J.B. Lenoir - S/T

J.B. Lenoir – J.B. Lenoir Label: Polydor – 24-4011, Crusade Records (4) – Number 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 Genre: Blues Style: Country Blues Tracklist A1 Down In Mississippi 3:15 A2 Voodoo Music 2:24 A3 Tax Paying Blues 2:20 A4 If I Get Lucky 2:58 A5 Oh Captain 3:15 A6 How Much More 2:30 A7 Everything I Do 3:15 B1 Feeling Good 3:00 B2 Shot On James Merredith 2:44 B3 Round And Round 2:47 B4 Slow Down 1:32 B5 Vietnam Blues 3:02 B6 Leaving Here 1:35 B7 Born Dead 3:40 B8 Need Somebodies Help J.B. Lenoir - S/T

Jimmy Ricks - Romance In The Dark / Trouble In Mind

Jimmy Ricks - Romance In The Dark / Jimmy Ricks - Trouble In Mind

Johnny Keyes - What's Your Sign?

Well?

Johnny Keyes - What's Your Sign?

The Devils Music - Super Bowl Sunday Blues Based B's Mix

i got up pretty hungover today and started my morning off with some coffee and records. i sat down at the computer and put this mix together. no big deal.
dig in if you'd like and take a guess at the tracks... lates.

The Devils Music Super Bowl Sunday Blues Based B's Mix

Ed Pauling And The Exciters - Soul House

Ed Pauling And The Exciters from 1965 w/ a great swinging blues/soul instrumental with some killer guitar work on the great Savoy Records label. The horns keep it pumping and we get a little bass solo action w/ some answering guitar. Neat. The tune ends rather abruptly and i'd have liked it to jam on for a bit more but whats there is pretty excellent. jam on it.

Ed Pauling And The Exciters - Soul House

Chick Willis - Don't Let Me Ketch You (With Your Britches Down)

Funkly blues R&B mover by Mr. Chick Willis.

Robert "Chick" Willis (born September 24, 1934, Cabiness, Georgia)is an American blues singer. His cousin was Chuck Willis.

Chick Willis served in the military in the early 1950s before working as a chauffeur for Chuck Willis during his heyday. He won a talent show at the Magnolia Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia and made his first record in 1956, with the Ebb Records' single "You're Mine". Initially, he only sang, but learned guitar while touring with his cousin; Guitar Slim was one of his foremost influences.
After Chuck's death in 1957, Willis played with Elmore James, recording singles through the 1960s for Atco and other labels. His 1972 release, "Stoop Down Baby", was a jukebox hit but secured no radio airplay, due to its sexually explicit content. He released a steady stream of albums on Ichiban Records in the 1980s and 1990s, and continued to record into the 2000s.

Chick Willis - Don't Let Me Ketch You (With Your Britches Down)

Jack Nitzsche Featuring Captain Beefheart - Hard Working Man

I'll be in texas for the next week or so... Until we meet again enjoy a cool collaberation between jack and Don!

This is music from the original motion picture score "Blue Collar" from 1978... Pretty rare promo 45. Enjoy!

Jack Nitzsche Featuring Capt. Beefheart - Hard Working Man

Elmore James - Anna Lee - Stranger Blues

Something i should do more often, some blues. 2 Great blues cuts from Elmore James from 1962 on the great FIRE label... Great!

Elmore James - Anna Lee

Elmore James- Stranger Blues

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14

i been jamming on some 78's of late and as i been spinning them i been recording some of the ones i dig...

here is a couple quick little 78 mixes from some recent 78's scores. All on glorious and noisy OG 78's records. No noise filters are any bullshit was used so you get it as it is... i for one think 78's have a certain charm with the noise they produce...

Hope you dig them as much as me and you can read my shit writing for the titles....?

