Blues

When Bonnie Raitt sings, "Take me down, you can hold me/ but you can't hold what's within/ Pull me 'round, push me to the limit/ Maybe I may bend, but I know where I'm not going/ I will not be broken," it's the kind of testament and affirmation we've come to expect from the veteran singer and guitarist. Given the New Orleans flavor that spices a number of songs on Raitt's new Souls Alike album and that she lost both parents in 2005 (Broadway legend John Raitt died after a long illness at the age of 88 just a few months after Raitt's mother, Marge Goddard, 84), one might think I Will Not Be Broken was specifically written as a salve for a troubled soul -- a song for the times, and of the times.

In fact, I Will Not Be Broken, by Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick and Tommy Sims, the team responsible for the Raitt hit I Can't Help You Now (as well as Eric Clapton's Change the World), was chosen long before any of those events.

Raitt, who is scheduled to perform tonight at Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, says: "The song really had nothing to do with anything I was necessarily going through, but by the time it came out, it was heavy. I picked I Will Not Be Broken because I would sing that any time; it's a great song. But it definitely was a powerful moment because I didn't go back into the studio until my dad was somewhat stable from two months in ICU, and I was just losing my mom.

"And it was right after the [2004] election that we actually started the record, so you know that had to have an effect, too," says Raitt, a longtime political and social activist.

Souls Alike arrived three years after Silver Lining and is Raitt's first self-produced album. It's both a departure (no blues romps, no self-penned songs) and a flashback to Raitt's albums from the early '70s, when she championed then-little-known songwriters Jackson Browne, Chris Smither, John Prine and John Hiatt. Through 35 years and 18 albums, Raitt has managed to keep finding voices deserving wider recognition, something she describes as "a symbiotic relationship, because without anything cool to say, I don't have a desire to make another record or go out on the road."

"There's just so many people under the radar," Raitt adds. "Like Maia."

That would be Maia Sharp, who shares credits on three songs on Souls Alike and sings harmonies on them as well. Sharp, the daughter of veteran Nashville songwriter Randy Sharp, has released several terrific albums of her own and has written a number of country hits (the Dixie Chicks' Home and Trisha Yearwood's recent hit, Jasper County). Two Sharp songs on Souls Alike, The Bed I Made and Crooked Crown, were written with David Batteau, an old Raitt pal. (She recorded his Goin' Wild for You Baby on 1979's Glow.)

The new album's closing track, The Bed I Made, is something of a stylistic departure for Raitt, a wistful, jazz-tinged, piano-laced ballad in which the singer owns up to mistakes made in a relationship.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Raitt asks. "All three of [Sharp's] songs are so original and have such an interesting point of view ... I Don't Want Anything to Change [a lament written with Liz Rose and Stephanie Chapman] is such a powerful moment in time, like I Can't Make You Love Me. Nobody writes about that moment when you're stuck in a relationship, when you know it's time to move on, but you just can't."

Finding such songs is both laborious and delightful, Raitt suggests, a process of constant listening. "I spend a lot of time keeping up with my friends and peers," she says, "and there's a string of songwriters whose tunes I've done in the past. And journalists and fans send me compilations of songs by artists they think I might like. I probably have 400 CDs sent to me over the course of a year."

Raitt didn't have to look far for some of her new material: two tracks are by her pianist, Jon Cleary. The British-born New Orleans transplant provided the funk-fueled roadhouse romp Unnecessarily Mercenary and Love on One Condition, a tasty, typically Raitt-ish bargain: "Do me right, don't do me wrong/ come home every night, no more carryin' on/ I explain my position, I'll grant you love on one condition."

New Orleans also informs Emory Joseph's Trinkets, with its insinuating Crescent City groove and rich references to New Orleans legends and locales, as well as to its ordinary citizens.

