A much needed Black Music thread.

[xmontrealer]

3 random songs from my 3 favourite Blues artists

Saw Muddy twice in my life.

Once at the "Electric Circus " in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Later at the Esquire Show Bar in Montreal at an early evening show, sitting right in front of the stage.

Have to say Muddy and his band worked just as hard for the small crowd at the Esquire Show Bar as they did for the large crowd at the Electric Circus...

Also saw Albert Collins live in Montreal a few years before he passed. Small club, huge crowd.

Albert's Tele tone live was amazing. He also had a 100' or so instrument cord, and would walk through the audience while just killing it...

 

[ogibowt]

Saw Muddy twice in my life.

Once at the "Electric Circus " in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Later at the Esquire Show Bar in Montreal at an early evening show, sitting right in front of the stage.

Have to say Muddy and his band worked just as hard for the small crowd at the Esquire Show Bar as they did for the large crowd at the Electric Circus...

Also saw Albert Collins live in Montreal a few years before he passed. Small club, huge crowd.

Albert's Tele tone live was amazing. He also had a 100' or so instrument cord, and would walk through the audience while just killing it...

X..you were very fortunate to see them live....i sure you treasure those memories
i never saw alot of Blues artists live....mostly i saw live were Soul acts....but i do remember as a teen my dad taking me to see Junior Wells and buddy Guy together at a small club in Yorkville.....and into my 3o,s i saw Ko Ko Taylor live at a club ..dont rememer the name though...b ut i do remember that she put on a hellava show...X do you remember the 1st live show you went to?...........mine was as a teen...went to see Little Jackie Shane at the Crang Plaza..Wilson and Jane......what a hellava performer he/she was lol

 

[ogibowt]

Jackie lived a complicated life, to say the least..and left a catalogue of mighty fine music

 

[Reec]

 

[xmontrealer]

X..you were very fortunate to see them live....i sure you treasure those memories
i never saw alot of Blues artists live....mostly i saw live were Soul acts....but i do remember as a teen my dad taking me to see Junior Wells and buddy Guy together at a small club in Yorkville.....and into my 3o,s i saw Ko Ko Taylor live at a club ..dont rememer the name though...b ut i do remember that she put on a hellava show...X do you remember the 1st live show you went to?...........mine was as a teen...went to see Little Jackie Shane at the Crang Plaza..Wilson and Jane......what a hellava performer he/she was lol

Johnny & The Hurricanes at the Winnipeg Auditorium, when Red River Rock was a hit in 1959.

Next was Fats Domino and his small orchestra. Ain't It A Shame, Blueberry Hill, etc. Same location. Great show...

 

[greensquare]

 

[greensquare]

 

[ogibowt]

ive babbled before on this thread about my affection for 60,s Soul ballads
Percy Sledge was a leader in that genre

 

[ogibowt]

sadly reminds me of my 2nd marriage....took me a long time to get over it............entirely my fault

 

[greensquare]

 

[xmontrealer]

sadly reminds me of my 2nd marriage....took me a long time to get over it............entirely my fault

I hope, like me, two marriages were enough.

As I always like to say, a third marriage is a triumph of hope over experience!

 

[greensquare]

 

[greensquare]

 

[xmontrealer]

A couple from my extensive early ska and reggae collection:

 

[xmontrealer]

One more...

 

[xmontrealer]

Growing up as a white kid in Winnipeg, here are the only ska/reggae songs I heard on the radio:

Then, shortly after I moved to Montreal in 1972, the Jimmy Cliff movie "The Harder They Come" was released.

It opened up that whole era of Jamaican music to me...

 

[Reec]

I think that @Cholla would be surprised that all the songs in this thread aren’t in Swahili nor other native african languages

 

[ogibowt]

Growing up as a white kid in Winnipeg, here are the only ska/reggae songs I heard on the radio:

Then, shortly after I moved to Montreal in 1972, the Jimmy Cliff movie "The Harder They Come" was released.

It opened up that whole era of Jamaican music to me...

X you know darn well i can,t help my self..............the original

 

[Reec]

 

[greensquare]

Got into reggae in my mid teens besides listening to the odd track in my younger days. Song above blew me away. Soca music is nice too, but I hardly listen to that since my early 20s. Have a hard time getting into the blues or jazz.