Blues runnin round my brain...

Cut out the off the wall jive, Sonny Boy


Meet me at the bottom, Mr. Wolf


You heard them early jalopies, you know the noise they make....The James Cotton Band


Ike in the late 50s


My kind of blues...
Sonny Boy Williamson was one of the master blues songwriters - Mr. Downchild, Too Close Together, Nine Below Zero, Don't Start Me Talkin and more and more. I read somewhere that Wolf was his brother-in-law. That makes sense if you listen to Wolf play harp - very similar attack to Sonny Boy. Cotton played with both of them, and with Ike Turner. James Cotton learned at the feet of the master - I understand he lived with Sonny Boy for a while as a boy. I really like Cotton's groove from the 70s. Great band. By the time the TV bit with Ike Turner was recorded, he was already positioning himself as a guitar player. Earlier in the 50s, he played more piano. People say Turner wrote the first rock 'n roll tune, Rocket 88 (I heard somewhere that it may have been co-written by James Cotton). That may be, but I suspect to him, it was all rhythm and blues.