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(May 23, 2015): Howard Eliott Payne – I Just Want To Spend Time With You

From the 2009 album, Bright Light Ballads.  The second single from the debut solo album from Howie Payne post The Stands. Filed under: Blues, Country, Folk, Rock Tagged: Howard Eliott Payne

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(June 7, 2015): Jimmy Witherspoon & Eric Burdon – The Laws Must Change

From the 1971 album, Guilty! This collaboration between Witherspoon and Burdon followed Burdon’s two LPs with War as Witherspoon’s introduction of the one live tune on the album — “Goin’ Down Slow”...

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(June 12, 2015): Aretha Franklin – Today I Sing The Blues

From the 1961 album, Aretha with The Ray Bryant Combo.  You would have thought this tune would have also appeared on the 1969 LP by the same name, but it did not.  It did, however, make it as one of...

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(June 20, 2015): Libby Holman with Josh White – Fare Thee Well

From the 1942 triple 10″ (78rpm) album, Blues Till Dawn.  This song is better known as Dink’s Tune because of its first recording by John Lomax in 1909 in a tent camp of migratory levee-builders on the...

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(June 30, 2015): Beth Hart – There In Your Heart

From the 2012 album, Bang Bang Boom Boom.  For some reason, this LP was first released in Europe and then released in the U.S. in 2013.  The U.S. release has a bonus live cover of Etta James’ “I’d...

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(October 17, 2015): Five Horse Johnson – The Job

From the 2013 album, The Taking of Black Heart.  A Toledo band that released six long players from 1996-2006.  With lead singer Eric Oblander suffering a stroke in 2004, it seem that nothing would...

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(December 9, 2015): The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – I Got My Mojo Working

From the 1965 album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.  A classic cover of a Muddy Waters classic.  Sam Lay is belting out the vocal. Filed under: Blues Tagged: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

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(December 9, 2015): Fleetwood Mac – Shake Your Moneymaker

A blues bonus today from the 1968 album, Fleetwood Mac (aka Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac).  Another classic cover.  This time an Elmore James classic. Filed under: Blues, Rock Tagged: Fleetwood Mac

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(December 10, 2015): Papa John Creach – St. Louis Blues

From the debut 1971 album, Papa John Creach.  At the same Creach was launching his solo career, which saw seven long players released during the 1970s), he also started playing with Hot Tuna (where I...

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(February 21, 2016): Son House – Death Letter

From the 1965 ablum, Father of the Folk Blues.  I remember hearing this for the first time in the mid-1970s as a cover by Finnigan & Wood in mechanical drawing class in high school.  Powerful then....

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(February 22, 2016): Booker T. Jones – Father Son Blues

From the 2013 album, Sound the Alarm.  Back on Stax with Ted Jones on guitar.  Book T. is Booker T. and you’ve got to like the entire LP, but the best tunes are the instrumentals, like this one....

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(April 25, 2016): Lonnie Mack – Chicken’ Pickin’

From the a-side of the 1965 single, Chicken’ Pickin’ / Honky Tonk ’65.  This was recording during the period (from 1964 to 1969) that Mack put out a 16 singles while working as a session musician with...

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(April 26, 2016): Walter Trout – Blues for the Modern Daze

The title track from the 2012 double album, Blues for the Modern Daze.   Trout’s musical pedigree is long.  He’s been a member of John Mayall’s Blues Breakers and Canned Heat; has played with John Lee...

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(January 1, 2017): Roy Buchanan – Ramon’s Blues

From the 1977 album, Loading Zone.  I remember buying this way back in 1977 after flipping through LPs one Saturday because the back cover personnel list included Stanley Clarke and Jan Hammer on the...

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(June 15, 2017): Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash – Blue Yodel #4

From the 1977 bootleg, The Dylan Cash Session. These are outtakes from a studio session that were captured on February 17 & 18, 1969 at Columbia Music Row Studios in Nashville.  Dylan was recording...

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(July 5, 2017): Bo Carter – Policy Blues

From the 1940 10″ 78 rpm single, Policy Blues / My Baby.  Bo Carter (Armenter Chatmon) was a popular blues man in the 1930s and 40s.  With his brothers Lonnie and Sam, and Walter Vinson, Carter also...

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(November 12, 2018): Albert King – Got To Be Some Changes Made

From the 1990 release, Wednesday Night In San Francisco.  The LP was recorded in June 1968 at Fillmore West when King was 44 years old. In January that year, King had opened for Jimi Hendrix and John...

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(April 17, 2019): Champion Jack Dupree – Can’t Kick The Habit

From the 1958 album, Blues From the Gutter (Atlantic – 8019).  From boxer to blues man, Jack Dupree had an outsized influence on 1960s rockers, including the Rolling Stones. In his later years, he...

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