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Music
Saturday, September 16, 2000
I'm listening to this CD as I write this. Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
Leiber and Stoller wrote Hound Dog for her. She made it a hit before Elvis got hold of it. You can hear it on this CD. These recordings are from a series of recordings in the mid 60s. She is singing with Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Fred McDowell, and Edward "Bee" Houston. She does a great Little Red Rooster. Big Mama wrote Ball N' Chain. Janis Joplin asked her permission to sing it but, by that time, she had sold it. It's here. But my favorite are the two done with Fred McDowell, Mississippi Fred McDowell. She is jamming with Fred McDowell's eery slide guitar recorded in a hotel room.
Mississippi Fred McDowell - This Ain't No Rock N' Roll
I bought this album around 1969. Unfortunately, I don't have the CD so I can't listen to until I get the turntable fixed. "I don' play no rock n' roll. I jes' play the straight, nach'l blues." Blues to make the hair on the back of your head stand up. Saw him live in a tavern in Seattle in 1971. Hoo boy!
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