"the UK and several countries starting May 31, 2013. The tour was planned to begin in Belarus, and continue across mainland Europe. After covering five EU capitals, it was then set to tour several cities in the United Kingdom, before concluding back in mainland Europe. Didn't It Rain (Hugh Laurie album) Didn't It Rain is the second studio album by English actor and musician Hugh Laurie. Recorded in Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles on January 2013, the album contains several blues songs (like its predecessor). Unlike his previous album, however, Laurie also branches further into other Southern US and"
"Orleans and playing music from the album, at studios and live venues in the city of New Orleans itself. A special edition of the album, containing three more songs, was released on 15 May 2011. A second blues album, named ""Didn't It Rain"", was released on 6 May 2013. Songs of the ""Deluxe Edition"" Songs of the ""Special Edition"" The album received favorable reviews, and holds a Metacritic score of 61 out of 100, based on 9 reviews, indicating ""generally favorable"" reviews. ""Let Them Talk"" was the biggest-selling blues album of 2011 in the UK, with sales of 192,000 copies."
"Talkin' Blues Talkin' Blues is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released in 1991. It contains live studio recordings from 1973 and 1975 intercut with interview segments of Bob Marley. The majority of tracks are taken from the recordings Bob Marley & The Wailers did on 31 October 1973, at The Record Plant for San Francisco radio station KSAN. They include ""You Can't Blame the Youth"", sung by Peter Tosh, and ""Get Up, Stand Up"" with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh alternatingly taking lead vocals. The remaining songs are taken from a performance at The Lyceum Theatre"
"Cool Teddy Bear"". Laurie co-wrote and performed the humorous blues song, ""Sperm Test in the Morning"", in the film ""Maybe Baby"". On ""House"", Laurie played several classic rock 'n roll instruments including Gibson Flying V and Les Paul guitars. His character has a Hammond B-3 organ in his home and on one episode performed the introduction to Procol Harum's classic ""Whiter Shade of Pale"". On 26 July 2010, it was announced that Laurie would be releasing a blues album after signing a contract with Warner Bros. Records. The album, called ""Let Them Talk"", was released in France on 18 April"
"Let Them Talk (Little Willie John song) ""Let Them Talk"" is a 1959 Little Willie John song written by Sonny Thompson, on King Records produced by Henry Glover. The lyrics begin: """"Let them talk if they want to, talk don't bother me... I want the whole wide world to know: I love you so..."""" The song has been covered by many artists including George Benson, James Booker on his album ""Live from Belle Vue"" (2015), Lonnie Mack on his album ""Glad I'm in the Band"" (1969), James Brown on his album ""Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud"""
"on drums, Duane Hitchings on organ, Bill Rich on bass guitar and brass players Tobie Wynn, James Tatum, Bobby Rock, Pete Carter, and Tom Hall (now known as Khalil Shaheed). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series ""Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues"" shown on PBS in September 2003. The album features two previously unreleased blues inspired performances. ""Georgia Blues"" (recorded on March 19, 1969 at New York's Record Plant Studios) was recorded with saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood, with whom Hendrix played"
"to form The Legendary Blues Band, with the vocals shared by all. Later that year, Smith and the Legendary Blues Band appeared backing John Lee Hooker in the movie ""The Blues Brothers"" (1980). Smith was the only band member, besides Hooker, to appear onscreen in close-up. With varying personnel over the years, the Legendary Blues Band recorded seven albums, ""Life of Ease,"" ""Red Hot 'n' Blue,"" ""Woke Up with the Blues"" (nominated for a W. C. Handy Award), ""U B Da Judge,"" ""Prime Time Blues,"" and ""Money Talks,"" were recorded between 1981 and 1993. By the time ""Money Talks"" came"
"Gordon, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Keltner, Bobby Keys, and Gram Parsons. In 2006, Bramlett was one of the duet artists on the Jerry Lee Lewis album ""Last Man Standing"", singing and playing guitar on ""Lost Highway"". In 2008, the year of his death, Bramlett released his first CD in six years, ""A New Kind of Blues"". The Bramletts' ""Never Ending Song of Love"" has been covered by others and was used on the soundtrack of the films ""RV"" and ""A Good Year"". Bramlett co-wrote Clapton's hit song ""Let It Rain"". Bramlett was inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame on"
