What made you stop, drop n start lovin' the blues?
For me it was a 4 hour home invasion robbery (man w/ a gun), and I was just draggin' myself into a hole. Some friends invited me to see the Ronnie Baker Brooks band out in Rockford. Actually they needed someone to drive them there, so they could get drunk, but it turned me into a fan. And well 100's of pictures, video's and car miles ... and other blues bands, I'm still lovin' Ronnie and the band. Plus former members of the band.
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Permalink Reply by Rick Moore on -
I used to listen to the Mexican border radio stations late at night in the early 60's but it was the British Blues bands that really got their hooks in me. John Mayall. Long John Baldry. Savoy Brown. Peter Green. etc.
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Permalink Reply by kevin barry "bluesglass" on -
Long John Baldry's, "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll" is one of those songs that you just have to blow the windows out with volume when he starts tearing it up.
My God, does that boy rock!! :D Yee Ha!!!
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Permalink Reply by kevin barry "bluesglass" on
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I started listening to the blues sometime around five years old. The kid who lived kiddy-corner to our house had a collection of "race records". We heard Big Joe Turner and Laverne Baker 45's on a plastic record player in the kid's basement. His father owned a store in downtown Buffalo, and the records were used to draw customers.
Long before I had any idea what I was listening to, I got hooked on the sound of the blues. All my life growing up I gravitated to blues and rock on the hard side. I picked up a harmonica around that time, and I've played for 47 or 48 years. I swear the last thing I'll be doing is playing some blues when I keel over. I just hope it's not this week!
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Permalink Reply by Terrance Lape on -
Big Joe Turner is one of the great, Mississippi John Hurt, T-Bone Walker, Lightning Hopkins and of course John Lee Hooker.
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Permalink Reply by kevin barry "bluesglass" on
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So many of these really old guys are still on film, and sites like this are fun to browse!
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Permalink Reply by Mark Porkchop Holder on -
My grandfather was a truck farmer and harmonica player. He would play at picnics with a next door (3 miles down the road) neighbor who played bottleneck. I realized as an adult that I've pretty much judged all the music I've ever heard (or played) in my life against those two guys.
It's different (not better or superior, just different) when you're from the South and ain't really had shit. It's kinda like the first time you ever learned what the Sun was. It had already been shining on you for years.
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Permalink Reply by kevin barry "bluesglass" on
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The best thing we can do is try to educate the kids about the music. I remember taking my nine year old daughter down to New Orleans with my wife. That is a tough town for a nine year old, and as we walked along Bourbon Street there was plenty we didn't want her to see. We did, however, get her into one nice saloon where she could sit and sip her coke and listen to the blues. I glanced over at her while the wife and I were dancing and Emma was sitting there, singing along with the large Black women on stage. It was a wonderful thing to see. She knew the words to one of the classics because she had been listening since she was itty-bitty. Later that night she heard zydeco and saw street musicians doing traditional New Orleans jazz.
She remembers every bit of it, and listens gladly when the music is around. I take her to blues festivals, and at the age of nineteen she is up there in front dancing with the crowd.
What a joy. :D
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Permalink Reply by Don Anderson on -
I remember in the days of free-form FM, (remember that?) hearing the Allman Brothers "Statesboro Blues," "Southbound," and "Stormy Monday," and loving that sound. I also remember seeing BB King on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. He always played something uptempo, even though I wanted to hear him play a slow blues.
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Permalink Reply by kevin barry "bluesglass" on
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My dad used to work at WEBR radio in Buffalo, NY when I was young. We were at the station and I was looking around when my dad asked if I wanted to see the brand new FM station. FM was just starting in the city and I thought it was unusual and neat. We walked down the hall to the janitors closet and he opened it up. There were two reel to reel machines on the shelf above the cleaning stuff. That was early FM radio!
They got the set-up, had no room, and shoved it into a closet! :)
My... how times have changed!
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Permalink Reply by Al Stone on -
When I was About 22 years Old i walked into the Kingston Mine in Chicago and Sat in With Lefty Dizz , Big Moose , Jimmy Johnson , and some other players of the Blues , And Jimmy Said i should start playing the Blues All the Time
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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on -
I don't remember a specific event that made me a blues fan. It just seems it was always there. Not the music as much as the feeling I mean. I could trace back my CD collection but it kind of goes in circles, there's no beginning or end.
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