Blues - what are you listening to?

[DaveF]

Finally got around to listening to disc 2 tonight. Superb. Probably my favorite vinyl recording in my collection so far.

[cybot]

Finally got around to listening to disc 2 tonight. Superb. Probably my favorite vinyl recording in my collection so far.

No excuse now! I'll have to order my copy now, from wherever, maybe Freebird...

[cybot]

Delighted to see a copy of this in Freebird today.Looking forward to being Son Housed tonight :-)

[cybot]

Started listening to this last night and, would you just believe it, there was a piece about a new animated film on the telly featuring that era or thereabouts!?!? Weird or what?? BTW I think the film's called Chico and Rita and would definitely appeal to any Jazz/Cuban lover. Of course, that's only based on the short snippet I saw...







Empty Bed Blues

Woke up this mornin'
with an awful achin' head.
Woke up this mornin'
with an awful achin' head.
My new man left me.
I'm just a bloom in an empty bed.

Now, when my bed gets empty
I get to feelin' kind of mean and blue.
When my bed gets empty,
get to feelin' awful mean and blue.
The springs are gettin' rusty
sleepin' single like I do.

I bought me a coffee grinder,
the best one I could find.
You know that I bought me
a brand new coffee grinder,
the best one I could find,
so he could grind my coffee.
Babe, I got a brand new grind.
You gotta try, girl, you gotta try.

He was a deep sea diver
with a stroke that could not go wrong.
Deep, deep sea, deep sea diver
with a stroke that just could not go wrong.
He could touch the bottom,
and his wind held out so long.

Oh, he boiled my cabbage,
and he made it awful hot,
tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, mmmm.
He boiled it, I got to tell you
that he made it, made it awful hot.
But when he slipped the bacon in,
he overflowed the pot!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What a sweet man he was.
I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
Remember that old rag of a girl named Lou?
Real sweet man.
I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
That way that girl is, baby,
she must have had a piece of it, too.

And now when you get good lovin',
don't you, don't you spread the news.
Don't you spread the news.
When you get it and it's good, good, good,
you really ought not to,
you ought not to spread the news.
Because those gals will doublecross you and leave you,
those gals will doublecross you, and they do,
those gals will doublecross you
and leave you, leave you, leave you,
leave you with the empty bed blues!

[Derek]

Not quite blues but what the heck, a cracking soul funk recording
Released on Curtis Mayfield's Custom label feathuring several of Curtis penned songs.

His one and only offering, having died while the LP was in the can at the tender age of 26 just a week or so after his good friend James Marshall Hendrix.
Jimi's death had a profound effect on him.

BTW Janis Joplin died the same month

[Fran]

[Derek]

[Ivor]

Went to see CW Stoneking last night. I danced. He was that good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhniP02YU3k&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbKlIwwuHE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgncw...eature=related

A wonderfully varied audience, from barely legal to barely mobile. Fantastic gig.

We were pretty near the front as this camera shot shows. Picked up a vinyl copy of Jungle Blues and got the man himself to sign it. Nice guy too.

[fergus]

Went to see CW Stoneking last night. I danced. He was that good.

A wonderfully varied audience, from barely legal to barely mobile. Fantastic gig.

LOL!!!
Excellent Ivor....which category were you in???

[Ivor]

Went to see CW Stoneking last night. I danced. He was that good.

A wonderfully varied audience, from barely legal to barely mobile. Fantastic gig.

LOL!!!
Excellent Ivor....which category were you in???

Witnesses to my dancing claim the latter.