Lightnin’ was the first Blues guy that I got into. When I was fourteen my mate Dick Brunning played him nonstop until I came to like it! I’m glad he did. I’m revisiting it today!!
Today’s Music to keep me SssAAaAnNNnEeE in Isolation – Big Joe Turner
Today’s Music to keep me SssSsSAAAaAaAaNnnNnnEeee in Isolation – Sleepy John Estes.
Today’s Music to keep me SSSsaaAAnnneeEEE in Isolation – Big Bill Broonzy
Back in the sixties the old Blues guys were seen as producing authentic music that was not the sanitised pap being served up in the charts. People like Big Bill were the basis of many a busker’s repertoire and the blues set in motion a whole movement of bands in the UK including The Stones, Kinks, Animals, Pretty Things, Them and the Downliners Sect.
The later Blues boom came out of that.
Today’s Music to keep me SssaAaAnnNneEeE in Isolation – Willie Dixon
Today’s Music to keep me SssaAAANNNneeeE in Isolation – Leadbelly
More Blues Trail in Mississippi
The Blues trail in Mississippi
All over Mississippi there are signs and monuments to the old Blues singers. We followed the trail around. It took us to all manner of places we might not ever have found.
McComb – the plaque to Bo Diddley and the street corner he used to busk on.
Hazlehurst – the monument to Robert Johnson and the place where Elmore James used to work in the electronics shop.
