Bob's Photography

 Country, Pre-War & Acoustic Blues Vol 119

Train Songs Vol 05 - Freight Train Blues (1929-1989)

01. Brownie McGhee - Freight Train Blues (1951)

02. Tony Blues Lewis - I'm Gonna Catch Me A Freight Train (1949)

03. Henry 'Rag Time Texas' Thomas - Railroadin' Some (1929)

04. Rev. Gary Davis - I’m Gonna Meet You At The Station (1949)

05. Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M&O (1962)

06. Sonny Boy Williamson I & Yank Rachell - Sunny Land (1938)

07. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Train Fare Blues (1941)

08. Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards & Butch Cage - Smokestack Lightning (1960)

09. Elder R. Wilson - This Train (1948)

10. Mary Deloach - The Lord's Gospel Train (1952)

11. The Jones Brothers - Gospel Train (1953)

12. Big Bill Broonzy - The Southern Blues (1935)

13. Gabriel Brown - Hold That Train (1945)

14. Leadbelly - Rock Island Line (1942)

15. Furry Lewis - White Lightnin' (1961)

16. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Mean Ole Frisco (1946)

17. Tony McPhee - Got My Ticket (1967)

18. Hattie Hyde - T & N O Blues (1929)

19. Louisiana Red & Lefty Dizz - Going Train Blues (1975)

20. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Train Train (1989)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 317 (1954-2023)

01. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Say You'll Be Mine (Live 2020) 

02. Deanna Haala & Wayne Riker - Ventilator Blues (2023) 

03. Salena Jones - Spinning Wheel (1970) 

04. Linda Hayes - Let's Babalu (1954) 

05. Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time (1973) 

06. Dave Biscuit Miller - Willie D (2019) 

07. Bobby Blue Bland - The Soul Of A Man (1966) 

08. Ottilie Patterson & Chris Barber's Band - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (1955)

09. Ottilie Patterson & Louis Jordan - T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do (1959) 

10. Ottilie Patterson & Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Me And My Chauffeur Blues (1961) 

11. Ray Charles - What Would I Do Without You (1958) 

12. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (1970) 

13. Earl Gaines - Good Good Lovin' (1968) 

14. Tamiko Jones & Herbie Mann - Sunny (1967) 

15. Tamiko Jones & Herbie Mann - Sidewinder (1967) 

16. Chris Thomas King - I Got A Woman (2023) 

17. Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell - Reality Blues (1980) 

18. Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell - Without Of Love (1980) 

19. Travis Koester - Jumpin' For Jay (2023) 

20. Chris O'Leary - Things Ain't Always What They Seem (2023) 

21. AJ Crawdaddy & Marcel Smith - Rain Of Tears (2020)

 Best Of Jazz Vol 131 - Jazz Blues Vol 01 - West End Blues (1956-2024)

01. Axel Schlosser Quartet - West End Blues (2018)

02. Joris Teepe - Bolivar Blues (2018)

03. Randy Weston & Billy Harper - Cleanhead Blues (2013)

04. Carl Perkins - Carl's Blues (1957)

05. Quartetto Di Lucca - West Blues (1959)

06. Giovanni Tommaso - Blues For Carole (1962)

07. Bengt Hallberg - Blue Lou (1982)

08. Hans Ulrik - Limehouse Blues (2022)

09. Rashied Ali Quintet - Blues For Rashied (2021)

10. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Billysam Blues (1976)

11. Sylvia Versini Orchestra - Mary's African Blues (2011)

12. Sebastian Chames - Bluesy Tune For The King (2013)

13. Stan Getz - Blues For Mary Jane (1956)

14. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Gentle Blues (Live 2024)

15. Pureum Jin - When Blue Gets Blue (2018)

16. Emery Davis Quartet - Dante's Blues (1990)

17. Sandy Mosse - Clara's Blues (1956)

18. Art Pepper - Jazz Me Blues (1957)

19. Mike Barone Big Band - The Non-Vienese Waltz Blues (Live 1968)

20. Manny Albam - The Blues Is Everybody's Business Part 1 (1957)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 316 (1937-2023)

