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 […]
Elmore James / Fleetwood Mac / The Nighthawks / Peter Green Splinter Group It probably wasn’t difficult to justify, (to himself, anyway), Elmore James’s aversion to contracts. He had signed on with Trumpet Records in January of 1951, mainly working on sessions for other artists on the label, notably Sonny Boy Williamson II. He also […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
‘Kind Hearted Woman Blues’ / Home Recording Session w/ Duster Bennett – ‘Kind Hearted Woman’ Although this is the third installment of our look at the three Robert Johnson covers that Peter Green put to tape over the course of a few months in 1968, this is considered the first to have been recorded. (A […]
Peter Green’s “second comeback” in 1996, with the Peter Green Splinter Group was spearheaded by Nigel Watson, with whom Green had last collaborated twenty-five years earlier, in 1971. The band, Peter Green, vocal and guitar; Nigel Watson, vocal and guitar; Neil Murray, bass; Cozy Powell, drums; Spike Edney, keyboards hit the road in the Spring […]
