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This is a shorter-than-usual Blues Roots post, but last week’s was longer-than-usual and might bear a second viewing. It featured close-ups of “It Hurts Me Too,” “Walk Right In” and “I Don’t Know,” and contained volume 6 of Ed Parker’s Yer Blues playlist.
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Ninety-four years ago, on Wednesday, April 25, Albert King was born. Click through to YouTube to see the full playlist.
In 1953, he played drums (his first instrument) on this Jimmy Reed record.
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CORRECTION: Last week’s copy said the playlist ended on number 151, but it was actually number 150. This week’s volume begins at number 151.
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On the Yer Blues playlist below, Earl “Fatha” Hines played piano on Ry Cooder’s version of “Diddy Wah Diddy” (song number 154).
The links in the names below lead to the Wikipedia articles, nothing exciting, but a good place to start. If you’re not familiar with Wikipedia, many of the Wikipedia pages contain links to other related websites.
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songs number 151 through 176
“ONE NIGHT” SMILEY LEWIS
“ONE NIGHT” ELVIS PRESLEY“DIDDIE WA DIDDIE” BLIND BLAKE
“DIDDY WAH DITTY” RY COODER“JACK, YOU’RE DEAD” LOUIS JORDAN & THE TYMPANI FIVE
“JACK, YOU’RE DEAD!” JOE JACKSON“BIG ROAD BLUES” TOMMY JOHNSON
“BIG ROAD BLUES” RORY BLOCK“MULESKINNER BLUES” JIMMIE RODGERS
“MULE SKINNER BLUES” THE FENDERMEN“RED HOT” BILLY “THE KID” EMERSON
“RED HOT” BILLY RILEY & THE LITTLE GREEN MEN“ROCKIN’ AT MIDNIGHT” ROY BROWN
“ROCKIN’ AT MIDNIGHT” THE HONEYDRIPPERS“FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE” DANNY OVERBEA
“FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE” ELLA MAE MORSE
“FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE” BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS“I HEAR YOU KNOCKING” SMILEY LEWIS
“I HEAR YOU KNOCKING” FATS DOMINO
“I HEAR YOU KNOCKING” DAVE EDMUNDS“MOTHERLESS CHILE BLUES” BARBECUE BOB
“MOTHERLESS CHILD” ERIC CLAPTON“RAININ’ IN MY HEART” SLIM HARPO
“RAININ’ IN MY HEART” THE PRETTY THINGS“I’M A MIGHTY TIGHT WOMAN” SIPPIE WALLACE
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Tommy Johnson is right about at the root of all the blues that I love. Him and Charlie Patton. Tommy Johnson is the Sterno-drinking genius who begat Houston Stackhouse who begat Robert Nighthawk, who knew just about everything worth knowing and shared some of it with Muddy Waters, some with Earl Hooker, and some with Elmore James (the links all go to Wikipedia; except there’s a separate link in Robert Nighthawk’s first and last names, his first name leads to a really detailed tribute site, his last name leads to Wikipedia).
This is from the Bricks In My Pillow website:
Robert Nighthawk credits Stackhouse with teaching him guitar. “I started guitar in 1931… Guy lived down in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, he, name of Houston Stackhouse, he learned me to play.” Stackhouse emphasized: “I learned him how to play guitar, back in the ’30s. I’d say, You ain’t gon’ eat nothin’ till you get these notes right… He done got bad with it then when he come back from Chicago.” Stackhouse himself learned from Tommy Johnson and his brothers Mager and Clarence. The first songs he taught Nighthawk were all songs Tommy Johnson recorded including “Big Road Blues,” “Cool Water Blues” and Big Fat Mama.” Stackhouse recalls first seeing Nighthawk blow harmonica in the early ’30s: “Him and Willie Warren was playin’ on the weekends at the Black Cat Drug Store in Hollandale then.” Stackhouse and Nighthawk worked on a farm during the day while at night they played at dances and parties. Nighthawk increasingly roamed farther afield traveling all over the south meeting the likes of Charlie Patton, Will Shade, Muddy Waters, Eugene Powell (Sonny Boy Nelson), Tommy Johnson and likely Son House and Robert Johnson.Here’s a playlist of some of Tommy Johnson’s best-known songs, his originals and the covers that followed. “Fat Mama” is Johnny Shines and Big Walter Horton’s excellent version. It’s “song” number 7 on the playlist, but that’s an album; “Fat Mama” is song number 5 on that album (the album is the only place I could find the song, if I can find the individual song, which I think I can, I’ll put that in the playlist and move the album out to a comment—it’s a great album, a great, great album, give it a listen). I meant to search before I posted but forgot, and can’t at the moment. I’m lucky I had time to edit this.
