Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:56 pm
More vinyl from Crosscut Records....
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Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:00 pm
More instrumental magic....
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:33 pm
New double LP released this year.
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:23 pm
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:27 am
Picked this up in tower today...
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:37 pm
Last night's listening bought yesterday morning at teh HiFi show.
I first bought "serve you right to suffer" in some market when I was about 13. It was so warped it caused sea sickness and a mate borrowed it once and I never saw it again. So getting a nice 180gm "Speakers Corner" edition made my day/week/month/year. It still sounds absolutely fantastic.
The other discs here are also 180gm vinyl.
Tommy Johnston recordings fron 1928 - '29
I first bought "serve you right to suffer" in some market when I was about 13. It was so warped it caused sea sickness and a mate borrowed it once and I never saw it again. So getting a nice 180gm "Speakers Corner" edition made my day/week/month/year. It still sounds absolutely fantastic.
The other discs here are also 180gm vinyl.
Tommy Johnston recordings fron 1928 - '29
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:16 pm
Inspired by Ivor's John Lee purchase...
This is the record that started me on the John Lee slope; it's on the dubious Bulldog Records label and in Stereo Enhanced Mono. Yeuch!! Got it in Virgin Records on the Quays....where the multiple halogen lights used to roast me alive ;-)
Tracklist▼
A1 Little Wheel
A2 I'm In The Mood
A3 Hobo Blues
A4 Crawling King Snake
A5 Blues Before Sunrise
B1 Want Ad Blues
B2 My First Wife Left Me
B3 Wednesday Evening Blues
B4 Maudie
B5 Time Is Marching
This is something I picked up in Belfast aeons ago. It's a double vinyl package and it's John Lee alone. The spookiest blues you will ever hear from John Lee. Absolutely stunning :-))))
"Hooker is, as the title suggests, alone on this recording, or is he, his guitar lines dart and shimmer like shades in a forest before spilling forth a torrent of staccatto notes like some billious monster belching forth an all destroying fire.
Charles Shaar Murray dedicates one of his chapters 'Dark Room' to this album recorded in February 1976 at the Hunter College.
Hooker sound agitated from the off a short stark 'Maudie', mistitled on the sleeve as 'I Miss You So', leads off with Hooker throwing all pretense of time and form right out the window, before giving one of the most menecing performances of his career on the violently phrased 'Bad Like Jesse James'.
'Dark Room' is an exersise in minimalist terror, 'Jesse James' was pure horror but nothing prepares you for the naked despaire of this track which as the final chord stab dies away will have left you breathless.
The rest of the set is very good but once heard you'll have trouble getting past the bestial beauty that are 'Jesse James' & 'Dark Room'.
A marvelous recording and greatly overlooked by many Hooker fans"
This is the record that started me on the John Lee slope; it's on the dubious Bulldog Records label and in Stereo Enhanced Mono. Yeuch!! Got it in Virgin Records on the Quays....where the multiple halogen lights used to roast me alive ;-)
Tracklist▼
A1 Little Wheel
A2 I'm In The Mood
A3 Hobo Blues
A4 Crawling King Snake
A5 Blues Before Sunrise
B1 Want Ad Blues
B2 My First Wife Left Me
B3 Wednesday Evening Blues
B4 Maudie
B5 Time Is Marching
This is something I picked up in Belfast aeons ago. It's a double vinyl package and it's John Lee alone. The spookiest blues you will ever hear from John Lee. Absolutely stunning :-))))
"Hooker is, as the title suggests, alone on this recording, or is he, his guitar lines dart and shimmer like shades in a forest before spilling forth a torrent of staccatto notes like some billious monster belching forth an all destroying fire.
Charles Shaar Murray dedicates one of his chapters 'Dark Room' to this album recorded in February 1976 at the Hunter College.
Hooker sound agitated from the off a short stark 'Maudie', mistitled on the sleeve as 'I Miss You So', leads off with Hooker throwing all pretense of time and form right out the window, before giving one of the most menecing performances of his career on the violently phrased 'Bad Like Jesse James'.
'Dark Room' is an exersise in minimalist terror, 'Jesse James' was pure horror but nothing prepares you for the naked despaire of this track which as the final chord stab dies away will have left you breathless.
The rest of the set is very good but once heard you'll have trouble getting past the bestial beauty that are 'Jesse James' & 'Dark Room'.
A marvelous recording and greatly overlooked by many Hooker fans"
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:55 am
Picked up from Spindizzy on an opportunistic hit and run today. Both 180gm virgin vinyl on Doxy Records
all from 1955 ish in glorious mono.
Original recording of Strange Fruit etc in 1939 along with a 1944 recording session
all from 1955 ish in glorious mono.
Original recording of Strange Fruit etc in 1939 along with a 1944 recording session
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:06 pm
This was mentioned in the rock thread, had to dig it out to hear it again:
Its good enough alright, excellently played as you'd imagine and sounds good too, maybe a little short on the emotion though.
Its good enough alright, excellently played as you'd imagine and sounds good too, maybe a little short on the emotion though.
Re: Blues - what are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:15 pm
Discovered this one on Spotify after mentioning I like John Martyn.
