Earl Hooker was born in Clarksdale in 1930 which made him about 15 years junior to Muddy Waters (who was also from Clarksdale), and 12 years younger than John Lee Hooker. Earl was John Lee Hooker's first cousin, but that is where the similarity ended between these two.
Earl moved to Chicago at the age of one, and as a youngster and teenager, no doubt was exposed to the fertile blues scene there. Music came naturally as his parents were both playing musicians. He started playing guitar about 1945 after meeting Robert Nighthawk. Nighthawk had already cut records under the name of Robert Lee McCoy for the Bluebird label, and had been an accompanist for John Lee (Sonny Boy) Williamson on some of his sides for Bluebird
Author: pasco3
Keywords: EARL HOOKER -BLUES GUITAR KINGS MISSISSIPPI BLUEBIRD RECORDS
Added: November 30, 2008
662-601-228=-167 are the total seconds of "Heavy Metal Highway DESCENDING". From Clarksdale to the Gulf Coast the route starts on Highway 61, then Route 448, (662) concluding is Highway 49 South (601) Then the Highway ENDS AT THE GULF OF MEXICO (228).
THIS IS A VARIED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF "route 448"...
"LIKE A HAUNTED HIGHWAY THAT BOTH THE LIVING AND DEAD CROSS!"
all songs written, edited, and produced at the Ghost House by honea byrne copyright 2008, multidementional.com
Author: tonalised
Keywords: ThanksGiving honea byrne heavy metal highway Mississippi
Added: November 27, 2008
It is the anniversary of the Dec 2007 ice storm. These are pictures taken in Missouri towns of: St. Joseph, Union Star, Clarksdale, and Leavenworth, Ks. While we slept, the freezing rain came down. The light of day brought with it the realization of how very venerable we are as human beings to the forces of nature. Without heat, lights, and in freezing temperatures people adapted and endured. Helping one another, and sharing in the misery joy and beauty during that time.
Thank you to fellow photographers Becky Miller, and Arley Cordonier for their great pictures. Music: Whiter Shade of pale: Procol Harum
Author: bayoukayaker
Keywords: 2007 Clarksdale Ice Joseph KS. Leavenworth Midwest Missouri St. Star Storm Union Winter
Added: November 24, 2008
J.J.Nick and the Bill Howl n madd Perry band at the Ground Zero blues club.Clarksdale,Missisippi.Give it up for Bill yo.Thanx man.
Author: nikprospe
Keywords: J J Nick at Ground zero blues club
Added: November 23, 2008
J.J. Nick and Bill Howl n madd Perry Live at the Ground Zero blues club.Clarksdale ,Missisippi.Oct.08.A nite to remember.Thanx 2 ol.
Author: nikprospe
Keywords: J J Nick at ground zero
Added: November 22, 2008
To watch in HQ and listen in Stereo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GED9rsxiYbc&fmt=18
This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums). They were formed in 1970 in and around Houston from rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). Their first two albums reflected the strong blues roots and Texas humor of the band. Their third album (Tres Hombres) gained them national attention with the hit "La Grange," a signature riff tune to this day, based on John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen." Their success continued unabated throughout the '70s, culminating with the year-and-a-half-long Worldwide Texas Tour.
Exhausted from the overwhelming workload, they took a three-year break, then switched labels and returned to form with Deguello and El Loco, both harbingers of what was to come. By their next album, Eliminator, and its worldwide smash follow-up, Afterburner, they had successfully harnessed the potential of synthesizers to their patented grungy blues groove, giving their material a more contemporary edge while retaining their patented Texas style. Now sporting long beards, golf hats, and boiler suits, they met the emerging video age head-on, reducing their "message" to simple iconography. Becoming even more popular in the long run, they moved with the times while simultaneously bucking every trend that crossed their path. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom -- both influenced by the originators of the form and British blues-rock guitarists like Peter Green -- while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support.
The only rock & roll group that's out there with its original members still aboard after three decades (an anniversary celebrated on 1999's XXX), ZZ Top play music that is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful, and 100 percent American in derivation. They have continued to support the blues through various means, perhaps most visibly when they were given a piece of wood from Muddy Waters' shack in Clarksdale, MS. The group members had it made into a guitar, dubbed the "Muddywood," then sent it out on tour to raise money for the Delta Blues Museum. ZZ Top's support and link to the blues remains as rock solid as the music they play. A concert CD and DVD, Live from Texas, recorded in Dallas in 2007 and featuring a still vital band, were both released in 2008.
