Roots, Rock ‘n Blues – American Roots Music
May 27, 2009 by Jason58
I fell in love with American roots music while I was in college in the late 1960s. The irony of that is that I was born and grew up in the Washington, DC area and had to move to Minnesota to hear the blues for the first time!
I should say that it was in college that I first heard the blues played by the original artists. I’d been a big fan of the Rolling Stones and numerous other British Invasion groups who were all playing their versions of the blues, or derivatives thereof. I just had no idea at the time that they’d been so heavily influenced by a whole generation of musicians that I’d never heard of.
In the meantime, there were American musicians playing blues and blues-influenced rock to small, but devoted audiences. Three of my favorites (discovered for the most part years later) were Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan. Lonnie Mack is best known for his radio hits, but is a killer blues player as I discovered much to my surprise when Alligator Records put out a video of a concert with Lonnie, Albert and Roy at Carnegie Hall in New York City from the early 1990s. The concert was called “Further On Down The Road” and was a real eye-opener for me when I first saw it. It’s still one of my favorite videos.
With the explosion of videos on the Internet, there is a wealth of blues video footage from the 1950s through today. It’s a blessing that so much still survives from the early days. Watching some of these legends perform helps make it clear just why they are legendary.
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Comic book nerd coming out right now, but I have to admit I miss DC's Gotham Central. A look at heroes from the police POV was underrated.
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Blue girl got the songs right. We did practice a few weeks before we got there, but just the two rehearsals to put it together. Those rehearsals were about 8 hours each. It was quite tiring!
1968 – Unfinished Music No.1 Two Virgins
1 Two Virgins Side One
2 Two Virgins Side Two
3 Remember Love
1969 – Live Peace in Toronto 1969
1 Blue Suede Shoes” (Carl Perkins)
2 Money (That's What I Want)” (Janie Bradford/Berry Gordy)
3 Dizzy Miss Lizzy” (Larry Williams)
4 Yer Blues” (Lennon/McCartney)
5 Cold Turkey” (John Lennon)
6 Give Peace a Chance” (Lennon/McCartney)
7 Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) (Yoko Ono)
8 John, John (Let's Hope for Peace) (Yoko Ono)
1969 – Unfinished Music No.2 Life With The Lions
1 Cambridge 1969
2 No Bed For Beatle John
3 Baby's Heartbeat
4 Two Minutes Silence
5 Radio Play
6 Song For John
7 Mulberry
1969 – Wedding Album
1 John & Yoko
2 Amsterdam
3 Who Has Seen the Wind? (Yoko Ono)
4 Listen, The Snow is Falling
5 Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)
1970 – Plastic Ono Band
1 Mother
2 Hold On
3 I Found Out
4 Working Class Hero
5 Isolation
6 Remember
7 Love
8 Well, Well, Well
9 Look at Me
10 God
11 My Mummy's Dead
12 Power to the People
13 Do the Oz (Letra y música de John Lennon y Yōko Ono)
1971 – Imagine
1 Imagine
2 Crippled Inside
3 Jealous Guy
4 It's So Hard
5 I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama
6 Gimme Some Truth
7 Oh My Love (Letra y música de John Lennon y Yōko Ono)
8 How Do You Sleep?
9 How?
10 Oh Yoko!
1972 – Sometime in New York City
1 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (John Lennon/Yōko Ono)
2 Sisters O Sisters (Yoko Ono)
3 Attica State (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
4 Born In A Prison (Yoko Ono)
5 New York City (John Lennon)
6 Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
7 The Luck Of The Irish (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
8 John Sinclair (John Lennon)
9 Angela (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
10 We're All Water (Yoko Ono)
1973 – Mind Games
1 Mind Games
2 Tight A$
3 Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
4 One Day (at a Time)
5 Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple)
6 Nutopian International Anthem (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
7 Intuition
8 Out the Blue
9 Only People
10 I Know (I Know)
11 You Are Here
12 Meat City
1974 – Walls and Bridges
1 Going Down on Love
2 Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
3 Old Dirt Road (letra y música de John Lennon/Harry Nilsson)
4 What You Got
5 Bless You
6 Scared
7 #9 Dream
8 Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
9 Steel and Glass
10 Beef Jerky
11 Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)
12 Ya Ya (letra y música de Dorsey/Lewis/Robinson)
1975 – Rock 'N' Roll
1 Be-Bop-A-Lula (Tex Davis/Gene Vincent)
2 Stand by Me (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller/Ben E. King)
3 Medley: Rip It Up/Ready Teddy (Blackwell/John Marascalco)
4 You Can't Catch Me (Chuck Berry)
5 Ain't That a Shame (Fats Domino/Dave Bartholomew)
6 Do You Wanna Dance? (Bobby Freeman)
7 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
8 Slippin' and Slidin' (Eddie Bocage/Albert Collins/Richard Wayne Penniman/James H. Smith)
9 Peggy Sue (Jerry Allison/Norman Petty/Buddy Holly)
10 Medley: Bring It On Home to Me/Send Me Some Lovin' (Sam Cooke)/(John Marascalco/Lloyd Price)
11 Bony Moronie (Larry Williams)
12 Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey/Clarence Lewis/Morgan Robinson)
13 Just Because (Lloyd Price)
1980 – Double Fantasy
1 (Just Like) Starting Over (John Lennon)
2 Kiss Kiss Kiss (Yoko Ono)
3 Cleanup Time (John Lennon)
4 Give Me Something (Ono)
5 I'm Losing You (John Lennon)
6 I'm Moving On (Ono)
7 Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (John Lennon)
8 Watching the Wheels (John Lennon)
9 Yes I'm Your Angel (Ono)
10 Woman (John Lennon)
11 Beautiful Boys (Ono)
12 Dear Yoko (John Lennon)
13 Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (Ono)
14 Hard Times Are Over (Ono)
1984 – Milk And Honey
1 I'm Stepping Out
2 Sleepless Night (Ono)
3 I Don't Wanna Face It
4 Don't Be Scared (Ono)
5 Nobody Told Me
6 O'Sanity (Ono)
7 Borrowed Time
8 Your Hands (Ono)
9 (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
10 Let Me Count the Ways (Ono)
11 Grow Old With Me
12 You're the One (Ono)
1986 – Live in New York City
1 New York City
2 It's So Hard
3 Woman is the Nigger of the World (John Lennon/Yōko Ono)
4 Well Well Well
5 Instant Karma!
6 Mother
7 Come Together (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
8 Imagine
9 Cold Turkey
10 Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
11 Give Peace a Chance
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