"The beat of New Orleans, especially because Cleary's in the band, that thread's going to run through deeply and obviously," Raitt says. And these days, she adds, "when I sing I Will Not Be Broken and God Was in the Water and Trinkets, it's absolutely about that part of the world and what's happened ... The whole infrastructure of what makes New Orleans the scene it is musically and culturally is devastated, and if they don't pay attention to trying to bring those people back, it's never going to be the same. I don't know if it will ever be the same anyway, but it will be a major loss if they turn it into a developer's McMardi Gras."

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New Compilation Stikes "Blues Gold"

The gold connoisseur has seen it all: white gold, green gold, black gold, even fool's gold. But, there's another kind of gold out there, "Blues Gold."

That's right, blues music gold. I'm referring to some of the greatest blues masterpieces of all time, like "Call It Stormy Monday" by T-Bone Walker; "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" by Freddie King; and "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton.

These and 35 other classics dating back to 1947 appear on the new compilation album "Blues Gold." There's Delta blues, Chicago blues, rhythm-and-blues, and acoustic blues performed by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman.

Eric Clapton and Duane Allman showed their appreciation for the blues on this 1970 recording, "Mean Old World."

For country blues fans there's singer and guitarist Kevin Moore, better known as Keb' Mo'.

Keb' Mo' is a modern blues giant, literally. Keb' stands almost two meters tall, with or without his guitar.

Where there's "Blues Gold" there's electric blues gold.

Who could forget the opening scene to "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," as a completely naked Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into a bar to this 1982 blues-rocker:

It's not unusual in blues to be linked mainly to one big blues hit: Koko Taylor to "Wang Dang Doodle," Guitar Slim to "The Things That I Used To Do," and George Thorogood and The Destroyers to "Bad To The Bone."

Long live the new generation of blues men and women, represented on "Blues Gold" by rising stars Susan Tedeschi and Jonny Lang.

Audio CD (March 14, 2006)
Label: Stony Plain Music

1. Do The Memphis Grind
2. Gambler Blues
3. Down Along The Cove
4. Sunday Mornin'
5. Sewed Up
6. Danny Boy
7. Blues A Rama
8. I'll Do Anything But Work
9. No Way Out
10. This Dream
11. Just Before Dawn
12. Dawin
13. Cookin'
14. Dark Eyes

Various artists "Alligator 35x35: 35 Songs, 35 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music"
(Alligator, April 4, 2006)

35 X 35 is not just another best-of compilation. Alligator founder and president Bruce Iglauer and staff chose to spotlight songs from the Alligator debut release from each featured artist. From "She's Gone" (the very first track on the very first Alligator album, 1971's Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers) to the legendary Mavis Staples' chilling "A Dying Man's Plea," 35 X 35 is effectively a chronological history of Alligator, a story told in music highlighting every style of blues and roots music the company has released. From the searing hard blues of Hound Dog Taylor, Son Seals, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, Koko Taylor and Buddy Guy to harmonica-driven workouts from Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite and William Clarke to the Gulf Coast piano blues of Professor Longhair, Katie Webster and Marcia Ball to the acoustic music of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women and Corey Harris, it is clear that Alligator Records has been, and will remain, at the forefront of modern blues music in all of its many shades. With personal notes on each track from Iglauer in the accompanying 40-page booklet, 35 X 35 is proof of the staunchly independent label's single-minded vision for all these years: to record nothing but deeply rooted "Genuine Houserockin' Music."

Кто нибудь знает подробности этого релиза?
Rick Derringer 2005 Live at Cheney Hall

DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006

Product Description
This DVD features an incredible 14-song performance from Bernard Allisons 2005 Fall European Tour. It documents one of the most formidable bands on the blues-rock circuit at the height of their artistic powers. Whereas Allisons previous live release featured his funky late 1990s line-up, ENERGIZED shows you what he and his current bandmates have become in the past five years: a fiery and ferocious unit with a hard rock edge. The set features stand-out cuts from his most recent studio albums, like the crowd-pleasing I Just Came Back To Say Goodbye and the sensitive The Way Love Was Meant To Be. Bernard shows his technical prowess on The Walk and Wah Wah Action.