"of his works released in 1961 by Columbia Records (""King of the Delta Blues Singers""). Brian Jones, of the Rolling Stones, introduced his bandmate Keith Richards to this album by Johnson. The blues master's recordings would have as much impact on him as on Mick Jagger. The group performed his ""Walkin' Blues"" at the Rock and Roll Circus in 1968. They arranged their own version of ""Love in Vain"" for their album ""Let It Bleed"" and recorded ""Stop Breakin' Down Blues"" for ""Exile on Main Street"". Jagger, in the role of Turner in the 1970 film ""Performance"", performed excerpts from"
"Down and Out Blues Down and Out Blues is the first LP record by American blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson. The album was released in 1959 by Checker Records (see 1959 in music). The album was a compilation of Williamson's first singles for Checker, from ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"" b/w ""All My Love in Vain"" through ""Dissatisfied"" b/w ""Cross My Heart"". The album features many famous blues musicians backing Williamson, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon. The first session that Williamson recorded for Checker was on August 12, 1955 where he recorded ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"""
"of the album's recording. Released on Bone Clone Records, ""Purple Winos in the Rain"" features Callahan on vocals, harmonica and ukulele, with guest artists Peter Boe on piano and Robb on acoustic and bottleneck guitars, and a cameo appearance by Tom Waits. In 2018, one of the album's duet recordings of Callahan and Robb, ""Texas When You Go,"" was featured in the Hollywood biopic Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot produced by Amazon Studios. Robb is a self-taught fingerpicking guitarist associated with the American Primitive Guitar style, which draws upon diverse musical influences while rooted in the blues."
"in London and interview segments from Jamaican radio in 1975. band as 1973 with the addition of Talkin' Blues Talkin' Blues is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released in 1991. It contains live studio recordings from 1973 and 1975 intercut with interview segments of Bob Marley. The majority of tracks are taken from the recordings Bob Marley & The Wailers did on 31 October 1973, at The Record Plant for San Francisco radio station KSAN. They include ""You Can't Blame the Youth"", sung by Peter Tosh, and ""Get Up, Stand Up"" with Bob Marley and Peter"
"four W. C. Handy Awards in 1982, but a decade later he was known only to blues specialists. His 1987 Pulsar LP, ""I Ain't Beggin' Nobody"", was difficult even for blues enthusiasts to locate. In 1992, Bullseye Blues issued another album, ""Sooner or Later"", highlighting his booming vocals and guitar playing influenced by Albert King. Davis died of cancer in April 1994, at the age of 57. Larry Davis (blues musician) Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He is best known for co-writing the song ""Texas Flood"","
"Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival, The North Atlantic Blues Festival and also on The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Birchwood has opened for Robert Cray and Buddy Guy, and has shared the stage with veteran bluesman and fellow Alligator Records artist Joe Louis Walker (who made a guest appearance on ""Don’t Call No Ambulance""). On June 10, 2014, Chicago-based Alligator Records released his debut album for the label, ""Don't Call No Ambulance"". The album was produced by Birchwood, recorded in Florida and mixed in Chicago under the supervision"
"""Something to Talk About"" starring Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, and Robert Duvall. Bobbie Cryner Phyllis ""Bobbie"" Cryner (born September 13, 1961) is a country singer-songwriter. She released her debut album, the bluesy ""Bobbie Cryner"", in 1993 on Epic Records. The album featured six original Cryner songs, as well as four songs by outside writers, including a duet with Dwight Yoakam on the Buck Owens cover ""I Don't Care."" The album charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, including ""Daddy Laid the Blues On Me,"" No. 63 on July 3, 1993; ""He Feels Guilty,"" No. 68"
"by blues musician Terry Robb, who also plays guitar accompaniment on several tracks, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits. Callahan personally illustrated the album cover. In 2018, track 14, ""Texas When You Go,"" a duet recording of Callahan and Robb, was included in the film score for Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot. ""The Independent"" of London calls his songs ""Beautiful, but dark."" He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of"
