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Hooker with a heart of gold
John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues Chess LP 1454. Early fifties recordings (When Hook was a younger stud) compiled and released by Chess in 1961. Personnel: John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar. (Eddie Kirkland guitar on “Just Me and My Telephone”.) Studs Terkel writes the liner notes. Another cool cover photo by Chess house photog Don Bronstein. This is back porch music from the heart of the Delta. “Although he often reworked themes by earlier bluesmen during this period, it was rare that Hooker outright covered another artist’s material. So his riveting interpretations of Muddy Waters’s ‘Please Don’t Go’ and Big Maceo Merriweather’s ‘Worried Life Blues’ peak this collection”
Don’t shoot the guitar player
Bruce Murdoch “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute” Stormy Forest Records (1971) Canadian folky. Here’s a nice post about this record. Thanks again to Joe in Maine!
Miami sound machine
“Party Down” Little Beaver Cat Records (1974) Willie Hale was a session musician who played on such hits as Betty Wright’s “Clean Up Womanâ€, and George McCrae’s “Rock Your Babyâ€. The back-up musicians here are a who’s who of the Miami funk/soul sound and TK, Alston and Glades Records stable. Party Down Part 1 features background vocals by Betty Wright, pianist Benny Lattimore (“Let’s Straighten It Out”), and organ man Timmy Thomas (“Why Can’t We Live Together”).
“Come on girl, don’t be shy, we’re just partying down, you and all your friends, we’re gonna party down.â€