Album of the Week 4-27-24
Afternoon folks!
Some more great stuff this week! In the blues department, there's an album split between Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf featuring tunes from their London Sessions (with Brit blues-rock musicians backing them) and an album from Piano Red (the original Dr. Feelgood?) from Atlanta. After that there's a live double album of zydeco/cajun/blues from Clifton Chenier. In the blues-rock department we've got an album this week from Jeremy Spencer after he left (early) Fleetwood Mac and joined a religious cult, kind of an odd album with some good tunes. After that, there's a live album from country-rockers Poco and we finish off in the diversity department with Tom Waits and his Swordfishtrombones album.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the tunes!
Here 'tis:
Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf - London Revisited
Piano Red - Happiness Is Piano Red
The Clifton Chenier Band - Cajun Swamp Music Live
Jeremy Spencer And The Children – Jeremy Spencer And The Children
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Comments
how not to get depressed ? Any ideas ? /nt
Does that rhyme with the Spencer Davis Group?
depression is the opposite of acceleration
to avoid some collisions it may be better to
floor it (pedal to the metal)
than to brake (try to stop)
Viel Glück
lol, thanks, now I have to find out, how to push the metal to
to the medal or to break it, while laying in bed barefooted. (I got something mixed up, I guess)
I throw everything out of my bed, the problem is that I get cold feet then, especially if one has no heat and no warm water and no bread, when you are hungry. It is so stupid that one can only laugh about it. so much of for good German craftsman skills, can't even fix the heating system.
Do you hear me laugh ?
evening mimi...
don't stand under a thumb? keep a large inflation device near at hand?
um, sorry, dunno. usually when the dumps are calling me i try to go out for a walk in the woods or listen to some great music.
good luck!
Clifton Chenier is just great, joe!
Ah, the live Cajun music I have heard in my life, so easy to do since Louisiana just ain't that far from me. To be in the room where it is played is just being supercharged with a joy of life.
Jole Blon...how many times have I heard bands play their version of it?
Thanks so much for including Chenier, and I hope everyone at least gives his first track on that album a listen.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
if i ever get through all my vinyl, i have a ton of great zydeco on cds that i might upload. i only have a few artists (chenier, rockin' dopsie and maybe a couple of others on vinyl).
glad you enjoyed!
Thanks joe
I've listened to every note, strum and beat of the Chenier Band, what a treat. I think I even heard what sounded like a skip for a second on one of the songs.
Tom Waits is an interesting contrast. It's good to hear that album again. The CD on the shelf has been collecting dust.
Enjoy your Sunday
evening janis...
glad you enjoyed the selection this week.
heh, it's quite possible you heard a tick or a skip, i clean up the vinyl as well as i can. not all of my albums are in pristine condition. some of them are old radio station records which got played a lot and handled by a lot of different people and some of them are things that i collected back when my stereo equipment left something to be desired.
have a great evening!
Hi joe
I admire the life-long passion you have for collecting and sharing music. Thank you for including some of the history and character of your record collecting. It's very much appreciated, imperfections and all. It's an anthology of such a strong sense and time of our culture.
great Jeremy Spencer
Hey Joe,
Great records ya got there man!
The Muddy and Howlin' Wolf is neat. I have that Jamming with Edward LP.
The Jeremy Spencer is very interesting. I like it, it's good. Don't think I ever heard it. He was really a great guitar player. Had a good teacher/mentor. This has a fair bit of that Kiln House flavor to it
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
rest of message
my message is not being posted in full as typed in the box...
anyway...
I mentioned how great to hear Jeremy play stuff besides his great Elmore James style stuff. Too bad he did not pursue his music more.
The Osibisa was great last week too!
thanks for the continuing musical edumacation!
take care!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
glad you liked it! one of these days, i'll get around to muddy and wolf's individual london sessions. i really enjoy muddy's especially since rory gallagher is the guitarist on it. clapton is on the wolf sessions which got a lot more attention.
the spencer album didn't get a huge amount of promotion as i remember it. the plug single was the first tune, "can you hear the song" which i don't think made much of an impression on the charts and after that i don't think that the record company released any more singles from the album.
have a great evening!