re: I Woke Up This Morning: The Blues Thread

I learned a lot by playing in this guy's club





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Fantastic thread. I have loved the blues ever since I was a kid. Still my favorite genre of music by far.

These guys destroyed The Chimes one night in 1984.

Muddy w/Willie Dixon



Possibly a TV appearance

The man, the myth, the legend: Blind Melon Chitlin

Where jazz meets blues.

The first "CANNED HEAT" by Robert 'BOB THE BEAR' Hite

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I met John Fahey, who is a very good country blues guitar picker and he's also a scholar on the blues. We struck up a good friendship. It was a lot of fun playing record and swapping stories of different blues singers. I borrowed a tape from him and he disappeared for a year and I didn't see him. This was about 1965 and I'd gotten a job in a record shop in Westwood, California. This guy came in that I'd never seen before, and said, 'Are you Hite?' I went, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Fahey wants his tape back.' I said, 'Sure, where is he?' The guy said, 'He was in Louisiana, but he's back now and he wants his tape back.

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Well, look, here's my phone number, we'll get together on a Wednesday night maybe, play some records. Come out to my house, (I was living with my parents) and we'll have a good time.'

So he showed up on Wednesday night with Alan Wilson and this fellow who'd come into the record shop, Mike Purlaman. We started playing records and after about ten o'clock my mother came in and said, 'It's a bit loud, would you turn it down'. So I said 'ok' and turned it down. When she left it came back up. She came back in a couple of more times and on the fourth trip, she said the landlord's complaining now, and the neighbors. Finally, it was, 'We're going to get kicked out of here if you don't turn down that record player....so I turned it off.'

Alan Wilson had his harmonica's with him, Fahey had his guitar, so did Michael. I played trumpet and that didn't really fit into the country blues, so I played the jug. We decided right there and then we ought to have a band. That was the original personnel of CANNED HEAT.

Well, the minute Fahey found out it was going to be electric, it was too much for him to handle, so he pulled out."

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I Woke Up This Morning

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put on my slippers
walked in the kitchen and died.


* yeah I know, not a blues song, but still couldn't pass it up.