My pick for this week's #MusicWomenWednesday is a video from the 1967 American Folk and Blues Festival. This is Koko Taylor doing a live version of her great hit from the previous year, backed by a stellar group of musicians including Little Walter on harmonica, Hound Dog Taylor on guitar, Dillard Crume on bass and Odie Payne on drums.

Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUHkY0K8HE

This line-up even visited Finland, playing a show at Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki on October 12, 1967.

#music #kokotaylor #littlewalter #hounddogtaylor #dillardcrume #odiepayne #bliuesmusic #chicagoblues

5:09pm Chicago Blues by Joshua Redman from Chicago Blues
#JoshuaRedman #ChicagoBlues #EveningJazz #KUVO

#JukeboxFridayNight
Theme: #JazzAndBlues

Such an easy pick today ❤️ :drgn_music:

Studebaker John - Tell Me So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VA-8GVbUs4

Honey if you love me you got to tell me so
I said, Honey if you love me you got to tell me so
'Cause that's one thing, oh baby, that I just don't know
🎶

#Music #Blues #ChicagoBlues #ElectricBlues #StudebakerJohn

Jukebox Friday Night for October 17 has the double-wide theme of "Jazz And Blues".

More Chicago Blues, all electric so it's loud enough to be heard above the crowd!

Jimmy Dawkins "Cotton Country" (Chicago, October and November 1971)

vocals: Big Voice Odom
guitar: Jimmy Dawkins; Otis Rush
organ: Sonny Thompson
tenor sax: Jim Conley
bass: Ernest Gatewood
drums: Charles Hicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKT1TXjowrE

#JukeboxFridayNight #JazzAndBlues #ElectricBlues #ChicagoBlues #JimmyDawkins #OtisRush

HOWLIN’ WOLF
Evil
1977 U.S. reissue

A little Chester Burnett on a wet, raw nasty day outside.

I knew on my ride home today that this was what I was going to listen to once I got home.

There’s never a bad time for HOWLIN WOLF, but today is DEFINITELY a good time for Howlin Wolf.

One of MANY records of his I have, and there’s no bad or underwhelming song on any of em.
Dude was a master, and one of the ten most important artists in the history of popular music.
And no, I did not stutter.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #blues #HowlinWolf #Chicago #chicagoblues #deltablues

HOWLIN’ WOLF
The Real Folk Blues
1966 U.S. MONO pressing

Kind of a quiet, pensive Tuesday night ‘round these parts. So I’ve poured myself some Macallan and have called on The Wolf.

This is one of the more valuable records in my collection, as clean as it was when it was first opened (not by me) in 1966.

One of many Howlin’ Wolf records in my collection, and probably my favorite.
There’s just something about throwing this on, and hearing “Killing Floor” right after the needle drops. One of the most vicious and nasty blues songs ever.

All these songs were originally released as singles, and were then gathered for this compilation in ‘66.

Twelve classics in just over 32 minutes, it’s one of the more relentlessly intense collections of the genre by any artist.
Also, bonus points for the appearances of Buddy Guy, Otis Spann and Willie Dixon.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #blues #chicagoblues #HowlinWolf

Good Morning Mastodon

#mondaymotivation your way Start your day with all that What is motivating you today

What’s the #mondayvibes ❓

Some #ChicagoBlues #art

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Down Home Blues is an album by blues musicians Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label.

AllMusic reviewer Bruce Eder stated: "the music itself stands outside of time. McGhee's strumming and singing have enough polish to pass as a commercial recording, but at its best, it's still sufficiently unaffected so as to be regarded as authentic country-blues. It's Terry's harp, however, that really pulls this body of music back to its roots ... the dominant elements of this album are the charm and honesty that Terry and McGhee offer, whatever their particular style on a specific song; they had portions of both to spare by the bucketload, which accounts for the 15 years that they held audiences in their spell". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwft738dDLU&list=PLjYhK-ZdJbk6aY1WAXCFa_oROeIN3TjLR&index=17

#sonnyterry #BrownieMcGhee #folkblues #chicagoblues #blueville #blues #1960inmusic #countryblues

Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live At Fillmore West San Francisco 1966/70 #PaulButterfield #MikeBloomfield #ChicagoBlues #FillmoreWest - Live At Fillmore West San Francisco 1966/70
Read the full review here: https://ift.tt/qeRy52D
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It's Jukebox Friday Night, the theme is "Animals" –

Baby Face Leroy Trio, "Boll Weevil" (1950)

The Baby Face Leroy Trio was "Baby Face" Leroy Foster (drums, vocals), Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) (guitar, harmonica), and Muddy Waters (guitar).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10nl1djjkg

#JukeboxFridayNight #Animals #ChicagoBlues #BabyFaceLeroyTrio

Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues

What can you say about this classic?

