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Hound Dog Taylor 1971

"Hound Dog Taylor recorded live at the Peppers Lounge South Of the Loop , Chicago 1971, Big thanks to Wes Race and Dick Shurman for the tape . All pictures are from Wes Race collection Oct.& Nov 1971-72."

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Hound Dog Taylor - Freddie's Blues

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Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter - Wild About you baby

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers featuring Little Walter on harmonica. This was back in 1967."

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Otis Spann - Sad Day in Texas

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My Next Door Neighbor - Jerry McCain

My Next Door Neighbor (Demo) Jerry McCain and His Upstarts

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Roots of Blues Willie Newbern „Roll And Tumble Blues Hambone

Roll And Tumble Blues Hambone (W. Newbern) 'Little is known about blues songster Hambone Willie Newbern; a mere half-dozen sides comprise the sum of his recorded legacy, but among those six is the first-ever rendition of the immortal Delta classic "Roll and Tumble Blues." Reportedly born in 1899, he first began to make a name for himself in the Brownsville, TN area, where he played country dances and fish fries in the company of Yank Rachell; later, on the Mississippi medicine show circuit, he mentored Sleepy John Estes (from whom most of the known information about Newbern originated). While in Atlanta in 1929, Newbern cut his lone session; in addition to "Roll and Tumble," which became an oft-covered standard, he recorded songs like "She Could Toodle-Oo" and "Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues," which suggest an old-fashioned rag influence. By all reports an extremely ill-tempered man, Newbern's behavior eventually led him to prison, where a brutal beating is said to have brought his life to an end around 1947.' ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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you aint nothing but fine rockin’ sydney

the original...

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Sallie Blair (1934–1992) was an African-American jazz singer from Baltimore. She began her career singing with Johnny Otis and Duke Ellington in the early 1950s before she won the talent competition Chance of a Lifetime on ABC-TV. Soon after she joined Cab Calloway’s Cotton Club Revue and then became a popular nightclub act. Sallie was a reoccurring performer on Ed Sullivan’s shows and was rumored to have had an affair with him. She performed for the royal family at the London Palladium and broke protocall by kicking off her shoes and doing a sexy barefoot dance. Although Sallie released two albums as a solo artist, Squeeze Me (1957) and Hello, Tiger! (1958), she was more known for her beauty and sex appeal. Sallie often changed her hair color, but early in her career she was known for being a blonde. The press referred to her as the  "blonde bombshell” and Miles Davis called her the “brown Marilyn Monroe.” She married pianist and arranger Rene DeKnight in 1963 and still appeared on TV throughout the the 1960s as her popularity waned. In 1978, Sallie was linked to Warren Beatty then she disappeared from the public. She died at the age of 57 in 1992.

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The Evil Dope by Phil Phillips

'Philip Baptiste, aka Phil Phillips, sang in earlier years with his brothers in the Gateway Quartet in Louisiana and had a nationwide hit with his "Sea Of Love" in 1959. "The Evil Dope" dates from around 1970.'

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Roswell Rudd/Lafayette Harris DUO

Happy Birthday trombonist/composer ROSWELL RUDD

"Roswell Rudd and Lafayette Harris perform the 'Fats' Waller composition GREY TURNING BLUE OVER YOU at Bard's Spegieltent on July 27, 2008. "

Yale grad played trad jazz and cut two LPs with Eli's Chosen Six, then dove headfirst into the NYC avant-garde, working w/Steve Lacy, Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp, NY Art Quartet (w/John Tchicai), Gato Barbieri, and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orch. Taught at college level, long stint w/Catskills hotel show bands; mid-'90s career revival w/CDs for CIMP and reunion w/Lacy for Verve (2000). Extensive collabs w/musicians from Mali, Mongolia, Latin America always lifted by his vibrant energy, musical daring, generosity of spirit. "You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos." (RR)

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Little Willie John - Walk Slow (King 5428)

flip side of ''You Hurt Me''...

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Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad (1955)

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FEVER: Little Willie John's Fast Life, Mysterious Death, & The Birth Of Soul

"Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer." -- Marvin Gaye 

 "My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John." -- Stevie Wonder 

 Little Willie John was induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Before Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, The Temptations, Levi Stubbs and The Four Tops and The Supremes there was John. He is best known for his hit "Fever" which has been covered by Beyonce and Peggy Lee. The Beatles covered his song "Leave My Kitten Alone." The legendary H. B. Barnum, says, "In bad voice, he could out-sing anybody." Barnum should know having been Aretha Franklin's musical director for nearly three decades.   Little Willie John lived for a fleeting 30 years, but his dynamic and daring sound left an indelible mark on the history of music. His deep blues, rollicking rock 'n' roll, and swinging ballads inspired a generation of musicians, forming the basis for what we now know as soul music. The soaring heights of Little Willie John's career are matched only by the tragic events of his death, cutting short a life so full of promise. Charged with a violent crime in the late 1960s, an abbreviated trial saw Willie convicted and incarcerated in Walla Walla Washington, where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1968. In this, the first official biography of one of the most important figures in rhythm & blues history, author Susan Whitall, with the help of Little Willie John's eldest son Kevin John, has interviewed some of the biggest names in the music industry and delved into the personal archive of the John family to produce an unprecedented account of the man who invented soul music.

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Little Willie John - I'm Shakin'

William Edward "Little Willie" John (November 15, 1937 – May 26, 1968)

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Sonny Boy Nelson Street Walkin' (1936)

'Eugene Powell (Sonny Boy Nelson):Vocals & Guitar. Probably Willie Harris:2nd Guitar. Recorded at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA. Thursday, October 15, 1936. Originally issued on the 1937 single (Bluebird B6672) (78 RPM). This recording taken from the 1974 album "Lonesome Road Blues:15 Years In The Mississippi Delta 1926-1941" (Yazoo L-1038) (LP).'

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R.L. Burnside’s wood-chopping holler (1978)

“R.L. Burnside chops wood and sings a holler at his farm in Independence, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop, August 28, 1978." 

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1967