CROSSCUT SORES & MARCO BUTCHER - I Hate The Way You Sing The Blues
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
2y ago
CROSSCUT SORES: BANDCAMP // FACEBOOK MARCO BUTCHER: BANDCAMP // iNSTA // FACEBOOK Crosscut Sores (ex-Jooks of Kent) & the great Marco Butcher (Chicken Snake, Jam Messengers) just laid down a thick ingot of grindy gooey stickum that is awfully fresh and delightfully neu-abrasive. A rusty, lead-filled gauntlet has been slo-tossed thru our cellar window. Embroidered on the thin cracked thick leather wrist writ large in a golden thread it reads "I Hate The Way You Sing The Blues." I Hate the Way You Sing the Blues by Crosscut Sores ..read more
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CURRENTLY LiSTENiNG: RED MOUTH - iN QUARANTiNE (2021)
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
2y ago
INSTA // FACEBOOK // BANDCAMP //  #currentlylistening to the terrific new 10" 45 by Red Mouth. (Almost) All I can say is Wow! The quote from Scott Lesley on the hype sticker (below) nails it much harder than I could but I'll give it a shot: Whispers of Bowie, Iggy, Beefheart, Love, Johnny Dowd, maybe Jim White and so much more but filtered thru the night air of Alabama, but really it's all straight-up Red Mouth and his band doing their thing better than always. At 5 songs (shhh! Actually 6!) It's just the right length because I'm left wanting so much more. And I can't wait. Till then I'll ..read more
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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival: NOW STREAMiNG + Available on DVD via @FatPossum!
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
2y ago
"Fat Possum Records has released the Memphis ’69 documentary film, capturing three days and two nights of the sweltering, interracial 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival, held within weeks of a KKK rally at the same location. Full song performances include a number of iconic Blues Hall of Famers such as Rufus Thomas & The Bar-Kays; slide guitar great Booker “Bukka” White; Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachel; Texas’ Johnny Winter; Memphis’ own Furry Lewis, Beale Street sweeper who opened for the Rolling Stones; and North Mississippi bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. There are no talking he ..read more
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Bruce Watson Presents 83 Year Old MS Delta-Born Elder Jack Ward Follow-Up To 1964 Hit w/ Solo LP Debut Of Memphis Sacred Soul
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
2y ago
Elder Jack Ward could’ve gone either way. He grew up in the Mississippi Delta, listening to Elmore James and Howlin’ Wolf and singing the blues himself. Living in Itta Bena, MS (also home to B.B. King), Ward made himself a promise that when he turned eighteen, he would move up to Memphis, leave behind the cotton fields and mules with which he worked, and make a hit record—and he did. He anticipated singing blues or rock & roll once he got to the city but he joined with the Christian Harmonizers, and their recording of 1964’s “I Don’t Need No Doctor” with Isaac Hayes on piano came out ..read more
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WHiTHER THOU GOEST, MICHAEL TARBOX?
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
Did you know that noted Bostonian Michael Tarbox of Tarbox Ramblers fame has two terrific new songs out? Yup. Both recorded live and with & without his Ramblers at the Beachland Tavern in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio, by somebody in the audience. Listen: Two New Songs: Hey Mr. Starlight & Change My Ways by Michael Tarbox  And did you know he did a beautiful album of covers in 2020 called Paler Suns? I didn't. It follows eight after 2013's Work and Days. I guess I need to get out more or something. The songs on Paler Suns vary from William Blake's poem Ah! Sunflower which he set to m ..read more
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DELTA HAiNTS : Cars Hiss Pass My Window - New Split 7" w/ The Ghost Wolves Out Now !
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
DELTA HAiNTS cover The Doors' Cars Hiss Pass My Window (via LA Woman) on new (red vinyl!) split 7" w/ The Ghost Wolves! Something wicked this way comes to y'alls mailbox. DL @BANDCAMP! 7" @LUNCH RECORDS! Check 'em @FB! & @iNSTA Previous Delta Haints 7" - Ashes of My Mojo - Available in beautiful ltd. ed Haint clear blue vinyl, baby ..read more
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Holy smokes! Preston Lauterbach, author of The Chitlin' Circuit has a Substack newsletter! Click the pic to git some!
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
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Black Keys Cover Junior Kimbrough's Crawlin' King Snake
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
I found it interesting to see this posted on the usually great Cover Me blog. Some basic historical points and comparisons were made and yet there was no mention of the fact that Dan, Pat, Kenny, and Eric are covering Junior Kimbrough's version. Contrary to what's stated in the Cover Me post, this has nothing to do with Thorogood or The Doors or 1960's "psychedelic blues-rock" nor does Dan sing in a monotone and it's not an "open-ended jam." I don't get the point of Cover Me's post. Granted, the songwriter is listed as John Lee Hooker, but the barest of research...a simple google search ..read more
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NORTH MiSSiSSiPPi HiLL COUNTRY BLUES - A Poem by Ted Drozdowski
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
 A meditation on the great American musical style, accompanied by National Tricone, Theremin and yard fowl. Photos by Laurie Hoffma. Dedicated to John Sinclair ..read more
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BRB iS BACK!
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by RiCK SAUNDERS
3y ago
Web // FB // Black River Bluesman (Finland) has a new web site. Be sure and take a look at their documentary Into The Deep Blues.  Here's what I wrote about them back around the dawn of time: "Jukka ´Black River Bluesman´Juhola and ‘Andy’ BAd Mood Hudson destroyed the woods and the mountains around their tiny hometown of Mustio Finland by carving their guitars and drums from whole ironwood trees with their bare hands and by using John Henry´s twelve-pound hammer (with four-foot handle) they beat down those mountains for brass, silver, and iron (and coal to fire this thing) to fashion t ..read more
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