Hubert Sumlin "Come On In My House"

The late, great, Hubert Sumlin, makes an appearance on the Chicago Blues Jams TV show, playing the tune "Come On In My House"... in the colors of royalty... purple and white, as he's playing a purple Fender Stratocaster for this performance.  Dig it.

Ruthie Foster "Set Fire To The Rain"

Got a chance to see some of Ruthie Foster's set when she opened for Elvin Bishop at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater last summer.  Can't remember if I saw this song live.  But, this one is amazing.  Check out the ballad "Set Fire To The Rain".

Dr. John tribute concert

This Saturday, there will be a tribute concert for the great Dr. John at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans.  Additional artists, have just been announced for the gig, and here are the full details from JamBase.

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/121422/Warren-Haynes-Among-Dr.-John-Tribute-Additions

Gary Burton "Like Minds"

Check out the title track to the album "Like Minds" released by Gary Burton in 1998.  Burton, of course, is a well respected vibraphonist and collaborates on this album with Chick Corea on piano, Pat Metheny on guitar, Dave Holland on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums.

Skip's Spotify Sunday 4-27-14

Vinnie Colaiuta "Vinnie Colaiuta"

1. I'm Tweeked/Attack of the 20 lb. Pizza
2. Private Earthquake: Error 7
3. Chauncey
4. John's Blues
5. Slink
6. Darlene's Song
7. Momoska
8. Bruce Lee

Aydin Essen, Miroslav Vitous, & Vinnie Colaiuta "Living"

1. Signal
2. Access Code
3. Inversions
4. Living
5. A & C
6. Nefes
7. Open Channel
8. Stick
9. Response 2.5
10. Kinds

Brian Bromberg "It's About Time: The Acoustic Project"

1. Dear John (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, Freddie Hubbard, & Doug Webb)
2. Echoes (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, & Ernie Watts)
3. One For The Woofer (feat. David Bromberg & Mike Garson)
4. Waltz For Daphne (feat. David Bromberg, Mitchell Forman, & Ernie Watts)
5. Yes Or No (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, & Doug Webb)
6. If I Should Lose You (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, & Freddie Hubbard)
7. From Dust To Dessert (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, & Doug Webb)
8. The Gnocchi (feat. Marc Hugenberger, Ernie Watts, Joel Taylor, & Scott Breadman)
9. Buddha Belly (feat. David Bromberg, Mike Garson, Freddie Hubbard, & Ernie Watts)

Brian Bromberg "Brian Bromberg"

1. Summer Afternoon (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards, & Kirk Whalum: tenor saxophone)
2. My Brother (feat. Bill Cantos: scat vocals)
3. Bass Face (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards, Everette Harp: tenor saxophone, & Paul Jackson Jr.: guitar)
4. Her Eyes Her Heart (feat. Lee Ritenour: guitar)
5. Tunnel Vision (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards, Paul Jackson Jr.: guitar, & Tony Guerrero: trumpet)
6. I'll Be Around This Time (feat. Kirk Whalum: tenor saxophone)
7. Intimidage (feat.Toots Thielemans: harmonica, Ivan Lins: scat vocals, & Lee Ritenour: guitar)
8. Yo! (feat. Lee Ritenour: guitar, & Doug Webb: tenor saxophone)
9. Bern City (feat. Ernie Watts: tenor saxophone & Mitchell Forman: keyboards)
10. Sedona (feat. Doug Webb: tenor saxophone)
11. The Blessing (feat. Doug Webb: tenor saxophone)
12. Her Eyes Her Heart (feat. Kenny Rankin: guitar, & scat vocals)
13. My Bass

Brian Bromberg, Randy Waldmann, & David Bromberg "Wood"

1. The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers
2. Dolphin Dance
3. Come Together
4. Goodbye - For My Father
5. Speak Low
6. Freedom Jazz Dance
7. I Love You
8. Straight No Chaser
9. All Blues
10. The Days of Wine And Roses
11. Star Spangled Banner

Brian Bromberg "Jaco"