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14 A

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14 B

The Tiki's - Stop - Look - Listen - Cream In My Coffee

Today we get a carefree little garage surf type rocker. Nothing hard or edgy about it but a nice little nugget of early 60's pop rock surfer culture. Cream in my Coffee even has a little blues and soul vibe going on. I coul dsee these tunes being in some B Grade Beach movie. Cool little 45. Dig it!

The Tiki's - Stop - Look - Listen

The Tiki's - Cream In My Coffee

Little Jerry Williams - Detroit - 1965 Kingsize Nicotine Blues

An early single from Little Jerry William AKA Swamp Dog!



Jerry Williams, Jr., (born 12 July 1942), is a soul music artist who is better known by his pseudonym Swamp Dogg.

Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Williams made his first recording in 1954 under the moniker "Little Jerry", a 78 rpm single on the Mechanic label titled "HTD Blues" / "Nats Wailing". In 1963 he began using the moniker "Little Jerry Williams", recording with Loma Records, and by 1966 he had dropped the "Little" to record as Jerry Williams.

In 1970 he took on the persona of "Swamp Dogg" and released his first LP record, Total Destruction to Your Mind. The cover of his 1971 album, Rat On!, featuring Williams on the back of an oversized white rat, was ranked as one of the worst album covers of all time. Moving from one record label to another during the next 26 years of his recording career, he finally settled on his own record label S.D.E.G. Records [Swamp Dogg Entertainment Group]. His latest recording is titled Give Em As Little As You Can...As Often As You Have To...or...A Tribute To Rock 'n' Roll (2009), although he is rumored to be working on new material, including a collaboration with the author Ben Greenman.

Williams is also a noted songwriter and record producer. In an interview on NPR's Studio 360, Williams stated he was raised on country music: "Black music didn't start 'til 10 at night until 4 in the morning and I was in bed by then.. . . If you strip my tracks, take away all the horns and guitar licks, what you have is a country song." Williams also produces country music and has been nominated for a Grammy, along with Gary US Bonds, for writing the Johnny Paycheck record "She's All I Got". Other artists he has worked with include Doris Duke, Irma Thomas, Z. Z. Hill, Dee Dee Warwick, and Arthur Conley.

Little Jerry Williams - Detroit

TLittle Jerry Williams - 1965 Kingsize Nicotine Blues

Isreal "Popper Stopper" Tolbert - Big Leg Woman (With A Short, Short Mini Skirt)

Blind Israel Tolbert had a genuine surprise smash with “Big Leg Woman” in 1970 on Warren records. A great soulfull funky blues party record with some cool guitar, superb keyboard work and some funky drumming and horns.

Tolbert was born in Montgomery, AL on October 28 1939 and went to High School with Clarence Carter. Before and after making records he was a DJ which was how he got the nickname “Popper Stopper”, following in a line from a series of famous New Orleans DJs. After Warren records he started his own Tolchose label.

Isreal "Popper Stopper" Tolbert - Big Leg Woman (With A Short, Short Mini Skirt)

Harmonica Fats - Tore Up

OK some mid week blues here that i am sending out to the fine folks at Its Great Shakes as this 45 showed up on one of their many record digging posts and i made a comment that i had this in the can and ready to go over here @ the devil's music and since i am trying to get caught up with things as far as getting some request and other things tied up it seemed like a perfect time to get this bad little boy posted!

Anywho, nothing long winded, just dig the tune, great gruff voice and a nice walking bass groove, sweet horns and then that harmonica = sweet! dig that 2:09 mark as well!
Just the thing to get you over the hump!

Harmonica Fats was actually Harvey Blackston, a former Louisianan who learned the blues growing up on his grandfather's farm; his longtime partner, Bernie Pearl, a native Angeleno, learned the blues from the musicians who frequented the fabled Ash Grove (a folk and blues club run by Pearl's brother Ed), including Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb.