2006 Blues Awards Nominees Announced

The 2006 Blues Music Awards honour Blues performers and the best in Blues recordings and performances. Formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards, the honour is considered the highest recognition bestowed upon those of the Blues music industry. The awards will be handed out at the annual event held in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, May 11, 2006.

Nominees for the 2006 Awards:

Acoustic Album of the Year

A Ship Called Love - Eric Bibb
Down In The Delta - Paul Oscher
Birthright - James Blood Ulmer
In Your Arms Again - John Hammond
Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul - Maria Muldaur

Acoustic Artist of the Year

Rory Block
Doug MacLeod
Paul Oscher
Eric Bibb
Corey Harris

Album of the Year

Think of Me - Little Milton
Sadie Mae - Nick Moss & the Flip-Tops
About Them Shoes - Hubert Sumlin
Anything Can Happen - Magic Slim & the Teardrops
That Represent Man - The Mannish Boys

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

Magic Slim
Buddy Guy
Marcia Ball
Little Milton
Bobby Rush

Band of the Year

Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Holmes Brothers
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers
Little Charlie & the Nightcats

Best New Artist Debut

Mitch Kashmar - Nickels and Dimes
Billy Gibson - The Billy Gibson Band
Duwayne Burnside - Under Pressure
Zac Harmon - The Blues According to Zacariah
Eddie Turner - Rise

Comeback Album of the Year

Better To Have It - Bobby Purify
Black Coffee - Al Kooper
Club Caravan - Big George Brock
Flash Forward - The Siegel-Schwall Band
Soul Sanctuary - Hollywood Blue Flames

Contemporary Blues Album of the Year

Gettin' My Groove Back - Elvin Bishop
Fever For The Bayou - Tab Benoit
Live! Down The Road - Marcia Ball
Soul Shaker - Tommy Castro
The Soul Truth - Shemekia Copeland

Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year

Janiva Magness
Marcia Ball
Shemekia Copeland
Debbie Davies
Susan Tedeschi

Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year

Kim Wilson
Tommy Castro
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Sonny Landreth
Tab Benoit

Historical Album of the Year

Stompin' At Mother Blues - J.B. Hutto
The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album - Johnny Adams
Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 - Muddy Waters
Strictly Live in '85...Plus! - James Harman,
The Essential Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal

Instrumentalist-Bass

Bob Stroger
Bill Stuve
Larry Taylor
Mookie Brill
Michael "Mudcat" Ward

Instrumentalist-Drums

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Jimi Bott
Sam Carr
Sam Lay
Popsy Dixon

Instrumentalist-Guitar

Ronnie Earl
Hubert Sumlin
Kirk Fletcher
Bob Margolin
Charlie (Little Charlie) Baty
Sonny Landreth

Instrumentalist-Harmonica

Charlie Musselwhite
Kim Wilson
James Cotton
Rick Estrin
Carey Bell

Instrumentalist-Horn

Mark Kazanoff
Eddie Shaw
Calvin Owens
Sax Gordon
Big James Montgomery
Greg Piccolo

Instrumentalist-Other

Rich DelGrosso - Mandolin
Otis Taylor - Banjo
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Fiddle
Sonny Rhodes - Lap Steel
Robert Randolph - Pedal steel

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year

Marcia Ball
Honey Piazza
Dr. John
Henry Butler
Jon Cleary

Song of the Year

"Think Of Me", written by Jon Tiven, Milton Campbell, Pete Shoulder, performed by Little Milton, Think Of Me
"Who Stole My Radio?", written by John Hahn & Joe Hudson, performed by Shemekia Copeland, The Soul Truth
"What the Hell is Going On", written by Elvin Bishop, performed by Elvin Bishop, Gettin' My Groove Back
"Twenty", written by Robert Cray, performed by Robert Cray, Twenty
"Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues", written by Doug MacLeod, performed by Doug MacLeod, Dubb

