Jimmy Reed as a sideman for a spell. That right there, all by it's own damn self, tells ya that Jimmy, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQN21IbRCNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di1-bB1w4wM&feature=related
Hoppy, you don't ever git it do ya? Eh?