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Tag Archives: blues music
On This Day – The Stones’ TV Debut & First Single
The Stones made their TV debut this day in 1963 on Thank Your Lucky Stars playing their first single C’mon. It may come a surprise to some of the younger readers that The Stones were once a rock and blues band playing blues covers. Their first album, imaginatively titled The Rolling Stones featured songs by […]
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Tagged as: Blues, blues music, chuck berry, classic rock music, muddy waters, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rolling stones, rufus thomas, skip james, willie dixon
On This Day – Stagger Lee (Yet Again)
On this day in 1959 Lloyd Price reached number one in the States with “Stagger Lee”. “Stagger Lee” has been recorded many times under many names by many people. The song has been Bowderized, revised, chewed up and spat out by too many people to mention. Some of whom should have known better and some […]
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Tagged as: Beck, Bill Haley & His Comets, billie holiday, blues music, bob dylan, Cephas & Wiggins, classic rock music, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Dr. John, Duke Ellington, Fats Domino, George Thorogood, Ike and Tina Turner, james brown, Johnny Dodds, Leadbelly, Ma Rainey, Memphis Slim, Mississippi John Hurt, Modern Life is War, muddy waters, Neil Diamond, nick cave, On This Day, Pat Boone, Professor Longhair, rock and blues, Sam the Sham, Sidney Bechet, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Taj Mahal, The Isley Brothers, Tom Rush, Wilson Pickett, Woody Guthrie
Sam Phillips Dies 30 July 2003
Sam Phillips did more than most to shape popular music in the 50s and 60s. As Owner and leading light of the mighty Sun Records he discovered or developed Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Inpite of this roll call of talent it is easy to forget […]
Posted in Blues, Departures, On This Day, rock and blues
Tagged as: blues music, classic rock music, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, sam phillips, sun records
Champion Jack Dupree
All things are connected, sort of. Yesterday I wrote about Keef Hartley because I had lost a post about him due to a problem with wordpress (too boring to explain fully, just stay with this). So last night I picked up Keef Hartley’s book Halfbreed opened it at random and started reading about Keef recording […]
Posted in Blues
Tagged as: blues music, champion Jack Dupree, live music, real rock and blues
On This Day – 2nd July
Ralph Nader (serial presidential candidate, consumer champion, pain in the arse of car makers, general all round good guy in other words) warned us in 1969 that loud rock music would make us all go deaf. I SAID THAT LOUD ROCK MUSIC WOULD MAKE US ALL GO DEAF….. I so want this to be true, […]
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Tagged as: blues music, classic rock music, jimi hendrix, On This Day, real rock and blues
Hello world!
A new blog, but not a new site, this is Real Rock and Blues. Originally the site supported a radio programme I did for a community radio station, with the play lists and links to good bands etc. The station died, lack of funds and too many egos…….. and so did the site. But it […]
Posted in About and things, Uncategorized
Tagged as: blues music, nick cave, real rock and blues, rock music