John Lee Hooker – Live at Cafe Au-Go-Go
Next up in the new John Lee Hooker acquisitions: Live at Cafe Au-Go-Go. Recorded in New York City in 1966, originally released in 1967, this features about the best backing Hooker could have: Muddy...
Category: Blues
John Lee Hooker – Don’t Turn Me From Your Door
Next up in our flurry of John Lee Hooker acquisitions for 2024: this Black Friday Record Store Day reissue of 1963’s “Don’t Turn Me From Your Door.” His only release on ATCO, it brings...
John Lee Hooker – Burnin’
Okay, we’re about to go through a slew of new John Lee Hooker records. I currently have 20 albums by John Lee Hooker. Five of those, I’ve bought in the past year. And that’s...
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hollywood Bowl, August 19, 1967
Eventually I figured out that what I want from a Jimi Hendrix record is for it to be live. I’ve already written about “Are You Experienced?” and how I prefer “Axis: Bold As Love,”...
Junior Wells & Buddy Guy – Live in Hiroshima 1975
This is an album I didn’t even know existed until I ran across it in the blues bin at Forever Changes on the next to last day of 2023. Well, it turns out that...
RSD 2024 Black Friday
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Alone & Acoustic
This album has never been far from my heart or my player since it came out in 1991. It was early on in my serious blues dive of the ’90s that I found this...
Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues: 1958-1963 Recordings
This here is some early Buddy Guy. It’s weird, because I still kinda think of Buddy Guy as one of the young men of the blues, the second generation of greats anyway, and yet...
Sue Foley – Live in Austin – Volume 1
So, after her last two releases I once again adopted a rule that I first applied in the ’90s and should never have stopped – if I see Sue Foley, I buy Sue Foley....
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