Big Joe Williams, Tony Hollins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf & Peter Green Splinter Group John Lee Hooker passed away on June 21, 2001. The U.K. label Eagle Records brought “From Clarksdale to Heaven – Remembering John Lee Hooker” to market early the following year, featuring a wide array of British Blues Royalty […]
Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page meet Otis Spann & Muddy Waters Born March 21, 1930, Otis Spann had made his recorded debut in 1953 as a member of Muddy Waters’ band. He released a lone single under his own name a year later, but recording opportunities were scarce for the pianist after that. He cut […]
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 […]
1 Blu-Ray / 2 CDs (BMG 2021) ACT I On February 25, 2020, days before England (and most of the rest of world) was locked down due to Covid-19, Mick Fleetwood staged a concert in celebration in of Peter Green and the early years of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood assembled a “House Band” to back the […]
Wolf Tracks – ‘How Many More Years’ / ‘No Place to Go’ / ‘You Gonna Wreck My Life’ Chester Burnett’s first record, ‘Moanin’ At Midnight’ backed with ‘How Many More Years’, was recorded by Sam Phillips at the Memphis Recording Studio in Tennessee in July of 1951. It was a rare two-sided hit with ‘How […]
