Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[gweimer]

[jumbodbassman]

i think that's randy jo hobbs on bass 'red' on drums.

that's Tommy.  Randy was later on and a pbass guy with SVT not acoustic

[Pilgrim]

I had heard that Shannon had health problems - just checked his website and a few other sites, and I can't find anything except that he was OK and signed an endorsement deal with Markbass in May of 2012. 

His website says there's a 30th anniversary edition of the Texas Flood album about to be released....

Disc One of the 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition of Texas Flood includes the original album in its entirety with the bonus track "Tin Pan Alley" (aka "Roughest Place in Town").

Disc Two of the newly expanded Texas Flood will premiere a previously unavailable hour's long set of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble live at Ripley's Music Hall in Philadelphia.  Recorded on October 20, 1983 for a WMMR broadcast, the extraordinary Ripley's performance finds Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble coming straight out of the gun already at an undeniable peak of their formidible powers.

[Highlander]

That sounds remarkably like a release I already have...? presently packed away...

[nofi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQR1DALdXE&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8

[nofi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNg1RMGYmzE&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8

[nofi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXcdHZLk4o&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8

[nofi]

[nofi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBrQQlcPLwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBrQ

[nofi]

what a voice!

[4stringer77]

Lot's of versions of that one.
the original Tampa Red

Elmore James

John Mayall

Pig Pen, the Dead and Dwayne Allman

Foghat

[nofi]

everyone on earth has covered this tune. hands down elmore james is my favorite version. but like i said luther has the 'voice'.

[Highlander]

This thread has been quiet for too long... 

[nofi]

exceptional quality for an old video.

[gweimer]

I just came across this one.  It's a cover, but read what Donal Gallagher says about it, and The Commitments.

"Roddy Doyle, who wrote that, based it on Rory. Rory was a sort of muse for that – kind of the guy who didn't want to play this show band music, and went out and sort of went for a different form of music, i.e. the blues. In the movie, it's soul music. In fact, when they were casting for the movie, [director] Alan Parker called the office. He had gone back to the writer, Roddy Doyle, and said that they couldn't find the trumpet player, Lips or whatever the guy was called. Roddy said to Alan Parker "Well, if you can't find him, truth be known, I wrote it about a guitar player – Rory Gallagher. If you could get Rory to play the part of Joey 'Lips', the trumpet player, I'll rewrite the screenplay to be a guitar player. The whole legend of 'did he play with so-and-so', that all comes from Rory – did Rory play with Muddy Waters, did he play with Jerry Lee Lewis, did he have this reputation, did he really go out there and do it?" I managed to get Rory as far as Alan Parker's office, and Rory just refused. He did a reading for him, but just said "Look, I'm not the one." At the time, I was praying that he'd take the part. I really thought it would be a life-changing experience for Rory at a crucial point in his life. I thought he'd really have to look at life differently. It wasn't to be. But in fact, in the movie, the last line is "Let's go back to Gallagher's." -- Donal Gallagher