Aggressively Spanning the Blues Wall Street Journal By JIM FUSILLI Joe Louis Walker opened for Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King and Mississippi Fred McDowell, and was a close friend to Mike Bloomfield. At one point, he left behind a promising career as a blues ...
Folklorist to be honored for works in the South Jackson Clarion Ledger In 1959 folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) embarked upon an extensive survey of traditional music in the South, resulting in the first recordings of artists including Mississippi Fred McDowell of Como. On Friday a ceremony will take place at the Emily ...
The Global Jukebox -- A look at music history Pittsburgh Post Gazette Then last August, in a release that we failed to mention here, Jukebox issued more landmark material, this time the early work of Mississippi Fred McDowell, titled "Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings." These were recorded while Lomax was ...
Joe Louis Walker brings his 'Hellfire' to Connecticut New Haven Register As a teenager, he got the opportunity to play with and get to know legends such as “Mississippi” Fred McDowell, Ike Turner, Albert King, Freddy King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Lightnin' Hopkins and others. He also swapped influences with his late good ...
The Black Keys - The two keys to the big time The Independent "When we first started the band, I had never heard of Mississippi Fred McDowell; but then, Dan had never heard The Stooges, or Led Zeppelin! At first there was a bit of resistance from both of us." But, gradually, the duo found enough shared ...
Grouper Covers Dead Moon for Yeti The Portland Mercury (blog) (Other tracks include two Mississippi Fred McDowell recordings and a Tiki Men cover of a Duane Eddy number.) Listen to Grouper's version right here (which also went up on Pitchfork today)—and check out the original here. To say they sound radically ...
Music Preview: Rolling Stones tribute from an unlikely source The Rolla Daily News “With 'You Gotta Move' we went back and listened to the Mississippi Fred McDowell original, and then the way the Stones did it, and we just dug in and turned it into this kind of raucous brawl at the bar. And 'Sister Morphine,' I decided to write in a ...
Live Music Roundup – January 19, 2012 Tweed Shire Echo Community News It's a long list and covers a variety of genres – in the blues ilk, the biggest influences are Mississippi Fred McDowell, Charley Patton, Son House, Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, RL Burnside to name a ...
Joe Louis Walker – Hellfire NU.nl De indrukwekkende lijst van figuren in wier kring hij heeft vertoefd echter ongetwijfeld wel: bluesmeesters als Mississippi Fred McDowell, Willie Dixon en Albert King en psychedelische rockiconen Bob Weir en Jorma Kaukonen. Niet zo vreemd misschien dat ...
MUSICA › LOS BLACK KEYS PUBLICARON EL CAMINO, UN DISCO INTENSO Y VITAL Página 12 “Cuando empezamos la banda, nunca había escuchado hablar de Mississippi Fred McDowell. Pero, bueno, Dan nunca había escuchado a The Stooges... ¡oa Led Zeppelin! Al principio había un poco de resistencia de ambos.” Sin embargo, gradualmente, el dúo ...
