In the background........................

Jeff Fetterman................Bottle Full of Blues

  

Fifty years ago..............................

Blind Connie Williams/Philadelphia Street Singer album

 

Fifty years ago.....................at Woodstock

Paul Butterfield Blues Band....................................Drifting Blues

One reason I stay home so often...............

Alvin Lee.................................................................Motel Blues



Spent my life on the road
But it must be near the end
There's nowhere left to go
'Xcept 'round another bend
There's nothing left to do
There's nowhere left to go
And it's just another day
And it's just another show
Spent my life out on the road
Must be near the end

Spoils don't seem so great
____ ____ ____
And I don't wanna die
In some downtown motel
It's just another day
And it's just another show
I don't wanna go

Spent my life on the road
But it must be near the end
There's nowhere left to go
'Xcept 'round another bend
There's nothing left to do
There's nowhere left to go
And it's just another day
And it's just another show
Spent my life out on the road
Must be near the end

Filling a vacuum.......................

       The most bizarre part of the whole story is that having done what we intended to do in our narrow, purist teenage brains at the time, which was to turn people on to the blues, what actually happened was we turned American people back on to their own music.   And that's probably our greatest contribution to music.  We turned white America's brain and ears around.  And I wouldn't say we were the only ones - without the Beatles probably nobody would have broken the door down.  And they certainly weren't bluesmen.
      American black music was going along like an express train.  But white cats, after Buddy Holly died and Eddie Cochran died, and Elvis was in the army gone wonky, white American music when I arrived was the Beach Boys and Bobby Vee.  They were still stuck in the past.  The past was six months ago;  it wasn't a long time.  But shit changed.  The Beatles were the milestone.  And then they got stuck inside their own cage.  "The Fab Four."  Hence, eventually, you got the Monkees, all this ersatz shit.  But I think there was  a vacuum somewhere in white American music at the time.

-Keith Richards,  Life

Fifty years ago.............................

Ten Years After.............with another Willie Dixon* tune.... Help Me

 

*with a little help from Sonny Boy Williamson and Ralph Bass

Gone, but not forgotten...................

James Cotton.........................................................Slow Blues

Gone, but not forgotten..................

J. Geils..................................................sitting in with James Cotton

Gone, but not forgotten...........

John Lee Hooker...........................................................Boom Boom

Gone but not forgotten............................

B.B. King....................................................Live from Sing Sing

Fifty years ago.........................................

B.B. King...................................................Sweet Little Angel



from the 1965 album, Live at The Regal

Heard somebody calling......................

Lightnin' Hopkins.................................Woke Up This Morning

A touch of the blues...........................

B. B. King.......................................Woke Up This Morning



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Where would we be.......................

...............................without Texas blues.  Thanks to Jetboy, we don't need to find out.

Fifty years ago...............................

Alexander "Mudcat"  Thomas.................Mudcat's Blues