Forner Roomful of Blues guitarist, working here with Jimmy McGriff; from "Healing Time" (Telarc, 2000)
Charlie Hunter Quintet
Mestre Tata
Recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2002; released on "Right Now Move" (Rope@Dope Records, 2003)
Bounty Hunters
Echo Express
Garage twang from "Strummin' Mental, Vol.2"-- a cool collection of bands
Martin Denny
Goony Birds
Recorded in 1958, released on CD by RevOla in 2006: "Forbidden Planet"
Eric Johnson
Tribute to Jerry Reed
Austin guitar tribute to Nashville picker Reed; recorded in 1999 but released on the amazing 3-CD box put out by KGSR radio
Dick Dale
Let's Go Trippin'
Surf guitar from 1961
Dick Dale
Hava Nagila
Middle Eastern surf guitar from 1994
Hamell on Trial
The Seven Seas
A clever fellow, that Ed Hamell
Melancholy Ramblers
Amelia Earhardt's Last Ride
Austin acoustic combo
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
"They asked me for some collateral & I pulled down my pants"
Stuart Frank
Blood Red Roses
The first version of this sea shanty that I heard was when Richard Farina did a solo a capella version in the 1960s
Ewen McColl & A.L.Lloyd
Blow Boys Blow
"When everyone else was listening to Cream, I was listening to A.L. Lloyd and Ewan McColl. These were two old guys who used to record together, trying to replicate the original instrumentation of sea shanties...Some of the words were absolutely unbelievable...I loaned the LP to Beefheart and he probably still has it." - FRANK ZAPPA
Taj Mahal
When I Feel the Sea Beneath My Soul
Beautiful instrumental from Taj's excellent 1975 Caribbean flavored album: "Music Keeps Me Together"
Joseph Spence
Out on the Rolling Sea
Bahamian guitarist sings of god and the ocean
(Orchestra) Baobab
Cheri Takama
New album: "N'Wolof: Dakar Sound, Volume 7)
Ali Farka Toure
Erdi
The final album from the great Malian guitarist: "Savane" (World Circuit, 2006)
John Holt
Soolaiman
Early reggae, from "I Can't Get You Off My Mind" (Heartbeat, 20060
Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra
Boy In A Boat
Hot new jazz on Sunnyside. This band really swings!
NRBQ
Jump Man Jump
These guys can swing too; from "You Gotta Be Loose" (Rounder, 1998)
NRBQ
A Little Bit of Bad
Great Al Anderson composition; from "Message from the Mess Age" (Rhino, 1994)
Chandler Travis
I Threw Some Meat Into the Pond
Leader of the Incredible Casuals-- who play every Sunday in the summer at the Beachcomber in Wellfleet-- recites a poem
Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra
???
Another hot Millenial Territory Orchestra tune: first as talkover music, then the last 30 seconds or so
Roomful of Blues
I Left My Baby
A soulful cover of an Andy Gibson tune-- written for Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing-- on Roombul's 1995 "Turn It On! Turn It Up!" CD. Gibson is the guy who wrote "D'Natural Blues" which later became the "Hucklebuck"
Roomful of Blues
Two Bones & A Pick
T-Bone Walker instrumental, from their 1981 Hot Little Mama" album; Ronnie Earl plays a mean guitar, trombonist Porky Cohen was in the horn section
T-Bone Walker
Done Got Over It
In 1974, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller brought a group of music heavies-- Dizzy Gillespie, James Booker, Zoot Sims, etc-- to record with guitar whiz Walker
Roomful of Blues
Walking Slow Behind You
I tried to find the Basie/Rushing version of this one but no luck
Count Basie w/ Jimmy Rushing
Brand New Wagon
Few contemporary bands cover Basie/Rushing better than Roomful; here's one of their best originals
Count Basie w/ Big Joe Turner
Flip, Flop & Fly
In 1983, Turner recorded an album ("Blues Train") with Roomful; Big Joe died two years later
Roomful of Blues
Slam Jam
Another from "Turn It On! Turn It Up!"
Joe Liggins
Honeydripper (Part 1)
I was about to play a Joe Turner tune, a great Johnny Otis collection, when I noticed this tune and I just had to play it
Big Joe Turner
Nother From Nothin' Blues
Big Joe wrote this with Johnny Otis; from an excellent 1996 British compilation ("Blues Brothers") with Otis and band backing many of the best R&B guys
Roomful of Blues
Albi's Boogie
Swinging finale to our Roomful tribute
Lou Ann Barton
Shake Your Hips
Lou Ann-- one of the best of the modern Texas blues women-- sang with Roomful form 1979--80; this Slim Harpo cover is from her 1989 "Read My Lips" album on Antones
Buddy Holly
I Wanna Play House
Rev-Ola just released "Gotta Roll: The Early Recordings, 1949-1955"
Sonny Curtis
One in a Million
Curtis was from Lubbock and worked with Buddy Holly; after Holly's death, he became leader of the Crickets
Old 97s
Stoned
Rhino just released "Hit By a Train"-- a best of... collection
Jule Brown
Rhythm & Booze
Out of Chapel Hill comes "Smoke & Mirrors" (Enabler, 2006)
Rod Bernard
Teach Me To Forget
Cajun crooner from Opelousas, Louisiana does a nice job on "Swamp Gold Country, Volume 1" on Jin
Stone Poneys
Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water
Linda Ronstadt and band cover the Greenbriar Boys tune
Gram Parsons & Emmy Lou Harris
Love Hurts
Gram was so excited to find someone to sing harmony with him! Rhino just put out a box set of Gram's "Complete Reprise Sessions"-- same great music, nice new package
Alejandro Escovedo
Arizona
Produced by John Cale, here's another terrific album from Alejandro, his first in years: "Boxing Mirror" (Back Porch, 2006)
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