Free -Isle of Wight (1970)

The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 was a music festival held between 26 and 31 August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight in England. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and often acknowledged as the largest musical event of its time, with a larger attendance than Woodstock.^[ Although estimates vary, Guinness World Records estimated 600,000 to 700,000 people attended.It was organised and promoted by local brothers, Ron and Ray Foulk through their company Fiery Creations Ltd and their brother Bill Foulk. Ron Smith was site manager and Rikki Farr acted as compere.

                Be My Friend

Free were an English rock band formed in London in 1968, best known for their hit songs "All Right Now” and "Wishing Well". They disbanded in 1973; lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become the frontman of the more successful rock band Bad Company, which also featured his Free bandmate Simon Kirke on drums.Lead guitarist Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler in 1973, but died from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 25 in 1976.^[3] Bassist Andy Fraser formed Sharks.

              Mr Big

Free became renowned for their live shows and non-stop touring. However, their studio albums did not sell very well until their third, Fire and Water, featured the massive hit "All Right Now". The song helped secure them a place at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, where they played to 600,000 people.In the early 1970s Free became one of the biggest-selling British blues rock^[6][7][8] groups; by the time they disbanded, they had sold more than 20 million albums around the world and had played more than 700 arena and festival concerts. "All Right Now" remains a R&B staple, and has been entered in ASCAP's "One Million" airplay singles club.

              All Right Now

 Rolling Stone has referred to the band as "British hard rock pioneers".The magazine ranked Rodgers No. 55 in its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time",and Paul Kossoff at Number 51 in its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Free were signed to Island Records in the UK and A&M Records in North America. 

                                           Paul Francis Kossoff (14 September 1950 - 19 March 1976) 

                                        Andrew McIan Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015)

 

                                           Simon Frederick St George Kirke (born 28 July 1949)

                                           Paul Rodgers (born 17 December 1949)

                                                                            FREE

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Roy Buchanan with Johnny & Shuggie Otis

 

Nice that FB, you come across nice videos. Probably footage from a TV special from the early 1970s. A still young Roy Buchanan, a very young Shuggie and Dad Johnny at the piano. Very special because, unlike Roy, there is little video material from Shuggie in circulation 

Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes, December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario.A seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll, Otis discovered artists such as Little Esther, Big Mama Thornton, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John and Hank Ballard. Known as the original "King of Rock & Roll",he is commonly referred to as the "Godfather of Rhythm and Blues".



Sweet Home Chicago
 Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound,Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career,and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still considered a highly influential guitar player. Although not mentioned on the Rolling Stone list "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time," Guitar Player praised him as one of the "50 Greatest Tones of all Time."



Bey Bye Baby(Until we meet again)

Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.
Otis' composition "Strawberry Letter 23" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977^, He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single "Inspiration Information" (from the album of the same name), reaching #56 on the R&B chart.

Johnny Otis
 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2012/01/johnny-otis-december-28-1921-january-17.html

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee

 

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  Sonny Terry Sonny Terry in 1981 Saunders Terrell ( Greensboro ( Georgia ), 24 oktober 1911 - Mineola ( New York ), 11 maart 1986 )

 Brownie McGhee was born on November 30, 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA as Walter McGhee

  By the late 50s there was a huge demand for folk/blues in the clubs around the East coast and as their fame as a double act grew and as record sales climbed steeply, Sonny and Brownie became national household names. They cut a gospel album in Oakland CA in 1957, then toured Britain and recorded an album in London the following year, to great acclaim.(All About Blues Music)

               

           Burnt Child

 TV appearances took them into the world mainstream and they were soon issuing a studio album or live set every few months. They covered a lot of ground with these recordings; they had learned a lot of Piedmont Blues as young men and also gave their interpretations of many other Blues players’ best songs, as well as forays into other styles.(All About Blues Music)

                                                 Gonna Move Across The River

 The Festival movement loved them for their wide repertoire of folk, blues, gospel and protest songs, and they toured the world for the whole of the 60s as a headline attraction. The sight of the tall man with a heavy limp leading the small blind man on stage was seen on five continents.(All About Blues Music)

