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Chess Records – The Soundtrack the 1950s Black America
“The Blues is at the heart of popular music and Chess Records are at the heart of the Blues.” – Buddy Guy In the early 1947 two Polish-born, nightclub-owning brothers, Leonard and Philip Chess (real...
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CAN WHITE MEN PLAY THE BLUES?
It was in late 1968 that the Bonzo Dog Band asked the musical question, ‘Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?’ In typical Bonzo’s fashion it was their quirky take on the question that w
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They Call It Stormy Monday – A 12 Step Plan to the Blues
You want to convince someone that the Blues are great? What is it that makes them so good and what has made them so popular around the world? Well our twelve tracks will do just that. Stormy Monday –...
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Damn Right We’ve Got The Blues!
100 of the greatest blues tunes by some of the great blues artists. From Muddy, Wolf and Lightnin' to Clapton, The Stones and Allman Brothers Band. 6 hours 44 minutes of music that will cool you down,...
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The Origins of Dust My Broom
Trying to recall where you first heard the quintessential electric blues riff that opens ‘Dust My Broom’ is difficult. It may have been the early 50’s version by Elmore James or Fleetwood Mac’s late...
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Memphis Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2014
Nine giants of Memphis music have been named, at a press conference at Hard Rock Café on Beale Street, to be 2014 inductees into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. They include such all-time greats of...
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See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
It was in 1927 that Texan Bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’, it instantly became one of his best-known songs. Two years later he was dead, probably from a heart...
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The Wolf Man Cometh
The story of Howlin' Wolf’s London Sessions album has its genesis in San Francisco in August 1968 when Cream and Electric Flag played the Fillmore Auditorium. Backstage, Norman Dayron who was a staff...
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Blues Hall Of Fame For Clapton and Little Richard
Eric Clapton and Little Richard are to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, to be held in conjunction with the 36th Blues Music Awards on May 7 in Memphis, Tennessee. Clapton will join such great...
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The Original Back Door Man
According to producer Sam Phillips, the man who first recorded Howlin’ Wolf, “He wasn't just a Blues singer, I mean he was a commander of your soul and he got hold of you with the Blues. The Wolf was a...
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Monster Mash-Up: The Best Halloween Songs Ever
The horror! The horror!… And we’re not talking about heavy metal mullets and Spandex leggings. No: from Bobby “Boris” Pickett through to The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf and Marilyn Manson,...
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Listen To Jack Bruce & Leslie West’s ‘Spoonful’
Here's an early chance to listen to the live version of 'Spoonful,' featuring the late Jack Bruce, that features on Soundcheck, the new album by Leslie West, his friend and former bandmate from West,...
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Roots Of The Blues – Going Down Slow
You may well have never heard of St Louis Jimmy Oden, but we guarantee you will have heard a classic that he wrote. He was born in 1903 in Nashville and died 74 years later in Chicago. He was orphaned...
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Wilko’s Chess Pieces, & New Memoir
Wilko Johnson has curated a new album of vintage material from the famous Chess Records label, to be released the day after his autobiography. Wilko Johnson Presents The First Time I Met The Blues will...
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The Sam Phillips Interview (May 2000)
I was lucky enough to visit Sam Phillips at his home in Memphis while making a TV documentary in 2000. Sam was a gracious host, full of old-school Southjern charm, and eager to talk about the blues and...
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Howlin’ Wolf in 20 Songs
He howled like a hungry wolf, though most of the time his voice sounded like a roar from a very edgy bear. He was a big man, standing 6ft 3in, and in one song claimed to weigh “300 pounds of heavenly...
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George Thorogood, Still Thoroughly Live
Enduring bluesman George Thorogood, currently on a run of Canadian dates during his North American tour, has been talking about his heritage and his admiration for groups such as Steppenwolf and the...
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Charley Patton – The First Rock and Roller?
Charley Patton’s legend strides across the Delta like no other Bluesman of his generation. And yet he was already over forty years old, the first time he recorded for Paramount in June 1929 at Grafton...
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The ‘Cosmic Genius’ Of Sam Phillips
uDiscover has been on another tour of a current exhibit at one of Nashville's prime attractions, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum — this time to look at the life and times of the man who, many...
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KNOW YOUR WRITES – HOW MUSIC WRITERS INSPIRE US TO LISTEN
While music journalism can be biased, disposable or (at worst) sink into self-indulgent waffle, as a genre it’s served as a fertile breeding ground for spawning incisive, informed writers, many of whom...
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