Peter Green
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“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.” – Groucho Marx
The weekend is ’round the corner pussycats, have some FUN! Start with a little of this…
“Well, she’s long and she’s tall / And she shakes like a willow tree / Say she’s no good / She alright with me / She alright with me / She alright with me / Oh, little girl’s alright…”- Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Two Trains Running)
Paul Butterfield
Have a great weekend, kittycats. And while you’re at it, groove on this…
“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“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!!!
Happy Birthday to “The Godfather of Soul”… James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006). Well yeah, Sex Machine with Bobby Byrd!!! Now, take me to the bridge…
“I don’t understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like someone who’s lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation… I want to live. I’m beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.” – W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)
“Well, I’ll wait till tomorrow / They tell me every day brings about a change / Well, I love you, love you baby / Honey, ain’t it a crying shame…” – Little Walter (Last Night)
Happy Birthday Marion Walter Jacobs… Little Walter! (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968)
