Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working

This is a performance by Muddy Waters and his blues band. The performance is from 1966 and they perform the classic song "Got My Mojo Working", an upbeat blues song.
The song was written in 1956 and popularized by Muddy Waters in 1957. Muddy Water's rendition of the song was ranked as #359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
It's a traditional example of what a good blues group could do back in the 60's. They groove on each other, and the blues harp on this song is just excellent, plus Water's voice which makes this an all over excellent performance.

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Keith Richards - Dead Flowers

This is a solo performance from Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. He performs the classic Stones song "Dead Flowers" at what looks like some country award show or something, sorry haven't looked more into it.
The song "Dead Flowers" appeared on The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" from 1971. The song was written by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and it's about the time that the Stones start experimenting with a country influence. They have said in interviews that they love country for it's stories and nice melodies. This song has a story, but a darker subject matter than your average country tune, it's about heroin use and the loosing one's love and being angry. However it's somehow uplifting, if you look purely to the musical side of things, it's up beat, it doesn't have a sad melody, but the lyrics are very dark.
They have experimented with country through out their career surpassing the 1970's, and have also done songs like "Far Away Eyes" that's probably the most country inspired song of them all.
Mick has said in an interview that he feels that the country songs are a little odd for his voice. He feels that he is a blues singer, and therefore feels that the country material suits Keith's voice better. So this is just that, Keith Richards singing this delightfully odd country inspired song. A lovely performance.

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Robert Cray - Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

This is the music video for the Robert Cray song "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark". It's a great little blues number, with an upbeat rhythm. The good thing about Cray is that he's original while still sticking to and knowing all of the old blues stuff. He composes and does his own original songs and makes his own lyrics, a relate-able blues.
Cray has played with many artists and a lot of his idols, I love the version him and Stevie Ray Vaughan did live of Cray's song "New Blood"(click link to listen). It's a great performance, and Cray's got a great voice and good guitar skills, a true double threat.

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Eric Clapton - Motherless Child

This is a live performance video for Clapton's single from his 1994 album "From the Cradle". It's a traditional up beat blues song that was first popularized by Barbecue Bob (click here for Bob's version) in 1927, so yet again Clapton goes back on the musical time line. Bob's version is a little slower than Clapton's cover, but other than that it's pretty much the same song.
It's a nice and cheerful song.

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