This one is dedicated to all you Rat Finks who've already pledged out there, along with Ron Haydock & the Boppers, V-neck sweaters, beehives, Liz Renay, gingham and monster masks. Thanks!
Monday, March 4, 2013
Cookout Time
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Jack Dupree and King Curtis live on stage in Montreux
As CJD month winds down, here's a concert appearance from Montreux, Switzerland in 1971. Check out Aretha in the audience in the red dress!
This was released on LP as well, but it's really the sort of thing YouTube was invented for.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Somewhere On Skid Row: Hobos, Bums & Other Urban Outdoorsmen
1 Felix Slatkin: Happy Hobo
2 Al Jolson with Guy Lombardo Orch.: Hallelujah I'm A Bum
3 The Coasters: D.W. Washburn
4 J.B. Lenoir: Slow Down Woman
5 Porter Wagoner: Sidewalks Of Chicago
6 The Cowsills: Newspaper Blanket
7 The Cowsills: The Candy Kid
8 Reparata & The Delrons: That's What Sends Men To The Bowery
9 Rags Rafferty: The Bowery
10 Gene Pitney: That's What Sends Men To The Bowery
11 Jerry Lee Lewis: Skid Row
12 Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats: Skid Row Street
13 Merle Haggard: Somewhere On Skid Row
14 Merle Haggard: Skid Row
15 Johnnie Allan: Somewhere On Skid Row
16 Pete Johnson Sextette: Skid Row Boogie
17 Bob Durham: Skid Row Boogie
18 Gene Marshall: Skid Row Bum
19 Frank Sinatra: Don't Sleep In The Subway
20 Nappy Brown: Skidy Woe
21 Earl Curry: Hobo
22 Link Wray: Hobo Man
23 Porter Wagoner: The Alley
24 Louis Armstrong & His Orch.: Hobo, You Can Ride Dis Train
25 The Four Seasons: Beggar's Parade
26 Rhubarb Red & His Rubes: The Dying Hobo
27 Art Hodes: A Selection From The Gutter
28 Danny Reeves: I'm A Hobo
29 Johnny Cash: The Hobo Song
30 The Fantastics: Millionaire Hobo
31 The Honeyman: Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)
32 The Rockin' Berries: Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)
33 Snakefinger: Here Comes The Bums
34 Leb Brinson: Hobo A-Go-Go
35 Porter Wagoner: Skid Row Joe
36 Lightnin' Jr. & The Empires: Raggedy And Hungry
37 Luke Gibbons: Queen Of Skid Row
Champion Jack Dupree and T.S. McPhee: Groundhog in the Cabbage Greens
One of the most unusual recordings of Champion Jack's career was made in 1967 with T.S. McPhee from the Groundhogs. The 'hogs had backed up Champion Jack on a 1964 tour, and McPhee played on Champion Jack's first Decca recordings, alongside Eric Clapton and John Mayall. When CDJ was signed to Decca blues spinoff writeoff Blue Horizon in '67, somebody had the bright idea to pair Champion Jack's voice with solo guitar accompaniment.
Jack doesn't play piano on these recordings at all - it's just him and McPhee's acoustic guitar. The result is unique in the British-Blues-Personality-Plays-With-Blues-Legend genre, and it's a very pleasant listen. The songs are all short, and while some of them are readymades, they sound different than CDJ's usual readymades. Dupree's sounds warm and engaged, and McPhee is neither to staid or showoffy.
The recordings basically stayed in the vault until Ace released them on CD in 1997. A 45 of "Get Your Head Happy" came out in the late 60s in a limited white label only run.
You can hear the whole thing on Spotify.
The Snow Is on the Ground
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Champion Jack Dupree - with no pants on!
Lest I give you the impression that Jack Dupree's European music was all sad sack introspection, here's an unreleased-until-the-Complete-Blue-Horizon-Sessions CD version of Fats Waller's "Sheik of Araby" wherein Jack and his mother-in-law finally settle the tension that's been building between them for something like 20 years.
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