01. Linda Hayes - I Just Wanna Mambo (1954) 

02. Val Wiseman - Riffin' The Scotch (1990) 

03. Val Wiseman - Am I Blue (1990) 

04. Salena Jones - Don't Let Me Down (1988) 

05. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Early In The Morning (1937) 

06. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Polly Put The Kettle On (1947) 

07. Bobby Williams - I've Only Got Myself To Blame (1967) 

08. Tamiko Jones & Solomon Burke - Please Return Your Love To Me (1968)

09. Tamiko Jones - Ya Ya (1968) 

10. Rhetta Hughes - Cry Myself To Sleep (1969) 

11. Little Irvin - Nobody's Lovin' Me (1967) 

12. Little Irvin - Who's Lovin' You (1967) 

13. Travis Koester - Ghosted (2023) 

14. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Paan Boogie Man (2011) 

15. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - What Quid (2011) 

16. Chris Thomas King - Big Grey Sky (2023) 

17. A.C. Reed - My Baby's Been Cheating (1966) 

18. Betty Everett - I've Got A Claim On You (1962) 

19. Bobby Lee Timberlake - You Hurt Me (1966) 

20. Earl Gaines - Someday Things Are Gonna Change (2007) 

21. Dave Biscuit Miller - Summer Time Blues (2019)

 Bob's Chat

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

This Friday my wife and I will be traveling to Bangkok, then catching a night flight to Perth, Australia, where we'll spend the next 5 weeks at my Perth apartment. We'll be back in Thailand early December. There shouldn't be any disruption to the posting schedule, the next post is due on Sunday and we should be settled back in by then. 

I've noticed that French bluesman Nico Wayne Toussaint will be performing at a nearby pub in Perth on November 24th, so I'm looking forward to seeing/hearing some good live blues again as there's bugger all live blues where I live out among the rice fields of N.E. Thailand.

Here's another album by the renowned British acoustic guitar player, Bert Jansch, this one recorded live At The Palms Playhouse, Davis, California, April 19, 1996. I remember one night when I was living in London in 1966 and I had been out on the tiles around Soho with a couple of friends. We came across this folk club, entered the door and climbed stairs up to this large candle-lit room where many people were seated, drinking and listening to an acoustic guitarist/singer. We hung around and heard a couple of songs before moving on, and I never found out who that musician was. But he was very good and due to the thunderous applause he received at the end of his songs he was obviously a celebrity. So to this day I've often wondered if it was Bert Jansch or John Renbourn or Davy Graham that I had caught a glimpse of that evening.  

Don't forget to check out Bob's Cellar. Our good friend cabledogg2 just posted another bunch of bluegrass/country/blues CDs, and over the past few days Spidey, Reb & Nance have all shared some interesting things from their personal collections. So dig in and help yourselves, and don't forget to take a few seconds to thank these generous people for sharing all this great music.

Anyway my friends next time you hear from me I'll be enjoying a vegemite sandwich and a cold Aussie lager.

 Bert Jansch - Live At The Palms Playhouse, Davis, California (1996)

The widely circulated and iconic soundboard live recording of Scottish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Bert Jansch, recorded on April 19, 1996, at The Palms Playhouse in Davis, California during his "When The Circus Comes To Town" tour.

Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. Open Road
03. Blues Run The Game
04. Untitled
05. Walk Quietly By
06. Come Back Baby
07. Black Waterside
08. Morning Brings Peace Of Mind
09. Let Me Sing
10. Instrumental
11. Living In The Shadows
12. No One Around
13. My Donald
14. Summer Heat
15. A Woman Like You
16. When The Circus Comes To Town
17. Lily Of The West
18. Instrumental
19. Just A Dream
20. Untitled
21. Running From Home
22. Anji
23. Candyman
24. Back Home
25. As She Moved Through The Fair
26. Let Your Hair Down Woman
27. Key To The Highway
28. Untitled
29. Strolling Down The Highway
30. Stealing The Night Away

Bert Jansch - Guitar & Vocals

Bert Jansch was born 1943 in Glasgow, Scotland and raised in Edinburgh. He started playing guitar at 15, immediately displaying outstanding ability, and became a songwriter at 16. The early 60s in the U.K. were a time of musical ferment. Black American blues artists like Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee had toured there and had records issued that that were purchased by a small, devoted audience. The U.K.'s own folk music was being rediscovered and a network of clubs and folk song societies had sprung up, presenting traditional performers and young innovators.

American jazz, all styles, Modern, Swing and New Orleans was widely available on records and had a substantial following. Jansch had the talent and the ears to learn from it all, especially Broonzy and McGhee, but his biggest influence was Davy Graham, composer of “Angie” aka “Anji” recorded by Paul Simon and many others.

Graham (1940-2008), son of a Scottish father and a Guyanese mother, developed a guitar style incorporating blues, jazz, U.K. folk, Indian and Middle Eastern music, playing with great facility, two and sometimes three lines simultaneously.

Jansch took the style further, playing with a looser, more bluesy feeling, using dissonance and unusual chords, adding or subtracting bars and beats and using counter rhythms to accompany his vocals which had a unique mournful quality and were devoid of flashy technique, histrionics or overt borrowings from black blues singers. In 1964, Jansch became a phenomenon on the U.K. folk scene and beyond, playing clubs all over the country, his songs and astonishing guitar playing amazing musicians.

Jimmy Page, in 1971 commented, “He was the innovator of that time. He tied up the acoustic guitar in the same way Hendrix did the electric. His first two LPs had some instrumental work that was totally unbelievable. I watched him play once at a folk club and it was like watching a classical guitarist playing. All the inversions he was playing were unrecognizable. His playing was amazing.” In 1968, Jimmy Page recorded for the Led Zeppelin album, Jansch's guitar arrangement of the traditional song “Black Waterside”, calling it “Black Mountain Side”.

When Pentangle broke up in 1973, Jansch retired from music to become a farmer. In the late 70s he resumed a solo career and then reformed Pentangle with various lineups during the 80's. In 1987, damage to his pancreas due to long term heavy drinking nearly caused his death and he remained sober for the rest of his life.

A creative and career resurgence began in the 1990s, culminating in the commercial success of his last studio CD, 2006's, The Black Swan, which paired Jansch with Beth Orton, Devendra Banhart and other later generation musicians. In June 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and half of one of his lungs was removed. In May 2010, he resumed performing, opening shows for a Neil Young acoustic tour. A second operation for lung cancer caused Jansch to cancel his appearances on another Neil Young tour in the Fall of 2010. He was able to make a short headlining tour of the Northeast U.S. with Pegi Young as the opening act in November and December 2010 including Johnny D's in Somerville MA. Bert Jansch died ten months later. RIP Bert Jansch (1943-2011)

 Soul Party Vol 123 - Love & Hate Vol 01 - Headache In My Heart (1958-2025)

01. The Debonairs - Headache In My Heart (1966)

02. Betty Davis - Anti Love Song (1973)

03. James Carr - A Message To Young Lovers (1968)

04. Charles Bradley - Things We Do For Love (2016)

05. Jerry Butler - One Night Affair (1969)

06. Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game (2006)

07. Chet Ivey - When Love Comes Home (1972)

08. Irma Thomas - Love's Gonna Find A Way Again (2025)

09. William Bell - Lovin' On Borrowed Time (1973)

10. Garland Green - Just My Way Of Loving You (1971)

11. Z.Z. Hill - You've Got Me Chained To Your Love (1967)

12. Alder Ray - My Heart Is In Danger (1966)

13. Little Johnny Taylor - One More Chance (1965)

14. Ollie & The Nightingales - You're Leaving Me (1969)

15. Danny White - One Way Love Affair (1968)

16. Bettye Swann - The Man That Said No (1965)

17. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Reflections (1967)

