blues

Black Sabbath's blues

A new genre or a blues rebirth?

Mad Mama's Blues

Josie Miles Metal has no monopoly on lyrical mass murder. The blues is full of cuttin’ and shootin’ and .44’s. (See this thread on the Most Violent Blues Songs Ever.) In the ’20s, two female blues singers, Josie Miles and Julia Moody, each recorded “Mad Mama’s Blues,” written by Spencer Williams under the pseudonym Duke […]

Black Sabbath and hip-hop

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/w1b3uTa2foc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 Rebuilding my music collection from scratch has had unintended benefits. One is the chance to revisit classics. When I had every album I ever wanted, classics sometimes got lost in the shuffle. You think you know a record, so you don’t feel the need to hear it again. I resolved not to make that […]

Baby Please Don't Leave Me

Buddy Guy Recently I was on a random MySpace page when it started playing music. Normally I hate it when this happens. However, the song had a nice start – organic drums, overdriven bass, heavy twang. Stoner metal, perhaps? Then I heard the voice: an actual bluesman. “Oh, baby, baby, please don’t leave me,” he […]

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Inside gatefold, Japanese edition Do yourself a favor. Take out your CD/LP/cassette tape/MP3 folder of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Listen to it. It turns 35 today. That’s older than me. Things older than oneself deserve respect. Especially if they’re still kicking their progeny’s ass 666 ways ’til Sunday. 95% of sludge/doom metal might as well give […]
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