Joe Bonamassa "Slow Train"

 

From a 2017 performance at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, here is Joe Bonamassa with his blues "Slow Train" released on his 2011 "Dust Bowl" studio record.   

Joe Bonamassa "Chains & Things"

 

From his "Tour de Force" live record recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England, here is Joe Bonamassa with his cover of B.B. King's song "Chains & Things".  

Louisiana Red-Red's New Dream

 

This week's Sunday Special.  Heard this song on a blues dedicated radio show one night on the local Minnesota jazz station, Jazz 88 FM.  This is Louisiana Red with "Red's New Dream".  Louisiana Red also had an original dream, and wrote a song about it, back in the 1960s.  I shall post that one, too.  

Louisiana Red "Red's Dream"

 

From 1962, Louisiana Red, the bluesman, wrote a song about a dream he had about confronting Cuba's dictator, Fidel Castro, and Russian President Nikita Kruschev, and giving him the business about how evil he was.  

Red's Dream: Louisiana Red [1962]

It was a dream, dream I had last night
I dreamed I went to the UN
And set the whole nation right
 
I dreamed of callin' old Castro
To the morning flo'
Looked him right in the eye and said, "Boy,
You got to go!
I'm tired of your foolishness
And if you don't behave,
I'm goin' grab you by your beard, 
Give you a Georgia shave!"
 
It was a dream, a dream I had last night
I dreamed I went to the UN
And set the whole nation right
 
Then I told old Khrushchev
Sittin' there looking bad,
"Get that junk outta Cuba
'Fore you make me mad.
Dig up them missile bases
Take them planes and all
Or I'll grab me a bat
With your head for the ball!"
 
It was a dream, dream I had last night
I dreamed I went to the UN
And set the whole nation right
 
Then into Washington they call me
An' I went
Hadda be the guest
Of the President
He said, "Red, I'm glad to see you,
So glad you come down here
To help me run the Russians
From the western hemisphere!"
 
I said, "You can run the country
I'm goin' to run the Senate
Oughtta make a few changes
With a few soul brothers in it.
Ray Charles and Lightnin' Hopkins
And a guy like Jimmy Reed
Bo Diddley and Big Mabel
Be all I need!"
 
It was a dream, a dream I had last night
I dreamed I went to the UN
And set the whole nation right

Joe Bonamassa "Takin' The Hit"

 

From his 2002 record "So, It's Like That", here is Joe Bonamassa and his band performing the tune "Takin' The Hit" on the Rockpalast television program in Germany, circa 2006.  The song is also the opening track to his live at Rockpalast record which was his first music video.  This recording saw Bonamassa playing in a power trio.  Joe Bonamassa on guitar and vocals, Eric Czar on bass, and Kenny Kramme on drums.  

Michael Brecker “The Winter Of My Discontent”

 

Michael Brecker
Indiana University Jazz Ensemble
Director: Dominic Spera

"The Winter Of My Discontent"
Arranged by Al Kiger

January 11, 1968, 8 p.m.

Indiana University

East Hall on the Bloomington campus

Albert King "The Sky Is Crying"

 

From a concert recorded in Sweden, on June 9th, 1980, here is the one and the only, the late, great Albert King, one of the three Kings of the blues, along with Freddie and B.B., covering Elmore James' blues chestnut "The Sky Is Crying".