Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Wikipedia entry In 2003 Magic Slim and the Teardrops won the W.C. Handy Award as 'Blues Band Of The Year' for the sixth time.

"Is It Because I'm Black" Lucky Peterson

Blues Books: The Hero and the Blues by Albert Murray

Book Details

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage (January 16, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679762205
ISBN-13: 978-0679762201
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Murray's 1973 book analyzes the connection between blues, literature, and the African American's place in society.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Reviews

"[Albert Murray] is possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's Imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling."

-- The New Yorker

In this visionary book, the author of the legendary Stomping the Blues takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way we read all literature. Albert Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance to their audiences. Both place a high value on improvisation. And both fiction and the blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential human values and cosmic absurdity.

Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues is at once an homage and a manifesto for a new black aesthetic. Erudite, eloquent, appreciative, and iconoclastic, it is further evidence of Murray's ability to turn the essay into a kind of poetry -- as enchanting as it is instructive.

"The size of his reputation is incommensurate with his quality .... Murray is as close to a classic nineteenth-century man of letters as one might find in this country today."

-- Boston Globe

He Calls That Religion - Acoustic Hats

Notes From YouTube:

Acoustic hats at work: Laura Williams ( vocals and kazoo) and Luca Menti ( harps) came some time ago to visit me and we did this little jam singing and playing on the spot this old song composed by the Chatmon brothers alias the "Mississippi Sheiks".

I play my ringing National Triolian in standard tuning, key of C, with the help of my feet stomping a footdrum board crafted here in Italy by Herrmann Guitars (http://www.weissenbornguitar.com/ ).

Alabama Shakes

Fleetwood Mac w. Peter Green – Homework - 1968/12/31 - Paris

B. B. King - Happy Birthday Blues

This song "B.B. King - Happy Birthday Blues" was left for me by my online friends.

My online friends Lawrence & Toni who run the Martial Arts website Tan Dao Martial Arts. They run their site in the spirit of the journey. Warrior, Scholar, Monk. And they ask the question, "Are you an Evolving Martial Artist?"

I have heard most of B.B. King's music, but this song is a new one for me. Thanks to my friends for turning me on to it, and I just wanted to share it with those who read my blog.

Hokum Blueskum Blues

Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music - a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos
A late one
one from the '50's
from the '30's

John Mayer - Battle Studies 2009

Hum - not my taste really but fits the genre?

Tedeschi Trucks Band — Learn How To Love