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(Alphonsus Cassell)
The first superstar of soca and calypso from Montserrat.
16 November 1949-15 September 2010
"Hot Hot Hot"
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And so to the final birthday today. Top billing goes to.....the blues.
Father of the blues, W C Handy was born on this day in 1873. He penned "Memphis Blues" in 1909. But there is no better way of celebrating his achievements than with Bessie Smith's fine rendition of "St Louis Blues". The song was written almost 100 years ago and is known as the Jazzman's Hamlet. When Handy died in 1958, 25,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem and 150,000 people gathered to pay their respects.
Coincidentally Hubert Sumlin, blues guitarist and a key member of Howlin' Wolf's band, was also born on this day - in 1931 - and lived until 2011. Shamefully, I am not overly familiar with his work. But when I listened to a clip of his "Sometimes I'm Right" this morning, words failed me. It is so close to musical perfection.
Bessie Smith - St Louis Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rd9IaA_uJI
Hubert Sumlin - Sometimes I'm Right
Quote: Horseradish @ 16th November 2013, 2:19 PM GMTArrow
(Alphonsus Cassell)
The first superstar of soca and calypso from Montserrat.
16 November 1949-15 September 2010
"Hot Hot Hot"
Very hot.
Quote: Horseradish @ 16th November 2013, 2:48 PM GMTHubert Sumlin - Sometimes I'm Right
Love Sumlin's guitar. Also love that he was called Hubert.
Quote: lofthouse @ 16th November 2013, 2:20 PM GMTthe slits - shoplifting
Much prefer Typical Girls.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 15th November 2013, 8:31 PM GMTInspired by Lofthouse's new thread:
One of my all time faves before Peter Griffin got hold of it.
Currently waiting for Chris Wood to come on stage. The diva!
ATB - 9 PM http://youtu.be/ri6Efk1SPJc
Chris Wood's most recent album 'None the Wiser'. The songs are good and were great live just on acoustic guitar, but the album has a lot of odd choices of instruments - I'm not sure the organ goes too well with the guitar 
Quote: Harridan @ 17th November 2013, 12:06 PM GMTChris Wood's most recent album 'None the Wiser'. The songs are good and were great live just on acoustic guitar, but the album has a lot of odd choices of instruments - I'm not sure the organ goes too well with the guitar
Chris Wood should be Prime Minister.
I am going to have an afternoon listening to Mr Bennett.
In the meantime, Detroit's gone bankrupt.
Back in the day, the only thing it had to fear was nuclear meltdown.
Gil Scott-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 16th November 2013, 12:41 PM GMT
That is THE sound of 1972. I do like that. Watched 30 of your recent clips today. I'm familiar with many of the bands you post. What your clips do, though, is give me more detail beyond the well-known songs and others I just happened to discover. Some terrific things in that bunch - Dr John, The Byrds, Funkadelic, Stephen Stills etc. Can't help but find the Grateful Dead an odd sort of band. Nice enough but I don't quite get the movement that went with it. Rockpile should be a bigger name in rock history given their line-up.
Reed and Cale's "Songs For Drella" is a very fine record and Zappa is always rewarding. With Frank, I still don't have a clear idea in my head of the ones that came earlier rather than later and, often, what is on what. He was prolific. But a part of me is keeping it deliberately that way as that's musically appropriate. Also, having a clear road map would spoil it somehow even if with other artists it enhances enjoyment.
Thanks. 
Quote: Horseradish @ 17th November 2013, 7:45 PM GMTThat is THE sound of 1972.
If I had to choose an musical era to listen to on a desert island it'd be blues and country influenced American rock music from ca 67-75. Stuff like Toulouse Street or the songs from the Byrds or CSN have the right mix of softness/gentleness and druggy pyschedelia.
To Zappa: He was such an eclectic artist he often recorded several different styles and genres during the same year (rock, jazz, comedy-music, classical stuff etc.) so that it's really not necessary to know which year a song is from. Just enjoy.
