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Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
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Aug 22, 2013
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!
Aug 14, 2013
New documentaries of note: Big Star and Wax Trax Records
I'm definitely late to the game posting this, but that doesn't make it any less deserving. I've been hearing great things about it.
Read a great piece about the band & the film by Chris Morris over at the Oxford American: "My first encounter with Big Star was in the mid-’70s, when I worked as a disc jockey at an FM station in Madison, Wisconsin. In the manner of the day, it was a completely “free-from” outlet—its official handle was “Radio Free Madison”—and its programming was wide open. There was no playlist and just one basic rule, almost laughably righteous in the face of Top 40 radio’s constant repetition: if a song was played by one jock, another jock could not repeat it during a subsequent shift that day. To police this policy, each of the seven thousand or so LPs in the station library contained a log sheet; when a DJ played a track, they had to note the date on the log so that others wouldn’t spin the cut within the same 24-hour period." Continued here.
Also of note is a new doc about influential record store (in Denver), then record label (in Chicago), Wax Trax. It looks like it may be pretty good although I was never a disciple of their entire catalog. They definitely have their place though, and perhaps the story is interesting enough for a film. We'll see (hopefully)!
Get more details over at Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Jun 28, 2013
New single by The Impressions on Daptone!
Leave it to Daptone Records to release a new single by one of my all time favorite groups - The Impressions! I'm speechless. From the Daptone website:
What
do you get when you cross the legendary group harmony of the
Impressions, with the savvy production stylings of Daptone’s very own
master of ceremonies and guitar dynamo, Binky Griptite? Easy, you get
one of the finest collaborations that has ever been realized onto 7
inches of high quality vinyl. Ladies and gentlemen we present to the
greater Daptone Universe, the first single by The Impressions in over 30
Years. Featuring original members, Fred Cash, Sam Gooden, as well as
Reggie Torrian, who has been singing with the group since the early ‘70s
– this single is the sweet soulful beauty you’d expect from the
Impressions. No cheesy synthetic instruments or
tryin-to-stay-contemporary 'beats' here. This is real soul music played
by a real band and how sweet it is!
Apr 11, 2013
Mar 17, 2013
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.
Mar 8, 2013
Movie of the Week: Record Row - the Story of Chicago Soul and R&B (1997)
If you're interested in Chicago soul & R&B, this 1997 documentary will do the trick. There are five parts in the video playlist. The book pictured above, Chicago Soul by Robert Pruter, is, shockingly, the only comprehensive book on the subject. Available here.
Hat tip to Groovesville USA
Jan 5, 2013
Movie of the Week: The Cry of Jazz with Sun Ra (1959)
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white. Rarely seen in cinemas, this is the first commercial release of The Cry of Jazz.
Buy the film on DVD here.
Hat tip to Dangerous Minds
Oct 9, 2012
White Light White Heat: Chicago 1968
Yours for $2250.00: Offered here is an extremely rare handbill
for a 1968 Velvet Underground show and "the unveiling of the new
album--White Light/White Heat with Andy Warhol, movies and dance." This
was the launch party for the Velvets 2nd album at the Aardvark
Cinematheque in Chicago, taking place the week the album was released.
This handbill comes from the collection of the late great Sterling
Morrison, guitarist of the Velvet Underground, and comes with a signed
letter of authenticity from his widow, Martha Morrison. On the back
Sterling wrote the name and phone number of a 60's Chicago record store,
Wecord Woom. Folded in quarters by Sterling, but long flattened, in
Very Good condition. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4".
Aug 11, 2012
Carl Davis RIP
Dec 4, 2011
Hubert Sumlin RIP
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| Hubert Sumlin with The Wolf |
Hubert Sumlin - RIP
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| From left: Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Jones, Howlin' Wolf |
Jul 8, 2011
Friday Ephemera - Chicago gang business cards
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| Business cards of Chicago-based gangs of the 70's. See more over at Teenage. |
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