I yam what I yam, therefore I art!
“Yeah, she’s straight, just won’t wait / Everybody likes my Rocket 88 / Babe we’ll ride in style movin’ all along…” – James Cotton (Rocket 88 by Ike Turner/Jackie Brenston)
James Cotton
“Sometimes, I get so worried, people / You know I could sit right down and cry / Because I don’t know too much about love, people / But I sure think I’ve got it bad…” – Jeff Beck: Blues Deluxe (with Rod Stewart, Mickey Waller, Nicky Hopkins and Ron Wood)
Geoffrey Arnold “Jeff” Beck
“Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune / Something to make us all happy / Do anything, take us out of this gloom / Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy…” – Traffic (Dear Mr. Fantasy)
Steve Winwood
“Come on and cry me an ocean / Then I want you to cry me a sea / Somebody’s hurt you, just like you hurt me…” – Bobby “Blue” Bland (Cry, Cry, Cry)
Robert Calvin Bland… Bobby “Blue” Bland
“I couldn’t imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn’t dare.” – Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL… Etta James: Tell Mama
(Check out Janis Joplin’s ass-kickin’ cover of this song. And Marva Whitney’s!)
“And baby, I couldn’t believe my ear and my heart just skip a beat / You told me baby, we could slip away down the dark end of the street…” – Dr. John (Such A Night)
Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr.
“Now trouble’s what you’re lookin’ like / ‘Cause trouble’s where you been / And I can see the kind of trouble you could get me in.…” – Junior Brown (My Wife Thinks You’re Dead)
Honky-tonker, Western swinger, Tex-Mexer and surf-rocker!!!
