Development of the British Blues and Rhythm

  --- show 11, recap ---     7-9-2014  
 
Because I’ve had a last minute change of musical direction on the eleventh show in this series, but mostly because I’ve fallen a little bit behind on my research and writing for these profiles, I figured a good way to get around it would be to do a show filled with some of my favorite choices from what we’ve heard so far.  The extra two weeks should put me back on course hopefully through the second half of the year, not that we won’t be continuing right on past the New Year.  I had always planned on the first show of next year to be a kind of refresher course for what we’ve discovered to that point anyway, so now we’ll just do it bi-annually.  (Semi-annually?  I always get those prefixes mixed up!  Anyway, twice a year.)

You might have noticed I have extended our title to Blues & Rhythm.  That is because I have allowed myself to fit in things I don’t think of as a purist’s definition of Blues but feel many are essential and some are just interesting or fun additions to complete the picture.  And we will even be following the careers of several of the “legitimate” Blues players as time pushes them to more radical Rock-like repertoires while they develop their styles, although Blues never is that far away and often returned to.  Also, on the back of my business card I have for twenty years defined my show as Blues and Rhythm.

So this blog entry is pretty much useless banter except for the following playlist for today’s show.  (Who said I was getting too full of myself?)

Roberta

   The Animals
Times are Getting Tougher Than Tough
   Duffy Power
Hoochie Coochie Man
   Manfred Mann
I’m Ready
   Long John Baldry
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
   The Artwoods
Lonely and Blue
   Downliners Sect
Easy Rider
   Alexis Korner’s Skiffle Group
Rock Island Line
   Lonnie Donegan
Long Black Train
   Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated
Midnight Train
   Spencer Davis Group
Smokestack Lightning
   Eric Clapton’s Yardbirds
Tobacco Road
   Nashville Teens
I Love the Life I Live
   Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
Susie Q
   The Rolling Stones
Bye Bye Bird
   The Moody Blues

Early in the Morning

   The Graham Bond Organization
Can You Hear Me
   The Artwoods
It’s Got the Whole World Shaking
   Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
It’s Gonna Work Out Fine
   Manfred Mann
Everybody Needs Somebody
   The Rolling Stones
When a Man Loves a Woman
   The Spencer Davis Group
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
   Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
Why Don’t You Smile Now
   Downliners Sect
It Ain’t Necessarily So
   Duffy Power
Ride Your Pony
   Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
Fifteen Past Three
   Jack Bruce

Old Time Religion

   The Clyde Valley Stompers
Up Above My Head
   Long John Baldry (with Otilie Patterson & Rod Stewart and Chris Barber’s Band)
Bury My Body
   The Animals
Where Could I Go
   The Chris Barber Skiffle Group
Lord Remember Me
   Steampacket

Can’t You Line ‘em

   The Chris Barber Skiffle Group
County Jail
   The Alexis Korner Skiffle Group
Parchman Farm
   Duffy Power
Work Song
   Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
Bring a Little Water, Susie
   Lonnie Donegan
Pick a Bale of Cotton
   The Vipers

Try

   Jon “T-Bone” Tyler’s Bop Brothers
Voodoo
   Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds
Come See Me
   The Pretty Things
Woman Made Trouble
   Duffy Power
The World is Round
   Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames

Roll ‘em Pete

   Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men
Sun Dog
   The Nashville Teens
Kid Man
   The Alexis Korner Skiffle Group
Georgia on My Mind
   The Spencer Davis Group
Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
   The Pretty Things
One Ugly Child
   The Downliners Sect
Just Stay Blue
   Duffy Power
Mystic Eyes
  Them
Talkin’ ‘Bout You
   The Animals