Whiskey and Wimmen - John Lee Hooker/Canned Heat
In keeping with recent articles on music, I'd like to present one of the very best musical forms. Purely American, uniquely American and one of a kind.
The Blues, in all it's forms is music of the heart and soul.
From John Lee Hooker's Whiskey and Wimmen, Robert Johnson's, Sweet Home Chicago, B.B. Kings, The Thrill is gone, each a classic blues song tells the story of American and it's people in it's own unique way.
Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago
B B King, The Thrill is Gone
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What blues artists and songs to you think are the best.
Feel free to add them to the article.
Here is one that I really enjoy.
Skylar Wolf, ''Devilsson'' slide blues guitar.
I've always been a big fan of the Blues-- from the more mellow to what I think of as the more "hardcore' stuff. Especially Mississippi Delta Blues. (Its definitely an " acquired taste "!). I can't get enough of it...
And in that particular genre, one of my favs is-- Robert Johnson. Sweet Home Chicago-- wow!
Here's another I really like:
Robert Johnson: Crossroad
Thanks for posting this topic.
And you picked some of my favourite musicians. For some time now I've really liked John Lee Hooker as well. The one you seeded reminds me of this one:
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
More:
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker - Big Legs, Tight Skirt
(I've got to go out for a while-- will seed more later :^)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
Not to be confused with Paul Lekakis' hit of the same name. (Which is now & forever "something completely different", LOL
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John Lee Hooker is one of my favorites, great selection of video, Krish.
And speaking of John Lee Hooker, some time ago I came across a video I really liked & seeded it, but I don't remember where. So I found it again on YouTube, and here it is:
John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt play "I'm In The Mood"
Can't go wrong with Big Mama Thornton.
a little blue eyed blues for y'all
Good one JR.
How about a little Redman Blues.
Of course Skylar Wolf is, but this is another group, Indigenous blues/rock.
Here's a number that was popularized in the 70's by Canned Heat . Many groups have done it :
That was really popular, back in the day. They are a real 60's sound. Reminds me of videos of Woodstock.
Just found this on YouTube-- more Canned Heat:
Goin' Up the Country
I've always associated that tune with Canned heat. But recently, I found an interesting cover by a contemporary British group I wasn't familiar with-- I will look for it and seed it.
OK, found it. This group may currently be very popular, IDK. They are British:
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are a British five-piece band fronted by the siblings of the Durham family. Their music is influenced heavily by R&B, swing, jump blues, country and Western, blues, Hawaiian and rock 'n' roll. They are all multi-instrumentalists playing guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, drums, trombone, xylophone and accordion between them.
Kitty Durham is the youngest of the group and primarily sings and plays drums, harmonica, ukulele, banjo, trombone and guitar. Daisy Durham, the eldest, primarily sings and plays drums, piano, accordion and xylophone. Lewis Durham sings and plays guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel and drums. He collects and plays/DJ's 78rpm records and has built a home studio which consists of antique recording equipment such as 8-track tape machines and vintage BBC and RCA microphones. Kitty, Daisy, & Lewis do not use computers or any digital format during the recording process.
They have opened for Coldplay , Razorlight , Richard Hawley , Jools Holland , and others.
The band are signed to BBC Radio 1 DJ and Bestival curator Rob da Bank 's label, Sunday Best , who released their second single "Mean Son of a Gun", a song originally cut by Johnny Horton in the 1950s, with the B-side "Ooo Wee" which they first heard on a 78rpm record sung by Louis Jordan . This was released on 45rpm, CD and a limited edition 78rpm vinyl. The tracks were recorded at home. The vinyl was also cut by Lewis using his own equipment at The Exchange Mastering Studios , which is owned and run by his father Graeme.
On 30 May 2011, Smoking in Heaven was released on CD and vinyl (double LP and 78rpm album), also on Sunday Best.
Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Going Up the Country:
Here is the original petey. It was written by Booker T. of Booker T and the MG's for Albert King in the 60's.
I love Canned Heat, especially when they were with Janis Joplin.
Thanks for posting that . I didn't know about Albert King . He's really awesome !
BTW I may have been mistaken about Canned Heat doing that song . Here is one they definitely did do :
Love that song petey. Really a good one.
I love Canned Heat, especially when they were with Janis Joplin.
Don't get me started on Janis Joplin! My absolute most favourite female vocalist in te 60s. But maybe that should be another seed-- those "sounds of the 60's". Counter-culture, hippy, sexual-revolution, anti-war. Joplin, Dylan, Canned Heat, etc. JFK, Civil Rights Movement.
But there's so much of that-- IMO it shouLd be a separate article.