"made ""Young Man Blues"" a staple of their live performances), and Georgie Fame, who described him as ""more important than Bob Dylan"". Blue Cheer recorded a version of his song ""Parchman Farm"" on their debut album, as did Cactus. The Yardbirds and the Misunderstood both recorded versions of his song ""I'm Not Talking"". Manfred Mann also recorded a version for the BBC. John Evans, keyboardist for the band Jethro Tull, was influenced by Allison's piano playing, which he described as ""so deceptively simple and impressive."" Allison helped open the ""blues' racial divide, proving that a white man from rural Mississippi"
"#20 on the UK Albums Chart. Down and Out Blues Down and Out Blues is the first LP record by American blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson. The album was released in 1959 by Checker Records (see 1959 in music). The album was a compilation of Williamson's first singles for Checker, from ""Don't Start Me to Talkin'"" b/w ""All My Love in Vain"" through ""Dissatisfied"" b/w ""Cross My Heart"". The album features many famous blues musicians backing Williamson, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, and Willie Dixon. The first session that Williamson recorded for Checker was on August 12, 1955 where he"
"some of my best records, including ""History"" (1992), ""Grown Man"" (1995), ""Last Man on Earth"" (2001), and """" (2009)."" All songs on ""Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)"" were written and composed by Loudon Wainwright III, except for ""Harmless"", which is by Michael Marra. Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) is the twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. It was released on July 28, 2014 on Proper Records. David Mansfield, who has been one of Wainwright's regular collaborators, produced the album. Wainwright has said of Mansfield: ""I got to know L'il Davey about twenty-three"
"Blues Imperials have appeared multiple times at the Chicago Blues Festival and festivals and clubs around the world. In June 2008, Williams played on Magic Slim's album ""Midnight Blues"". In June 2009, Williams was a guest on the radio quiz show ""Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"", produced by Chicago Public Radio and National Public Radio, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials have been nominated for eight Blues Music Awards as Band of the Year and have won that award twice. Lil' Ed Williams Lil' Ed Williams (born April 8, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues slide guitarist, singer and"
"soul-oriented sessions, with contributions from the Memphis Horns and a couple of the MG's."" He added that the album focuses more on King's vocals rather than his guitar playing. The Blues Don't Change The Blues Don't Change is an album by American blues musician Albert King. He recorded it at the Stax Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1973 and 1973. In 1977, Stax released the album with the same songs and running order as ""The Pinch"". The album is composed of soul- and rhythm and blues-oriented songs written by Mack Rice and others, including a re-working of King's popular"
"The Blues (film series) The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues. The series originally aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States. Director Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the Delta blues, tracing the roots of the music by traveling through the state of Mississippi with the musician Corey Harris and then traveling to West Africa. Willie King, Taj Mahal, Othar Turner and Ali Farka Toure give performances of"
"all stick together, boys, it won't be long <br> You'll get shorter hours, better working conditions, vacations with pay ... take your kids to the seashore. In 1958, the musician and folk music scholar John Greenway recorded an album collection called ""Talking Blues"" on the Folkways label. His compendium included 15 talking blues songs by Guthrie, Tom Glazer, and others, and was, according to the music historian Manfred Helfert, the ""obvious source"" for the many 1960s forays into the genre by Bob Dylan. The best known of Dylan's talking blues is ""Talking World War III Blues"" from 1963: Well, I"
"Richard Thompson, John Renbourn, Ralph McTell, Davy Graham and Sandy Denny. She appeared in the photograph on the album sleeve of Bert Jansch's 1965 album ""It Don't Bother Me"", where she can be seen lounging in the background. On 3 December 2013 she performed the song ""Levee Breaks"" with her band at the concert ""A Celebration Of Bert Jansch"" at London's Royal Festival Hall, alongside Robert Plant, Donovan and various members of Pentangle, amongst others. The concert was broadcast by BBC4 in the UK on 28 March 2014 under the name ""The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk Blues and Beyond""."
