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3 weeks ago
John Mayall tells a joke
John Mayall tells a joke about Sony Boy Williamson & plays harmonica. Stodola, Warsaw, Poland, 2007.
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3 weeks ago
Eddie Shaw's guitar player rippin it
Eddie Shaw's guitar player rippin it at Kingbiscuit Blues Festival
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That's Eddie Shaw's son Eddie Vann Shaw on guitar! Ain't he great? Howlin' Wolf used to babysit him.
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4 weeks ago
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON All Night by Myself
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Yes, it is "No Nights By Myself" and it was written by Lillian McMurry, co-owner of Trumpet Records who delighted in noting that Sonny Boy changed it to "Nary A Night By Myself." It is the same tune as both Sonny Boy's greatest recording "Mighty Long Time" and Paul Jones' (of Manfred Man who back...
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1 month ago
King Biscuit Time (1942, 1952)
Silent footage. Max Moore, owner of Interstate Grocery in Helena, Arkansas, was the sponsor for radio station KFFA's "King Biscuit Time" program. W...
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1 month ago
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Actually there is a second film of Sonny Boy in 1953 playing with a band which may have included Earl Hooker.
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2 months ago
Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
A mello R&B version; "Please Come Home for Christmas," was hit in 1960 on King Records and remained seasonally popular. Charles Brown was B...
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The last time I saw Charles Brown (Jazz Alley in Seattle) I asked him to do one of his Christmas songs. To my delight I heard "Bells will be ringing that glad, glad news ...
What a lovely sout he was!
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3 months ago
Going Where the Southern Cross the Dog - 1967 (Ms Delta Blues)
African American composer W. C. Handy wrote in his autobiography of the experience of sleeping on a train traveling through (or stopping at the sta...
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Where the Southern Railroad crosses the Yazoo Delta or "Yellow Dog" is at Moorhead where there are a number of juke joints at that point just down the road from the Moorhead cotton gin.
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3 months ago
Robbie Robertson Talks Sonny Boy Williamson on The World Cafe
WXPN's David Dye, host of The World Cafe on NPR, interviews Robbie Robertson at the 11th Annual NON-COMMvention in Wilmington, Delaware May 18, 201...
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Fascinating. He tells a story about Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) and then plays Baby Please Don't Go a Big Joe Williams songs on which John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson played.
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