Apr 15, 2011
Laidback and Breezy but Wistful
” Blue Green Blues. ”
01. John Lee Hooker – Father Was A Jockey
Mr. Lucky (Charisma/ Pointblank, 1991)
02. Gregg Allman – Floating Bridge
Low Country Blues (Rounder, 2011)
03. John Lee Hooker – Highway 13
Mr. Lucky (Charisma/ Pointblank, 1991)
04. Lucinda Williams – Born To Be Loved
Blessed (Lost Highway, 2011)
05. John Lee Hooker – I Cover the Waterfront
Mr. Lucky (Charisma/ Pointblank, 1991)
06. The Innocence Mission – Mile-Marker
My Room in the Trees (Badman Recording Co., 2010)
note: Just as the title says. A early evening breeze clear blues. I am trying to be as crisp as possible, but it’s 1 am right now, so maybe a big pictures will help me focus a little. But if you are into mid week blues tunes with clean guitar line, this list probably will suit you. Soft, crisp and crossing the landscape. And John Lee Hooker rules.
John Lee Hooker’s guitar playing is closely aligned with piano boogie-woogie. He would play the walking bass pattern with his thumb, stopping to emphasize the end of a line with a series of trills, done by rapid hammer-ons and pull-offs. The songs that most epitomize his early sound are “Boogie Chillen”, about being 17 and wanting to go out to dance at the Boogie clubs, “Baby, Please Don’t Go”, a blues standard first recorded by Big Joe Williams, and “Tupelo Blues”, a stunningly sad song about the flooding of Tupelo, Mississippi in April 1936.
He maintained a solo career, popular with blues and folk music fans of the early 1960s and crossed over to white audiences, giving an early opportunity to the young Bob Dylan. As he got older, he added more and more people to his band, changing his live show from simply Hooker with his guitar to a large band, with Hooker singing.
His vocal phrasing was less closely tied to specific bars than most blues singers. This casual, rambling style had been gradually diminishing with the onset of electric blues bands from Chicago but, even when not playing solo, Hooker retained it in his sound.
Though Hooker lived in Detroit during most of his career, he is not associated with the Chicago-style blues prevalent in large northern cities, as much as he is with the southern rural blues styles, known as delta blues, country blues, folk blues, or “front porch blues”. His use of an electric guitar tied together the Delta blues with the emerging post-war electric blues. – wiki
image: Fey Ilyas, Marcus Vegas
I’ve been enjoying the I.M. since the early 90′s and they never cease to bring me a peaceful respite from both major and minor cacophony.
We’re sharing moods now? Alright! Love your approach, I’m a blues noob and whenever I try to get into the genre I end up soaked with either the well-known, corny stuff or some weird, esoteric blues record from Africa or Asia. This sort of posts are brilliant introduction for me in the right path.
To Moka : Don’t fight, use your head.
It’s all right every night.
Do what you like, that’s what I said.
(Blind Faith Lyrics to : ” Do What You Like “)
From Uncle Gordo : I think you have been right so far, so why change anything that is not broken ?
Sorry the previous was for sqashed, but maybe it also fits Moka :
Do right, use your head.
Everybody must be fed.
Get together, break your bread.
Yes, together, that’s what I said.
Do what you like.
Don’t fight, use your head.
It’s all right every night.
Do what you like, that’s what I said.
Everybody must be fed.
Do what you like.
Open your eyes.
Realize you’re not dead.
Take a look at an open book.
Do what you like, that’s what I said.
Do what you like.
(Ginger Baker)
Squashed won’t admit it but yes, it fits us both. Thanks Gordon ;)
It ain’t that easy, thou, the more I do what I like the more trouble I get into.
…the more I do what I like the more trouble I get into…
Welcome to the Club !!!
8)
wow. Born To Be Loved is on repeat right now
just what i needed right now