Crying, canned heat, canned heat, mama, crying, sure, Lord, killing me.
Crying, canned heat, mama, sure, Lord killing me.
Takes alcorub to take these canned heat blues.
Crying, mama, mama, mama, you know, canned heat killing me.
Crying, mama, mama, mama, crying, canned heat is killing me.
Canned heat don’t kill me, crying, babe, I’ll never die.
I woke up, this morning, crying, canned heat ‘ourn my bed.
Run here, somebody, take these canned heat blues.
Run here, somebody, and take these canned heat blues.
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Speaking of Canned Heat, how about Hooker ’n’ Heat? You can find information about it in here, in this John Lee Hooker discography. The album was recorded in May 1970.
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If you like this, tell me and I’ll thank the person who posted it this morning (from May 1957).
Don D.
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Thanks for checking in, Roberto. I’m glad to hear someone is enjoying them. Please do take a listen to Electrifying Performances by Two Masters of Modern Chicago Blues below.
The first part, about Johnny Shines, is about finding the single “Fat Mama” song for the Tommy Johnson playlist, but also quite a bit more as you’ll see in my first sentence below. I forgot about that.
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Yesterday, April 26, was the 102nd anniversary of Johnny Shines’ birth (just six days before that, last week Thursday, was the 25th anniversary of his passing).
My appreciation of Johnny Shines’ music began pretty recently, he was no more than a name to me until about two years ago, but once I started listening, I really began to like him. Nevertheless, when I started this playlist, he was something like a footnote to Robert Johnson (he was one of his friends), so I included him on this playlist with another one of Robert Johnson’s friends, his stepson, Robert Jr. Lockwood. In the passing years my appreciation of Robert Jr. has remained steady but my appreciation of Johnny Shines continues to increase. The section of the playlist dedicated to Johnny Shines begins at 290.
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When, in my original post, I mentioned the song “Fat Mama” being on an album (song 7 on the playlist), it was this album. I did find the individual song for the Tommy Johnson playlist, but it would be great if you had the opportunity to listen to this whole album.
Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton, Electrifying Performances by Two Masters of Modern Chicago Blues, recorded 1966 and 1969. Although I attached a link to the discography, I edited the information below to correspond to the YouTube playlist (song order different than in Discogs.com).
1. “Hello Central”
2. “You Don’t Have To Go”
3. “Sneakin’ and Hidin’”
4. “Till I Made My Tonsils Sore”
5. “Fat Mama”
6. “G.B. Blues”
7. “Worried Life Blues”
8. “I Cry, I Cry”
9. “If It Ain’t Me”
10. “I Want To Warn You, Baby”
11. “I Cry, I Cry” (alternative take)
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On songs 2, 4, 6, 7 and 10 (this follows order/numbering of YouTube playlist)
Johnny Shines (vocals and guitar), Big Walter Horton (harmonica), Otis Spann (piano), Lee Jackson (bass) and Fred Below (drums) played on songs 2. “You Don’t Have To Go,” 4. “Till I Made My Tonsils Sore,” 6. “G.B. Blues,” 7. “Worried Life Blues,” and 10. “I Want To Warn You, Baby,” Chicago, June 1966.On songs 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12 (this follows order/numbering of YouTube playlist)
Johnny Shines (vocals and guitar), Big Walter Horton (harmonica and vocals on “If It Ain’t Me”), Luther Allison (guitar), Prince Candy (bass), and Bill Brown (drums) played on songs 1. “Hello Central,” 3. “Sneakin’ and Hidin’,” 5. “Fat Mama,” 8. “I Cry, I Cry,” 9. “If It Ain’t Me,” and the two alt. versions, 11. “I Cry, I Cry” (alternative take) and 12. “Sneakin’ and Hidin’ part 2,” Los Angeles, January 1969.In short, the songs with piano are the ones recorded in Chicago in 1966, the songs with guitar are the ones recorded in Los Angeles in 1969.
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Here’s his Last Night’s Dream, a deeply moving album from 1969, also with Big Walter Horton, and Otis Spann sits in on one song.
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If it weren’t for chasing “Big Fat Mama”s I’d never have seen this one with its beautiful choreography, recorded May 9, 1941. You can find the personnel here, notably Bill Dogget plays piano, Panama Francis plays drums and Trevor Bacon plays guitar and sings.
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Lightnin’ Hopkins on electric guitar, really nice. This was originally released as a set of 45s in the ’50s. In 1960, the songs were collected on an LP.
Don D.
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