1. Come On, Come Over
2. Continuum
3. Teen Town
4. A Remark You Made
5. Portrait of Tracy
6. Three Views of A Secret
7. The Chicken
8. Tears
9. Slang
10. Come On Come Over
11. Teen Town

Brian Bromberg "Metal"

(feat. Joel Taylor: drums & Dan Siegel: piano)

1. Good Morning
2. The Dungeon
3. Through The Window
4. Trade Show
5. Carlos - US526050005
6. Top Down
7. Fooled Ya!
8. The Message Within
9. Flight of the Phoenix

Brian Bromberg "Choices"

1. Never Give Up
2. Choices (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards, & Alex Acuna: percussion)
3. Bobblehead (feat. Eric Marienthal: alto saxophone)
4. Snuggle Up (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards)
5. Relentless (feat. Richard Eliot: tenor saxophone)
6. B Squared (feat. Brian Culbertson: keyboards, & Jeff Lorber: keyboards)
7. Why?
8. Bass Face (feat. Jeff Lorber: keyboards)
9. When I Look In Your Eyes (feat. David Benoit: piano)
10. Lazy Afternoon
11. Audubon Park (feat. Alex Acuna: percussion)
12. Hear Our Cry (Intro)
13. Hear Our Cry (feat. Alex Acuna: percussion)

Brian Bromberg "Standards"

(feat. David Benoit: piano, & Gregg Bissonette: drums)

1. Brothers Go To Mothers
2. Cute
3. Django
4. Blue Rondo A La Turk
5. Some Other Time
6. Cakewalk
7. Stardust
8. Straight No Chaser
9. I Loves You Porgy
10. Waltz For Debby

Brian Bromberg "Wood II"

(feat. Vinnie Colaiuta: drums, & Randy Waldman: piano)

1. Caravan
2. Bolivia
3. Blue Bossa
4. Witch Hunt
5. A Love Affair
6. Butterfly
7. Shining Star
8. I'll Remember April
9. Pensativa
10. Carry On Wayward Son
11. Four Brothers
12. Let 'Em In

Brian Bromberg "Downright Upright"

(feat. Gannin Arnold: guitar, Rick Braun: trumpet, Vinnie Colaiuta: drums, George Duke: keyboards, Boney James: tenor saxophone, & Jeff Lorber: keyboards)

1. Cantaloupe Island
2. Mercy Mercy Mercy
3. Cold Duck Time
4. Sunday Mornin'
5. The Hacha Cha Cha
6. Chameleon
7. Serengeti Walk
8. Leisure Suit
9. Slow Burn
10. Shag Carpet

Brian Bromberg "It Is What It Is"

1. It Is What It Is
2. Love Shack
3. Excuse Me?
4. Life
5. Elephants On Ice Skates
6. The Mirror
7. Sanford And Son Theme
8. Mr. Miller
9. Martinis At The Velvet Lounge?
10. Saul Goode
11. The Anticipation
12. Heaven
13. Slap Happy

Brian Bromberg "Bromberg Plays Hendrix"

1. Fire
2. Manic Depression
3. Freedom
4. The Wind Cries Mary
5. All Along The Watchtower
6. Foxey Lady
7. Hey Joe
8. Crosstown Traffic
9. Spanish Castle Magic
10. Purple Haze

Brian Bromberg "You Know That Feeling"

1. Hero (For Zachary Breaux)
2. Through The Window
3. My Love
4. By The Fireplace
5. September
6. I Fell Asleep A Child And Woke Up A Man
7. You Know That Feeling
8. A Love Affair
9. Nanananananana
10. Human
11. Joe Cool
12. Goodbye (For My Father)

Brian Bromberg "Compared To That"

1. Compared To That
2. Rory Lowery, Private Eye
3. If Ray Brown Was A Cowboy?
4. Hayride
5. A Little New Old School
6. Forgiveness
7. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
8. I'm Just Sayin'
9. The Eclipse
10. Give It To Me Baby

Joe Bonamassa "The River"

Check out Joe Bonamassa performing his song "The River", on the Rockpalast show, playing slide on an electric resonator guitar.  This is cool.