In the early '50s, Fats took up harmonica as self-prescribed therapy while recuperating from an auto accident. Once confident, he formed a band, playing clubs around Los Angeles, and was known then as "Heavy Juice." Just as carefully, he perfected his songwriting, scoring on the R&B charts in 1961 with the self-penned single "Tore Up." After changing his name to Harmonica Fats, this success led to work as a studio musician, playing dates with performers as diverse as Bill Cosby, Ringo Starr, and Lou Rawls. He even did a stint as a traveling solo musician, seeking gigs as he drove in a station wagon around the country.

Harmonica Fats - Tore Up

Rose Davis - Sittin' and Drinkin' - Yes I've Been Crying

Ok, i took a few days off from posting but i have the day off today in honor of a bunch of dead assholes...
So today you get you get something i plan on doing a little bit of on my day off from work, “Sittin’ And Drinking” by Rose Davis.

“Sittin’ And Drinking” is blues number witth some good guitar work. It's a cover of a Christine Kittrell song. This was 1st issued in New Orleans on the "Play" label and later picked up after it became semi popular by Excello.

The flip is a little funky number with some strange horns and then shifts into a 50's kind of shuffle. Cool but strange tune.

Rose Davis - Sittin' and Drinkin'
Rose Davis - Yes I've Been Crying

Charles Bevel - Porcupine Meat - Sally B. White

Porcupine meat, too fat to eat, to lean to throw away…

Man what a cool 45 from a guy I knew nothing about until fairly recent when I found this 45 in a pile of rotten old vinyl.

Mississippi Charles Bevel, multi-media artist and lecturer began his professional career in 1973. From 1973 through 1983 he performed intermittently as a musician, including a self terminated one year stint as a recording artist on the A&M record label. During that ten year period the most meaningful of those years of Mississippi were spent performing as a duo with another songwriter/performer, Chic Streetman. They also worked as an opening act for such artists as Taj Majal, Richie Havens, Hoyt Axton; Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee, Doc Watson, B.B. King, Third World, Albert King, Gil Scott Heron, etc.

Not sure why he terminated his contract with A&M bit it’s a bit of a shame because these 2 tunes are pretty damn cool and I had no idea who he was until I stumbled upon this 45 a while ago. Maybe if he stuck around more folks would know who he was. Or maybe they do? Now I have to find his full length album and see if the rest is as cool as this 45…

MY EVOLUTION

An Autobiographical Sketch
by Mississippi Charles Bevel

I was born the fourteenth of seventeen children, to cotton-plantation parents in the Delta of Mississippi.

For a time covering some thirty years after my birth, in periods of one month to less than two years, I had spent time in Mississippi counties like Sunflower, Leflore, Tunica and Choctaw; on cotton plantations like Joe Perry's and Joseph Pugh's; in small towns like Wier, Itta Bena, Swifttown and Greenwood. Then it was out of Mississippi and on to big cities like Memphis, St. Louis and Cleveland. And then, on to military bases in Illinois, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Hawaii, Japan, Kwajuluen Island, Midway, Alaska and California.

Working, always working; as a cotton picker, a shoeshine, stock clerk, dishwasher, grocery clerk, aviation electronics technician, naval in-flight radio operator, electrician, steel mill laborer, television engineer and ICBM missile test technician. To all of that--the places and the jobs--there are those who can bear witness.

In May of 1968, I returned from Africa, where I had lived for three and one-half years. That three and one-half years in Monrovia, Liberia was the longest that I had ever lived in any one place in all those thirty years.

During those many years there was no one, other than myself, who could have borne witness to the artists gestating inside of me; artists barely kept alive, but who could sing, write, act, and create visual art. At thirty-one the musician was born; at forty, the writer; at forty-eight, twins, the actor and the visual artist. Giving birth to those mysterious personalities, my bumbling attempts at nursing those babies, was not only an unnerving disruption to my own life, but extremely confusing and disturbing to family and friends as well.

