vrijdag 6 maart 2009

All Star BluesBand Chicago Blues Summit 1974.



Intro by Nick Gravenites.(vocals)
Muddy Waters, vocals - guitar.
Michael Bloomfield, guitar.
Junior Wells, Harmonica.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, drums.
Al Radford, bass.
"Pine Top" Perkins, piano.


Long Distance Call


Messin with the Kid



McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams.


Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 — February 15, 1981), an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess.[citation needed] Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield, who knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 he was also also ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[1]


Junior Wells (December 9, 1932January 15, 1998), born Amos Blakemore, was a blues vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison among others.



Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (born January 19, 1936 in Helena, Arkansas) is an American blues vocalist, and multi-award winning drummer. Starting in the early 1960s, he joined the Muddy Waters band for almost two decades.



Pinetop Perkins (born Joe Willie Perkins; July 7, 1913) is an American blues musician.


Nicholas George Gravenites (born October 2, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois), known as Nick "The Greek" Gravenites and Gravy, is a blues, rock and folk singersongwriter and is best known for his work with Janis Joplin and several other greats of the 1960s and 1970s. Nick currently resides in Sebastopol, California.

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