Posts Tagged ‘blues’
Set in 1930s noir-like Gotham City (I guess of Batman fame?), Dark Streets follows the life of Chaz Davenport (Mann) a big town playboy with the city’s hottest blues, jazz, swing nightclub. Davenport’s father, a wealthy power company owner, mysteriously commits suicide and leaves Chaz disillusioned, broke, and in financial trouble as he gets written [...]
Singer Jesse Fortune, best known for his song, “Too Many Cooks”, (later successfully covered by Robert Cray), died literally onstage — somehow a fitting end for a great stage performer, but nonetheless sad news.
http://www.spinner.com/2009/09/01/blues-singer-jesse-fortune-dies-at-79/
Great video overview of the folk standard known as “stack-o-lee” or “stagger lee”, which has been performed in many, many versions over the years. It’s a great example of songs which were passed along in the oral tradition, in an era when mass communication was rare, and folk stories often were the primary source [...]
Tags: blues, folk, song, stack-o-lee, stagger lee, versions
If the guys from Portishead were smokin’ weed in the alley with Captain Beefheart and “wordjazz” master Ken Nordine outside of a Jimmy Smith show, and then decided to corral Smith for a jam at Nordine’s home studio, this is what I imagine the resulting recording would sound like.
Belgian-born Fabien Van [...]
Tags: belgian, blues, fab, incursions, ostentatoires
Longtime blues radio personality Scott “Hambone” Hammer has hosted “Hambone’s Blues Party” for 14 years on WDCB, Chicago’s west-suburban NPR outlet, including having bands play live in the studio almost every show. He’s featured in an interview in the northwest-suburban Daily Herald:
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=297109
