Robert Johnson / Cream (studio / BBC) / Peter Green Splinter Group (live / studio) / Eric Clapton & Doyle Bramhall II In his twenty-seven years on earth, Robert Johnson did only two recording sessions, both for the Columbia label, each one stretching over two days; the first in November of 1936, the second in […]
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 […]
Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD3 – Live Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]
Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD2 – Acoustic Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]
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 […]
The Henry Björklund Tapes, Part 1 – John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers Bert Okers informed me of a few more “missing” Peter Green performances that “recently” surfaced (first posted on YouTube in August of 2015 and January 2016). The earliest features Green as a member of The Bluesbreakers, recorded on February 22 1967 at the […]
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: […]
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 background to these recordings, Boilerhouse the band, and a review of ‘Something Inside of Me’ can be found here: https://smilingcorgipress.com/tag/boiler-house/ Along with rare photos of the band (courtesy of Trevor Stevens and Peter Moody) one of the illustrations accompanying Christopher Hjort’s in-depth liner notes is a reproduction of a hand written Boilerhouse set list. […]
His Last Released Studio Recordings – Part 1 – ‘Leaving Town Blues’ Rory Gallagher was born March 02, 1948 in Ballyshannon County, Donegal, Ireland. Growing up in Cork in the 1950’s, the radio introduced him to skiffle players such as Lonnie Donegan and early rock ’n roll stars such as Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Chuck […]
