MUSIC THREAD

It's a really good album. Just good pop music, or at least wat pop music should be.

 

Debra DeSalvo, Columbia J-school grad and former guitarist for the punk band False Prophets*, with a wailing closing solo (video is a bit dark in parts):

Another of her songs, written for an HBO documentary about strippers (NSFW):

* which sometimes backed the late poet Allen Ginsberg

 

If there are five blues cuts better than Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby," I can't name them.
(Larry King seems to have possessed my mind a bit here.)

 

Hmmm, very interesting. Elvis does a cool version of "Reconsider Baby" too,

I'd nominate three: "Red House" by Jimi, "How Blue Can You Get?" by B.B. King from Live At Cook County Jail and "Statesboro Blues" by the Allman Bros. from Live At Fillmore East.

 

I can't claim he's the best, but I've always been partial to the late Luther Allison:

 

OK, I opened this up, so...

1) Frankie -- Mississippi John Hurt
2) My Home Is In The Delta -- Muddy Waters
3) Stones In My Passway -- Robert Johnson
4) Reconsider Baby -- LF
5) One Way Out -- Allmans

 

Some of my favorite bluesmen in action:

Freddie King:

The late J.B. Hutto:

Hutto's nephew, Lil' Ed Williams:

Otis Rush:

Michael Hill covering Purple Haze:

 

Maybe not top five, but "Loan Me a Dime" is quality work by Skydog.

 

Fenton Robinson wrote it.

 

Yes he did. Early pressings give Boz credit. That changed after the lawsuit.

 

Check out more of his stuff. The guy's good. The four track EP he did with Ben Folds and Ben Lee as "The Bens" is pretty cool as well.

 

The Argentine guitarist Demian Dominguez shredding it with Bernard Allison (son of the late Luther Allison) on Voodoo Chile: