Ted Tocks Covers

Baby What You Want Me To Do

Originally posted on January 8, 2018

Blues legend Jimmy Reed was born 100 years ago today.

“You've got me runnin'
You've got me hidin'
You've got me run, hide, hide, run
Anyway you wanna let it roll”

#jimmyreed #ElvisPresley #ettajames #otisrush #gratefuldead  #whitehorse

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/baby-what-you-want-me-to-do/

Various Artists, The Best of Chess Blues, 1987 on Chess / MCA

Great 2xLP 80s compilation of the post-war blues that made Chess such a critical label, issued by MCA who acquired the rights to the Chess catalog in the mid-eighties.

• Muddy Waters– Rollin’ Stone
• Robert Nighthawk– Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
• Eddie Boyd & The Chess Men– 24 Hours
• Willie Mabon– Seventh Son
• Lowell Fulson–Reconsider Baby
• Muddy Waters– (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
• Howlin’ Wolf– Smokestack Lightnin’
• Little Walter & His Night Cats– Juke
• J.B. Lenoir– Eisenhower Blues
• Jimmy Rogers– Walking By Myself
• Howlin’ Wolf– Back Door Man
• Elmore James– Madison Blues
• Sonny Boy Williamson– Your Funeral My Trial
• Otis Rush– So Many Roads, So Many Trains
• Buddy Guy– My Time After Awhile
• Sonny Boy Williamson– Bring It On Home
• John Lee Hooker– One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
• Etta James– Baby What You Want Me To Do
• Little Milton– Stormy Monday
• Koko Taylor– Wang Dang Doodle

My copy—via Mel’s Record Shop in Amesbury MA—is a 1987 pressing by MCA Records’ plant in Gloversville, NY.

#1980s #1987 #AmesburyMA #Blues #BuddyGuy #ChessRecords #Collection #EddieBoydTheChessMen #elmoreJames #HowlinWolf #JBLenoir #JimmyRogers #JohnLeeHooker #KokoTaylor #LittleMilton #LittleWalter #LowellFulson #MCARecords #MelSRecordShop #MuddyWaters #OriginalChessMasters #OtisRush #Reissue #RobertNighthawk #SonnyBoyWilliamson #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieMabon

The best tempo change in all of Chicago Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdjugMDnPs

#music #otisrush #ChunderRoad
#Chicagoblues

Ted Tocks Covers

Black Magic Woman

Originally posted on July 25, 2021

John Mayall, the man who pioneered the British Blues movement, died yesterday at the age of 90. Look back at six decades of quality music and oftentimes you will find less than three degrees of separation between what you are listening to and John Mayall.

Here is just one example.

#petergreen #fleetwoodmac #johnmayall #otisrush #santana

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/black-magic-woman-the-evolution-of-a-classic-rock-staple-musicislife-tedtockscovers-petergreen-fleetwoodmac-johnmayallandhisbluesbreakers-otisrush-santana-gaborszabo-buttonbrownbrass-snowy/

listening to #otisrush

https://albumwhale.com/albums/8948

Molti non sanno che I Can't Quit You Baby del #1969 è una cover di una canzone #blues di #WillieDixon ma resa famosa da dall'interpretazione di #OtisRush che pubblico nel prossimo toot 😃

#LedZeppelin

https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=0dA5Vfl1bbU