An excellent Mississippi Blues documentary featuring Fat Possum artists R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough (my favorite), along with a good fife and drum group, and others. I had a bad VHS dub of this in the 90s, which I used to watch a lot. Author Robert Palmer hosts— worth it to seek out his book Deep Blues, too. You’ll just have to mentally block out the many goofy shots of the Eurythmics guy…
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Trio Jeepy by Branford Marsalis is a long time favorite album of mine, that was very influential on my concept of jazz. It’s got Jeff Watts on drums and Milt Hinton on bass. This tune Housed […]
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Daily best music in the world: Howlin’ Wolf
- Todd Bishop
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We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
