BluesPlus Trivia

09/09/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ol6ldMsc4

THIRD EDIT No videos no music.. SO this is JUST THE INTERVIEW! Both nights.Got an email about the music that didn't exist in the second edit so I killed it a...

31/08/2022

Mixing some tunes and thought I would share this slice of B-3 heaven. Jimmy McGriff-I Got A Woman Parts 1&2 (Sue Records; 1962). My collection only includes part 1, so this was a treat for me.

Reminds me of my friend, Wally Derleth, the long-time host of jazz programming on The Red River Radio Network, which I am also associated with. Wally loved the sound of the B-3 played right, and Jimmy McGriff was as righteous as they came.

LP " I've Got A Woman " Sue Records 1962www.grooveaddict.orgcredits:Engineer Irving GreenbaumProducer Juggy Murray

30/08/2022

Listen to “Some People Do” by Old Dominion from their self-titled album, out now: http://smarturl.it/OD3?IQid=youtube Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/OD3/app...

30/08/2022

Remembering bassist Joe Osborn - Bass Player who was born on this date August 27, 1937 in Mound, LA.

Osborn began his career working in local clubs, then played on a hit record by singer Dale Hawkins. He moved to Las Vegas at age 20, and spent a year playing backup for country singer Bob Luman. With legendary guitar player Roy Buchanan among his bandmates, Osborn switched from guitar to electric bass.

In 1960, with Allen "Puddler" Harris, a native of Franklin Parish, also in northeastern Louisiana, and James Burton, originally from Webster Parish, Osborn joined pop star Ricky Nelson - Singer's backup band, where he spent four years. He also did studio work with Johnny Rivers.

When the Nelson band dissolved in 1964, Osborn turned to studio work in Los Angeles full-time. For the next ten years, he was considered a "first-call" bassist among Los Angeles studio musicians, and a member of The Wrecking Crew.

His playing can be heard on records by The Mamas & The Papas, the Association, The Grass Roots, and The 5th Dimension. Osborn can be heard on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" and the 5th Dimension's version of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as "Ventura Highway" by America. He played on many of Neil Diamond's major hits in the late 1960s and early to middle 1970s, including the bass lines on "Holly Holy" in 1969.

Osborn is known for his discovery and encouragement of the Carpenters, on whose albums he played bass throughout their career.

In 1974, Osborn left Los Angeles and moved to Nashville. He continued an active studio career, playing behind such vocalists as Kenny Rogers, Mel Tillis, and Hank Williams Jr. One count listed Osborn as bassist on fifty-three number one hits on the country charts and at least 197 that were in the top 40's.

He left Nashville in 1988 and settled in Keithville in Caddo Parish near Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. From 2005 until December 2018, he continued to live in semi-retirement and record occasionally.

Osborn died December 14, 2018 at the age of 81.

30/08/2022

Mick Jagger on Charlie Watts: “He held the band together for so long, musically, because he was the rock the rest of it was built around,” Jagger explained. “The thing he brought was this beautiful sense of swing and swerve that most bands wish they could have.
He wasn’t just a straight rock drummer, Charlie brought another sensibility, the jazz touch. And he didn’t play very heavy.” Still, added the singer, Watts could also be “straight-ahead” on songs like “Get Off of My Cloud.”
We would get into a groove. He would understand what I was trying to do, and I would understand what he was trying to do. That was different from a guitar player’s relationship. And I had that with Charlie, developed over many, many years.
Meanwhile, Richards said he and Watts immediately bonded over their distaste for “show biz” and a shared preference for focusing on music. The legendary guitarist described Watts’ consistency in a unique manner: “A most vital part of being in this band was that Charlie Watts was my bed. I could lay on there, and I know that not only would I have a good sleep, but I’d wake up and it’d still be rocking.”
Wood chimed in by saying Watts let his drums do the talking. “He certainly had his powerful views,” said Wood. “But he said it with his playing. He just spoke through his instrument.”

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29/08/2022

Two of my friends, Katy Hobgood Ray and Dan Sumner, have collaborated on a recently published book about little-known musician (i.e., I didn't know who he is) Snoozer Quinn. I may be mistaken, but I believe that Katy has written elsewhere that she is somehow related to this artist whose work rates more than a largely unread footnote in music history. Hopefully, this book will go a long way to correct that. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Imagine an improvising musician, a dazzling stylist, whose recorded works add up to perhaps forty minutes. Dead of tuberculosis at 42. Admired by Les Paul and Frank Trumbauer, Danny Barker, Peck Ke…

26/08/2022

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