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Eddie & The Hot Rods with another live performance, Do Anything You Wanna Do, off of their '77 Life On The Line album.

Eddie & The Hot Rods with a smokin' live performance of On The Run off of their '76 Teenage Depression album. Wish I was there. The energy of the crowd must have been massive. Now that's what I call rockin' the house.

Like my pappy always said, there's more than one way to skin a cat. I should know . . . I've got ten of 'em. Not that I'd skin any of them, mind you, but . . . In my esteemable estimate this one's too good not to share. So here's one for your personal collections. 10 - Georgia.flac

Now I'm fixated on posting a Bakerloo song title. So here's Son Of Moonshine from that '69 album.

A wonderful rendition of Georgia by Bakerloo. A bonus track from their '69 self-titled debut album. Damn! Not on YT! I'll have to substitute with Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra from the 30's. Edit. Sometimes you can around these things by playing the full album. Alas, the CD reissue has two extra tracks to make 9 total. The reissue I have has 12 tracks. Still can't find that on YT.

Steamhammer with Hold That Train off of their '69 Steamhammer Mountains LP.

This makes me feel like going out to the pub to find me a sweet young thing to get laid. My memory is still intact enough to remember that! Alex Harvey with Bo Diddley Is A Gun Slinger. Also off of that 2016 box set.

What rip roarin' fun it is to be 16 again!!!!! Any of you old farts who ain't moving to this may as well dig yourselves under right now. Alex Harvey with New Orleans, off of the same 2016 box set.

Not only will you be twistin' and turnin' to Alex Harvey's Teensville USA but you'll be lookin' for a lass to swing around, too. Off of the 2016 The Last Of The Teenage Idols CD.

And perhaps my favourite track off of that album. She's Leaving The Bank.

What a beautiful song. It's from the soundtrack of the film. I'd never watched the movie but from the soundtrack it would appear to be a very depressing melodrama. Maybe I'll watch it the next time I'm down in the dumps. But I've been listening to the entire soundtrack and it's very somber. And very good. So I had to take a break from the grindstone and post a few more off of that soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cancion Mixteca

Otis Spann with Jangleboogie off of his '80 Half Ain't Been Told album.

Otis Rush performing All Your Love at the iconic Wise Fool's Pub in Lincoln Park, Chicago.

Luther Allison with a live performance of Living In The House Of Blues.

Howlin Wolf with his '60 B-side single Howlin For My Darling.

Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy on Good Morning Schoolgirl off of their '65 Hoodoo Man Blues album.

Magic Sam with Sweet Home Chicago off of his '68 West Side Soul LP.

Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers with Wild About You Baby from '71.

John Lee Hooker with Boom Boom.

I can relate to the small venues. Growing up in Chicago I had the good fortune to see so many of Chicago's great blues artists up close and personal. Perhaps my best blues experience was down in Austin, Texas. Austin is a college town and they close down 6th Street every night, which is an entertainment district. The streets are jammed with people. Went to a blues bar called Joe's Generic Bar, which occupied little more than a small store front with a 8-foot long bar. Seating was perhaps no more than 30~40 people. No one was more than 8 or 10 meters from the stage. The place was so small that the loos were outhouses out the back door, which took you past the stage set up in one rear corner of the joint. I can''t recall the name of the band but they were intense.

A wonderful post encapsulating those early days for us, bannork. We were so lucky to have grown up in that era. Brings back memories of the endless hours spent listening to the BBC whilst in a boy's boarding school in Germany.

Thanks for the Popa Chubby tune, jvs. I wasn't familiar with him but his guitar work and his blues on this song didn't seem to be a one off. So I downloaded his entire discography . . . 15+GB. I figured there's got to me a lot of golden music in there. Sure enough, the first song I played off of his '92 debut LP, It's Chubby Time, is a simply marvelous blues number, I Can't Stand It Baby. Looking forward to exploring this guy's music.

Pink Floyd dealing with their own demons. Lucifer Sam off of their '67 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn album.

Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters performing the gospel blues classic Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down at the Austin City Limits on October 15, '16.

13th Floor Elevators, with frontman Roky Erickson, on Barnyard Blues off of their '69 Bull Of The Woods album. Not recommended for folks who are prone to photosensitive epilepsy from psychedelic flashing lights.