At sixty, there is some disquiet in my life, but hardly about death. Life has showered me with too much sweetness to leave me fretting over when death will appear to gather my bones. Any uneasiness is about the illusion of time; not enough time left to divulge my revelations; my mysteries. Not those places mentioned above or the people met along the way--the world is well acquainted with those places and faces. Sure, I've been to forty seven states and ten foreign countries. But do you really want to read another personal travelogue? How about some real biography; the feelings, the thoughts, the uncommon visions and singular experiences that we all have had but which few of us can find the courage to share. There is the powerful hope that someday through my "other children"-- those half nourished artists that I have given birth to--you will get to taste, see, hear, touch, smell, and even balance against your own, my mysteries--the real biography of Mississippi Charles Bevel.

An alone life, yes. But hardly a lonely one!

Charles Bevel - Porcupine Meat
Charles Bevel - Sally B. White

The Devil's Music Devil Dick Mix - Vol. 2 - RAWK POWER!!!

Happy Friday/weekend people!!!

Wow! After Vincent's HEATER of a mix i thought i'd continue on with some more "RAWK POWER"!!! and bring some noise in the form of some nice guitar driven action!!! and of course as always brought to you on glorious original VINYL!!! (but i didn't have to tell you that did i?)

Here's a few new things i threw together for your ears, eyes, & mind, consisting of a few things i picked up recently along with a few of some of my fave rockers!!!

So strap in, hit the start switch & please enjoy The Devil's Music Mix - Ship on the Ocean, Time is Now! - RAWK POWER!!! Mix!!!!

1. Asterix - If I Could Fly: Asterix was a direct predecessor of Lucifer's Friend; released one (eponymous) album in 1970. Technically, this was the first Lucifer's Friend album, only under a different name. Also, one single was released featuring a slightly altered line-up. This cut is from that single. This a fairly new addition to the devil's archives and a cut i've been looking for for many years!

2. Jeronimo - Heya: German band Jeronimo was founded in 1969 and in '69/'70 they had their first two hits "He Ya" and "Na Na Hey Hey". With these two chartbreakers, Jeronimo climbed to the number 1 position in almost all European countries. This cut is from the 1st 45.

3. Groundhogs - Ship On The Ocean: One of my favorite songs of all time hence the sub or pre title of this mix: The Groundhogs were one of the finest of the British blues based rock bands of the 60’s & 70’s, this cut can be found on what IMHO is their finest moment, the awesome “Thank Christ for the Bomb” lp, however this particular cut is from the 45 and as above one of my all time faves.

4. Jericho Jones - Time Is Now: Jericho Jones were an Israeli band founded in 1965 under the name The Churchills , and was active until the mid-70s, later shortening the name to just Jericho. They were part of the rhythm bands scene that were active in Israel in the 70s, especially in Ramala. They played rock music in English, from psychedelic rock to hard rock. This is an awesome piece of Israeli hard rock!

5. Dust - Chasin' Ladies: At the dawn of the '70s, hard rock and early heavy metal were almost completely dominated by British innovators. Dust was one of the few American bands to try picking up the gauntlet, playing a progressive brand of proto-metal that was explicitly indebted to their British contemporaries. Formed around 1968, the group featured vocalist/guitarist Richie Wise and the teenaged rhythm section of bassist Kenny Aaronson (who also doubled on slide and steel guitars) and drummer Marc Bell, who would later become part of the New York punk scene, joining up with Richard Hell & the Voidoids and then moving on to the Ramones (adopting the name Marky Ramone). Some serious power trio action on this cut from the 1st self-titled lp.

6. Cactus - One Way Or Another: The plan was for the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice to join with guitar god Jeff Beck and his singer Rod Stewart in a supergroup of sorts. The plan was derailed when Beck had a motorcycle accident that incapacitated him for 18 months. Stewart then joined pal Ron Wood in the revamped Faces (and pursued a somewhat lucrative solo career), leaving Bogert and Appice to find alternates for their dream band. They recruited guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's disassembling Detroit Wheels, and singer Rusty Day from Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes. And thus “Cactus” was born.

