Wolf Time

Yeah baby you knooooow what I’m talkin about!
Howlin’ Wolf – Killing Floor (Washington 1970)
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Classic Hum-Along

B.B. doing a stand-up version of Hummingbird on Letterman….(don’t mind the picture quality, the soundtrack is good. The picture reminds me of the TV signal we used to get from WPTZ Plattsburgh, North Pole, Burlington)

 
B.B. King – Hummingbird – On Letterman
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Make Love Not More

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Back in ’73, my cousin introduced me to the above Foghat LP. This was a real find for me because not only was it a great rockin album, but nobody inside or outside my circle of friends had ever heard of them. The song “I Just Want to Make Love To You” was also a first for me and for several years I thought it was their song. Of course I was wrong. As with so many songs of blues origin, the tune has been covered many, many times including Etta James and Willie Dixon (the song’s composer).

Here’s three versions: Muddy Waters from his concept LP “Electric Mud” ; A Group Called Smith (featuring the voice of Missouri girl Gayle McCormick); and “the original” by Foghat.

Muddy Waters – I Just Wanna Make Love To You – 1968

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Talkin’ 1960′s Sharecropper’s Son Blues

There just ain’t nuthin’ ’bout JLH , his Bouchillon talking blues style, and his music that makes me wanna turn the man off. Nuthin’!

John Lee Hooker – Hobo Blues

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Feelin the Notes

Some people play guitar. Some feel each note. Buddy plays mean strings.
Oh yeah….some crowds are good, some ain’t.

Buddy Guy – Sweet Home Chicago
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…and Where the Hell Were YOU?

Lead Belly (d. 1949) and Kurt Cobain (d. 1994). Both troubled American musicians from opposite ends of the 20th century.  Both from distinctly different times and places. Both singing the same old “traditional” song which has been covered and performed numerous times under various names (such as In the Pines).

Both brilliant.

Lead Belly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? various cuts recorded between 1944 and 1948
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Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Unplugged In New York)

From Nirvana: Unplugged In New York – 1994
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Lyrics: Where Did You Sleep…..

My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I’m going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found

My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I’m going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I’m going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

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Swiss Time

Gary Moore. I gotta push the Belfast boy’s blues.
This one is from Montreaux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

Chanson Royality

B.B. King featuring Dionne Warwick – Hummingbird (written by Mr. Leon Russell)
Introducing two Americans who some would call the king and queen of American music. All I know is they are smooth and polished.

 
(The version with Dionne keeps disappearing as quickly as a hummingbird).
Hummingbird – BB King
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Ledbetter to Lead Belly to Led Zeppelin

Led Zepplin ‘stole many licks, songs and ideas from old bluesmen from the American south (like Lead Belly).  Well, at least “Gallows Pole” likely came from a 1939 recording called “Gallis Pole” by Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly). But Huddie’s version was inspired by a folksong that was several centuries old called “The Maid Freed From the Gallows“. As they say the blues had a baby and they called it rock n roll.

Lead Belly – Three Songs by Lead Belly

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Gallis Pole – Lead sometimes Led Belly (yes – Gallis Pole – 1939

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UnE-Z Ridin Blues

Taj Mahal has bin bluzin it for a long long time baby.

TAJ MAHAL – E Z Rider (1968)

 

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