Sunday, December 2, 2018

Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues

Mighty Good Leader · Audio Adrenaline

Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader · Skip James

A Song for Sunday - Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader · Rory Block - This song was written by Skip James

A Song for Sunday - Skip James lived a very hard sometimes violent life. He had God given talent but never wanted to be well known. He recorded many songs that are blues classics. Later in life he ran into his father who he had not seen since childhood, he grew up on a plantation. His father had become a Baptist Minister and as a result Jesus saved Skip. For about 15 years he would only play spirituals. Living in Philadelphia with his third wife, James was chronically broke during his last years. Until the group Cream recorded "I'm So Glad" and gave James the songwriter's credit, that is. As a result, he received a royalty check for nearly $10,000.Skip James died of cancer on October 3, 1969, in Philadelphia. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1992. Read more: Skip James Biography http://www.musicianguide.com/bi…/1608002248/Skip-James.html… I used Rory Blocks version because the originals are not recorded well. I will post the original of this song.

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Jonny Lang - Blew Up The House - Live at Big Easy Covent Garden April 26th 2014

Lucinda Williams " God Don't Never Change" Cover of a Blind Willie Johnson song at Stuart's Opera House

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning - Blind Willie Johnson Cover - Warner Theatre - Feb. 20, 2015

Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi talk about recording - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning by Blind Willie Johnson

A Song For Sunday - Blind Willie Johnson Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning

Seminal gospel-blues artist Blind Willie Johnson is regarded as one of the greatest bottleneck slide guitarists. Yet the Texas street-corner evangelist is known as much for the his powerful and fervent gruff voice as he is for his ability as a guitarist. He most often sang in a rough, bass voice (only occasionally delivering in his natural tenor) with a volume meant to be heard over the sounds of the streets. Johnson recorded a total of 30 songs during a three-year period and many of these became classics of the gospel-blues, including "Jesus Make up My Dying Bed," "God Don't Never Change," and his most famous, "Dark Was the Night -- Cold Was the Ground." It is generally agreed that Johnson was born in a small town just South of Waco near Temple, TX, around 1902. His mother died while he was still a baby, and his father eventually remarried. When Johnson was about seven years old, his father and stepmother fought and the stepmother threw lye water, apparently at the father, but the lye got in Willie Johnson's eyes, blinding him. As he got older, Johnson began earning money by playing his guitar, one of the few avenues left to a blind man to earn a living. Instead of a bottleneck, Johnson actually played slide with a pocketknife. Over the years, Johnson played guitar most often in an open D tuning, picking single-note melodies, while using his slide and strumming a bass line with his thumb. He was, however, known to play in a different tuning and without the slide on a few rare occasions. Regardless of his excellent blues technique and sound, Johnson didn't want to be a bluesman, for he was a passionate believer in the Bible. So, he began singing the gospel and interpreting Negro spirituals. He became a Baptist preacher and brought his sermons and music to the streets of the surrounding cities. While performing in Dallas, he met a woman named Angeline and the two married in 1927. Angeline added 19th century hymns to Johnson's repertoire, and the two performed around the Dallas and Waco areas.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Jeff Beck feat. Imelda May - Remember (Walking In the Sand)

Jeff Beck & Beth Hart - Purple Rain - Live 2017

Loretta Lynn - Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven Same title completely different song

A Song For Sunday - Everybody Wants to go to Heaven = Albert King

A Song for Sunday – “Everybody Wants to go to Heaven” Albert King wrote this song and it appeared on his 1971 album “Lovejoy” the lyrics say, “Everybody wants to laugh, but nobody wants to cry.” “Everybody wants to hear the truth, but everybody wants to tell a lie.” “Everybody wanna know the reason, without even asking why.” “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” We try hard to hang on to life for as long as we can, because nobody wants to die. There is great comfort and peace in knowing where you will go when you die. Jesus said, “truly truly I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life.” (John 5:24) The Apostle Paul said, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21) I know that on the very last day I live on this earth and take my last breath, the next moment I will be in heaven with my savior Jesus Christ, and be with him forever.

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Blue on Black" Live At Guitar Center's King of the Blues

Walter Trout Band: Say Goodbye To The Blues

Where The Streets Have No Name (Live) · U2 The Joshua Tree

A Song For Sunday - "40" U2 Live

A Song For Sunday – “40” U2 Live I finally saw U2 live a year ago at Ford Field it was one of the most amazing concerts I have ever been to. Here is Bono on who is Christ. “I think it’s the defining question for a Christian: who was Christ?” Bono is the lead singer of U2, one of the most successful rock ‘n roll bands ever, and he was responding to a question about his Christian faith in a 2013 interview with Irish news channel RTE. “And I don’t think you’re let off easily,” he continues, “by saying, ‘A great thinker,’ or ‘A great philosopher.’ “Because actually, he [Jesus] went round saying he was the Messiah. That’s why he was crucified. He was crucified because he said he was the Son of God. So, he either, in my view, was the Son of God, or he was…” The interviewer interrupts him: “Not? ”No, no. Nuts!” Bono corrects. “Forget rock ‘n roll messianic complexes. This is like, Charlie Manson type of delirium.” A bit later, the interviewer is direct: “Therefore, it follows you believe he was divine?” And Bono is clear in his response: “Yes.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham - Walkin'

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon man - Herbie Hancock — Piano Freddie Hubbard — Trumpet Dexter Gordon — Tenor Saxophone Butch Warren — Bass Billy Higgins — Drums Recorded May 28, 1962

Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - Corrina - 8/14/2017 - Paste Studios, New York, NY

A Song for Sunday – No Hard Feelings by The Avett Brothers (From The Motion Picture “May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers”)

When I first heard this song, it had a profound affect on me. It brought me face to face with the truth that most of my years are already behind me and how many are still in front I have no clue only God knows that. This song starts by pondering the question, “When death comes will I be ready?” It asks the question “Where will I go?” The last answer is “will I run into a Savior true and shake hands laughing” Will I come to the end with no hard feelings and know that I have no enemies. “Liz Wann wrote, The Avett Brothers released their ninth album, titled True Sadness a few years ago. Many of the songs on True Sadness tell stories with similar themes: fear, disappointment, hardship and redemption. The lyrics sing truth about a perfect world gone wrong. Once, perfect peace filled our souls. Now we battle with fear and, as the Avett Brothers phrase it, "...this evil inside me. I step out my front door and I feel it surround me." When the brothers sing, "For life and its loveliness. And all of its ugliness," we are reminded that what God declared as good has been smudged with dirt. So now we have both light and dark; lovely and ugly at the same time. We are not fully what we will be yet. Because we are redeemed, but living in a world groaning in anticipation of restoration, we will experience true sadness.

Saturday, October 20, 2018

A Song for Sunday - You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ · Billy Joe Shaver with Johnny Cash

On his 2009 track “I Feel a Change Coming On,” Bob Dylan sang, “I’m listening to Billy Joe Shaver and I’m reading James Joyce.” Dylan is one of Shaver’s many famous fans; Willie Nelson calls him “the greatest songwriter alive today” and Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley have all recorded his songs. Shaver grew up in the Waco, Texas area, moving to Nashville in the mid-Sixties. He wrote 10 out of the 11 songs on Waylon Jennings’ 1973 outlaw country breakthrough, Honky Tonk Heroes, and has remained an underground hero since then – but violence, drugs and alcohol often got in the way of his own career.

The Poison of Subjectivism by C.S. Lewis Doodle

This essay contains the essence of Lewis’ arguments in his fascinating short book ‘The Abolition of Man' This will address many of the issues we going through as a nation in our culture and why no one listens to those who disagree with them the end result is violence and hatred. This was written in 1944.