7. Savoy Brown - She's got a ring in his nose and a ring on her hand: Savoy Brown were another great British Blues based rock band from the 60's & 70's, with Lonesome Dave Peverett later of Foghat handling vocal duties on this snazy little ditty.

8. B. Lance - John The Rollin' Man: Here is some excellent rural, backwoods-vibed Folk-Rock to further ease you down from the heavy rock ledge!
This cut is from his one and only album from 1972 on Atlantic records called "Rollin' Man". The B. is short for Bob.


9. Plastic People - Dancin' & Drinkin': Plastic people formed in 1967 by Guitarist, lyricist, and vocalist John Earl Walker, three years later they changed the name of the band to “Plum Nelly” who recorded several albums for Capitol Records in the mid-'70s, and gained national exposure opening shows for B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Alice Cooper, and Iggy Pop, to name just a few.
Dancin' and Drinkin' - what better way to end this mix...???

The Devil's Music Mix - Vol. 2 - RAWK POWER!!!

Hubert Sumlin Live @ The Brighton Bar 4/11/08

Hubert & Howlin' Wolf

What a night last night!

The JJB and I met up with DJ Prestige for some Fantastic Vegan food at Sister Sue's in Asbury Park. If your ever around the area I HIGHLY recommend the Vegan Jerked Chicken and plantains!!! Wicked Good. We tried to talk Pres into going up to the Brighton w/ us but no dice.

DJ Jack The Ripper was gigging at the Brickwall in Asbury and we had every intention of going back over there after we went and saw Hubert Sumlin at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch because Hubert was playing early but alas many blues numbers and many beers later it just didn't pan out so my apologies to Pres & the ripper for not making it back down to asbury but I'm sure they were understand as we were in the presence of a true legend Hubert Sumlin!

In Case you don't know Hubert was a member of Howlin Wolf's band for over 2 decades and was cited by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 100 guitarist of all time and is a member of the Blues Hall of Fame!

His often imitated but never duplicated guitar playing can be heard on such Howlin' Wolf songs as Built for Comfort, Shake for Me, 300 Pounds of Joy, Goin' Down Slow, Wand Dang Doodle and of course Killing Floor.

Just hearing him do "Killing Floor" was enough for me. I mean here was Howlin Wolf's guitar player, a 76 year old veteran of the blues wailing away, strutting and just busting it out. It was pretty special. I'm I am glad you got the chance to see him play.

I don't do this too often but i approached him after the gig and told him thank you for that. and told him how special i thought it was. He shook my hand and grabbed my shoulder and said this. "Did you feel it?" I know I did and it sure was special wasn't it? Indeed it was, indeed it was...

Blues: Hubert Sumlin, Life Lessons and Guitar Lessons


Hubert Sumlin, Robert Cray & Jimmie Vaughan -- Killing Floor

Stone The Crows - Raining In Your Heart

Here is an album and a cut that me and the JJB both enjoy a great deal...

I recently used this track in the FuFu Stew Funky Side of the Rock Mix but this track is certainly worthy of being used on its own.

Stone the Crows was a tough-luck, working class, progressive soul band that came out of the pubs of Scotland in the early '70s. They had everything going for them at the start: not one, but two gritty singers, a talented guitarist, a rhythm section that had played with John Mayall, and the name recognition of having Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant as their producer. Despite favorable reviews by the critics, however, they never managed to sell their hybridized soul music to a large audience.

Here is some great call & answer vocals by Maggie Bell and Jim Dewer (later of Robin Trower fame) It’s a great soulful bluesy number with some really heartfelt vocals by the duo of Bell & Dewer.
Great rolling organ work by John McGinnis & Great hot guitar action by Les Harvey, brother of Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey band, Les Harvey would actually die on stage by being electrocuted but here his playing is pretty electric.

