This week I am posting a recommendation from my good friend Tony. Tony and I have similar tastes in music, both live in the Toronto area and we take the opportunity to share music and go to the occasional concert together. One of my highlights last year is when we saw Wild Tchoupitoulas and others in the New Orleans Take Me To The River tour and then Joe Bonamassa in the same week.
This year our musical outings are curtailed, so this blog this blog serves as a surrogate for sharing music and artists we like.
Tony send me a few recommendations, but this first one came from a comment he made on my Throw Back Thursday. I put in ZZ Top's Blue Jean Blues from the '70s in last week. While I thought that was 'throwing back' far enough Tony suggested going back another decade to 1964 and the roots of Rock 'n' Roll.
His recommendation is Sister Rosetta Thorpe's Didn't it Rain. Sister Rosetta was a blues/gospel singer who really came into mainstream success in the '60s with her unique electric guitar playing and gospel/rock/soul songs. Her performances heavily influenced the entire UK Blues movement and she is often referred to as the god-mother of Rock'n'Roll by people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. You can also hear a lot of Sister Rosetta's influence in tunes by Elvis, Carl Perkins and Little Richard.. just to name a few
Tony also provided the interesting bit on Hugh Laurie Factoid below... thanks.
This year our musical outings are curtailed, so this blog this blog serves as a surrogate for sharing music and artists we like.
Tony send me a few recommendations, but this first one came from a comment he made on my Throw Back Thursday. I put in ZZ Top's Blue Jean Blues from the '70s in last week. While I thought that was 'throwing back' far enough Tony suggested going back another decade to 1964 and the roots of Rock 'n' Roll.
His recommendation is Sister Rosetta Thorpe's Didn't it Rain. Sister Rosetta was a blues/gospel singer who really came into mainstream success in the '60s with her unique electric guitar playing and gospel/rock/soul songs. Her performances heavily influenced the entire UK Blues movement and she is often referred to as the god-mother of Rock'n'Roll by people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. You can also hear a lot of Sister Rosetta's influence in tunes by Elvis, Carl Perkins and Little Richard.. just to name a few
Tony also provided the interesting bit on Hugh Laurie Factoid below... thanks.
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Yes, this is a good one. Really like That’s All as well.
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