Want to kick back with a beer and cigar? Then this is the album for you. Every track in this package is meant to take you - the listener on a journey to that "special place" where your head is back, your foot is tapping and it's just you "Lucille" and B. B.
Jackie Moore's "Precious, Precious" is an amazing single - a Southern R&B burner from 1970 that features a spectacular performance, an indelible melody and a rivetingly masochistic lyrical conceit. My reaction the first time I heard it, recently, was both shock that it hadn't become a big hit, and curiosity if Moore had ever recorded anything else good. Then I looked into her career a little more, and what I discovered was even more shocking: it… more »
The biggest debate in blues circles these days is, "where did the blues begin?" Ever since the blues revival of the 50s and 60s, the answer has been "the Mississippi Delta." But in recent years, more than a few blues buffs have argued, that while the Delta is where the harshest form of blues indeed gelled, there is very little evidence to suggest that blues started there. Further, Delta blues in its heyday was almost… more »