Bill Frisell, Dave Holland, & Elvin Jones "Moon River"

Check out the trio of Bill Frisell on guitar, Dave Holland on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums, playing "Moon River", a tune written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, and it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, when Audrey Hepburn performed it in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_River

Maynard Ferguson "Soar Like An Eagle"

Check out this track from Maynard Ferguson's 1977 record, "Conquistador".  This is called "Soar Like An Eagle".  Another masterpiece that Maynard contributed to the great musical experiment known as jazz fusion.

Happy Birthday, Roy Orbison

Happy Birthday, today, to the legendary Roy Orbison.  Here he is playing one of, if not his signature song "Oh, Pretty Woman", on Black & White Night.

Luther Allison "You Upset Me Baby"

Luther Allison covers B.B. King's classic "You Upset Me Baby".  Dig it.

McCoy Tyner Trio - "On Green Dolphin Street"

Check out more nifty trio jazz.  This is the McCoy Tyner Trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street" circa 1965, featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Scott Holt on bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums.  Click the link, and have a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CDORTP2bl4

Herbie Mann "Push Push"

Check out the title track to Herbie Mann's "Push, Push" album, which was featured in a Record Collection Revisited post some time ago.  Great groove on this tune.  The musicians on this track are top notch players, who contributed on this whole album.

Chuck Rainey: bass
Bernard Purdie: drums
Ralph MacDonald: percussion
Richard Tee: organ, piano, electric piano
Gene Bianca: harp
Duane Allman: guitar
Cornell Dupree: guitar
Herbie Mann: flute, alto flute

Arif Mardin produced the record. 

Boz Scaggs live

Check out this live performance by Boz Scaggs recorded for a DVD about a decade ago, released in 2004.  Good stuff.

Skip's Spotify Sunday 4-20-14

Allen Hinds "Fact of The Matter"

1. Fact Of The Matter
2. Onramp
3. Kajun
4. Waltz For Tina
5. Hmph
6. Some of This
7. Rain
8. Toss It Back
9. Enough Is Enough
10. You Just Gotta
11. Left Field

Allen Hinds "Beyond It All"

1. Elegant Decadence
2. Redland Road
3. Worn But Not Tattered
4. Beyond It All
5. Kate And Dave's
6. March 28th
7. Now Really
8. Bad Baby
9. Closure

Allen Hinds "Falling Up"

1. Falling Up
2. Breakaway
3. Then Again
4. A New Way Home
5. Peace
6. Come Together
7. Rat Scat
8. Gris Gris Shimmy
9. Katie's Dreams

Allen Hinds "Monkeys and Slides"

1. Pedro and Marta
2. Confianca
3. Monkeys and Slides
4. Traces
5. Oscar's Swagger
6. She Always Knew
7. Rat Scat
8. A Close Distance
9. Toss It Back

Watch out, iTunes, Vinyl Still Lives

I've said it once, I'll say it again.  Records are coming back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/arts/music/record-store-day-underscores-a-small-renaissance.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Snowy White "Midnight Blues"

Check out guitarist Snowy White who has played with many artists throughout his career, that include Roger Waters & The Bleeding Heart Band, Pink Floyd (as a sideman), Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Max Middleton.  Not only has White played with those groups.  But, he's also fronted his own bands over the years, that include Snowy White's Blues Agency, and Snowy White & The White Flames.  More to come about Snowy White.  In fact, another performance he did, with a video, is in the pipeline.  Stay tuned. 

The Wood Brothers "When I Was Young"

Check out another great tune by The Wood Brothers, done at a session for radio.  The song is called "When I Was Young".  Neat tune.

Walter Trout "Going Down"

Check out Walter Trout's searing rendition of Don Nix's classic blues tune, "Going Down", originally made famous by the late, great, Freddie King.  This performance comes from another gig Trout played in Europe, in Denmark.

