What kind of music you hear while you trade?

imho the blues is not (necessarily) an exasperation with life or a depression
but an acceptance of some fates (ie love etc) lol AND a release towards much better things


Magic Slim & his Tear Drops

I'm A Blues Man

in the mood for some oldies ,

These days on financial markets it seems "it's the end of the world"..........

Lavern Baker:

Hard workin' band from back in the day, wild set


Magic Dick on harp
J Geils on guitar
Peter Wolf vocals

J Geils Band Live - Lookin For A Love

There weren't too many as laid back as the man, J J Cale

Here with a great combo group, including his wife Christine (pic below)


Call Me The Breeze - live, extended version




hubby & wife
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From the JJ Cale song above, performed live at the Cains Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma the sharp of eye lol might have noticed the banner highlighting

Cains
Home of
Bob Wills


When Bob Wills formed his Texas Playboys band they started their own Radio Show
(it was sometime in the mid-30’s, well BEFORE television lol)

and for WHL the radio show was on the 50,000 watt KVOO radio station, in Cains in Tulsa.


But who in the heck was Bob Wills you might ask.
(well some won’t give a flyin’ lol, but it IS history folks and WAS the history of Western Swing music)

Firstly, a song by Waylon who wrote an ode to Bob Wills
(Waylon once said he just wrote the song to p!ss off his great friend Willie Nelson, but who knows )


Bob Wills Is Still The King - Waylon Jennings




AND, gotta have one now from the, then legend, Bob & his band


Milk Cow Blues - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys




and a promo pic of the band.

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And one more for you WHL, (and any others) who will understand, bless for a great day


Waylon Jennings & lovely (wife) Jessi Colter


Precious Memories

The Doors:

Not that it's officially History Week
but its chilly & sunny morning in Briz and I'm just warmin me old self up a little lol


First off
the great Clarence White (ex-Byrds, ex-Kentucky Colonels Bluegrass)
teaming up with the great Ry Cooder


Why You Been Gone So Long
(Clarence vocals, right channel pickin, Ry left channel slid'n)




followed by the Delta Lady, Rita Coolidge (ex of Kris Kristofferson) doing the old Booker T Jones song


Born Under A Bad Sign - Rita Coolidge

with, you guessed it
Clarence & Ry on background guitars
plus
BookerT on piano
Chris Ethridge (ex-Flying Burritos [with Gram]) on bass
Jim Keltner on drums




a n d ... lol

Rita was called The Delta Lady back in the day by ex-boyfriend Leon Russell who both joined

Joe Cocker on his Mads Dogs & Englishmen live album set where ...

Joe sang Leon's song (Delta Lady), with the delta lady Rita herself doing backup vocals


Joe Cocker - Delta Lady (edit: found the mads dogs version 'studio' version though lol)




... whew ... and congrats to those who got through the whole monologue

Thank you, TimeTells. This is rodeo weekend here (local rodeo) and a little Bob Wills and Waylon sets the mood.



Why one of his singers didn't poke him in the nose when he added to their singing eludes me but they didn't. Growing up east of the Mississippi River I mostly listened to WSM Nashville or the WGN (Chicago) Barn Dance on Saturday nights. Until I was in high school our radio was a floor model which sat in the dining room.

The neighbor kids say this video is a perfect representation of me. They're wrong of course

Hahaa WHL, great memories & (visuals) pal.

all the best for a top weekend
and stay IN the saddle till the bell rings you off
(wishing any of your apprentices great fortune also )

With the number of artists that Sam Phillips put through his Sun Records recording studio, back in the 50s & 60s,

Artists such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and
Ike Turner
(when Ike played in Jackie Brenston's band & Ike still says he wrote Rocket 88 and began rock'n'roll music, who's to say lol)


So no doubt a few got shuffled later under the carpet, and one was wild man rocker & guitar player, Sonny Burgess.

an article on Sonny
https://theaudiophileman.com/burgess/


My Buckets Got A Hole In It - Sonny Burgess & The Pacers

Might as well post up the 1951 song Rocket 88 too, lol.

There is so much controversy as to whether the song should be credited to Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats or,
as Ike says, Sam Phillips stuffed up lol and that it was Ike Turner & his Kings Of Rhythm who did the song with Jackie as backup saxophonist in the band.

But, he says, she says etc ….

Still the song WAS based on the then recently released at the time 1950 Oldsmobile vehicle.


We do know Jackie played sax on the song, yes, (and vocals, maybe or Ike who knows any more)
We don’t know whether Ike played both Guitar & Piano (as he could play both)
and we don’t know who really wrote it or which band leader’s band led the song
whew

And I always wondered why they couldn’t just do a re-master on the original tape to fix the bass bottom end, but Sam Phillips clarified it later in an interview.

“Phillips offered this reminiscence about the amp in an interview with Rolling Stone:
"the bass amplifier fell off the car. And when we got in the studio, the woofer had burst; the cone had burst. So I stuck the newspaper and some sack paper in it, and that's where we got that sound". Afterwards, Phillips had no complaints about the unusual effect the "fix" had created. "The more unconventional it sounded, the more interested I would become in it."


Rocket 88 - (accredited artist unclear lol )




what we DO know lol is this is the 1950’s Oldsmobile Rocket 88 car they were all of them singing about

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