Blues - what are you listening to?

[DaveF]

what else on this sad day....

[tweber]

what else on this sad day....

Sad indeed Dave
Been playing these over the weekend myself:

[Ivor]

Is it blues? Well Steve Earle claims it's his nod to the blues anyway and I can't disagree. He was never too far from that feel anyway so it's an easy sideways move. It's a damn fine album, some great tracks on here. I picked up the 180gm vinyl with MP3 download - handy car the car like.

[Ivor]

Picked up on lovely but irrelevant orange vinyl... from the great T Model Ford.

On July 22, 2008, James "T-Model" Ford stepped into Planet Paul Studios in Wichita, Kansas at the end of his first formal tour in years. Rumors of his demise had been laid to rest after two weeks of T-Model's performing his raw, rough & tumble blues. T wanted to play acoustic guitar and have 100 percent control over the record, so everyone agreed he should do it the way he wanted. The engineer simply let the tape roll and T-Model made it look easy. One song after another just rolled out of him. The Ladies Man is the product of this afternoon in Wichita. This is pure T-Model, with some newer young musician friends playing along with him. It is also the only acoustic album T has ever recorded and it's a blast. "I don't have a care in the world," T-Model would remark occasionally. He'd back it up by taking time in the studio to sip Jack Daniels from his flask and tell "blue" stories or tales of his life's hardships to his new set of listeners. At 88 years old, he appeared younger and livelier than many folks a fraction of his age and this amazing record is the proof.

[Derek]

[k99_64]

[cybot]

A mostly terrific set from the San Francisco Blues Festival '85.

I love this excerpt from one of his comeback gigs :

"Rush has a cv with with more highs and lows than the Hallelujah chorus. He has been wonderful and he's been awful. The second night at the Jazz Cafe was a good gig, seven out of ten. Some passages were almost great, as when Otis dug into a guitar solo with the ravenous glee of Desperate Dan taking on a table sized cow pie" Tony Russell (Mojo)


Some info:

Otis Rush played left handed but strung conventionally for a right hander. Still, playing upside down and backwards was never to prove a hindrance.

Jimi Hendrix was naturally left-handed but his father tried to force him to play right-handed because he believed playing left handed was a sign of the devil. Hendrix took right-handed guitars and restrung them for playing left-handed.

[Ivor]

[Ivor]

New one from Buddy Guy (and friends). It's good.

[Diapason]

Might need to pick that up, Ivor.