Peter Green and the Sonny Boys, I & II Part II
Part I featured Green performing a song by the second Sonny Boy Williamson; Part II takes a look at his version of a rather obscure number by the original ...
Peter Green and the Sonny Boys I & II – Part I
Peter Green is rightfully considered one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British Blues scene of the mid-to-late sixties but as we celebrate his ...
‘Can’t Hold Out Much Longer’ / ‘Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby’
In May of 1952, during the sessions for what would be Little Walter’s first release under his own name on Checker Records, he recorded ‘Can’t Hold Out ...
Chuck Berry – ‘Too Much Monkey Business’
‘Too Much Monkey Business’ was Berry’s fifth single, the second of three that would be released in 1956, sandwiched between ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ and ...
‘Mean Old World’ Revisited Part 2 1969 / 1967 – The Sacred Mushroom & Canned Heat
A few weeks ago, I published a series of blogs (three in total) looking at covers of the song ‘Mean Old World’. At the time, I chose to restrict myself ...
Mean Old World – 1968 Part III
Chicken Shack had an early champion in BBC broadcaster John Peel. Peel had the band on the show three times in 1968, in January, April and September. This ...
‘Mean Old World’ – 1968 Part I
T-Bone Walker’s ‘Mean Old World’ was apparently the song for British Blues bands to perform in 1968. I know of seven recordings of the song made ...
Celebrating the Music of Otis Rush and His Influence on British Blues – Part II
Rush had a tremendous impact on the guitarists of the burgeoning British Blues boom in the mid to late sixties and these two essays look at few of the cover ...
Celebrating the Music of Otis Rush and His Influence on British Blues – Part One
Otis Rush was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi on April 29, 1934. He moved with his family to Chicago at the age of fourteen and got his break twelve years ...
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