18. Clay Hammond - You Threw Out Your Lifeline (1970)

19. Tony Allen - Be My Love (1958)

20. The Diplomats - Here's A Heart (1964)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 315 (1951-2023)

01. Joan Shaw - Rock My Soul (1951) 

02. Joan Shaw - You Make Me Cry Myself To Sleep (1953) 

03. Joan Shaw - Evil Gal's Daughter Blues (1954) 

04. Art Farmer & Benny Golson - Blues On Down (1961) 

05. Linda Hayes - My Name Ain't Annie (1954) 

06. The Tams - Have Pity On Me (1967) 

07. The Tams - It's Better To Have Loved A Little (1967) 

08. AJ Crawdaddy & Mike Rinta - That's What Love Will Do (2020) 

09. Chris Thomas King - Like A Cowboy Rambling (2023) 

10. Dave Biscuit Miller - Sleepin' In The Dog House (2019) 

11. Chris O'Leary - My Fault (2023) 

12. Earl Gaines - Baby, Baby What's Wrong (2007) 

13. Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell - Jailhouse Blues (1980) 

14. Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell - Jumpin' With Red (1980) 

15. Louisiana Red, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell - You Can't Mistreat A Brother (1980)

16. Travis Koester - Alberta's Blues (2023) 

17. The Luther Davis Group - You Can Be A Star (1979) 

18. The Hamilton Movement - She's Gone (1976) 

19. Roni Lee & Wayne Riker - Walking Blues (2023) 

20. Shelle Blue & Wayne Riker - Quarter To Three (2023) 

21. Joshua Taylor & Wayne Riker - That's What The Blues Is All About (2023)

 Some photographic studies of trees, Korat, Thailand

 Rockabilly & Early Rock & Roll Vol 132

All About The Guys Vol 05 - Rockin' Daddy (1955-1966)

01. Sonny Fisher - Rockin' Daddy (1955)

02. The Fontane Sisters - Eddie My Love (1956)

03. Bobby Bare - All American Boy (1958)

04. The Raindrops - What A Guy (1963)

05. Eloise Carter - My Man Rock Head (1962)

06. Johnny MacRae - Penicillin (1965)

07. The Gaylarks - Mr Rock-N-Roll (1957)

08. Rocky Bill Ford - Mad Dog In Town (1956)

09. Cousin Arnold & His Country Cousins - Sweet Talking Daddy (1956)

10. The Charmaines - Rockin' Old Man (1960)

11. The Roomates - Prince Of Players (1958)

12. The Platters - The Great Pretender (1955)

13. Jerry 'Ivan' Allison - Real Wild Child (1958)

14. Larry Nolan & The Bandits - King Of The Ducktail Cats (1957)

15. Link Davis - Trucker From Tennessee (1956)

16. Marcie Blane - Bobby Did (1964)

17. Sparkle Moore - Killer (1957)

18. Sammi Lynn - You Should Know I'm Still Your Baby (1961)

19. Lou Walker - Little Bitty Man (1958)

20. Jerry Cole - George Played (1966)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 314 (1946-2023)

01. Don Julian & The Larks - Shorty The Pimp (1972) 

02. O.C. Smith - The Wisest Of Us Are Fools For Love (1993) 

03. Stacy Antonel & Wayne Riker - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (2023) 

04. Linda Hayes & The Platters - Please Have Mercy (1955) 

05. The Staple Singers - Go Tell It On The Mountain (1962) 

06. The Staple Singers - The Savior Is Born (1962) 

07. Champion Jack Dupree - You've Been Drunk (1946) 

08. Dr. K's Blues Band - Messin' With The Kid (1968) 

09. Ruth Brown - R.B. Blues (1953) 

10. Mac Rebennack - The Point (1962) 

11. June Gardner - The Joker (1966) 

12. June Gardner - The Jolly Little Midget (1970) 

13. Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight (1947) 

