Here's a list I've been meaning to start for a long time. Actually, almost every time I look up a performer on YouTube. I'm looking for interesting or unusual blues clips that make good viewing. This is just a start. I'll be adding more. If you have a favorite blues video link, send it along (It doesn't have to be YouTube, but it shouldn't violate any copyright laws). I include links here in case you need to paste them into a browser.
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Jimi Hendrix and Roy Buchanan together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lewJROg2cEk
Jimi Hendrix plays piano and violin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayarBrD6mk
James Brown, his famous cape routine and a near-riot by appreciatve
fans. Nobody did it better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0JAdavjY3E
Mamie Smith, one of the original women of the blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56RWrXi9A-Q
Jimmy Rushing, Mr. Five by Five -- 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVtfCVWUF4E
Big Joe Turner, one of my all-time favorites -- 1955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJ2XH_qHkU
Big Joe Turner -- "Chains of Love" from 1965 -- one of my all-time
favorite R&B songs, because you could dance really, really to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsDCSkH71uI
Jimmy Witherspoon -- "Ain’t Nobody’s Business," a classic blues song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydTlJGVIt2I
Mississippi
Fred McDowell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec
The Rev. Gary Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Hbuf6FEoY
A short blues documentary, (22 minutes) featuring Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and more, talking about the blues and bluesmen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRnKZ9vqv-g
Chess Records and Chicago Blues History Fair Documentary (10 minutes). A little simplistic but fun - watch for a rare old clip of Chuck Berry and some very young Rolling Stones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqOlGhDyjas
A musical blues poem with video and images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Lgo5uGCDY
Lightnin' Hopkins performing, "Mojo Hand," 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNDJF4azgog
Howlin Wolf does "Smokestack Lightning," 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNt5J0Cesc
B.B. King on Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (TV show) 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5URVbh3KX8
John Lee Hooker - "One Bourbon , One Scotch, One Beer" (Montreal Jazz Festival , 1980) For a couple of guys I met in a bar who thought this song was invented by George Thorogood. (Not an especially appropriate band behind Hooker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L9iodN9hE4
Jimmy Reed on Houston, Texas television in 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRZha7ULWg
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup' and Fred Below, 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8DI9DBTTNo
Little Walter Jacobs R&R Hall of Fame film
www.youtube.com/watch
Little Walter and Hound Dog Taylor - 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnJM8iUy38
Koko Taylor with Little Walter and Hound Dog Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM
Big Walter Horton - 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LF-DSSuY84
Big Walter, Mexico City Blues Festival, 1979
This was about the time that I saw Big Walter at the Evergreen Hotel in the North Hills. The show was marked by Walter's annoyance when a fan kept standing up to take his picture. He threatened to quit playing if it happened again. And the annoyance at that disturbance by the late Big Al Smith, a WYEP DJ and great blues fan. The photo at left is one I was able to get with my long lens, hiding almost under the table.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-S6Aza2p8
Posted
Feb 13 2009, 09:56 PM
by
Jim White