#Roots Rock and Roll

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John Fogerty - Rock and Roll Girls (1985) J. C. Fogerty from: "Centerfield" (LP) "Rock and Roll Girls" / "Centerfield" (Single)

Roots Rock and Roll

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Personnel: John Fogerty: Lead Vocals John Fogerty: Lead Guitar John Fogerty: Rhythm Guitar John Fogerty: Saxophone John Fogerty: Bass John Fogerty: Drums

John Fogerty: Backing Vocals

Arranged by John Fogerty Produced by John Fogerty

Album Recorded: @ The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California, USA July–September 1984

Album Released: on January 14, 1985

Single Released: March, 1985

Warner Bros. Records

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Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray - Sea Cruise (1978) Huey "Piano" Smith from: "Fresh Fish Special" (LP) "Sea Cruise" / "The Way I Walk" (Single)

Rock and Roll | Rockabilly Revival | Roots Rock and Roll

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Personnel: Robert Gordon: Vocals Link Wray: Lead Guitar The Wild Cats: Billy Cross: Rhythm Guitar Rob Stoner: Bass Howie Wyeth: Drums

Richard Gottehrer: Piano

Produced by Richard Gottehrer / Robert Gordon

Recorded: @ Plaza Sound Studios in New York City, New York USA December, 1977

Album Released: on June 15, 1978

Single Released: on June 17, 1978

Private Stock Records

+++ Huey "Piano" Smith 1934 - 2023 +++

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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner (1969) John Fogerty from: "Willy and The Poor Boys" (LP) "Fortunate Son" / "Down on the Corner" (Single)

Roots Rock and Roll

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Personnel: John Fogerty: Vocals / Lead Guitar Tom Fogerty: Rhythm Guitar / Backing Vocals Stu Cook: Bass / Backing Vocals Doug Clifford: Drums

Arranged by John Fogerty Produced by John Fogerty

Recorded: @ The Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California USA during 1969

Single Released: on October 29, 1969

Album Released: on November 2, 1969

Fantasy Records (US) Liberty Records (International)

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Down On The Corner

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Tweedy!

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Tracklist:

Hound Dog • Rebel Rouser • (I Don't Know Why) But I Do • Walk Right In • Land Of 1000 Dances • Blowin' In The Wind • Fortunate Son • I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) • Respect • Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 • Sloop John B • California Dreamin' • For What It's Worth • What The World Needs Now Is Love • Break On Through (To The Other Side) • Mrs. Robinson • Volunteers • Let's Get Together • San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) • Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) • Medley: Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In • Everybody's Talkin' • Joy To The World • Stoned Love • Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head • Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) • Sweet Home Alabama • It Keeps You Runnin' • I've Got To Use My Imagination • On The Road Again • Against The Wind • Forrest Gump Suite

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Richard Manuel <3

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GRAMMYS 2025 (Part 1)

So, the nominees for the Grammy Awards have been announced. The 67th ceremony will take place on February 2, 2025. Let's see what's going on in the blues categories.

BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM.

- Joe Bonamassa

tops the list of nominees with his 16th studio album last year, "Blues Deluxe Vol. 2". Joe has previously been nominated for a Grammy three times, including in this category for the album "Royal Tea".

"The contrast between a brash 26-year-old and a solid 46-year-old is significant. Is the fire burning as brightly as before? Do I still have the same thirst for creativity? Am I good enough to pay homage to the heroes of my songs? The answer lies somewhere in this album."

- Shemekia Copeland

participates in two more nominations besides this one: "Best American Roots Song" and "Best Americana Roots Performance", and all of them for the album "Blame It On Eve", which we recently introduced you to. Shemekia has previously received five Grammy nominations.

- Steve Cropper,

legendary guitarist, producer and songwriter, twice Grammy winner in 1968 and 1994 and winner of six nominations. Few are able to create new bands at the age of 80, but Steve Cropper is nominated for a Grammy in this category for the second time with his rock and soul quintet Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour, for the debut album "Fire It Up" in 2021 and for the second album "Friendlytown" this year. Cropper recruited Billy Gibbons, Brian May and Tim Montana. "If your heart doesn't shake at the first bars of this album, it means you're already dead," Steve jokes.

- Ruthie Foster

and the album "Mileage". The tenth studio album by a folk-blues celebrity is a reflection on a life full of triumphs and losses. This is the story of the musical journey that led the "little black girl with a guitar" from singing in churches in rural Texas to numerous Grammy nominations (this is the sixth nomination) and collaborations with Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trax

- Antonio Vergara

and the album "The Fury". This is not just a celebration of modern blues, but a masterpiece. The famous blues guitarist, singer and producer assembled an intercontinental cast of artists to create the album. Vergara hails from Ecuador and combines the influences of Chicago and Texas blues with his Latin American roots, creating a timeless, boundary-breaking sound. He is the first Latin American artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category. Joe Bonamassa added the song "My Lucky Mojo" from this album to his personal Spotify playlist.

