Off Topic The Arts Thread (Paintings, Music etc)

THE KILLER.

From what I gather there's some debate as to when this piece was recorded. But it seems like it might have taken place on a live radio program in 1956, around the same time he first recorded for Sun Records. It wasn't until the following year that he cracked it big time with "A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." It's a blessing that film like this is still here today.

 

Steven Walls, aged 4, wandered away on 1960 and was lost for 4 days. There's something about the song that's struck a cord in Australian hearts. Here we are 60 years down the track, and I find myself a little stunned in finding that Steven Walls passed away in May, aged 65. It's amazing what memories of a song can stir up in us.

 

Arguably the greatest blues "shouter," Big Joe Turner singing Corrine Corrina. It's often said that without Turner, there's be no rock and roll. I'm a huge Joe Turner fan.

 

Apparently always sang in the key of C.

There is an excellent track called Paris on a CD called Super Black Blues. A jam of at least 4 greats: T-Bone Walker, Joe T, Otis Spann and George ‘Harmonica’ Smith. The first of the 3 all do a vocal turn and each sing 3 different songs within the track that they wrote. The playing is hot and steamy and you can tell it’s good because after 9 minutes you are disappointed when it ends.

 

**** that was brilliant Busty. Thanks mate, it was appreciated.

 

Otis Spann was something else to wasn't he? His piano work on Paris was chilling. It's nice that some film of the legends has managed to survive until today. Otis rocks big time.

 

To be honest I felt the piano and harmonica on Paris Blues steals the show.

Died so young but worth listening to the LP he did with Peter Green and John McVie ( Jeremy Spencer may also have played.

 

Otis Spann at his very best. It's such a pity that the great man would pass away due to liver cancer, just a few years later, aged in his mid 40s.

 

Here it is

9 minutes? 14 more like it, but still too short.

If someone has 14 minutes to spare here's how Blues should be played. Loose.....really funny when Joe corrects T-Bone. 'It has to be one thing or the udder'.

Vocalists are T-Bone, then Joe then T- Bone then a bit of Otis, then more Joe.

 

The death of Peter Green is very sad. A tragic loss to the most talented guitarist the Uk ever produced. So here's a track he did in '68/69 with Otis Spann. A more assertive Green style with great interplay with Otis.

 

Incredible. Thanks for posting.

I recently came across a compilation album/box set called Confessin' The Blues that I never knew existed featuring tracks and artists hand picked by The Rolling Stones. With the likes of Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters etc... On it. Its going to be my next Vinyl purchase.

 

While we're on the subject of guitarists, the late Gary Moore deserves a mention. The Belfast legend passed away from an alcohol induced heart attack in 2011, aged 58.

 

This has become too much of a blues fest

 

I suppose it's possible to have too much of a good thing mate, so how about a little change of tempo.

 

Anyone who doubts or is quick to forgive the atrocities committed by the Japanese during WW2 against Allied soldiers, and before that against the Chinese and Koreans, should watch 'The Railway Man' showing now on a BBC channel. This present Japanese prime minister will admit to nothing, and never will.

 

Thanks Oddy, that was really interesting. The US wields a bloody big stick.