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I found this channel because of an incredible harmonica-guitar cover this guy did of James Cotton’s “Strange Things Happen.”
Funky Blues Backing Track in E (with great aerial views of Chicago). While it isn’t to my taste, I can hear what people would like.
Here’s the playlist it’s in, there are a couple really nice ones…
Here’s a harmonica-guitar cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen rain?”
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Here’s what I’m listening to… today is the 91st anniversary of Lafayette Thomas‘s birth.
Especially this one!
Henry Townsend is one of a very few blues performers who played during nine decades, from the 1920s to shortly before his death in 2006. Here’s a great album of his early music, mostly, maybe all from the 1930s.
Henry Townsend played tasty guitar and piano and, lyrically, he had an ear for detail as well. His songs sound like excerpts from his early-life memoirs, A Blues Life (Music in American Life). I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in blues and anyone who is interested in what urban black people’s lives were like in the U.S. in the 1930s and ’40s.
Here’s a playlist featuring him and one of his frequent musical collaborators, Walter Davis. I always include as much relevant information in the description are of playlists, including albums and other playlists.
This is one of their great collaborations.
Enjoy!
Don D.
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