John Mayall, Chris Barber & Eric Clapton - Please Mr Lofton

This is a live performance by John Mayall, Chris Barber and Eric Clapton. The concert footage is from the DVD "70th Birthday Concert" from 2003 where Mayall celebrated his 70th Birthday with a concert featuring his own band The Bluesbreakers and a couple of carefully selected guest stars. Two of these were Clapton and Barber, but Mick Taylor was also featured on some of the tracks.
This part of the performance is the part where they've taken it down to a smaller scale. It's just Mayall, Clapton and Barber on stage and the rest of The Bluesbreakers have left the stage.
This DVD is a must have for all blues fans. It's a really good set-list with a lot of up-beat blues songs that'll lighten up your day for sure. Also it was a historic event since it was more than 40 years since Clapton and Mayall had been performing together, a reunion of those two is definitely worth buying for alone, but also you get Mick Taylor, Chris Barber and the rest of The Bluesbreakers on top of all of that. As said, a must see for all blues fans.

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Chuck Berry - Reelin' And Rockin

This is a live performance from the source of rock 'n' roll: Chuck Berry playing the song "Reelin' And Rockin". The performance is from 1972 in London and it was released on the album "The London Chuck Berry Sessions". The first side was recorded in the studio and the second side was recorded live. The footage is from this recording.
I really think this is an awesome live performance. Berry is very energetic and his playing is that classic Berry style done very well. Dave Kafinetti also delivers a very good piano solo on the track. A very good performance and song, Berry doing stage moves and having that humorous look in his eye. A very good performance.

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Repost: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby

 I posted a version of this song before. It was the version where Stevie plays the song live with Colin James. That video has been taken down from youtube, so I thought I'd post another version of the song. (click here for previous posted entry)
This version is from 1987 in New Orleans. It's a great version of the song. It's an extended version in terms of musical improvisation. There's a piano solo by Reese Wynans, and then after that Stevie goes into a guitar solo. He pretty much does the standard version of the solo, but adds a lot of new things to it. Of course he shows off and puts the guitar behind his head and keeps playing. And after that he just extends the solo even more.
It's one of those performances where Stevie was just feeling it, and started playing new stuff on the spot. I love both versions of this, but since the old version has been taken down from youtube, I'd say this is at least as good. Though you can't really judge performances like that.

Rory Gallagher - Walk on Hot Coals

This is a 1974 performance from blues and rock guitarist Rory Gallagher. The footage is from the documentary/concert film "Irish Tour '74". It's a legendary film following Gallagher as he tours through Ireland. The director originally intended the footage to be used on a television special, but decided to release it as a theatrical feature.
The film is famous for featuring a performance from Gallagher in Belfast. Belfast was a rocky place at this time, with brawls etc. being very common, also at rock shows. This meant that most bands refused to play in Belfast. But not Gallagher. As part of his tour he stopped in Belfast, and played one of the best live shows of his career, and there was no violence at the concert, just mesmerized teens.
The song "Walking on Hot Coals" is a Rory Gallagher original. It's an instrumental song featuring a lot of guitar playing on Gallagher's part, but also a piano solo by Lou Martin. On the song Gallagher also uses pinch harmonics on the song. He was one of the first guitarists to incorporate this technique into his style. A technique he also used on the song "Off The Handle" previously posted on this blog (click here). This is just a great performance.

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B.B. King - When It All Comes Down

This is a live performance from guitarist B.B. King at the prime of his career. He plays the song "When It All Comes Down" and we get two great soulful guitar solos in that style that can only be played by the King himself. It's a big set up with horn section, drums, bass and piano/organ. King's voice is also a big part of what really makes this performance, he sings the song so well, it's astonishing.
The song also features an amazing piano solo by pianist Eugene Carrier, he's not a very famous pianist, but from this performance you can tell that he had mad skills, an amazing talent.
This is just a great performance, B.B. sings fantastically, plays soulfully and amazingly, the band plays well and the pianist is out of this world. A truly great performance!

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Buddy Guy & Eric Clapton - Worried Life Blues

This is a performance by Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy. They perform one of the most covered blues standards ever made. It was first recorded in 1941by Big Maceo as a mid-tempo 8-bar blues. Since then it's become one of the most covered songs in history, the list is almost endless.
What a list (source Wikipedia).  I like this version though, Clapton singing and Buddy and Clapton doing solos and a nice piano solo as well. A really nice performance.

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• 1941 Bill Gaither
• 1942 Sonny Boy Williams
• 1942 Honeyboy Edwards
• 1945 Big Maceo as "Things Have Changed" (reached #4 in Billboard R&B chart^[2])
• 1946 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
• 1949 Charles Brown as "Trouble Blues" (spent 15 weeks at #1 in Billboard R&B chart)
• 1950 Lightnin' Hopkins (also recorded "New Worried Life Blues" and "Someday Baby")
• 1952 Sonny Parker
• 1954 John Lee Hooker (also recorded later version)
• 1955 Muddy Waters as "Trouble No More" (reached #7 in Billboard R&B chart)
• 1957 Big Bill Broonzy
• 1958 Ray Charles as "Someday Baby" (a very faithful version of "WLB" except for the title) from The Genius Sings the Blues (also recorded later version)
• 1959 Little Walter from Essential Little Walter
• 1960 Otis Spann from Otis Spann Is the Blues
• 1960 Chuck Berry from Rockin' at the Hops
• 1963 Johnny Jones with Billy Boy Arnold (also recorded later version)
• 1963 Jimmy Reed (also recorded "Someday Baby")
• 1964 Mississippi Fred McDowell as "Fred's Worried Life Blues" from Fred McDowell: Mississippi Delta Blues^[5]
• 1965 The Animals from Animal Tracks, The Animals On Tour
• 1966 Big Joe Williams (also recorded "Someday Baby" in 1941)
• 1966 Blues Magoos from Psychedelic Lollipop
• 1968 Junior Wells from Coming At You
• 1968 Lowell Fulson from The Complete Kent Recordings 1964-1968 (also recorded 1984 version as "Worried About The Blues" on One More Blues)
• 1969 Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton from Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton
• 1969 Junior Parker (aka Little Jr. Parker) Charting 45 rpm single (Minit 32080 1969) (R&B # 34)
• 1970 B.B. King as "Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore" from Indianola Mississippi Seeds (also recorded 1960 version as "Someday Baby," which his former record label released in 1970 as "Worried Life Blues," which reached #48; also recorded 2000 version with Eric Clapton on Riding with the King)
• 1971 Freddie King from Getting Ready
• 1971 Mississippi Fred McDowell from Live in New York
• 1973 Canned Heat with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown from Live at Montreaux
• 1974 Robert Jr. Lockwood with The Aces from Blues Live in Japan
• 1980 Eric Clapton from Just One Night
• 1991 Louis Myers from Tell My Story Movin'
• 1992 Pinetop Perkins from On Top
• 1993 Robben Ford from Mystic Mile
• 1993 Luther Tucker & The Ford Blues Band from Luther Tucker & The Ford Blues Band
• 1996 James Cotton from Deep In the Blues
• 1999 Jimmy Rogers from Blues Blues Blues
• 2003 Pearlene as "You Done Told Everybody" from Murder Blues & Prayer
• 2006 Bob Dylan as "Someday Baby" from Modern Times
• 2007 Clutch as "Electric Worry" from From Beale Street to Oblivion (the band have stated that inspiration for this song came from the McDowell version)^[6]
• 2007 Procol Harum from One Eye to the Future
• 2010 Night Horse from Perdition Hymns