14. George & Gwen McCrae - Mechanical Body (1975) 

15. Gloria Ann Taylor - Jolene (1973) 

16. Chris O'Leary - Lost My Mind (2023) 

17. The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi - Lord You've Been So Good To Me (1965)

18. Cuba Gooding - Love After Love (1993) 

19. Axel Zwingenberger - Holler Stomp (1978) 

20. Colin Cook - Riot In Cell Block Number 9 (1968) 

21. Travis Koester - Pickle Ballin' (2023)

 Bert Jansch - It Don't Bother Me (1965) 

It Don't Bother Me is the second album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in November 1965. The album features nine songs and two instrumentals composed by Jansch, as well as one by Alex Campbell "Been on the Road So Long" and the traditional "900 Miles". For this last track, Jansch accompanies himself on the banjo rather than the steel-string acoustic guitar which he uses elsewhere. "My Lover" has John Renbourn playing the lead acoustic guitar part. "Lucky Thirteen" is a guitar duet also with Renbourn, based on a song written by the latter and apparently recorded during the Bert and John session. "Tinkers Blues" and "The Wheel" are guitar instrumentals composed and performed by Jansch.

Track Listing:

01. Oh My Babe
02. Ring-A-Ding Bird
03. Tinker's Blues
04. Anti Apartheid
05. The Wheel
06. A Man I'd Rather Be
07. My Lover
08. It Don't Bother Me
09. Harvest Your Thought Of Love
10. Lucky Thirteen
11. As The Day Grows Longer Now
12. Been On The Road So Long
13. Want My Daddy Now
14. 900 Miles

Bert Jansch recorded his second album in 1965, just after his self-titled debut earlier that same year. The sessions were a step-up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first album, although still not labored over too much in the studio.

"I figured that the faster I put down the tracks, the faster I could get out of the place," Jansch told NME, "so I just ordered about a dozen bottles of wine, put the microphone in front of me and off I went, for three hours."

The lyrics of It Don't Bother Me shift vividly between pure poetic imagery and the hollow resonance of pain. The LP's underrated title song stands as a manifesto for the way Jansch lived at the time. "My Lover," featuring guitarist John Renbourn, has almost sitar-like drones, while "Lucky Thirteen" is a captivating, melancholy instrumental that shimmers with brilliant fingerpicking.

 Hillbilly & Country Vol 169 - Texas Special Vol 02

Started Out From Texas (1929-1993)

01. The Girls Of The Golden West - Started Out From Texas (1933)

02. Johnny Cash - Remember The Alamo (1963)

03. Jimmie Dolan & His Texas Ramblers - One Million Railroad Ties From Home (1947)

04. Merle Travis - There Ain't A Cow In Texas (1979)

05. Papa Cairo & His Boys - Big Texas #2 (1949)

06. The Texas Troubadours - Texas Troubadour Stomp (1963)

07. The Texas Troubadours - San Antonio Rose (1963)

08. Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas (1965)

09. Johnny Gimble & Texas Swing Pioneers - Just Because (1979)

10. Tex Owens - Cattle Call (1934)

11. Gene Autry - Frankie And Johnnie (1929)

12. Narmour & Smith - Texas Shuffle (1930)

13. Link Davis & His Texas Wanderers - San Antonio Blues (1949)

14. Jimmie Rodgers & The Carter Family - The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers In Texas (1931)

15. The Carter Family - My Heart's Tonight In Texas (1934)

16. Chet Atkins With The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle - Rose Of The Alamo (1949)

17. Charlie Daniels Band - Cowboy Hat In Dallas (1988)

18. Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, Texas (1977)

19. Willie Nelson - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1979)

20. The Bayou Pickers - Yellow Rose Of Texas-The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You (1993)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 313 (1938-2023)

