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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
January 05, 1944 – October 21, 1990 One can only guess as to where Kelly’s preternatural understanding of the blues idiom came from. More so than almost all of her contemporaries, she truly seemed born to “sing and play the blues”. There is never anything forced about her singing, never a sense that she […]
‘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 […]
BBC session, Radio One’s “Top Gear” – May 27, 1968 – ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ was the third song that Robert Johnson recorded on the third day of his first recording session in 1936. It was released as the B-side to his third release in 1937. It would be a full thirty years […]
Radio 1 Session – August 27, 1968 – ‘Preachin’ Blues’ Three months to the day after Green performed a cover of Robert Johnson’s ‘Dead Shrimp Blues’ for the BBC, he chose to do another Johnson song at a marathon session meant to build a backlog of material for broadcast during the band’s upcoming American tour. […]
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 […]
Jigsaw Puzzle Blues – On March 04, 2020, Ismael Flores added another piece to the puzzle when he posted this incredible find on the Danny Kirwan (Original Fleetwood Mac) Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/939494226089879/: Buddy Boy Hawkins – Shaggy Dog Blues – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP355jAGyaY Hawkins is something of a musical apparition; although we know what he looked like, […]
The B-Side: ‘Rambling Pony’ The fourteen-year difference in age between John Mayall and the nineteen-year-old Peter Green at the time of Green’s joining The Bluebreakers was a lifetime in terms of life experience. Green moved into the same apartment block as Mayall on Portchester Road in Bayswater, west London, and the two bonded over Mayall’s […]