Dave Holland "Interception"

Another Dave Holland jazz composition.  This one is called "Interception", released in 1972 for the European jazz label, ECM.  It features his quartet which includes:

Dave Holland: bass
Sam Rivers: tenor saxophone
Anthony Braxton: alto saxophone
Barry Altschul: drums

Allman Brothers Wanee Festival set lists 4/11 & 4/12 2014

Here are the set lists from the two shows played by the Allman Brothers at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida.  This was the first of four festivals the band will play this year, before their retirement.  Yours truly, will be headed to the third one, (the Peach Music Festival), in August.

Allman Brothers Wanee Festival set list: Friday, April 11, 2014

1. Statesboro Blues
2. Midnight Rider
3. No One To Run With
4. Feel Like Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (Albert King cover)
5. Jessica
6. Who's Been Talking (Howlin' Wolf cover) (feat. Trey Anastasio: guitar, Jen Hartswick: trumpet, & Kofi Burbridge: flute)
7. Franklin's Tower (Grateful Dead cover) (feat. Trey Anastasio: guitar & Rachel "Stixx" Turner: drums)
8. The Sky Is Crying
9. You Don't Love Me
10. Soulshine (feat. Duane Trucks: drums)
11. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (feat. Duane Trucks: drums)

Encore:

12. Southbound

*Kofi Burbridge played stage left keyboards for all songs except "Who's Been Taking" and "Franklin's Tower")

Allman Brothers Wanee Festival set list: Saturday, April 12, 2014

1. Don't Want You No More >
2. It's Not My Cross To Bear
3. Revival
4. Dusk Till Dawn (feat. Kofi Burbridge: flute)
5. Come And Go Blues
6. Trouble No More
7. Seven Turns
8. True Gravity
9. That's What Love Will Make You Do (feat. Eric Krasno: guitar)
10. Stand Back
11. Blue Sky
12. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
13. Whipping Post

Encore:

14. One Way Out (feat. Roosevelt Coller: lap steel guitar, & John Popper: harmonica)

*Kofi Burbridge played keyboards throughout the show.

Awesome jam: Gov't Mule (feat. Derek Trucks) "Stratus"

OK y'all.  This jam is just sick!  Check out Gov't Mule and Derek Trucks playing "Stratus", penned by legendary drummer, Billy Cobham, at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida, last weekend.  Wow!  Click the link for nearly nine minutes, of jam out bliss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJPOi9sFwo

Into The Great Wide Open: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Hometown Blues", 1976

The significance of this tune and the story behind it, revolves around Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn, being musicians on the session.  There is more to the story than that, though.  Check out the article to find out the whole thing.

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/02/04/into-the-great-wide-open-tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-hometown-blues-1976/

Homeless Drummer Is Reunited With His Former Band Mate, Guitar Legend Carlos Santana

Incredible!  Check this out.

http://www.wimp.com/homelessreunited/

Skip's Spotify Sunday 4-13-14

The Charlie Daniels Band "Off The Grid-Doin' It Dylan"

1. Tangled Up In Blue
2. Times They Are A Changin'
3. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. Gotta Serve Somebody
5. I Shall Be Released
6. Country Pie
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall
9. Just Like A Woman
10. Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Singles

"Ah Mary"
"Apologies"

"Falling Or Flying"

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "Live At Sirius Studios, NYC"

1. Ah Mary
2. Falling Or Flying - Live
3. Stop The Bus - Live

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat" - album introduction by Grace Potter

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "Never Go Back"

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "Nothing But The Water"

1. Toothbrush And My Table
2. Some Kind of Ride
3. Ragged Company
4. Left Behind
5. Treat Me Right
6. Sweet Hands
7. Joey
8. 2:22
9. All But One
10. Below The Beams
11. Nothing But The Water (I)
12. Nothing But The Water (II)

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "This Is Somewhere"

1. Ah Mary
2. Stop The Bus
3. Apologies
4. Ain't No Time
5. Mr. Columbus
6. You May See Me
7. Lose Some Time
8. Mastermind
9. Here's To The Meantime
10. Falling or Flying
11. Big White Gate

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "Live In Skowhegan"

