Nine

This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, ... and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.

J.D. Salinger
"For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" 1950.
from Nine Stories Little Brown and Company © 1953.


Download:

"Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy" mp3
by The Monroe Brothers, 1936.
available on Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4

"Blue Yodel No. 9" mp3
by Jimmie Rodgers, 1930.
with Louis Armstrong
available on Jimmie Rodgers: Recordings 1927-1933

"Apartment No. 9" mp3
by Keith Richards, 1977.
Out on Bail (and out of print).

"Number Nine Train" mp3
by Tarheel Slim, 1958.
available on Fire/Fury Records Story

"Riot in Cell Block No. 9" mp3
by the Robins, 1954.
available on Smokey Joe's Cafe

"Love Potion Number Nine" mp3
by the Coasters, 1971.
available on Down Home

"Cloud Nine" mp3
by The Temptations, 1969.
available on Cloud Nine

"If 6 Was 9" mp3
by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.
available on Axis: Bold as Love

"Revolution 9" mp3
by the Beatles, 1968.
available on The White Album

Mitch Mitchell R.I.P.

Time to give the drummer some. Unfortunately, another one has passed. The great Mitch Mitchell died yesterday. He was the last surviving member of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I never got around to doing an Earl Palmer memorial - although his drumming shows up here from time to time - and I rarely get a chance to post Hendrix, so that's what we'll listen to today.

Download:

"Fire" mp3
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.
available on Are You Experienced

"Remember" mp3
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.
available on Are You Experienced

"Bold As Love" mp3
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.
available on Axis: Bold as Love

"Crosstown Traffic" mp3
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968.
available on Electric Ladyland

"Angel" mp3
by Jimi Hendrix, 1970.
available on Voodoo Soup

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"Yer Blues" mp3
by The Dirty Mac, 1968.
available on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Earl King

Hey folks, today we're gonna listen to the great Earl King - his first single on Savoy with Huey Smith on piano (as Earl Johnson), his follow-up on Specialty, where he does his best Guitar Slim imitation (King was Guitar Slim's understudy and performed convincingly as Guitar Slim to unsuspecting audiences when Slim was in a car crash and out of commission), also an early version of "Come On" as "Darling Honey Angel Child" and "Those Lonely, Lonely Nights."

Dig it and have a good weekend...

Download:



















"Have You Gone Crazy" mp3
by Earl Johnson, 1953.
available on Earl King 1953-1955



















"Beggin' At Your Mercy" mp3
by Earl Johnson, 1953.
available on Earl King 1953-1955



















"A Mother's Love" mp3
by Earl King, 1954.
available on Earl's Pearls



















"I'm Your Best Bet, Baby"
by Earl King, 1954.
available on Earl's Pearls

"Those Lonely, Lonely Nights" mp3
by Earl King, 1955.
available on Earl's Pearls

"Darling Honey Angel Child" mp3
by Earl King, 1960.
available on Earl's Pearls

BONUS

"Those Lonely, Lonely Nights" mp3
by Dr. John, 1972.
available on Dr. John's Gumbo

"Let The Good Times Roll" mp3
by Dr. John, 1972.
available on Dr. John's Gumbo

"Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)" mp3
by Freddie King, 1974.
available on Burglar

"Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)" mp3
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968.
available on Electric Ladyland