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Pat Blythe – The Women of Blues Revisited, Part I….

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Alannah Myles, Algiers, Aretha Franklin, Beale Street, Bessie Smith, Betty Garon, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Momma Thornton, blues, Blues Hall of Fame, Bob Segarini, Bonnie Raitt, boogie woogie, Chess Records, Chicago blues, Christopher Blythe, Columbia Records, DBAWIS, Decca, Dina Washington, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin Harpe, Ernest Lawlars, Etta James, Frisco Town, Ida Cox, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jeil Nursing Home, Jimmy Rodgers, JOB Records, John Lee Hooker, John Roach, Johnny Shines, Julia Lee, Kansas Joe McCoy, Ken Jarvis, Kid Douglas, Little Son Joe, Lucille Hegamin, Maria Muldaur, Maxine Sullivan, Mazzy Star, Melrose sound, Mount Zion Memorial Fund, Muddy Waters, New Hope Baptist Church Cemetary, Pat Blythe, Paul Garon, R&B, Ringling Brothers, Rolling Stones, Roosevelt Sykes, Sarah Vaughan, Texas Tessie, urban blues, Victoria Spivey, Vocalian, Washboard Sam, Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie Blues, World of Trouble on July 27, 2017 by segarini

I am swamped with another project that is sucking up all my time during the waking hours. I have less than two weeks to complete it and it’s seems to be growing arms and legs I wasn’t expecting. So…..just to rehash a bit of blues history, specifically the ladies, I thought I’d have my editor post this again as many of you have probably not seen it. I wrote three series, Women of Rock, Women of Blues and Women in Song. The Women of Blues was actually inspired by a contemporary whom I saw for the first time a couple of years ago. She had dedicated her latest album to a female blues artist I had never heard of. Read all about her and the women who contributed so, so much to the genre we call the blues. The famous and not so famous. They were tough, talented, single-minded, sexually liberated, passionate and most of them had more balls than the men. Read on, you might even learn something.

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Pat Blythe: The Women of Blues

Posted in Opinion with tags Alannah Myles, Algiers, Aretha Franklin, Beale Street, Bessie Smith, Betty Garon, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Momma Thornton, Black Velvet, blues, Blues Hall of Fame, Bob Segarini, Bonnie Raitt, boogie woogie, Broken Heart, Bumble Bee, Chauffeur Blues, Chess Records, Chicago, Chicago blues, Christopher Blythe, Columbia Records, country blues, DBAWIS, Decca, Dinah Washington, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin Harpe, Ernest Lawlars, Etta James, Frisco Town, Going Back To Texas, I'm Salin', Ida Cox, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplan, Jeil Nursing Home, Jimmy Rodgers, Jo Ann Kelly, JOB Records, John Lee Hooker, John Roach, Johnny Shines, Julia Lee, Kansas Joe McCoy, Ken Jarvis, Kid Douglas, Kissing in the Dark, Langston Hughes, Led Zeppelin, Lester Melrose, Little Son Joe, Lizzie Douglas, Louisiana, Lucille Hegamin, Maria Muldaur, Maxine Sullivan, Mazzy Star, Me And My Chauffeur, Melrose sound, Memphis, Mount Zion Memorial Fund, Muddy Waters, National, New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Pat Blythe, Paul Garon, postwar blues, R&B, Ringling Brothers, Rolling Stones, Roosevelt Sykes, Sarah Vaughan, She Hangs Brightly, Signe Anderson, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Tennessee, Texas Tessie, That Will Be Alright, The Lydia Taylor Band, urban blues, Victoria Spivey, Vocalian, Washboard Sam, When The Levee Breaks, Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie Blues, World of Trouble, You Got To Move (You Ain't Got To Move), You Wrecked My Happy Home on May 27, 2015 by segarini

Prologue….

Anyone heard of Memphis Minnie? How about Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegamin, Julia Lee or Maxine Sullivan? Me neither. How about Bessie Smith, Etta James, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Big Momma Thornton, Dinah Washington or even Janis Joplin. The latter are a smattering of the ladies most frequently thought of or mentioned when we think of great female blues singers….the former, not so much.

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Frank Gutch Jr: Jim Colegrove, The Early Years; Small Label Magic; plus the oh so magnificent Notes…..

Posted in Opinion with tags Bailiff, Bob Holliday, Bobby Vee, Bow Thayer, Chess Records, David Bullock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fort Worth, Frank Gutch Jr., Gene "By Golly" Barry, Highlight Bomb, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jim colegrove, Jim Smith, Jimmie Vaughan, King Records, music, No Small Children, Records, Sons of Champlin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ted Grills, Teddy & the Rough Riders, The Moonglows, Tilt Records, WING Radio, ZOE MUTH & THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS on April 15, 2014 by segarini

His name is Jim Colegrove but I know him by his AKA, Coolgroove, because that is how I want to know him. He’s no youngster, a few years older than myself (I’m a fossil), and has been a guitar playing fool all of his adult life and most of his childhood. If I asked him if he thought when he was young that he would be still playing today, I am sure he would say no. It was a dream back in the fifties when he got his first guitar. He has relived that dream every day since because when he isn’t playing music, he’s thinking it. He got the bug early and the reason I’m telling you is that I got the bug too. I had a chance to live it but in those days you had to be a special breed to stick it out. I had the talent. I just didn’t have the discipline. Jim had (has) plenty of both.