Good point, except that the problem is not whether the end justifies the means, but rather the utopianism. During World War II we were trying to...
I disagree. What creates dictators is utopianism. The late American philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, probably explained it best. I forget the title of...
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Come On In My Kitchen "You better come on Into my kitchen 'Cause its sure to be raining outdoors. When a woman's in...
ROBERT JOHNSON Come On In My Kitchen Straight from the Mississippi Delta comes this song of a woman in trouble and a man who's woman just left...
That is pretty cool! I'll have to do a future post on that. My wife is telling me that, "Hook or by crook we have to go see Santana play in Las...
REVEREND SHAWN AMOS Joliet Bound As near as I can tell, The Reverend Shawn Amos is not a reverend, but he is the youngest son of Wally Amos,...
THE REVEREND SHAWN AMOS Moved Throughout the 2010's I watched video after heart wrenching video of primarily black men and...
Karl Marx failed in two ways. First he failed in his belief that the market was a product of capitalism. The market, and its commodification, is...
Thank you! Jimmy Reed is another one I haven't gotten to, but is planned for the future.
JESSE ROPER Hurricane's Eye Jesse Roper is a blues musician from Victoria, Canada. I happened to find this video of Hurricane's Eye a few years...
VICTORIA SPIVEY Blood Thirsty Blues When people talk about the original female blues singers, they almost always mention Billie Holiday. I...
HUBERT SUMLIN Iodine In My Coffee 'You used to put iodine in my coffee, And rat poison in my bread, When I feel a little sleepy Sprinkle lye...
CANNED HEAT Fried Hockey Boogie After John Lee Hooker, it's a good time for another Canned Heat post. Fried Hockey Boogie is one of their...
I have that version on a CD, and also a CD of the Cheap Thrills album. My favorite version is the Cheap Thrills version with Big Brother and the...
I agree. I like Tina Turner's but Humble Pie did so much better. Rosetta Tharpe was great. Without her, rock & roll may have never come to be.
JOHN LEE HOOKER Boom Boom Doo do do do doo doo doo! Doo doo doo dooo! "Boom boom boom..." In the 60's and 70's you could hear this blues song...
JUNIOR WELLS Scratch My Back There's something about this song, Scratch My Back, that makes me want to play it over and over. He raps through...
DELTA MOON Death Letter Death Letter, or Death Letter Blues was written in about 1965 by Son House, one of the original Delta Blues men. I...
SAM & DAVE Soul Man Soul Man was one of the biggest hits of the Blues Brothers, and was performed in their movie and even on Saturday Night...
They were one of my favorites too, and still are. Ive seen them multiple times. There is another post on them coming up in a couple of posts.
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