- Cedric Burnside

and the album "Hill Country Love". Cedric is the grandson of the famous delta bluesman R.L. Burnside, and from the age of 13 he began to tour with his grandfather as a drummer (by the way, he has several Blues Music Award awards in this category). At the age of 30, he won the Blues Music Award in the category "Best New Artist Debut" for the 2008 album "Two Man Wrecking Crew" with Lightning Malcolm. Two more albums in 2015 and 2018 were nominated for Grammys, and "I Be Trying" won in the category "Best Traditional Blues Album" in 2022. Cedric says that hill country blues (blues of the northern Mississippi region) is in his blood. "It doesn't matter where I end up: if I move to Australia or France, I'll still stay hill country. You can't take that away from me.… I feel like I am hill country blues."

- The Fabulous Thunderbirds

and the album "Struck Down". The band, which was founded in 1974 in Texas by Jimmy Vaughn, inviting Harper and vocalist Kim Wilson, who remains its only permanent member. In 1979-1983, the band released 4 albums, recognized as one of the most significant recordings of the "white blues", but not commercially very successful. In 1986, she won the Blues Music Award in the category "Band of the Year" and was twice nominated for a Grammy in 1987. Jimmy left the band in 1989 to record a joint album with Stevie Ray "Family Style". The recording of the album "Struck Down" was attended by Alvin Bishop, Bonnie Raitt, Mick Fleetwood, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Steve Strongman and famous music artist zydeco Teggapse Simien

- Sue Foley

and the album "One Guitar Woman". A solo acoustic album by a Canadian blues guitarist and singer dedicated to the "female guitar pioneers" who left their mark on music, not only in the blues: Elizabeth Cotten, Memphis Minnie, Rosetta Tharp, etc. Sue also wrote the book Guitar Woman. In 2001, Foley won the Juno Award (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy), received 17 Maple Blues Awards, was nominated several times for Blues Music Awards and twice won this award in 2020 and 2023.

- The band "Little Feat"

and the album "Sam's Place". The band, founded in 1969 in California, performed eclectic blues rock with elements of country rock, southern rock, rhythm and blues and soul. Among the many rock bands of the 70s, she stood out for her original sound and high performance skills. In 1979, after the death of their leader Lowell George, the band broke up. The reunion took place in 1987. The last album "Rooster Rag" was released in 2012, and it was the last to feature guitarist and vocalist Paul Barrere (died in 2019). Paul wrote the band's hits such as Skin It Back, Time Loves a Hero and Old Folks Boogie. And suddenly, in May of this year, a new album was released, where all the leading vocal parts were performed by Sam Clayton. He is a percussionist and backing vocalist, in the band since 1972. The album consists of cover versions of famous blues standards, except for the opening track.

- Taj Mahal

and his sextet with the album "Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa".

There is no need to introduce this outstanding bluesman. He was nominated for a Grammy 9 times, won this award three times, and in the category "Best Contemporary Blues Album". And at the beginning of this year, at the famous Tulsa studio, a new album was recorded in front of a live audience in a typical genre for a musician, combining a variety of styles.

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Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)

How does one tell the story of an artist as influential as Little Richard? The same way you tell the story of the Universe, by keeping it simple: A long time ago there was the Big Bang. 

Little Richard: I Am Everything, a new documentary directed by Lisa Cortes, presents Little Richard’s existence as an analogous cosmic event. Rock ‘n’ roll as we know it exists because on December 5, 1932, Richard Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia.

Cortes isn’t the first to frame Little Richard in terms of cosmic energy. As Nick Tosches once put it, “[v]ia his pure white-energy raunch and total over-simplification, [Little Richard had] the power to make people say 'fuck it' and turn their backs on their own control conditioning and just go out and debauch and catch a glimpse of the violent, drunken, loving, dancing Universe.” I Am Everything is similarly reverential, but the power of the film stems from its focus on Little Richard’s strange, conflicted human experience. 

Growing up, Little Richard, as he would later be nicknamed, was scolded in church for singing too loud — an impressive feat for a Pentecostal. He exuded a preacher’s charisma and even as a young boy parishioners asked him to pray for them. When he started playing piano, he banged on the keys the way that Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an early influence, banged on her guitar. The idea, Little Richard said, was to drum away at your instrument until you reached “the peak.” 

The nature of that “peak,” would remain a lifelong tension. That erratic blurring of sexual and spiritual extasy, one of rock music’s central paradoxes, is what made his music both threatening and irresistible. 

Fans of Little Richard specifically and rock history in general are likely familiar with the raw information that I Am Everything offers. But in addition to the more expected talking heads —  Mick Jagger, John Waters, Billy Porter — some fresher contextualization comes from Black, queer academics and music historians. “The south is the home of all things queer” says writer and sociologist Zandria Robinson, and she means “queer” in every sense of the word. Homosexuality was illegal, as was drag (the maddeningly circular nature of culture emerges as one of I Am Everything’s subtler themes) but the edges of that reality were “soft.” Little Richard performed with minstrel shows and on the vaudeville circuit, sometimes appearing as Princess LaVonne. 

