Ladies and gentlemen, the King of the Harmonica.



When you hear harp players talking about the "Sonny Boy lick," it starts around 2:25.

so thick

Van Morrison and Them (1964)
19 year old Van Morrison
20 year old Jimmy Page

Can't resist re-post. I do not play no rock 'n roll.



I believe this is from his famous Columbia album.

i welcome the repost.
i believe this was his first album with electric guitar, recorded when he was in his 60's. you can hear the influence he had on RL Burnside and many others.

the first track off of 'The Angry Young Them', 1965

Van Morrison, Peter Bardens, and others

smack dab in the middle of the blues/rock era



and a live version of this song (with a slightly slower pace) followed by the well known Gloria

I'd never seen this. Great photography, plus I love it when they show close-ups of the fingering.

that's what she said

folks, i want to be clear about something...

...by my estimations at least a third of the songs and videos i post across all the music threads i've never heard or seen until five minutes or so before posting them.

i learned about the blues by starting with mid 60's blues/rock songs i heard, followed the tree back to Robert Johnson and the like, and then traced it back upward.

same with jazz starting with Miles Kind of Blue, tracing it back to the New Orleans roots, then following the path back up and seeing how many different branches i could climb.

many of the videos you post are songs or artists i've never heard, which inspires me to do some research to see which branch of the musical tree they likely sit upon and how it relates to other artists. many of the videos i post are not because i'm already familiar with the song, but because i just discovered it and want to share.

in summary: please keep posting songs/videos you find interesting because i find them interesting as well, and by no means am i some sort of musical genius.

Here are two guys I just recently learned about. I love when there's live footage of them playing like this. You might recognize the chord progression in the first one. Very similar to Crow Jane and other songs that use it.

classic example of mid 60's Brit Blues

The Pretty Things first album 1965

I first saw this in the documentary The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax. There are only a couple clips of this guy. This song is super badass.

wow

no foolin'....he's wearing green socks with brown shoes!

many of the videos posted in this thread were recorded by Alan Lomax, and the Alan Lomax archive on Youtube has dozens if not hundreds, including a few more Belton Sutherland

https://www.youtube.com/user/AlanLomaxArchive

This is the one that grabbed me:

newly discovered Gus Jenkins

i believe Mamie Lester from the second song was his wife (or baby momma)...their grandson shows up in the comments.

crossposting from the music thread...probably should have parked them here to begin with.

another one from Big Bill