http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4F4yT0KAMyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RTh5t8yEqI&feature=player_detailpage

"The Blues are always two themes interwoven into one. At the surface, they are about how 'my baby done me wrong'. Below that, they are a chorus of universal misery and hope. The same words tell a personal story and also invoke a common understanding of currents far deeper than the personal."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KoJj4dz2I&feature=player_detailpage

That's some tasty morsels, listening to this stuff at work has a rather significant level of irony. That's the blues for ya.

Back at ya...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GcNDuBFpU9Q

For all the fireworks and frippery Jimi played the blues.

For all the fireworks and frippery Jimi played the blues.

This is one of the best versions of "Red House" I have heard. But he is playing a Gibson, which is rare, so maybe that's the dif...

Man, Brother Can You Spare a Dime is gut-wrenching. Also, I haven't heard Boz Scaggs in a long time. Shit, now I'm "on" it...