Bob Dylan - You're a Big Girl Now (Take 2) (Audio)

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Official Video) HD - This is for anyone struggling with addiction or for anyone who knows someone in the struggle

This song is about realizing consequence and regret. It sends a powerful message that we should all proceed through life wisely, because there is nothing worse than being stuck with a label, a pain, a sickness, or a death, that we know beforehand will leave us only wishing things had been different and that we could change the choices we made. There is help available don't suffer alone

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

AIN'T NO GRAVE (Can Hold My Body Down) Johnny Cash

A Song for Sunday - Help Me - Johnny Cash - This song really helped me

Oh, lord, help me walk Another mile, just one more mile; I'm tired of walkin' all alone. And lord, help me to smile Another smile, just one more smile; Don't think I can do things on my own. I never thought I needed help before; Thought that I could get by - by myself. But now I know I just can't take it any more. And with a humble heart, on bended knee, I'm beggin' You please for help Oh come down from Your golden throne to me, to lowly me; I need to feel the touch of Your tender hand. Release the chains of darkness Let me see, Lord let me see; Just where I fit into your master plan. I never thought I needed help before; Thought that I could get by - by myself. Now I know I just can't take it any more. And with a humble heart, on bended knee, I'm beggin' You please for help With a humble heart, on bended knee, I'm beggin' You please for help

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · John Mellencamp

All Along the Watchtower (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · Neil Young

Foot of Pride (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · Lou Reed

What Was It You Wanted (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · Willie Nelson

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · Eric Clapton

Seven Days (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) · Ron Wood

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Wall of Denial

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire (HD)

A Song for Sunday - Tightrope · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

This was originally recorded on Stevie's last studio recording In Step, named for the 12 step AA program. Stevie was clean and sober for the last 4 years of his life and died in a tragic helicopter accident after playing a show with Eric Clapton and others. Here are the lyrics Caught up in a whirlwind, can't catch my breath Knee deep in hot water, broke out in cold sweat Can't catch a turtle, in this rat race Feels like I'm losing, at a breakneck pace Afraid of my own shadow, in the face of grace Heart full of darkness, spotlight on my face There was love all around me, but I was looking for revenge Thank God it never found me, would have been the end Walkin' the tight rope, steppin on my friends Walkin' the tight rope, was a shame and a sin Walkin' the tight rope, between wrong and right Walkin' the tight rope, both day and night Lookin' back in front of me, in the mirror's grin Through eyes of love I see, I'm really lookin at a friend We've had all our problems, that's the way life is My heart goes out to others, who are there to make amends Trying to make it right Every day and every night Bring it all around From the lost to found Stretched around the world Save the boys and girls Let's make it right Do it, do it tonight Walkin the tightrope

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Muddy Waters - Deep Down In Florida - with Johnny Winter

Muddy Waters - The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll - with Johnny Winter

All Aboard - Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Michael Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Sam Lay

Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy - with Johnny Winter (From Hard Again)

Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved with Johnny Winter (From Hard Again)

Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied - with Johnny Winter (From Hard Again)

Muddy Waters- Bus Driver - with Johnny Winter - From Muddy's 1977 album Hard Again

Jeff Beck & Imogen Heap-Rollin' And Tumblin'

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Gov't Mule and John Scofield perform Little Feat's "Spanish Moon" on March 12, 2015 at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, MA.

Gov't Mule and John Scofield perform the Allman Brothers' "Instrumental Illness" on March 12, 2015 at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, MA

Tedeschi Trucks Band - "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" - in tribute to Aretha Franklin. - Live at 2018 LOCKN' Festival

Reverend Blind Gary Davis - Glory Halleloo (Live)

Since I've Laid My Burdens Down - Mississippi John Hurt

Pictures are from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project and are of various people and places in Mississippi. The dates range from 1935 - 1945. Mississippi John Hurt had two albums of very limited success in 1928. He was later "rediscovered" in the sixties and put out or took part in a number of albums and small concerts. I think he is the sound of grace and could listen to his sing and play all day.