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BLUESVILLE
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Susan Tedeschi/Hope
and Desire Hope and Desire
presents a series of covers that all have something in common, despite
the fact that some are blues, some soul, some country/bluegrass,
some gospel, some rock—all are songs that have a soulful feel
to them, and Tedeschi’s voice does justice to them. She opens
with the Stones’ “You Got the Silver” from 1969’s
Let It Bleed. This was the album where the Stones first
managed to combine their blues and country influences into a rock
stew that they would mine for the next several years. |
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Ike Turner/Blues
Kingpins The innovations
wrought by Ike’s Kings of Rhythm band have all but been forgotten
by the general public. True, many music writers and musicologists
credit the outfit with the recording of the very first rock record,
“Rocket 88.” But for the most part, Ike has been relegated
by most to the back pages of popular music history. Fortunately,
this entry in the Blues Kingpins series, released to coincide
with the broadcast of Martin Scorsese’s blues documentary
this autumn, does much to demonstrate that Ike was a heavy influence
on much of the R&B and rock music that followed. |
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Muddy
Waters/Real Folk Blues & More Real Folk Blues
It's interesting to note that by the
time More Real Folk Blues was release in 1967 Muddy Waters was beginning
to play venues like the Fillmore and that the 1970s would see a
resurgence of his career as famous rock musicians like Eric Clapton,
Keith Richards, Levon Helm, and John Mayall cited him as major influences
on themselves and their respective bands. Muddy no longer needed
the "folk blues" marketing tactic to help him reach a
younger audience. |
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Howlin'
Wolf/The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions Wolf
was shipped to London, along with his guitarist, Hubert Sumlin,
to participate in sessions with some of the leading blues-influenced
rock musicians of the day, most notably Eric Clapton. Clapton, Wyman,
Watts, Sumlin, and Wolf, together with Jeffrey Carp on harmonica,
pretty much comprised the band on the date, though there are several
other guest appearances. As producer Norman Dayron relates in the
liner notes, he hadn’t counted on the fact that these rock
stars would be so intimidated by Wolf’s presence. |
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