Author: StuffOtherThanMusic
Keywords: ZZ Top TV Rough Boy Pop Rock Blues Soul MTV Singer Songwriter Guitarist Entertainers Group Band Music
Added: November 11, 2008
This is a young man from Clarksdale, Mississippi who taught himself to play the piano. He has been singing since he was very young his talent goes beyound belief. Please share. Enjoy
Author: sherwonder
Keywords: Terry Williams
Added: November 10, 2008
History lesson concerning the past 80 years in honor of my grandmother's 80th birthday...
Author: 2SuckersPlease
Keywords: birthday
Added: November 8, 2008
CEDRIC BURNSIDE, grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside, son of drummer great Calvin Jackson, is widely regarded as one of the best drummers in the world. Growing up at his grandfather's side, he began touring at age 13, playing drums for "Big Daddy" on stages around the globe. Cedric was born in 1978 and raised around Holly Springs, Miss., and has been playing music all his life, developing a relentless, highly rhythmic charged style with strong hip-hop and funk influences.
"I write about my life, my kids, and everyday things. I try to stick to the truth," Cedric says. Just 29 years old, he recalls growing up without a radio or a TV. "My granddad used to play out on the porch, and we'd have house parties every weekend. Johnny Woods would come over and blow harmonica, and he'd drink two or three gallons of corn liquor. We just stomped up dirt."
In addition to "Big Daddy," Cedric has also played with, among countless others, Junior Kimbrough, Kenny Brown, North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside Exploration, Bobby Rush and Widespread Panic. In 2006 he was featured in the critically acclaimed feature film, Black Snake Moan, playing drums alongside Samuel L. Jackson. (The film is a tribute to R.L. Burnside, and gives many nods to the late bluesman.) Cedric has teamed up with guitarist Lightnin' Malcolm and is proving to be a powerful vocalist and great songwriter. Cedric is a special talent that has brought new life and energy to the blues, and is loved by fans around the world.
Bluesman LIGHTNIN' MALCOLM is one of the leading, younger generation artists on the scene today. Born in rural Missouri, Malcolm enjoyed the freedom of country life, quickly learning to entertain himself and others around him. Growing up in a little village called Burgess in a country house next to the KCS Railroad that ran from Kansas City to New Orleans, the train has always been a theme in Malcolm's music, as well as the inspiration for the steady, insistent bass rhythms of rural dance music.
"I remember I was 7 or 8, and the grown folks was parked out on the road listening to music and carryin' on," recalls Malcolm. "They put on a tape called 'Muddy Waters' Greatest Hits,' and when I heard that voice shootin' out of that speaker, I was shocked. I fell in love with it, and I promised myself then and there that if I grew up to be a man, I was gonna try to do that!"
Malcolm -- a reckless live performer -- has lived and breathed music his whole life, traveling and playing in a slashing, rhythmic style, with deep soulful vocals. Malcolm has played over the years with many of the best Mississippi blues artists, such as Cedell Davis, R.L. Burnside, Hubert Sumlin, Jessie Mae Hemphill, T Model Ford, Jr. Kimbrough, Robert Belfour, Big Jack Johnson, Sam Carr and Otha Turner. Skilled on guitar, bass, and drums, Malcolm is an in demand session player with a telepathic sense of how to follow the older archaic styles, and is especially noted for his old-fashioned, church "shout" style on drums.
In 2005, Malcolm released his first album "Juke Joint Dance Party," and that summer it was the No.1 requested artist on XM Satelite Radio. After joining forces with powerhouse drummer/vocalist Cedric Burnside, the pair released their first CD titled "Juke Joint Duo."
Cedric and Malcolm caught the ear of Delta Groove Music label chief, Randy Chortkoff, while playing on the outdoor jam stage at Chortkoff's 3rd Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue in Clarksdale, MS. After receiving a demo from the duo's manager, Chortkoff contacted legendary producer, David Z (who has worked closely with the label, in addition to a career producing music legends such as Prince, Etta James, Buddy Guy, BB King and many others) and sent the duo up to Nashville to record an album for the label. Chortkoff brought in some very special guests for the session, including the innovative harmonica genius, Jason Ricci. The end result was such an authentic, swampy, backwoods sound that when you hear it, you'll have a hard time believing you're not sitting in a juke joint somewhere in the Delta.
"Once in a while you witness a birth in this business. A kind of unawareness to the fact that there are other sounds to be heard that you haven't yet discovered, or dialects and music that is still being invented. That is precisely the sound you hear from this Mississippi duo. You give these two guys 1 instrument each and they can make it sound like a Quartet. Bent deep in the Mississippi hill country, RL Burnside's grandson, Cedric has teamed up with the monster guitar talents of Lightnin' Malcolm, giving a mixed dose of traditional to modern hill country blues with a new twist all the way from rock to psychedelic." - 2007, Dirk Wissbaum Bluessource.com
Author: heidikellner
Keywords: Blues Gospel Deep Traditional
Added: November 3, 2008
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