In May of 1952, during the sessions for what would be Little Walter’s first release under his own name on Checker Records, he and the band recorded two takes each of both ‘Juke’ and ‘Can’t Hold Out Much Longer’; the latter would be chosen as the B-side. Little Walter and His Night Cats Little Walter: […]
Three months to the day after Green performed a cover of Robert Johnson’s ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ for the BBC, he chose to do another Johnson song at a marathon session meant to build a backlog of material for broadcast during the band’s upcoming American tour. The band cut eleven songs that day; Green performed four […]
I recently had cause to take another look into Fleetwood Mac’s recording of ‘Need Your Love So Bad’ and the amount of information that is available now, as compared to what I had been able to cobble together when writing my books, (going back more than twenty years ago) is striking. The new information, while […]
Otis Spann w/ FM ‘Ain’t Nobody’s Business’ Otis Spann was born on March 21, 1930 into a musical family (his mother played guitar, his father, piano), in Jackson, Mississippi. His informal schooling on piano began around the age of eight, under the supervision of a local musician named Friday Ford. By fourteen he was playing […]
The “new” (unfortunately incomplete) recording came to my attention as I was making my way through one of the three collections of “unreleased” BBC recordings that were posted to YouTube early in 2022. I thank Dutch Greenologist Gert Jan Kuiper for bringing those collections to my attention. Two of the collections were identical with one […]
“Fleetwood Mac Unreleased BBC Sessions 1967 – 1971” & “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac: 1967-1971 Unreleased BBC Sessions” #1 Collection Title: “Fleetwood Mac Unreleased BBC Sessions 1967 – 1971” (Posted January 13, 2022) Mean Old World I Need Your Love (That Ain’t It) May I Have a Talk With You (Talk With You) Shady Little Baby […]
From February of 1966 through April of 1970 Peter Green recorded an estimated one-hundred and ten (110) performances for the BBC*, for broadcast on radio and television. This timeline takes Green from the Peter B’s, his tenure with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and his years as the leader of Fleetwood Mac. Of these one-hundred ten performances, […]
In October of 1969, Bob Brunning asked Peter Green if he would be interested in joining the Brunning Sunflower Band in the studio to cut a few tracks for their new album. Green said yes. The album that they were recording was a follow-up to the 1968 “Bullen Street Blues”, credited to the Brunning Sunflower […]
Cuby + The Blizzards and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Eddie Boyd was already a veteran bluesman when he first went to Europe as a performer with the American Folk Blues Festival ’65. He had first recorded under his own name in 1947 and when a successful but often contentious seven-year stint with Chess records ended […]
“Sherman, set the controls on the Way Back Machine to Chicago, the Chess Studios, January fourth, 1969” All books, whether fiction or non-fiction serve as “time machines”, allowing us to vicariously experience the ancient, or recent past; speculative futures or imagined worlds and realms. “Fleetwood Mac in Chicago January 4 TH 1969 – The Legendary […]