This is a 1980 performance of their 1971 hit! One day, we’ll marvel that folks used to write songs about driving around in fast cars. What the heck, let’s have another one….James Cotton Band tearing up Rocket 88. OK OK, let’s go for the hat… Read More
Today’s Daily Dose takes us from West Memphis Arkansas up to Chicago. Many of my favourite blues were written and performed by Sonny Boy Williamson. I mean the Sonny Boy Williamson often known as Sonny Boy Willamson (II) even though he claimed to be the… Read More
I’ve posted various versions of this tune in the past – because it’s a fantastic song and because it happened at the right place and the right time (Memphis 1951) to help usher in rock ‘n roll. You might say that Rocket 88, a song… Read More
27th Street 