Stone the Crows - Raining in Your Heart

Forward to the Caves Radio Play List 3/13/08

here is what was cookin' last night on the Caves radio show!
A shit ton of Blues, some live UFO and a hot mix of goopy, gooey R'n R!!!!
(Zen G went out to FuFuStews Vincent the Soul Chef!)


I been hella busy this week but i have a few hot sides to lay on you if i can get to them this weekend so hang in there and have a good one!

And i hope to have a speacial guest for next weeks show, DJ Prestige of Flea Market Funk may be stopping by and filling your ears with a special Flea Market Forward to the Caves Full on Soul & Funk show! I got my fingers crossed!!!

Little Walter - I Keep Loving Her
Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy Baby
Memphis Slim - Memphis Slim U.S.A.
Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama
Sunnyland Slim - Low Down Sunnyland Train
Robert Nighthawk - Kansas City
Memphis Slim - Sassy Mae
Sleepy John Estes - Rats In My Kitchen
Sunny Land Slim - I'm Just A Lonesome Man

Howlin' Wolf - Red Rooster
Big Bill Broonzy Baby Please Don't Go
Bessie Smith - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
Champion Jack Dupree - Everybody's Blues
John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake
Lightning Hopkins - Big Black Cadillac Man
Leadbelly - Alberta
Ike Turner - All The Blues All The Time

Smokey Hog - Little School Girl
Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is A Busy Man
St. Louis Jimmy - Murder In The First Degree
Henry Gray - Watch Yourself
Harmonica Slim - Drop Anchor
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Willie Eagan - Wear That Black Dress
JB Lenoir - Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee
L.C. McKinley - Rosalie Blues
Little Papa Joe - Easy Lovin'
Nature Boy Brown - Blue Blue Boogie
Curtis Jones - Cool Playing Blues
Snooky prior - Crosstown Blues
Little Willie Foster - Four Day Jump
Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man

Amos Millburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
Alice Cooper - Aint That Just Like A Woman
PW Long - I'll Be Your Angel
PW Long - The Shakin' Fears
Soda and His Million Piece Band - You Cheat
Soda and His Million Piece Band - July
Soda and His Million Piece Band - Mystery Song
Soda and His Million Piece Band - Liza Jane

UFO - Live - Side 1

C'mon Everybody
Who Do You Love
loving Cup

UFO - Live - Side 2

Prince Kajuku/ The Coming of Prince Kajuku
Boogie for George
Follow You Home

Killing Joke - Asteroid
VoivVod - VoiVod
VoiVod - Warriors of Ice
VoiVod - Suck Your Bone
Ministry - Stigmata
Zen Guerrilla - The Seeker
Die Kreuzen - Pink Flag
Sparklehorse - Someday
Thin White Rope - Ants Are Cavemen
Pink Fairies - The Snake

Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues - Al Rawls

Here's a little something different, some Blues to help get you through the weekend.

I love the blues but i really don't have that much of it on vinyl. It just doesn't turn up that often while digging and when it does its usually some $$$ but here is one i picked up not to long ago. This is by no means a major rarity, but i was pretty happy when i saw it. I've been a fan of Sleepy John for a while now, ever since i heard "Drop Dowm Mama" & "Rats In My Kitchen" on a Blues Legends comp many years ago and this is my 1st of his on actual vinyl. This was released in 1967 and even though it was released in the 60's it does have the pre-war blues feel. Which i personally enjoy more so than post war blues.

There really is nothing i can write about this man that hasn't already been written and to be completely honest i am by no means a writer. I wish i was. I'm only here to share some of my records and hopefully turn some people on to some new old music that people may not have heard yet. And if you have not heard of Mr. Estes or if you'd like to read up on him here is a wikipedia article where you can get the basic facts.

Here are a few of my fave cuts from this fine lp. I hope you enjoy them half as much as i do and i hope everyone has a great great weekend.

Cheers!
dd

Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues

Sleepy John Estes - Al Rawls