‘I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man’ – Three versions by Peter Green Splinter Group When Robert Johnson was first contracted to record for the American Recording Company (ARC) in the summer of 1936, he was sent to a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas where the company had set up a temporary recording studio. Pleased […]
‘Silly Mean Old World’ & ‘Tell Me Mama’ The last two titles that Boilerhouse recorded are both variations of existing songs. T-Bone Walker’s ‘Mean Old World’ recorded in 1942 but not released until 1945, is considered a milestone in the history of electric guitar. It was covered by B.B. King in 1964 and by Otis […]
Both of these songs were among the dozen listed on the reproduced live set list found in 150-page booklet accompanying the 4 CD set “Something Inside of Me – Unreleased Masters & Demos from the British Blues years 1963 – 1976” (Wienerworld Records 2021) A discussion of the songs found on the set list can […]
In March of 2022, Dutch Greenologist Gert Jan Kuiper tipped me off to two compilations of Fleetwood Mac BBC recordings that were recently posted to YouTube. The first, posted March 01, 2022 was titled “Fleetwood Mac 1969-1970 Complete Unreleased BBC” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNEeyqPXGA Consisting of sixteen titles, a few had in fact not been in wide circulation […]
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 […]
When Otis Rush joined the 1966 American Folk Blues Festival European tour, he had not released a record under his own name in four years. Prior to that tour, he had only two songs released in the U.K.; ‘So Many Roads, So Many Trains’ had appeared on the Pye International Chess compilation “The Blues, Volume […]
Worst. Blog. Title. Ever. I know, I know – but I wanted to write about the Otis Rush classic and some of it’s many, many covers over the years. Having had a single released under his own name (apparently the label’s last, although I don’t think the two are related) in 1961, Al Perkins’ luck […]
This is the first of what I hope will be an ongoing series where we can explore a song as it evolves through other artists’ interpretations. If a number is fortunate enough to be huge hit upon release, it may garner a large number of covers right away. Most times, an artist releases a song […]
