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Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack’s Still Live After All These Years
Not sure how many American readers will recall the great British band Chicken Shack. I suppose their biggest, or at least best known contribution to the world is Christine McVie (nee Perfect) to Fleetwood Mac. But since 1967 they’ve been … Continue reading
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Muddy Waters’ King Bee
Big Earl Sellar contributed this review. At the end of his long career and life, Muddy Waters found a kindred spirit in Johnny Winter, the Great White Hope of blues during the 1970s. Although their collaborations lasted for only four … Continue reading
Muddy Waters’ Hard Again and I’m Ready
In the late ’70s Muddy Waters was just coming out of a slump. Chess Records had given up on him, after trying everything to sell the older bluesmen. The Woodstock Album in 1976 was his best album in years (and … Continue reading
Eric Bibb’s Friends
When I was a young man, before I reached my advanced years, nobody was singing the blues except for Englishmen. The old blues singers were in their dotage, and the younger black musicians avoided the blues like the plague. Then … Continue reading
The Animals’ Gratefully Dead 1964-1968
Eric Burdon has been in the news recently. As of early July 2004 he has a new CD and a new book, neither of which we will discuss today. He is on tour, somewhere, playing a variation on the blues-based … Continue reading
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Eric Bibb, Rory Block, and Maria Muldaur’s Sisters & Brothers
Behold, how good and how pleasant for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity.” — Psalm 133 The blues has a spiritual side which is every bit as important to the make-up of the blues as is the physical … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Feel Like Going Home, The Soul of a Man, Warming By the Devil’s Fire, Piano Blues; Son House’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues and Keb’ Mo’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues
And so the juggernaut that is Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues continues. First it appeared as a PBS television event; then a book; the television films were released on DVD; and now Green Man Review looks at a small part … Continue reading
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Carl Wolfe’s W.C. Handy’s Beale Street – Where the Blues Began
The year 2003 was named “Year of the Blues” in the U.S. because it was in 1903 that an African-American musician named William Christopher Handy first heard the music that later came to be known as the blues. In a … Continue reading
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John Mayall’s The Turning Point
I was 18 years old in 1969, when this record was first released. I was just beginning a lifelong interest in the blues. A friend played Muddy Waters’ The Real Folk Blues album for me, and I was hooked. I … Continue reading
Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Eternal and Lowdown
Eternal and Lowdown is easily the match of any alternative country CD released in 2001. It’s packed with solid, passionate songwriting and intense singing and playing. Ray Wylie Hubbard, a 54-year-old Texan, has been writing and singing songs since the … Continue reading
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