OT Distraction: Five songs

Oh yeah, ZZ Top is one of the best! 1st time I saw them 1975 touring Fandango, who...eee some serious music that night. Saw em again in 2000, and they still got it. They did this bit of techno... (for them)... using a couple of "Moving Sidewalks" that was just great.
Oh yeah, I have the song "Neighbor Neighbor" in my head quite often, real good grove. :D

I'll be jammin' with the Lightning Brothers today...with guest Dusty Sommers, slide guitarist, whose CD "Big River Blues" is pretty darn good.

Larry T

Member of NECKA & NCCA
 
All this blues talk is great! I'm makin a list and checkin it twice. Aside from Robt Johnson most of my blues exposure is current. There are some great DVDs out there of 60s b/w recordings of bluesmen/women doing their stuff, just incredible. Great to watch, but I almost forget to watch when the blues takes over.

For some reason Goin Up the Country, CCR, popped into my head - and I don't have any CCR!!!

My list is getting rather long today... I better stay out of the record store or we won't be eating this month. :D
 
Wasn't "Goin Up the Country" Canned Heat? Or did Credence do a version and I'm unaware?

Dave, you know who Craig Erickson is? Somewhere your neck of the woods. Blooz-rock....prime stuff!
 
fitzo said:
Wasn't "Goin Up the Country" Canned Heat? Or did Credence do a version and I'm unaware?
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That was Canned Heat. I saw them in Denver with John Lee Hooker sometime back in my pre-middle age. They used to do a song about recruiting for the L.A. County Sherrifs Dept that was pretty funny.

For old time "hoodoo" blues check out Scrapper Blackwell. His most famous song was probably Kokomo Blues, which Robert Johnson later redid as Sweet Home Chicago.

Right now I have a CD on with: The Guitar Wizard, Tampa Red
It starts off with the classic (Baby its good when) Its Tight Like That.
Pure Hokum blues played on a Dobro with a bottleneck slide.
 
1. Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy- Chris Ledoux
2. Outdoor Lovin Man- Hank Williams Jr.
3. Convoy- C.W. McCall
4. Hotter Than a Two Dollar Pistol- George Jones
5. If The Shoe Fits Wear It- Hank Williams III
 
Just noticed that it is the birthday of Mississippi John Hurt, one of the best 12 string guitar players ever.

Richland Woman Blues
Sunday Morning Blues

and many more.
 
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