In memory of

[Grumpy John]

The great bluesmen and women.

John Lee Hooker - Dec. June 21 2001
Bob "The Bear" Hite - Dec. 1981
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson - Dec. 1970


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrADAAvrkE

Janis Joplin - Dec. October 4 1970


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAbopPhBfmc

Jimi Hendrix - Dec September 18 1970


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ypkLenWkOI

Koko Taylor - Dec. June 3 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXOFMwi6lc

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Dec. August 27 1990
Albert King - Dec. December 21 1992


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UoX6BdHBx4

Etta James Dec - January 2012


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2NqUdNH_w

These are just a few of my favourites, feel free to add yours

[_fly_]

I knew I was old when I was driving my dad somewhere and was listening to Mr Lucky (JLH) in the car, then clapton unplugged and my dad told me my music was good.
Did I get older or did he get younger?
Still glad that Chuck Berry is NOT on your list. Got to see him in mid 70's at festival hall 2 years in a row.
SRV was just a freak, with the talent he had. there is a really good tribute dvd, his brother and others do all his old song.
Peter

[Grumpy John]

Got the CD and the DVD :2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:.


Let's not forget the Aussies.

Barry "Big Goose" Sullivan - Dec. 2003


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZlx5QJriBw

Lobby Lloyde - 21 April 2007


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHE2c_vZeCk&playnext=1&list=TLLaka7k0L9Qs

Billy Thorpe - 28 February 2007


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfjui7YVZq0


I always thought it prophetic that Lobby and Thorpie died within months of each other.

Gerry Humphries - Dec. 2005


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4vON4_kbU

[Ball Peen]

Willie Dixon, the patron saint of blues bass players and composers.

List of songs written by Willie Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Willie_Dixon)
Dead Blues Guys (http://www.deadbluesguys.com/)
Willie Dixon - I can't quit you, baby - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxNJcNRwFA)
Willie Dixon - 'I ain't superstitious' - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRfCzNmrxY)

[chambezio]

Some great names and great performances there.
While we are in "Memory Lane" how much material did Buddy Holly leave? Our local Community FM radio plays a lot of his stuff and I am amazed just how many different songs he recorded.
And...what happened to Mrs Holly?

[Ball Peen]

Some great names and great performances there.
While we are in "Memory Lane" how much material did Buddy Holly leave? Our local Community FM radio plays a lot of his stuff and I am amazed just how many different songs he recorded.
And...what happened to Mrs Holly?


I don't know what has become of Mrs. Holly, but Miss Molly is alive and well and gets dusted off at least once a month around here.
Leon McAuliffe or Leon Rausch vocals ,Bob Wills one of the fiddles. Tommy Duncan was singer on much of the classic recordings.

Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys: Miss Molly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQ1eCpUGC8)

[Ball Peen]

Rev. Gary Davis, the cigar smoking, whiskey drinking preacher. Fantastic ragtime/ piedmont guitar player and a damn scary singer.

Reverend Gary Davis - Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjFHR3NCu6Q)
'You Can Go Home' REVEREND GARY DAVIS, Blues Guitar Legend - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YRfBy84FkA)

[Ball Peen]

Died way too young.



MIKE BLOOMFIELD " LONG HARD JOURNEY " LIVE - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6KYn38kfA)
MIKE BLOOMFIELD (1965) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izodh_djsUI) When Dylan went electric Mike Bloomfield was there.

[Grumpy John]

Roy Buchanan - Dec. Aug 14 1998


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka7yHdNzpVA