GUITARS : Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - ‘Stormy Monday’

 

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Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stormy Monday

Two favourites and a favourite song first bought at 13 years old (precocious little freak that I was! ) by Chris Farlowe ( as Little Joe Cook featuring a young Albert Lee on guitar) 

Check how Albert plays his guitar here and how it’s strung (if you didn’t know!?) . . . . only Jimi could do that in my experience but hey well he could play it either way up to be fair and was truly ambidextrous and not left handed as many assumed  . . . . . . . this with Albert is strung the right way but played left handed and therefore upside down !!!!

Song To Start The Week : FACEBOOK Greatest Rock 'N' Roll of the 50s & 60s : ‘OUT OF TIME’ CHRIS FARLOWE

 With one of the most unique soulful voices of the period I first came across Chris Farlowe singing this and mods of the time to a man loved this song  (written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of course!)

I also bought 'Stormy Monday' a blues standard classic written by  T-Bone Walker featuring the wonderful guitarist Albert Lee though I didn’t know it was Chris at time as it was released under Little Joe Cook but it remains a favourite and blues standard I adore. His is the best version IMHO and features the most breathy blues voice you ever heard. I sill have it down in the vaults somewhere on a Marble Arch 10/6d classic re-release bought in the record racks in Fleetwood when but a kid!

 

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Greatest Rock 'N' Roll of the 50s & 60s

I found this over at Voodoo Wagon . . . . . . I saw Coliseum several times over the years and mostly at free open air concerts or festivals . . . . .along with the Keef Hartley band when they were around . . . . . they were my introduction to modern jazz . . . . . .




This is worth a look because it has a stellar line up with Clem Clempson  Dick Heckstall Smith and John Hiseman and the legend that is Chris Farlowe on lead vocals doing 'Rope Ladder To The Moon' by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, pretty much all of whom played on the original from Bruce's 'Songs For A Tailor'

note - I bought my first Chris Farlowe album as I may have mentioned at about the age 13 and a Marble Arch album that had his 'Little Joe Cook' single of 'Stormy Monday parts I&II' on it that has stayed as one of my favourite songs of all time entirely because of how Chris sings it

Here for example . . . . . . .made it to this with my old friend John Northcote and his then wife Heather who turned me on to so much music