Jorma Kaukonen – Reno Road
Despite my love of Jefferson Airplane, I never followed Hot Tuna or Jorma Kaukonen until just a few years ago. During the COVID-19 lockdown, word got out that Jorma was playing some of the...
Tagged: blues
Back To The Crossroads – The Roots of Robert Johnson
This is an interesting approach to a blues compilation – it presents the blues that most likely influenced Robert Johnson. I think it’s important to note something that Andrew Hickey and others have repeatedly...
Elmore James – History of Elmore James Volume 2
This was a nice little pickup from 2023 – and I frequently have to remind myself, there was a lot more to Elmore James than that one slide riff that everyone copies and I...
Howlin’ Wolf – Boy, You Got The Blues There!
Well, here’s a little oddity – a 10″ 45 Long Player. I’m not quite sure how they do it, and I’m not quite sure why they do it, but Bear Family Records produces an...
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
Hey there, 2025! Let’s see if we can move through this vinyl collection with some speed, shall we? Elsewise, I shall never catch up. Like your boogie electric and stompin’? Then Hound Dog Taylor...
John Lee Hooker – The Cream
Well here’s a brand new, 2024 re-release of another John Lee Hooker album that I was previously unaware of – from 1977 (released in 1978), a live recording titled “The Cream,” but having nothing...
John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling
When this popped up in the blues bin, I admit I was a little hesitant because here was a John Lee Hooker record I’d never heard of before, and a live performance at that,...
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...
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...
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