I am a blues guitar player and a follower of Jesus. This blog is about music, especially Blues, theology, humor, culture and anything else that rolls through my brain. "The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street"
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
Love Me Darlin' · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Howlin Wolf cover
This album was recorded after Stevie Ray got clean and sober. In Step represents the 12 step program and also reflects his faith in Jesus Christ.
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Goin' Down Slow
These recordings are from 1964 and were to be on the first Paul Butterfield Band album. They were scrapped for some reason and their first album was recorded soon afterward. This is Butterfield's version of Jimmy Oden's, "Goin' Down Slow", from 'The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Original Lost Elektra Sessions" which was recorded in 1964 and was released in 1995. (The recordings were in a vault for the 30 years in between.) Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
ISRAEL PORTNOY - BACKPORCH BLUES
One of the first feelings I deeply resonated with after the shock of losing our home (in what started out as a forest-fire), was this idea that I was able to find a deep sense of comfort in connecting to a greater, universal sense of loss - a human blues if you will. This in turn, connected me to something beyond myself and my limited personal experience. It's not that a sense of empathy with others invalidates your own suffering, or even diminishes it in any way- but rather it brings you back to a place of consciousness that reinforces that what you are going through is a part of the greater human experience - you are never alone in your suffering and we are indeed "just human too".
With that in mind, It felt right that "Backporch Blues" would be the first single I'd release from this concept-album "Facing Flames (feat Guilda)". I went back to the house with Basti Hansen to get an album-cover shot and some footage of what remained. When we were done we had 10 mins left and he literally fought against the sunset as i sat in the spot where my wooden backporch where I would sit and write songs.
P.s If you would head over to my YT Channel & SUBSCRIBE (link in first comment), this would be a big help at the start of this journey. In the coming weeks, I'll be putting some extra content there too that I won't be putting here.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
Sunday, February 16, 2020
A Song For Sunday - Paul Butterfield & John Sebastian - Amazing Grace (harmonica duet, 1977)
If you love blues you need to see this documentary HORN FROM THE HEART: The Paul Butterfield Story is a feature-length documentary about the life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield. A white, teen-age harmonica player from Chicago’s south side, Paul learned the blues from the original black masters performing nightly in his own back yard. Muddy Waters was Paul’s mentor and lifelong friend, happy to share his wisdom and expertise with such a gifted young acolyte.
The interracial Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring the twin guitar sound of Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, the rhythm section of Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold and the keyboards of Mark Naftalin, added a rock edge to the Chicago blues, bringing an authenticity to its sound that struck a chord with the vast white rock audience and rejuvenated worldwide interest in the blues. The band's first LP, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band released on Elektra Records in 1965, was named “#11 Blues Album of All Time” by Downbeat.