Time for some more blues standards. Most, if not all, of today's music has some basis in the blues, and we owe that genre a lot more than we often realise. So, as they say, time to pay our dues to the men and women who have given us some of the very best, iconic and enduring music over the past seventy years or so.
A little more contemporary, this is Roomful of Blues, with the great “There goes the neighborhood”.
The legendary Peter Green pledges to be a “Fool no more”.
Another legend, this is the late Albert Collins, with “Lights are on, but nobody's home”.
Two legends for the price of one; sadly only one of whom is still with us. The late lamented Gary Moore teams up with John Mayall on this classic, “If I don't get home”.
And the legends just a-keep on comin'! It's Johnny Winter, who tells us “Life is hard”. Indeed it can be. Just ask any family in Ireland today.
Something bang up to date now, proving that the blues is still alive and kickin' even in the twenty-first century. This is from Robert Cray's new album, it's called “I'm done cryin'”
And one of the Daddies, this is Howlin' Wolf, with “Smokestack lightnin'”.
And another, this is Fats Domino, and “Blue Monday”. No,
not the New Order song, you philistine!
Let's hop on “The Midnight Special” with Leadbelly...
... and continuing, and ending in that vein, we'll end with “Choo choo boogie” from Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown.