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-GRINDIN’ THE BLUES
by Gary Tate: Have you ever imagined or witnessed some shakin’ and twitchin’
mass of humanity with buckets of sweat pouring off them? Well,
then there’s a good chance some band nearby is grindin’ them
Blues. Can’t be any other darn explanation for it! But it’ll lift you out of
whatever chair you happen to be sitting on.
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1· Big Bad Smitty (Mp3-Lonely Man)
Big
Bad Smitty was from St. Louis.
Echoes of Chuck
Berry
and Ike
Turner but could be heard in his style. |
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2· Tiny Topsy (Mp3-You
Shocked Me)
An obscure artist from the Federal
label. If you saw her picture, the name only referred to her height. |
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3· J.B.
Hutto & His Hawks (Mp3-20%
Alcohol)
A rough, rowdy and raunchy
entry from
one of Chicago’s greatest slide players.
Intoxicating! |
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4· Kid Ramos
& Rusty Zinn (Mp3-Lizabeth)
These
two West Coast guitar heroes
do a thrilling version
of classic 1956 R&B song by the Thrillers. |
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5· Young
Jessie (Mp3-Don’t
Happen No More)
His wild shouting style even
surpasses
Little Richard: “It’s a pitiful shame,
how the world has changed”. |
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6· Koko Taylor (Mp3-Fire)
The Queen of the
Blues will light a fire in your pants;
and only your dancing shoes can extinguish it! |
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7· Billy Flynn &
Silas 'Bluesman' McClatcher
(Mp3-What’s
Wrong)
This one incorporates
the full-throttle
intensity and drive of Elmore James—instrumentally
and vocally. |
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8· Lee
Webber (Mp3-Your Love’s So Good)
A blaster from 1973 on Excello.
Not as frantic
as the preceding. It’s got a slinky groove that’s
perfect. |
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9· Hip Linkchain (Mp3-I
Had A Dream)
An unheralded Chicago guitarist,
and a one-of-a-kind
original
with a very weird sense of humor. |
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X· Big Maybelle
(Mp3-
That's
A Pretty Good Love)
A supersonic groove powered by the tonsils of this Blues mama. Like a mule
kicking in your stall! |
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