BluesClub De Viersprong no longer exists, but I saw many beautiful performances there, and Chris Cain's performance was certainly one of the highlights.
film by Arthur
ChrisCain
is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who has released his
16th album, Good Intentions Gone Bad, on Alligator Records. He has been
nominated for several Blues Music Awards and praised by critics and
peers for his original and passionate blues and jazz style.
Ulster Hall Belfast (1988) "Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th-century American folk standard, written in 3 4 time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1933. A version recorded by The Weavers was a #1 hit in 1950. Pete Seeger of The Weavers has characterized it as Lead Belly's "theme song."
Fill Your Head with Rock (1970) was the third release in the successful CBS RecordsRock MachineUK budget sampler album
series. It broke new ground, by extending the format to a double album,
and also featured more UK artists than previous samplers.
Compiler David Howell (later Managing Director of Pete Waterman's PWL
label) stated that while the earlier samplers were merely aimed at
promoting specific full-price releases, this record was part of a major
push to establish the label as "the top label in contemporary music" in
the UK, and also to establish the market for double albums.
Laura Nyro born Laura Nigro;
October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter, singer,
and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings,
particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969)
Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child,[1] and Latin American music.[2] His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
4 "The Inbetween Man"(A. Kane) : Amory Kane (from the LP Just to Be There 63849) (5:22)
Jack Daniel Kane Jr. (born March 28, 1946), known professionally as Amory Kane, is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for his work in Britain in the late 1960s.
Trees was a British folk rock
band recording and touring throughout 1969, 1970 and 1971, reforming
briefly to continue performing throughout 1972. Although the group met
with little commercial success in their time, the reputation of the band
has grown over the years, and underwent a renaissance in 2007 following
Gnarls Barkley's sampling of the track "Geordie" (from Trees’ second album On The Shore) on the title track of their multi-million selling album St. Elsewhere.
Thomas Walker Rush (born February 8, 1941)[1] is an American folk and blues
singer, guitarist and songwriter who helped launch the careers of other
singer-songwriters in the 1960s and has continued his own singing
career for 60 years.[
Janis Lyn Joplin[1] (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and musician. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals[ and "electric" stage presence.
Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears, although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity. Throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, playing organ on the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale", among many other appearances. Kooper also produced a number of one-off collaboration albums, such as the Super Session album that saw him work separately with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills.
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments,[1] often incorporating elements of world music
into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope
of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing
it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean,
Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific
Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois,
who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to
earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he
rarely sang before 1969.[1]
Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many
of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was
instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan'sHighway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.
Pacific Gas & Electric was an Americanrock band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, led by singer Charlie Allen. Their biggest hit was the gospel-tinged "Are You Ready?" in 1970.
John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer and guitarist.[1] Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
