The 1965 album "Otis Blue" was at the heart of our 1001 blues feature. Two sessions on 9th and 10th July that year yielded eleven tracks - just over half an hour's music - for what one reviewer called "the most complete album of all time". No argument here. His third album, with popularity riding high, here was a chance to include covers of the Stones, Temptations and Sam Cooke. Nustled in that company was a stunning vocal on B B King's "Rock Me Baby": once the big O did a version of a song, it was his evermore. Actually when you think it was Booker T & MGs with Otis on lead vocals does it get better than that anyway, Cropper's biting guitar and marvellously understated drumming of Al Jackson...
We did gospel with Lurrie Bell and Joe Louis Walker from Bell's brand new album and an approach to vocal and slide going back as far as Blind Willie Johnson. The other gospel warning came from John Lee Hookers 3rd recording session when Eddie Burns fierce harp really challenged the stompin foot and guitar of the Boogie Man. Hooker cut an album with Canned Heat and their 1970 "Future Blues" snuck onto our playlist. A really bluesy go at "Trouble Blues" from Fats Domino and a 1947 Little Johnny Jones piece were in our piano tent. The songs of Otis Taylor and George Jackson and some Bayou Boppin provided themes for spanking new collections on Ace and Kent - the good stuff just keeps coming.
Our show next week will be wall to wall B B King, classics rarities and oddities *PLUS* a 1960s live performance that will knock your socks off: his recent efforts have cast him as ringmaster, back in the day he was Chairman of the Board. Until 10pm (BST) next Sunday take care of yourselves and take care of those that take care of you
Track.Title | Track.ArtistSort | Index | Album.Title | Album.ArtistSort | Label |
Name Of The Game | Boo Boo Davis | 6 | Name Of The Game | Boo Boo Davis | BLACK & TAN |
Upside Your Head | Omar Kent Dykes | 2 | Big Town Playboy | Omar Kent Dykes | Ruf |
Chip Off The Old Block | Johnny Jones | 2 | Can I Get An Amen | Johnny Jones | SPV |
Earl Gaines | Sittin' Here Drinkin' | 10 | Champion Records The Singles Collection | Various Artists | SPV |
Ohio Bound | Big Lucky Carter | 9 | The Complete Goldwax Singles, Vol. 1 1962-1966 | Various Artists | Kent |
Future Blues | Canned Heat | 14 | The Very Best Of Canned Heat | Canned Heat | EMI |
Rock Me Baby | Otis Redding | 15 | 100 Hits Legends - Otis Reading | Otis Redding | DEMON |
Naggin | Jimmy Anderson | 8 | Louisiana Swamp Blues | Various Artists | FLYRIGHT |
Tee-Na-Na | Dicky williams | 2 | The Ace (Ms) Story Volume 4 | Various Artists | ACE |
satisfied woman satisfied man | vernon garrett | 16 | pounds of soul | Various Artists | kent |
The Chokin' Kind | Allen Toussaint | 7 | What Is Success: The Scepter And Bell Recordings | Allen Toussaint | Kent |
linda gail | rob bernard | 4 | boppin on the bayou | various artists | ace |
The Welfare (Turns It'sback On You) | Freddie King | 19 | Texas Sensation | Freddie King | CHARLY |
Big Boss Man | Jimmy Reed | 4 | Good Times, Bad Times | Various Artists | MOJO MAGAZINE |
Ugly Papa | Julia Lee | 5 | Snatch And Grab It - Essential Julia Lee (Vol. 1) | Julia Lee | INDIGO |
Let The good times roll | louis jordan | 18 | best of | louis jordan | best of jazz |
Shelby County Blues | Little Johnny Jones | 43 | The Aristocrat Of The Blues | Various Artists | MCA/CHESS |
Trouble blues | fats domino | 15 | imperial singles vol 5 | fats domino | ACE |
A Man Is Nothing But A Fool | Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee | 7 | Cripple Creek | Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee | NOT Music |
It's A Blessing | Lurrie Bell | 4 | The Devil Ain't Got No Music | Lurrie Bell | ARIA |
Burnin' Hell | John Lee Hooker | 8 | Boogie Chillen | John Lee Hooker | INDIGO |
After Awhile | Papa Lightfoot | 69 | Down Home Blues Classics | Various Artists | BOULEVARD VINTAGE |
i feel good all over | sam butera | 22 | handy man - songs of otis blackwell | Various Artists | ace |
mini skirt mini | george jackson | 1 | let the best man win | george jackson | fame / kent |
a bomb bop | mike fern | 1-1 | wild streak vol 2 | various artists | veetone |
baby what you want me to do | jimmy reed | 10 | you dont have to go | jimmy reed | orbis |
i'm tore down | freddie king | 1-12 | r&B spotlight 61 | various artists | fantastic voyage |
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