One fun fact - Buddy Guy was originally given a pseudonym on this LP ("Friendly Chap") because Delmark (records) thought he was under contract to Chess, and they didn't want to ask/pay...

#nowplaying #blues #chicagoblues #BuddyGuy #JuniorWells

Friday 23 May 2025 on Jukebox Friday Night has the theme of "Money": taxes, benefits, wealth, treasure; wanting, having, and getting along without some dosh.

Jimmy Dawkins, "Welfare Blues" (1971)

Recorded in Chicago, October and November 1, 1971, with Otis Rush on guitar and Big Voice Odom on vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_GS3F1tdU

#JukeboxFridayNight #Money #ChicagoBlues #JimmyDawkins

The Brain DJ tends to zig-zag through the songs in my head, so this morning it's the blues –

Corey Harris, "Feel Like Going Home" (1995)

That's a cover of a 1948 Muddy Waters song (B-side to "I Can't Be Satisfied").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBe2T_qZFPA

#Music #ChicagoBlues #MuddyWaters #CoreyHarris

MUDDY WATERS
The Best Of Muddy Waters
1958 Canada MONO Compilation

One slayer after another, and one of the most legendary musicians ever.

If you’re making a list of artists who are responsible for #rocknroll as we know it, your list is null and void if Muddy’s name isn’t on it.
That is a fact that cannot be argued.
Don’t embarrass yourself.

Long live McKinley Morganfield.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
#vinyl #vinylrecords #blues #chicagoblues #MuddyWaters #art #music #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity

[ #ListeningTo #WillieNixAndHisCombo (or #WillieNixAndHisBand) – No More Love (on "Combination Blues" ... #Compilation) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=S2CL0GOQNBY #Yeh! #CharlyRAndBCRB1042 #UK #1982 (Originally released in #1954) #Blues #ChicagoBlues

Junior Wells, It’s My Life, Baby, 1966 on Vanguard

Junior Wells’ sophomore album, released on Vanguard in 1966 after Hoodoo Man Blues came out on Delmark.

From the liner notes:

Some of this album, Junior Wells’ first solo record for Vanguard, was recorded in Pepper’s Lounge on Chicago’s south side, to get the feeling of a blues band working with its blues audience. The rest was done at Universal Studios in Chicago. The band at Pepper’s was Junior, harmonica and vocals; Buddy Guy, guitar; Freddy Below, drums; and Leroy Stewart, bass. For the studio sessions Walter Beasley was added on rhythm guitar and Little Al replaced Freddy Below on drums.

The combo of Junior and Buddy Guy makes for a classic 60s Chicago electric blues set.

My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please Classics reissue from 2024, with listening notes booklet by Francesca T. Royster. It’s a Craft Recordings released pressed at GZ Media.

#1960s #1966 #2024 #Blues #BuddyGuy #Chicago #ChicagoBlues #FrancescaTRoyster #JuniorWells #LeroyStewart #LittleAl #PepperSLounge #Reissue #vinyl #vinylMePlease #VinylMePleaseClassics #vinylcollection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKYRNoyzZ0

The Blackest Day

Lana Del Rey

#sundayvibes #music #ChicagoBlues

"Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a #bluesStandard written by #WillieDixon and first recorded by #MuddyWaters in 1954. The song makes reference to #hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a #stoptime musical arrangement. It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as #ChessRecords' chief songwriter. The song is a classic of #ChicagoBlues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxFr2HMx6Y

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Blues #ElectricBlues #ChicagoBlues

Among the most recognisable blues songs of the 20th century, "Smokestack Lightning" by #HowlinWolf deserves a sound museum all it's own. In it, I'd dedicate an entire room to #ChesterArthurBurnett's iconic #falsetto - as haunting, mysterious, and transcendent as anything my ears have ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUt8KdDtTY