Like many raised in the church, Little Richard always suspected that rock ‘n’ roll was the Devil’s music. That persistent belief, Jagger notes, “can’t be much fun for those involved,” an observation that further emphasizes how heavy Little Richard’s baggage was in comparison to some of his imitators. 

In 1957, the story goes, Little Richard saw Sputnik in the night sky and interpreted it as a sign from God to repent. He enrolled in Bible school, hosted a buy-back/burning of his records, started making Gospel music, and married a woman. Over the course of his life, he would waffle between publicly denouncing homosexuality and embracing it. As one commentator puts it, “He was good at liberating other people by example, he was not good at liberating himself.” 

Little Richard didn’t come from nowhere: Artists like Billy Wright and Esquerita heavily informed his flamboyance. But it seems most everyone else came from him. Jimi Hendrix, of course, got his start in Little Richard’s band. The Beatles opened shows for him when, as he said, “only their mothers knew their names.” Paul McCartney developed his wild yelp by imitating Little Richard, and Jagger copped his stage moves. 

When Little Richard is given his due, he’s credited with inventing not only rock ‘n’ roll but helping to invent the teenager. Greil Marcus called it “Little Richard’s First Law of Youth Culture:  attracting kids by driving their parents up a wall.” As Waters puts it, “the first songs that you love that your parents hate are the beginning of the soundtrack to your life.” In a recent New Yorker profile Paul Schrader, another artist pulled between the spiritual and carnal, recalls his mother smashing the radio after catching him listening to rip-off artist Pat Boone. One imagines that if it had been Little Richard, she might have burned the house down. 

Eternally offered a kind of ambient credit by musicians and critics, the lion’s share of the specific attention (and money) is paid to the (often white) artists Little Richard inspired, or who arguable just straight up stole his shit. (In terms of respectful homage, there’s a chasm between McCartney’s “Long Tall Sally” and Boone’s “Tutti Frutti.”) It’s as if the man is at once too bright to look at directly, and too Black and queer and alien to fully acknowledge. 

He often made his rightful frustration known. In one clip, Little Richard and David Johansen, fully in his Buster Poindexter era, present the 1988 Grammy for Best New Artist. Little Richard, usually unpredictable on live TV, says of Johansen’s pompadour, “I used to wear my hair like that. They take everything I get. They take it from me.” He opens the envelope and declares himself the winner. It’s a joke but it isn’t. “I have never received nothing,” he continues. “Y’all ain’t never gave me no Grammy and I been singing for years. I am the architect of rock ‘n’ roll and they never gave me nothing. And I am the originator!” He gets a standing ovation, which is something, but it isn’t enough. 

Almost every review of the film mentions this moving, uncomfortable scene, because it teases out one of Little Richard’s most powerful realities. He didn’t always seem to know what he was supposed to be doing, or even who he should be, but he always knew what he was worth. 

Margaret Welsh

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Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989) Chris Isaak from: "Heart Shaped World" (LP) “Wicked Game“ / "Wicked Game" (Instrumental) (US Single) “Wicked Game“ / "Don't Make Me Dream About You" (EU Single)

Ballad | Roots Rock and Roll

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Personnel: Chris Isaak: Vocals / Acoustic Guitar James Calvin Wilsey: Guitar Rowland Salley: Bass / Backing Vocals Kenney Dale Johnson: Drums

Backing Vocals: Christine Wall Cynthia Lloyd

Produced by Erik Jacobsen

Album Recorded: @ The Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California USA and @ The Dave Wellhausen Recording Studios in San Francisco, California USA 1988

Album Released: on June 13, 1989

Single Released: on July 14, 1989

Reprise Records

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Chris Isaak - Dancin' (1985) Chris Isaak from: "Silvertone" (LP|CD) "Dancin' (LP Version)"  / "Gone Ridin' (LP Version)" (12" Promo Single) "Best of Chris Isaak" (Compilation CD)

Roots Rock and Roll | Neo-Rockabilly | Ballad

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Album Personnel: Chris Isaak: Vocals / Guitar James Calvin Wilsey: Guitar / Lap Steel Guitar Pat Craig: Keyboards Pee Wee Ellis: Saxophone Chris Solberg: Bass Prairie Prince: Drums

Produced by Erik Jacobsen

Recorded: @ Coast Recorders Studio (?) in San Francisco, California USA 1984

Album Released: on January 10, 1985 Warner Bros. Records

12" Promo Single Released: 1985 Warner Bros. Records

Compilation CD Released: on May 9, 2006 Reprise Records

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Little Feat - Day Or Night 

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Chris Robinson (left) and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes - BeachLife Festival; Redondo Beach, CA (5-7-23). @theblackcrowes @BeachLifeFest Photo: Jeff Bliss - for Cali Mag

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Tracklist:

Refugee • Here Comes My Girl • Even The Losers • Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid) • Century City • Don’t Do Me Like That • You Tell Me • What Are You Doin' In My Life? • Louisiana Rain

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The Band at Richard Manuel & Garth Hudson’s house above the Ashokan resevoir in Woodstock, NY, 1969, by Elliot Landy