What’s Your Blues Name

Mine is “Skinny BadBoy Parker”. What is yours? – Ted Image found at “IN SECRET ALPHABETS”

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Ted’s Favourites 25 – Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor (September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American Chicago blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings. Born Cora Walton in Shelby County, Tennessee, Taylor was the daughter of a sharecropper. She [...]

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Gladys Bentley, Lesbian Performer Of The Harlem Renaissance

Way before Janelle Monae made cute suits her signature, or Lady Gaga was flaunting her alter ego Jo Calderone, there was Gladys Bentley, flirting and singing the blues in men’s clothing during the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance. Why no one has paid Betley homage with a proper documentary or biography is baffling to me. [...]

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More Elkie Brooks Videos

When taking a break surfing YouTube the other day I discovered a few new Elkie Brooks videos so I added another page at “The British Invasion” I know that Vinegar Joe and Elkie wasn’t really part of that invasion as they never got big in the US, but what the heck. She’s been one of [...]

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Good Golly Miss Molly

Pic of Little Richard found on “I’ve had dreams like this” and the owner had added this text to it: As a boy, they called him War Hawk for his singing voice. At 10 he became a faith healer, before joining the circus to perform as "drag baby" Princess Lavonne. Women threw their panties at [...]

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Barbara Lynn

Barbara Lynn (born Barbara Lynn Ozen, later Barbara Lynn Cumby 16 January 1942 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American rhythm and blues guitarist and singer. She played piano as a child, but switched to guitar. Inspired by blues artists Guitar Slim and Jimmy Reed, and pop acts Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, she created an [...]

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Ted’s Favourites 22 – Koko Taylor

Born Cora Walton in Shelby County, Tennessee, Taylor was the daughter of a sharecropper. She left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois in 1952 with her husband, truck driver Robert "Pops" Taylor. In the late 1950s she began singing in Chicago blues clubs. She was spotted by Willie Dixon in 1962, and this led to wider performances [...]

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RIP Gary Moore

Text found at “The Music’s over”, image found at Yahoo Gary Moore was an Irish guitarist and singer who, over a career that spanned over 40 years, became one of the most acclaimed electric blues guitarists the world has ever known.  Moore was just 14 years old when he decided to pick up the guitar, [...]

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Manfred Mann & The Zombies

Time for some more classic British performers for the “From Liverpool to Wembley” series, so her goes: Manfred Mann and The Zombies. With videos of some of their greatest hits of course.  To Manfred Mann’s page   To The Zombies’ page

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Rolling Stones On Tour

From the American magazine Billboard – 1 May 1965

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Next out on “From Liverpool To Wembley”:

King Crimson   Yardbirds King Crimson is a rock band founded in Dorset, England in 1969. Although often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band has incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during its history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, new wave, gamelan, [...]

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Vodpod Report

Uploaded on my Vodpod page to night: Donovan: 12 videos The Strawbs: 11 videos Chris Farlowe: 21 videos My Vodpod pade:

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Vodpod Report

Uploaded on my Vodpod page tonight. [1] – The Spenser Davis Group – 30 videoes [2] – Chicken Shack – 18 videos [3] – Graham Bond – 14 videos Uploaded on my Vodpod page last night. [1] – Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers – 14 videos [2] – Long John Baldry –14 videos [3] [...]

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Sixties Flashback: Monterey Pop Festival 1967

!!! Links to 80 minutes of video from the festival at the bottom of the article !!!  The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, attracting [...]

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Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues band formed in 1966, in Battersea, South West London. Part of the late 1960s blues rock movement, Savoy Brown never achieved as much success in their homeland as they did in the United States, where they promoted their albums with non-stop [...]

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Bettye LaVette

The most observant of my visitors must surely have discovered that I’m rather active on Vodpod for the moment, and having fun being so as well. But once in a while something turns up that grabs your attention to the extent that just listing it together with hundreds of other artists just isn’t enough. I [...]

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My New Vodpod Account

I’ve had some great fun filling up my Vodpod account with classic British music from my favourit era, 1960 – 1980 this week end and now the video count is at 324. All great British pop, rock, blues, rythm’n’blues and folkrock for your entertainment. just click the videos at the top of the right column [...]

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My New Vodpod Account

  I’ve just started up a Vodpod account as it is much faster and easier to post videos there. You can see the last four uploaded videos in one of the collections at the top of the right column, just click the thumbnail and you can watch the video right here on the blog. There [...]

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Alexis Corner

Number two to day on “From Liverpool to Wembley” is Alexis Corner, one of founding fathers’ of British rock. In early 1950′s Korner’s pioneering created a British audience eager to welcome Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee – until then almost totally ignored outside Black Ghettos in the [...]

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Ted’s favourites 06 – Elkie Brooks

  Born Elaine Bookbinder, February 25th 1945 in Salford, Elkie Brooks has become one of the most successful and respected singing talents in the UK. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, produced 19 studio albums, and received numerous awards and accolades; Elkie is back on the road for what promises to be another very [...]

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