Continuing my investigation of early electric blues, I came across this guy.
Prominent use of power chords and the most distorted tube amp tone I've heard this early in the genre makes him a notable precursor to heavy rock acts that would later emerge. Imagine how aggressive this tone sounded in the day - it's a pretty dirty overdrive tone even now, and he was using overdrive for overdrive's sake, at a time when most musicians simply tolerated it as a limitation of the amplification available at the time.
On another note, this was recorded in 1954 - in 1962 he'd actually go ahead and kill his girlfriend as well as shoot the cop that came to investigate, go on to form a band in jail, and later die of lung cancer.
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Continuing my investigation of early electric blues, I came across this guy.
Prominent use of power chords and the most distorted tube amp tone I've heard this early in the genre makes him a notable precursor to heavy rock acts that would later emerge. Imagine how aggressive this tone sounded in the day - it's a pretty dirty overdrive tone even now, and he was using overdrive for overdrive's sake, at a time when most musicians simply tolerated it as a limitation of the amplification available at the time.
On another note, this was recorded in 1954 - in 1962 he'd actually go ahead and kill his girlfriend as well as shoot the cop that came to investigate, go on to form a band in jail, and later die of lung cancer.
Was listening to this of the Jr Parker Mysery Train CD as Hare played with Parker for a while, great CD great track,
ah well on the subject of musicians killing their girlfriends I present the late great Don Drummond who hacked his girlfriend up in the late 60's after being seminal in creating ska and early rock steady in Jamaica.
I just downloaded the new Volbeat album "Beyond Hell / Above Heaven". It got metal album of the year on iTunes. I hadn't listened to them myself before, but I am really liking them so far.
My favorite song would have to be The Mirror and the Ripper
More Pretty Reckless, and some In This Moment! (This is pretty much all I've been listening to for the last month or so. I'm really surprised more people haven't picked either of them up.)
