hmmmm...I remember first hearing that sung by Eric Burdon and the Animals. Funny how I got introduced to the blues by British Invasion bands.
A lot of us got introduced to the blues by the Brits. For one thing, the record stores in the North wouldn't carry them... white radio stations wouldn't play them... We didn't know nuttin' until the English kids bought "race" overruns, learned the guitar riffs, and cycled them back to us in a format (barely) acceptable to our parents. My dad liked some of the music I played as a teen, but couldn't figure out why "that guy from the Rolling Stones" wanted to sound black (not his word)...
I think the first record I bought by an original bluesman was a live album -- John Lee Hooker and the Yardbirds (and Yardbirds was the name I knew). After that, I was hooked on the real stuff, but it was awful hard to get for a rural, Northern, white teen girl.
Music thats blasting on my scomputer
A Mixed CD that i collected. Right now its playing, AudioSlave-Show Me How to Live.
Copy of a tape I once made for a friend of mine (T., I hope you're well ;-)) -- bit of an Asian Underground / Big Beat mix -- and hey, its still pretty damn good!
I'm impressed by myself. <grins>
skit: Goodness Gracious Me / Superman? Indian
Ananda Shankar: Streets of Calcutta (Untouchable Outcaste Beats 2)
Timeshard: Cosmic Carrot Pt.2 (Planet Dog-The Peel Sessions)
Safri Goes to Bollywood: Dum Maro Dum (Eastern Uprising)
Talvin Singh: Traveller (OK)
The Outsider: The Mashup (12")
DJ Soul Slinger: Abducted, T-Power Classic London '94 Remix (The Abducted Remixes)
: Revenge of the Mekon, Artery Boltcutter Mix (12")
Agent Provocateur: Kicks, Artery Mix (Wall of Sound: the First XI)
Primal Scream: Jailbird, Dust Brothers Mix (Dope on Plastic! 2)
Raw Stylus: Use Me (London Underground Vol. 2)
skit: Goodness Gracious Me / The Guru
Misty, I've always love 'No rain' very much a little time capsule of a point in my life.
right now it Dead Letter Office by REM
some hard-as-nails asian-british drum'n'bass
the Stranglers - Golden Brown ... love that song ...
A Chemical Brothers compilation - noisy buggers!
Just was listening to Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Alexis Corner, all the goodies on a "collection sampler".
Wow, Alexis is the grandfather of British Blues. Quite a scholar.
The first 8 bars of Deja Vu are some of the most powerful music I ever heard. The song sort of peters out towards the end.
Just saw Tina Turner singing life (!) on German TV (!).
That gave me the idea to listen to some old Ike and Tina recording again: what a differnce ten years of age can do to Tina's singing
panzade
Saw Alexis live in the 60's, actually, I sat/stood beside him, when he played in pub in Poole/Dorset.
Saw him in Guilford ..in 1969
Must have been 64 or 65, when I saw him.
That's no age for a bluesman! Look at Muddy Waters or BB King. wink laff my computer's tooo slow.
