OJ Blues
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Just dropping by to say I like your avatar.

Hey! Thanks for the links!

I love me some roaring twenties and thirties music. While it's a shame that the recording techniques were in their infancy back in those times, the music transcends the sound quality. In fact, some of the crackling and other noise only adds to the mystique a bit - forcing your mind to fill in the bridge between what you hear, and how it really must have sounded.

Here's a few - don't have too much time, but I'm on lunch and thought I'd send a few more links to round out the topic of early stuff:

The Mooche - Duke Ellington (1928). Haunting and infectiously sublime.

I've Got Someone - The Missourians (1929) They were the Cotton Club House band that Cab Calloway eventually took over. Energy. Pure energy.

Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington (1928). Old-School Sexy...

Prohibition Blues & Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway (1932). From the 1932 banned cartoon of Betty Boop titled Minnie the Moocher. The cartoon along with two others from Max Fleischer were banned because they were quite dark in theme and provocative about vices of gambling and drug use for the times. The opening of the cartoon has a lithe Cab Calloway and his band doing a seguay, playing Prohibition Blues and Cab dancing away conducting it - Michael Jackson ain't got nothing on his moonwalk. The cartoon is edited just to the song segment containing Minnie the Moocher. Watching the cartoon it appears the animators were definitely hitting the opium pipe...

Well enough fun for the day. Thanks for stopping by earlier and leaving some links. I'm really enjoying the conversation!

Hey. Thanks for the links. I hadn't listened to anything new from Greg Allman, and it was a very nice surprise! I love it when I'm surprised.

Thought I'd pass along a few links to what I just happened to be listening to tonight - no particular order, but since it was blues tonight, I thought you might enjoy them.

Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine Below Zero

Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man

Howlin' Wolf - Shake It For Me

James Cotton - Slow Blues (Cotton on a slow burn...)

Muddy Waters and James Cotton - Got My Mojo Working (Cotton on a raging fire)

Enjoy.

First, thanks for the friend request. Next, I tend to agree with a good part of your comments. As I've said, my tastes are all over the map - like Dave Brubek said, "Keep your ears alert wherever you may go." My biggest passions are Classical in nature, especially Opera - not for everyone, but if you "get" it, it takes a hold of you like no other artform. I then like Blues and Jazz, and like you, am not a big fan of stuff that is way out there from an improvisational standpoint. I love early Jazz and Blues, especially music from the turn of the century and especially the roaring 20's and early 30's. There was some really great music being produced back then - shame the recording techniques were still in their infancy. I was lucky to live in NYC from 1978 to 1984, so I had the opportunity to take advantage of the many venues there - used to hit the Blue Note in the Village quite often, and of course The Met for opera. I still miss living in NYC, but life moves on.

I have Sirius XM and agree with you - a great format to enjoy and explore. Discovery is half the fun - listening to what other folks think is great that you may not have heard about.

Thanks for the message OJ Blues. My musical tastes are all over the map - no real way to define them. I either like or don't like what I'm listening to, but I try to keep my ears open and give everything a listen and a chance. How about you?