01. Calvin Arnold - Funky Way (1967) 

02. Calvin Arnold - Mini Skirt (1968) 

03. The Intruders - Slow Drag (1968) 

04. Esther Phillips - You And Me Together (1972) 

05. Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady (1973) 

06. Little Milton - That Will Never Do (1958) 

07. Mighty Mo Rodgers - Haunted By The Blues (2014) 

08. Wayne Riker - Move It On Over (2022) 

09. Chris Thomas King - Mean Old World (2023) 

10. Chris Thomas King - One More Scotch (2023) 

11. Earl Gaines - Good News Real Bad (2007) 

12. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Yesterday I Had The Blues (1972)

13. Teddy Pendergrass - Somewhere Down The Line (1974) 

14. The Jubalaires - Noah (1944) 

15. Count Basie - Swingin' In The Blues (1938) 

16. Count Basie - Wild Bill's Boogie (1946) 

17. Lou Rawls - Not The Staying Kind (1977) 

18. Bunny Sigler - Sweeter Than The Berry (1974) 

19. Bunny Sigler - Wha'd I Say (1974) 

20. Dave Biscuit Miller - Sing For The People (2019) 

21. Blue Door Records - Livin' In The Upside Down (2023)

 Some close-up photos of tropical plants

 Country, Pre-War & Acoustic Blues Vol 118

Guitar & Harmonica Duos Vol 01 - Good Morning Blues (1937-2025)

01. Leadbelly & Sonny Terry - Good Morning Blues (1943)

02. Yank Rachell & Sonny Boy Williamson I - Lake Michigan Blues (1938)

03. Lightnin' Hopkins & Sonny Terry - Conversation Blues (1960)

04. Sleepy John Estes & Lee Crisp - Registration Day Blues (1952)

05. Sonny Boy Williamson I & Big Joe Williams - Sugar Mama Blues (1937)

06. Ralph Willis & Sonny Terry - Gonna Hop On Down The Line (1953)

07. Rambling Bob & Sonny Boy Williamson I - Freight Train Blues (1938)

08. Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie - Lonesome Train (1944)

09. Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry - Mean And No Good Woman (1938)

10. Jazz Gillum & Big Bill Broonzy - I'm Still Walking The Hi-Way (1941)

11. Robert Lee McCoy & Sonny Boy Williamson I - Tough Luck (1937)

12. Sidney Maiden & K.C. Douglas - Blues An' Trouble (1961)

13. Sidney Maiden & K.C. Douglas - Me And My Chauffeur Blues (1961)

14. John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Action Man (1995)

15. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Done What My Lord Said (1941)

16. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Crow Jane Blues (1947)

17. John Primer & Charlie Musselwhite - Baby Please Don't Go (2025)

18. Oscar Harp Davis & Clarence Edwards - Caress Me Baby (1990)

19. Lee McBee & Mike Morgan - Sweet Lolita (1992)

20. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Devil Blues (1990)

 Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records Vol 312 (1950-2023)

01. Little Leo - What's It All About (1954) 

02. Linda Hayes - Co-Operating Mama (1954) 

03. Linda Hayes & Tony Williams - Oochi Pachi (1955) 

04. The Pilgrim Travellers - Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (1950) 

05. Zoot Sims Quartet - Gus's Blues (1954) 

06. Akiko Tsuruga - Happy Blues (2023) 

07. Patti Parks & Johnny Rawls - How Much Longer (2023) 

08. Patti Parks & Johnny Rawls - I'm In Love With You Baby (2023) 

09. Ty Karim - You Just Don't Know (1965) 

10. Chris O'Leary - You Break It, You Bought It (2023) 

11. Wayne Riker - Dust My Broom (2022) 

12. Janet Hammer & Wayne Riker - Fever (2022) 

13. Debora Galan & Wayne Riker - I'm Willing To Be Your Friend (2022)

14. Aaron Burton - First Time I Met My Baby (2014) 

15. Aaron Burton - Don't Talk Bad About Me (2014) 

16. Roscoe Shelton - Running For My Life (1967) 

17. Oscar Brown Jr. - Humdrum Blues (1961) 

18. Oscar Brown Jr. - Work Song (1961) 

19. AJ Crawdaddy & Jim Dewrance - Country Girl (2020) 

20. Travis Koester - A Thousand Years (2023) 

21. Travis Koester - Stop Flirting (2023)

 Jo Ann Kelly - Woman In (E)Motion (Live In Germany 1988)

