Friday Ephemera: Muddy Waters business card

Via Dirty Lowdown

Movie of the Week: The Legend of Bo Diddley (1966)

 Hat tip to T. Tex Edwards.

Howlin’ Wolf: Sittin’ On Top Of The World (In Concert, 1970)

Big hat tip to the Aquarium Drunkard for this one...It's bonus footage from a live DVD released by Bear Family entitled Howlin Wolf: In Concert 1970, this is a MUST watch!

Movie of the Week: The Chess Records Story (2011)

Following last week's Record Row - the Story of Chicago Soul and R&B from 1997, here's another Chicago special: The Chess Records Story which originally aired in 2011. Watch it below - four videos in one playlist. Hat tip to Groovesville USA.

Etta James RIP

 

Etta James - RIP. Eerie considering she worked with Johnny Otis (yesterdays news).

Hubert Sumlin RIP

Hubert Sumlin with The Wolf

Hubert Sumlin - RIP

From left: Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Jones, Howlin' Wolf

Just Because - Howlin' Wolf

What a voice...No one will ever come close to the Wolf. He was the picture of a man to me, and no one will ever be able to match his body of work. A giant literally & figuratively, you can read his story starting here and here, and dig some of his sounds, at the peak of his mystical powers, below.

Bo Diddley 1966

Wow...I wish more Sunday morning's were like this. Thanks to our buddies over at WFMU's Rock 'n Soul Ichiban for discovering this previously unseen gem...a rare promo film from 1966 of Bo Diddley playing live & recording in the Chess studios, circa 1966. Fantastic!