                                              Stranger Blues

 Despite their affable stage act, the two men did not get along too well personally as the years went by. On the 1973 album ‘Sonny and Brownie’ with John Mayall and John Hammond Jr. they banter like old friends, but outside the studio they would barely talk. It finally came to the point where they would be billed together, but Sonny would play with another guitarist and then Brownie would do a solo set. Thus the affair came to a messy end at some indeterminate time in the late 70s.(All About Blues Music)

 

                                                         All About Blues Music

                                                  https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/

 

The Moody Blues -Tuesday Afternoon (Jazz Bilzen 1969)

                                       
                              

                  Mike Pinder                             Justin Hayward                           Ray Thomas

Voor de 5^de verjaardag van Jazz Bilzen willen de organisatoren een grote naam op de affiche. Op hun verlanglijstje staan Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Who en zelfs de volledige cast van de hitmusical ‘Hair’. Uiteindelijk weten ze Marsha Hunt (een van de sterren uit ‘Hair’), The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, Deep Purple, Shocking Blue, het Keith Jarrett Trio en het Ornette Cooleman Quintet te strikken.Hoogtepunten ware toch wel het optreden van Deep Purple,The Soft Machine en The Moody Blues,getuige onderstaand fragment..

    Tuesday Afternoon

Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in November 1967 by Deram Records.^[7]
With its fusion of orchestral and rock elements, it has been cited as one of the first examples of progressive rock.

"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)"

 

."Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)", also known as "Call It Stormy Monday", or just "Stormy Monday", is a blues song written by T-Bone Walker and first recorded in 1947. Confusingly, it is also sometimes referred to as "Stormy Monday Blues", although that is actually the title of a different song, a #1 R&B hit recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine; Walker titled his song as he did to avoid the name collision.

T-Bone Walker, the master of the Eletric Blues guitar playing his classic Stormy Monday
The original recording appeared on Black & White Records, produced by Ralph Bass, and was one of Walker's breakthrough sides in pioneering the idiom of electric blues guitar. This recording also featured smoky trumpet work from sideman Teddy Buckner. It reached #5 on the R&B charts in 1948. B.B. King has said that "Call It Stormy Monday" inspired him to begin playing electric guitar.


Lou Rawls with Les MacCann trio featuring Stanley Turrentine(ts) 1989Walker re-recorded the song with better fidelity and a somewhat different arrangement on his classic 1959 Atlantic Records album T-Bone Blues.


Stormy Monday by Eva Cassidy, Jan 3,1996,Live at Blues Alley, a small nightclub, in
Washington,DC.
The song became a standard for blues and blues rock artists, and over the years was recorded by Albert King, Eva Cassidy, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Jethro Tull, and others. Trouble ensued when artists named it "Stormy Monday Blues", however, as for instance Bobby Bland did on a well-known rendition, as it was mis-credited and royalties went to the Hines-Eckstine song rather than Walker's. This may have also happened on some of the treatments that were just called "Stormy Monday".



The classic T-Bone Walker's tune by John Mayall & The Original Bluesbreakers ft. Albert King.
This was recorded in June, 1982 at the New Jersey's Capitol Theatre.

Albert King: vocals, guitar
John Mayall: Keybords
Mick Taylor: guitar
Frank Dunbar: bass
Collin Allen: drums
The song was most popularized by The Allman Brothers Band, who included a sterling live performance (as "Stormy Monday") on their classic album At Fillmore East in 1971. Initially introduced as "an old Bobby Bland song," in reference to his aforementioned take, a correction is made and T-Bone Walker is given proper recognition. It garnered considerable airplay on progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio formats during the 1970s.


Eric Clapton at Pavarotti & Friends




BB King
The 1988 Mike Figgis film Stormy Monday was named for the song, and includes B. B. King's performance of it over the opening credits.

Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker or Oak Cliff T-Bone (May 26, 1910 — March 15, 1975 was an American blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar. His electric guitar solos were among the first heard on modern blues recordings and helped set a standard that is still followed. He was ranked #47 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.