Soul Blues Album of the Year

I'm From Phunkville - Mem Shannon
Night Fishin' - Bobby Rush
Respect Yourself - Otis Clay
Make Do With What You Got - Solomon Burke
I've Got My Own Hell to Raise - Betty LaVette
Think of Me - Little Milton

Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year

Irma Thomas
Mavis Staples
Bettye LaVette
Denise LaSalle
Sista Monica Parker

Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year

Mem Shannon
Mighty Sam McClain
Solomon Burke
Little Milton
Bobby Rush

Traditional Album of the Year

That Represent Man - The Mannish Boys
Jukin' at Bettie's - Willie King
About Them Shoes - Hubert Sumlin
Anything Can Happen - Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Sadie Mae - Nick Moss & the Flip Tops

Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
Maria Muldaur
Etta James
Ann Rabson
Ruth Brown
Koko Taylor
Nora Jean Bruso
Precious Bryant

Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year

Hubert Sumlin
Magic Slim
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Willie King
B.B. King

Неделю как назад вышел сборник Blues Guitar Killers.Амазон пишет:The guitar is the main instrument in the blues business, and here you’ll find the best artists in this genre! Features some of the biggest names in guitar blues, all living legends, from Otis Rush to Hubert Sumlin. A must for every blues lover!

А картинка не та,а эта:-)

В разделе "блюз" амазон предлагает серию подборок старинных американских песен.Типа такого.
1. Flying Saucer Boogie
2. Rocket Boogie
3. Trail Of Haley's Comet
4. Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer
5. Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship
6. Jet Propelled Papa
7. Space Guitar
8. Rocket 88
9. Flip
10. Rockin' With The Rockets
11. Nagasaki
12. Rocket 69
13. Radar Blues
14. Death Ray Boogie
15. Golden Rocket
16. Rocket 88
17. Baby Doll
18. Skyliner

Вот ещё новинка этого месяца:Larry Carlton "Firewire".
Весьма приблюзованный альбом разностороннего гитарного виртуоза (в хорошем смысле:-))

2papan:

>Вот ещё новинка этого месяца:Larry Carlton "Firewire".
>Весьма приблюзованный альбом разностороннего
>гитарного виртуоза (в хорошем смысле:-))

придеься поискать Larry

Требуем занесения Paul Butterfield в the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.

http://www.petitiononline.com/pb17d42/petition.html

Robert Cray is following in the footsteps of his mentors Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace, B.B. King and more, moving into place as a new legend of the electric blues. The talented songwriter and guitarist brings the blues of the past into the present, merging old blues piano with his classic guitar playing and contemporary themes.

A multiple Grammy and W.C. Handy Blues Award winner, his dreamy raw sound combines a voice that feels soft like the great Al Green or soul singers of the past, with blues licks that stray across the years from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton.

Cray is appearing at the Orange Peel Wednesday, fronting his exceptional four-piece band, for a show with hard driving blues rocker Danielia Cotton as the opening act. Now age 52, he is articulate, smooth spoken and unafraid to tackle any topic, the war in Iraq is a subject he confronts in his new record and DVD "Twenty."

QUESTION: I have been listening to your new record and watching the video. It's hard to get past the powerful images in "Twenty" of a soldier who dies in Iraq and the field full of tagged empty boots.

ANSWER: I wrote the song and then a friend of my wife Sue's (Sue Turner-Cray) named Renee said, 'We've got to do something with this song.' One by one pieces started to fall together. Renee knew somebody who worked for the American Friends Service Committee who does the exhibition "Eyes Wide Open" with the boots. She heard actor Aidan Delgado - he actually was a soldier who served in Iraq in Nasiriyah and at Abu Ghraib prison - available and got him to play the part of the soldier in the video. My wife produced the video. The idea for the song came about from what you see and read every day, about the soldiers. I was feeling bad for the soldiers and innocent civilians who are dying.