01. Where My Good Man At

02. Moon's Going Down

03. Death Have Mercy

04. Weekend Blues

05. 2:19 Blues

06. Ain't Nothing But Ramblin'

07. Jonah In The Belly

08. Come See About Me

09. Try Me One More Time

10. Sugar Babe

11. Boll Weevil Blues

12. Love Blind

13. Wide Open Road

14. God Bless The Child

15. Black Rat Swing

16. Boney Maroney

Jo-Ann Kelly - Vocals, Guitar

Recorded at Kassenhalle/Sparkasse am Brill, Bremen, Germany, September 20, 1988.

 

Like Memphis Minnie before her, Jo Ann Kelly was the genuine article: a woman who could play the Blues as hard and deep as any man. Her rich, strong voice and authentic acoustic slide guitar work made her a big attraction on the British folk/blues circuit. Usually playing alone and sometimes singing 'a capella', she could convey her Blues like a Delta original.

As a teenager in London, she and her brother Dave were fans of the growing London Blues scene that was gathering momentum in the early 60s, and both were influenced by the slide playing of Mississippi Fred McDowell, who Jo Ann was later to share the stage with. She teamed up with Tony (TS) McPhee of the Groundhogs and also with The John Dummer Blues Band, recording two albums with each group, but she was essentially a solo artist. When she jammed with Canned Heat, they wanted her to join them and she turned down the same offer from Johnny Winter, but she helped to form The Blues Band with her brother Dave, ex-Fleetwood Mac bassist Bob Brunning and harp player Paul Jones.

Jo Ann's 1974 album 'Key to the Highway' shows what she was all about; adapting country and soul numbers to her own acoustic Blues style and writing some great songs of her own. She often guested with bands like Tramp and Chilli Willi on the British club scene, and used The Blues Band to back her in her show  Ladies and the Blues', where she paid tribute to female stars like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Bessie Smith. In 1988, Jo Ann began complaining of severe headaches and investigation detected a brain tumor, which was removed. She seemed to have recovered and was gigging again but, tragically, she died shortly afterwards.

 Best Of Jazz Vol 130 - Strange Stuff Vol 01 - The Rubber Room (1967-2023)

01. Benjamin Herman & Reinier Baas - The Rubber Room (2018)

02. Billy Hart Quartet - Layla Joy (2021)

03. Dave O'Higgins - Demons (2002)

04. Czeslaw Niemen - Requiem Dla Van Gogha (1972)

05. Randy Weston & Billy Harper - Congolese Children Song (2013)

06. Dharma Quintet - Tonton SFP (1971)

07. Appendix - Space Trip (1973)

08. Appendix - Thetan (1973)

09. Toto Blanke - Ostfriesisches Festtagsbegrabnis (1978)

10. Alex Sipiagin - AIVA-Tion (2023)

11. Prima Materia & Rashied Ali - Love (1995)

12. Dick De Graaf Septet - Sunday Morning Soweto (1994)

13. Mike Westbrook - Dirge (1967)

14. Chuck Florence - Ghana Folk Song (1995)

15. Roy Campbell Quartet - New Groes For The New Millenium (2001)

16. Carol Liebowitz & Nick Lyons - Crystalline Moon (2023)

17. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Coney Island (2012)

18. Curtis Hasselbring - Scatology (2004)

19. Myra Melford - Where The Ocean Misquotes The Sky (2003)

20. Jacques Coursil - Black Suite Part 2 (1970)