and Willie Dixon just standing there in the background playing bass like he's seen it all before...
...and he has, because he and Muddy are the two who wrote all the Chicago blues songs
i can appreciate the amount of musicianship in this version, but it has a bit too much polish with the mixing and a stiffness that comes with old age.
it kinda felt like they were about a half beat behind and a bit out of sync for a good part of it.
but the original on zz top's first album is a different story.
it has a jangly dangling rhythm that sometimes sounds accidental, like the clang off the hip from a big ring of swinging keys as the lead custodian speed walks down the hall towards a toilet emergency,
but they stay in front of the beat and constantly push the song forward.
i'm absolutely positive they had cherry bombs in their pockets when they recorded this
it's really hard to keep your head still during this song
Definitely wish I had seen them in the early days.
I enjoyed the music of the Eliminator tour but what
I've discovered in the last ten years is so much better
yeah, that above track is truly great - what a master he is on the blues harp - whoa - he seems to me to get a kinna unique tone out of the thing
I wonder if anybody ever started listening to this one - and then stopped - decided they wouldn't listen to the rest - I kinna doubt it - 24 million views for an r&b instrumental - incredible - that Hammond organ - fabulous -
guitar is awesome too - very few notes - but the right ones - love the whole thing
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when i was in college (early 90s) i decided to eat nothing but rice for two days so that i could afford to buy this cd at the local specialty blues and jazz shop. still don't regret it
Otis Spann with (Peter Green's) Fleetwood Mac: The Biggest Thing Since Colossus
i've posted lots of other Peter Green in the thread before, but this is just such a unique collaboration i thought i'd give it a bump.
the one off hook ups with other musicians (caught on tape) is something i really appreciate about blues and jazz