Q: There is a lot of wonderful social commentary on the CD; I love the song about quitting smoking cigarettes ("My Last Regret").

A: Our keyboard player Jim Pugh wrote that, it's a great song.

Q: What will fans be seeing and hearing at the Asheville show?

A: With the album "Twenty", that makes 14 studio records from which we can glean songs. We're doing things going all the way back to "Bad Influence," our second record (1983). Recently, we got rid of the set list. We just get up on stage and start calling out the songs.

Q: You were born in Columbus, Ga. Did you hear the blues there growing up?

A: I don't have any recollection of Columbus. My dad was in the Army, at Fort Benning and we were only there for 11 months after I was born. I did hear a lot of music growing up because my mom and dad listened to a lot of jazz and blues and gospel and everything else under the sun.

Q: Who are your guitar influences?

A: They run all over the place, I'm a big fan of people like B.B. King, Albert Collins, Otis Rush, Albert King, Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton. I'm a fan of instrumental music as well and love saxophone players and piano players. I like a lot of styles, everything that sounds good, from Louis Armstrong to Bob Marley.

Q: Is there anything particularly relevant about your CD you'd like people to know?

A: The idea of the song "Twenty" was on my mind and needs to be kept as front-page news so that the war doesn't become routine. That was the idea for putting the soldier on the front cover. These days you read the newspaper and most of the war news is relegated to page five or six. I think people need to wake up and be more vocal, for myself that only came with age, but more people should be proactive, voting, before we get sunk into a hole we can't get out of.

Robert Cray accustomed to life on move

Friday, March 24, 206
By JERRY DUCKETT
The Express-Times
Robert Cray grew up living the Army brat life, moving from one base to another with his family.

He was born in 1953 at Fort Benning, Ga., where his father was stationed. From that point on -- until he finally settled in Los Angeles and became one of the most expressive vocalists and impressive guitarists on the contemporary rhythm and blues scene -- he had moved around the United States and overseas about eight times.

But music was a constant in his life, continuously played by his parents who bought tunes in the PX at every post.

"In those days," says Cray, "you could stack the 45s on the spindle and they would play and play. Even though I was a kid and went to bed about 8, I would always hear the music."

That music included the "wild mix" of Sam Cooke, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Sonny Stitts, John Lee Hooker and B.B. King.

Cray says he took piano lessons for a few years when his dad was stationed in Germany, but that suddenly changed when the family moved to Washington state and the Beatles began to gain popularity.

"I needed a guitar. I wanted to be a Beatle, so I began taking lessons and playing," says Cray.

A move in 1966 to Virginia brought him to join his first band called The One-Way Street and play rock and soul.

He eventually became friendly with Richard Cousins, who later became bass player in the first Robert Cray Band, started in 1974.

Cray, recognized today for his masterful work as a guitarist and singer, songwriter and producer, performs with the band that made its record debut in 1980 with "Who's Been Talkin'" on Tomato Records.

Today, the group has recorded more than 14 albums, and Cray has received five Grammys -- three with the band and two with Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland.

He's also shared a Grammy with Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton and Dr. John.

During the 80s and 90s, The Robert Cray Band continued to make waves, even appearing on the cover of "Rolling Stone."

In 1986, guitar legend Keith Richards invited Cray to perform in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll," the concert and film tribute to Chuck Berry.

Richards and Cray worked together again in 1991, at the Guitar Legends concerts in Seville, Spain, and on the 1994 Rolling Stones' "Hoodoo U Voodoo" pay-per-view broadcast.

"I have had some really big breaks and turning points," Cray says. "I think the first was the release of my 1983 album, 'Bad Influence.' It was our second in that year, and we were able to go to Europe for the first time and meet a lot of people while on tour, like Eric Clapton, who actually recorded the song, 'Bad Influence' on his own album, 'August.'

Cray is one of a few blues artists with the vision to successfully usher blues into the next century. Just as importantly, his immensely popular records have helped jump-start the contemporary blues boom still in full motion.

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