The Blues List

Have good friday.....

Mzzls

 

(I have later posts on these guys, but here's a quick post since I have been busy, and posting on other threads

 

SATURDAY NITE FISH FRY

Lonsesome Day Blues


The blues is often about the existential struggles in life. Loneliness is probably the most key element to the existential reality of the lives we weave with others for ourselves. We will always experience feelings for someone we left behind, or someone that has moved on, and someone who has passed on. There is an implicit loneliness with the people who won't open up and let us in, or when we won't open up and let others in. A hard world forces it upon us, and sometimes we force it upon a soft world. Even in a close loving relationship, it is inevitable that there will be periods of when we are apart from our loved one.

Listen to that catchy boogie line that runs through the song. After hearing this song it was actually the soundtrack of a dream I had one night. I dont know if the vocals were right, except the part when Shakura S'Aida, the vocalist pictured here, sang she was going to speak to the audience.

This is a Canadian band that was active from 2001 to 2007. They played blues, jump blues, and the old R&B, and soul. Their name comes from a late 1940's song by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (hence they had to spell night as nite, otherwise a youtube search would pull up Jordan's song). In case you didnt know, Louis Jordan's band, despite being a big band of the 40's, put out the very first Rock & Roll song, Caldonia. A lot of their songs, representing that transition from blues to rock, were about rocking & rolling, which in the 40's meant having sex.

Anyway, whenever you leave a loving mark on someone's life, there is an implicit loneliness. Like the many women who are always desperately calling me, 'This is your baby! I can't raise him/her by myself!' (...I'M JOKING!)

 

(This evening I was listening to Luther Allison's Blue Streak album. The song Big City comes up on a later post on my Instagram page---so that will be posted here in the future. But here are a couple of other good tunes from that album.

This song has a unique and very catchy boogie line:




If you were to buy a blues album from the 1970's on, this is the kind of song you probably want on it:

 

(Otis Rush appears in a later post on the Instagram page with a song from this Live album, but here is a song I did not post----a little preview as I am very busy helping my wife get ready for Thanksgiving, which, once again is at our house!!! With 6 kids, you'd think that one of them could host it at their house, but...)

 

(OK---I may not have time to post tomorrow either------so here is some incredible BB King)

 

This next one is maybe my favorite blues rendition-----they are having a good time here!!

 

The very first Muddy Waters album I bought, when I looked at the songs on the back, I saw Mannish Boy listed and knew that was the one I had to have. It was that same recording.

 

Still too busy to post from my IG page, but a later post is the title song from this album by Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite. But this is another great song from that album:

 

Wow! I'm going to have to do a future post on him. That is now one of my favorite versions of that song.

 

I've still been too busy to post from my IG page.

But I thought I'd quickly post this Buddy Guy song. I was driving around yesterday and had this CD playing in my car.

 

And speaking of Buddy Guy and Whiskey---here he is with Keith Richards and Jeff Beck on that same album:

 

OK! I have to post this----because you know what is really missing today?

Go-Go Dancers!!!!

Damn! We need go-go dancers! Come on people----Let's work together-----a go-go dancer for every bar!

If I ran for president----that would be my platform----at least one go-go dancer in every bar and club!

 

Been busy, and busy posting in other threads. So here is another quick one:

I've already posted another Junior Well's song----I forget if I posted the one from this album, but here is another one on it. This is a great live album recorded live at the Chicago Blues club popularly known as, Teresa's Hole