1. Ragged Company
2. Stop The Bus
3. Apologies
4. Ah Mary
5. Can't See Through
6. Sugar

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "Grace Potter & The Nocturnals"

1. Paris (Ooh La La)
2. Oasis
3. Medicine
4. Goodbye Kiss
5. Tiny Light
6. Colors
7. Only Love
8. Money
9. One Short Night
10. Low Road
11. That Phone
12. Hot Summer Night
13. Things I Never Needed

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals "The Lion The Beast The Beat"

1. The Lion The Beast The Beat
2. Never Go Back
3. Parachute Heart
4. Stars
5. Timekeeper
6. Loneliest Soul
7. Turntable
8. Keepsake
9. Runaway
10. One Heart Missing
11. The Divide
12. Roulette - Bonus Track
13. All Over You - Bonus Track
14. Stars - Bonus Track (feat. Kenny Chesney: vocals)
15. Ragged Company - Bonus Track (feat. Willie Nelson: vocals)

Melvin Taylor "Blue Jean Blues"

Holy cow!  Melvin Taylor absolutely tears into "Blue Jean Blues"!  This is blues guitar pyrotechnics at it's finest, folks.  Check it out!  Put's a huge smile on the face of yours truly.

Charlie Daniels: Playing "The Legend" Forward with new tribute CD, "Off The Grid - Doin' It Dylan"

Charlie Daniels and The Charlie Daniels Band have released a very special Bob Dylan tribute album.  Here's the preview, even though it's already out.  It was released April 1st, and yours truly has listened to it on Spotify already.  Looking to get a copy for sure.

http://www.charliedaniels.com/news-2013-017.htm

Miles Davis "Guinnevere"

A track from the "Bitches Brew" sessions, that was recently released on a whole set of those recordings by Miles Davis, that didn't make the original album in 1970.  This is called "Guinnevere" and it definitely has an Eastern influence.

Happy Birthday, Brian Setzer

Happy Birthday to rockabilly legend, Brian Setzer.  Check out this performance featuring Setzer and his band The Stray Cats, called "Stray Cat Strut", from the 1981 Montreux Jazz Festival.

John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt "I'm In The Mood"

Check out the late, great John Lee Hooker playing the song "I'm In The Mood" with Bonnie Raitt.  This is good old fashioned blues right here.  Dig it.

Allman Brothers Band to Release 40th Anniversary DVD

Yours truly is looking forward to this.

http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/04/09/allman-brothers-band-to-release-40th-anniversary-dvd

The Full Moon Show - Austin, The Texas Beat

Cool program done for Japanese television.  This is "The Full Moon Show", and an episode dedicated to the Austin, Texas music scene, featuring insights from musicians such as Robbie Robertson, Lyle Lovett, Kelly Willis, Ray Benson, The Texas Tornadoes, Joe Ely, and Charlie Sexton, among others.  Click the link, and check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RF4TMDUhw#t=84

In memoriam: Wayne Henderson

Wayne Henderson, trombonist for The Crusaders, has passed away.  Yours truly has much respect for the work he did as a part of that band, that he founded, along with tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder, keyboardist Joe Sample, and drummer, Stix Hooper.  Much of their material, has been blogged here.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/04/07/300294194/wayne-henderson-jazz-crusaders-co-founder-dies

A great band to be sure, and pioneers in jazz funk and jazz fusion.  Rest In Peace, Wayne Henderson.

David Sanborn & Brian Culbertson

Check out David Sanborn on alto saxophone, and contemporary jazz keyboardist, Brian Culbertson.  Culbertson, also doubles on trombone in this tune.  It's not so much a tune, as it is, just a funky jam.  Dig it.

Bill Curreri "Lay Your Money Down"

Another performance from Bill Curreri and his band from their show at The Bitter End in New York City.  The tune is called "Lay Your Money Down".

Bill Curreri "Brother"

Great tune by singer/songwriter Bill Curreri called "Brother", from his self-titled debut record that was blogged for a Spotify Sunday listing a while ago.  Check this out.

