Seeing as we're all locked down for a while, I thought I'd share a few choice music videos from Youtube in celebration of being another year older and wiser.
First up are The Devil's Daughters with some classy rockabilly. Pass that bottle, ladies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqi3CSGJnds
While we're on the dark side, let's take some advice from The Reverend Payton and His Big Damn Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCcLW08dsU
Ok, so let's get some redemption from Larkin Poe's Preachin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEWiJR9qeoc
As well as putting the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine. Harry the Hipster Gibson could bang out a fine boogie-woogie. Could this have inspired Jerry Lee Lewis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlK0y8TlzUE
While we're somewhere in the 1940s soundies, this is a perennial favourite of mine. I won't spoil it for those haven't seen it. It's quite mad. Go, Reg Kehoe, Go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM3HdjhV1Xw
Right, back to nearly the present day, from January 2019, here's my friends Little Victor and JD Harmo with the sound advice to keep your hands out of their pockets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41onAZhQ0hU
How about a nice organ? They don't come any bigger or throbbing than a Hammond B3. This is Soulcano with the Booker T instrumental "Outrage"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZLRZzB9f8
Talking of Booker T & The MGs, here's a live version of Green Onions. Duck Dunn (bass) & Steve Cropper (guitar) would go on to feature in The Blues Brothers movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCyILOJbF0E
Another favourite of mine JD McPherson with North Side Gal. JD used to be a high school teacher. Education's loss is music's gain. Featuring the estimable Jimmy Sutton on bass.
https://youtu.be/aZGn4LncY0g?t=1
Some sweet side guitar from Roberto Luti on Luke Winslow King's Tell Me You Love Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtG1CQMPifo
I really don't know why Imelda May isn't a huge star but there you go, life isn't always fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzZUiwGi_k
Not entirely sure if 2020 is turning out like the big Bo Diddley admirers Lord Rochester intended!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDzgp4RbvcE
And here's the man himself with a short but sweet Roadrunner. Back in 1983, I saw Bo live at the Red Lion in Brentford. Unforgettable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hy6EiiNUmA
There's echoes of Bo's playing in Wilko Johnson's style. Here he is with Roger Daltrey, keeping it out of sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLeTPVuD3c
Back in 1975, Wilko, Lee Brilleaux, The Big Figure and Sparko were doing it right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHm7uIC84YM
The Feelgood's influence lives on. Here's a great band of youngsters from Cavan with Slim Harpo's "Got Love If You Want It". Could almost be a track on the Kink's 1st album from 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8qbeygLZQ
While we're in the Emerald Isle, we couldn't go without seeing the late great Rory Gallagher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCUKh-IToo
If I could find the pattern, I'd get my wife to knit me a Wooly Bully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGn-vDj2SvU
