Comments on: I’m in Love Again

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:41:23 +0000

I’m a big Sonny Terry fan. You should check out his ‘Sonny is King’ album.

By: mrshl

mrshl — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Thanks for the recommendations everyone. That pre-war blues blog is amazing. There’s a lot to digest there.

By: Mr. Lost His Way

Mr. Lost His Way — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:34:00 +0000

Speaking of podcasts, I found this looking for a podcast of the Blues Before Sunrise radio show. Unfortunately BBS doesn't seem to have a podcast but the one above looks pretty good.

By: Mr. Lost His Way

Mr. Lost His Way — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:36:00 +0000

And as far as Soul. Start with the early James Brown (of course), get all the James Brown. Damn that stuff is tight.

Look out for Baby Huey and the Babysitters too. Don’t know how much recorded stuff is out there.

By: Mr. Lost His Way

Mr. Lost His Way — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:34:00 +0000

You can't go wrong with Roosevelt Sykes. Personally I like his solo piano stuff which still has that big boogie sound, but there are many recordings of him with a full band.

This is a Chicago sound - and if you keep going down the Chicago style road you'll hear plenty of full band stuff until you finally end up with the Blues Brothers.

Here's a late era Sykes video.

The Kansas City Blues scene also had that big sound. And of course there's B.B. King, the King of the big time boogie.

Nothing wrong with it either. I like a lot of the sparse stuff too but it's not any more authentic. Blues came about during the Recorded Music Era and people have been "selling out" in all styles of Blues since inception.

By: roberto

roberto — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:17:00 +0000

This website, as far as pre-war blues, is the best source i've found and it has tons of actual music to download and listen to for free.

By: John Cramer

John Cramer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:00 +0000

It’s amazing what you can find with a little ignorant toil. This area in American music is one of which I have almost no knowledge. Have you thought about asking John Lomax about it? I think it runs in his veins.

I love putting the effort into something that has grabbed my attention, for whatever reason, and blundering around trying to pull all the pieces together. That, to me, is the essence of loving music.