Skip's Spotify Sunday 4-6-14

"The Goat Rodeo Sessions" - Various Artists

(feat. Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, & Yo-Yo Ma)

1. Attaboy                            
2. Quarter Chicken Dark       
3. Helping Hand
4. Where's My Bow?
5. Here and Heaven
6. Franz And The Eagle
7. Less is Moi
8. Hill Justice
9. No One But You
10. 13:8
11. Goat Rodeo

The Civil Wars - singles

***

The Civil Wars "Poison & Wine"

1. Poison & Wine
2. Go
3. Pressing Flowers
4. Tip Of My Tongue

The Civil Wars "Tracks In The Snow"

1. Tracks In The Snow
2. O Come O Come Emmanuel

The Civil Wars "Between The Bars" (EP)

1. Sour Times
2. Between The Bars
3. Billie Jean
4. Talking In Your Sleep

The Civil Wars: Single - "The One That Got Away"

The Civil Wars "Barton Hollow"

1. 20 Years
2. I've Got This Friend
3. C'est La Mort
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Poison & Wine
6. My Father's Father
7. Barton Hollow
8. The Violet Hour
9. Girl with the Red Balloon
10. Falling
11. Forget Me Not
12. Birds of a Feather
13. I Want You Back - Bonus Track
14. Dance Me to The End of Love - Bonus Track

The Civil Wars & T Bone Burnett "A Place At The Table" (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1. Mississippi Delta
2. Long Time Gone
3. Uptown Brown's
4. Focus (Rosie's Theme)
5. At The Table
6. The Need
7. Long Time Gone (Dustbowl version)
8. Food Deserts
9. Jonestown Elementary (Tremonica)
10. Getting Worse
11. Barbie at the Bodega
12. Witnesses To Hunger
13. I Do Exist
14. Finding North

The Civil Wars "The Civil Wars"

1. The One That Got Away
2. I Had Me A Girl
3. Same Old Same Old
4. Dust to Dust
5. Eavesdrop
6. Devil's Backbone
7. From This Valley
8. Tell Mama
9. Oh Henry
10. Disarm
11. Sacred Heart
12. D'Arline

The Civil Wars "The Bare Bones EP"

1. Oh Henry - Alternate Version
2. Eavesdrop - Alternate Version
3. Dust to Dust - Acoustic
4. From This Valley - Acoustic
5. The One That Got Away - Acoustic
6. I Had Me A Girl - Acoustic

 

Spencer Davis Group "Keep On Running"

Check out this tune by the Spencer Davis Group.  "Keep On Running" is the title.

The Band (feat. Eric Clapton) "All Our Past Times"

Check out this footage from The Last Waltz concert that was never used in the movie.  This is Eric Clapton performing his song "All Our Past Times", from his 1976 record "No Reason To Cry", with The Band, sharing vocals with Rick Danko.  The song, is significant.  Unfortunately, the performance is not as stellar as one would hope. 

American Revolutions: Wanted: The Outlaws

Another documentary.  This one, about the "outlaw" movement in country music in the 1970s, when Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and other artists, turned the Nashville record establishment, on it's ear, by writing their own songs and recording their own albums.

New Clapton Band Lineup for Spring and Summer Tour Dates

On his upcoming tour, Eric Clapton will reunite with some old band mates from his past, who will play with him.  Check this out.

http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news/303-new-clapton-band-lineup-spring-and-summer-tour-dates

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite "Get Up"

The Grammy for Best Blues Album goes to Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.  Here's a tune from the record "Get Up".  It's the title track.  Enjoy the duet between guitar and blues harp.  Two masters of their instruments perform here.

New Photos of John Coltrane Rediscovered 50 Years After They Were Shot

This is cool!  'Trane is amazing.  Smithsonian magazine is the source.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/new-photos-john-coltrane-rediscovered-50-years-after-they-were-shot-180950260/?no-ist

The Rolling Stones (feat. Eric Clapton) "Little Red Rooster"

The Rolling Stones doing their version of the blues standard "Little Red Rooster" on their 1989 Steel Wheels tour, with a little help from Eric Clapton.