"a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. In 2014 and 2015, he won a Blues Music Award in the category Best Instrumentalist – Harmonicist. Charlie Musselwhite Charles Douglas ""Charlie"" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a ""white bluesman"". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Musselwhite"
"band the Soggy Bottom Boys on guitar; his rendition of ""Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"" was recorded live during filming and included on the film's Grammy-award-winning soundtrack. King also starred in the Wim Wenders art house film ""The Soul of a Man,"" as Blind Willie Johnson and ""Kill Switch"" as Detective Storm with Steven Seagal. Chris Thomas King Chris Thomas King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas, October 14, 1962) is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor. King was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. He is the son of blues musician Tabby Thomas. He has won awards"
"Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country. In 1989, after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success, she had a major hit with the album ""Nick of Time"". The following two albums, ""Luck of the Draw"" (1991) and ""Longing in Their Hearts"" (1994), were also multimillion sellers, generating several hit singles, including ""Something to Talk About"", ""Love Sneakin' Up on You"", and the ballad ""I Can't Make You Love"
"was his second Stony Plains release, and included guest contributions from Sue Foley and Duke Robillard. It was followed by ""Acoustic Blues (Got 'Em From The Bottom)"" in 2008. ""Faded But Not Gone"" was released in 2014 on Black Hen Music, and dealt with the aftermath of the deaths of McLean's mother and brother. Recorded in Nashville, the album contained contributions from Colin Linden, Colin James, and Kevin McKendree, with Ann and Regina McCrary on backing vocals. In 2015, McLean starred in a low budget film documentary, ""Ain't About the Money"", exploring the trials and tribulations in performing the blues."
"Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) is the twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. It was released on July 28, 2014 on Proper Records. David Mansfield, who has been one of Wainwright's regular collaborators, produced the album. Wainwright has said of Mansfield: ""I got to know L'il Davey about twenty-three years ago, on a flight back from Vancouver - I think - to New York. I've worked on and off with him ever since, on TV, in the recording studio, and on the road. He's been featured as a player and arranger on"
"the song ""Beginner at the Blues"". Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist. From his first professional stage appearance in 1957 to his most recent national tour in 2018, he has recorded albums for several major record labels and singles that have reached the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, Mainstream Rock Tracks, and Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-charting single was ""Tell Me About It"", a 1992 duet with Tanya Tucker, which reached number 4 on the Country chart. Four of his albums have been number 1"
"Terrence Howard Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films ""Dead Presidents"" and ""Mr. Holland's Opus"", Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in ""Hustle & Flow"". Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies including ""Winnie"", ""Ray"", ""Lackawanna Blues"", ""Crash"", "" Four Brothers"", ""Get Rich or Die Tryin'"", ""Idlewild"", ""August Rush"", ""The Brave One"" and ""Prisoners"". Howard played James Rhodes in"
"deal of debate. The lyrics of ""Talk About The Blues"" address this issue referring directly to MTV and ""Rolling Stone"" magazine and features the line ""I do not play no blues, I play rock 'n' roll"" (which itself was a reference to the Mississippi Fred McDowell album ""I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll""). ""Talk About The Blues"" was a reaction a ""Rolling Stone"" review of ""Now I Got Worry"" and Q&A with Jon Spencer. ""I wrote the song right after we did the interview, inspired by that and also some of the criticism we’ve received over the past"
"Sean Chambers (musician) Sean Chambers is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released seven albums since 1998, with the most recent, ""Trouble & Whiskey"" (2017) and ""Welcome to My Blues"" (2018), appearing in the US ""Billboard"" Blues Albums Chart. His main guitar playing influences are the work of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and his early professional music experience was gained while touring for four years backing Hubert Sumlin. Chambers has worked with a variety of blues musicians, who include Derek Trucks, Gregg Allman, Kim Simmonds, Tab Benoit, Jeff Healey, Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Pat"