Basin Street Blues
Sunday, 07 June 2015 16:38 | Written by bluesever | 
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Basin Street Blues
New Orleans in the south of the United States is famous for many things. One is traditional jazz. Another is the regions in the city which are divided into areas known as Quarters. And in the French Quarter is a well-known area called Storyville, and its main thoroughfare is Basin Street, the basis of this song. Storyville became a red light district in the 1870s. So if you were heading down the mighty Mississippi to New Orleans and you ended up in Basin Street, there's a...
New Orleans in the south of the United States is famous for many things. One is traditional jazz. Another is the regions in the city which are divided into areas known as Quarters. And in the French Quarter is a well-known area called Storyville, and its main thoroughfare is Basin Street, the basis of this song. Storyville became a red light district in the 1870s. So if you were heading down the mighty Mississippi to New Orleans and you ended up in Basin Street, there's a...
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Don’t Let Me Down
Friday, 29 May 2015 12:55 | Written by bluesever |
Don’t Let Me Down
“When you’re drowning,” John Lennon told Rolling Stone in 1970, “you don’t say, ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.’ You just scream.” John Lennon “Don’t Let Me Down” is Lennon’s anguished scream to his lover, Yoko Ono. When he and the Beatles recorded the song during the ‘Let It Be’ sessions in late January of 1969, Lennon asked Ringo Starr to hit the cymbal... Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin and Orchestra
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:58 | Written by bluesever |
Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin and Orchestra
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B.B. King – The Blues Man
Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:00 | Written by bluesever |
B.B. King – The Blues Man I've traveled for miles aroundIt seems like everybody wanna put me downBecause I'm a blues manBut I'm a good man, understand In the mid-1950s, King was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, when a few fans became unruly and started a fire. King ran out, forgetting his guitar, and risked his life to go back and get it. He later found out that two men fighting over a woman named Lucille knocked over a kerosene heater that started the fire. He named the... Last Updated (Sunday, 17 May 2015 22:26) Stand By Me Mr. Ben E. King
Sunday, 03 May 2015 19:50 | Written by bluelover |
Stand By Me Mr. Ben E. King According to the documentary History of Rock 'n' Roll, Ben E. King wrote "Stand By Me" when he was still the lead singer of The Drifters — but the group didn't want it. As King recalled, the Drifters' manager Mike Stoller told him, "Not a bad song, but we don't need it." But after King went solo, Stoller revived "Stand By Me" at the end of a session with Leiber. "I showed him the song," King said. " Did it on piano a little bit, he (Stoller) called the... Last Updated (Sunday, 03 May 2015 20:12) |
