Showing posts with label Bob Margolin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Margolin. Show all posts

Saturday, October 21, 2023

#640: Bob Margolin - Thanks (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)

 


2023 – Vizztone

By Phillip Smith; Oct. 21, 2023

Release Date : Oct. 27, 2023

Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

Armed with the very same ’56 Gibson ES-150 he used while playing with Muddy Waters and with The Band in The Last Waltz concert and film, Bob Margolin commemorates fifty years since joining The Muddy Waters Band with his latest release Thanks.  This fabulous album captures the pure essence of The Blues, as Margolin creates every sound heard on all ten songs of this recording, with one very special exception.  The vocals of his very special guest and border collie Levon join along during a guitar solo on “No Consolation”.

The record begins with a smoking version of “Going Down to Main Street”..  Dedicated to Muddy Waters and Levon Helm, the song was originally released in 1952 with Muddy’s original band, and was recorded again in 1975 for Muddy Waters’ Woodstock Album featuring Margolin, Helm, and Paul Butterfield.  I love his cover of The Band’s “The Shape I’m In”.  Played as a blues shuffle, the song stands out as an absolute favorite.  As the first few notes of “Mean Old Chicago” are played, I ’m enamored to say the least.  Margolin wrote this song on a drink napkin while in flight to Chicago to pay final respects to friend and Chicago blues legend Jimmy Rogers.  Originally on Margolin’s 1993 album Down in the Alley “Baby Can’t Be Found” is an amazing song and is no wonder why it was a favorite of Johnny Winter’s.  It sounds wonderful with Margolin performing on that Gibson archtop electric guitar.  Originally recorded in 1999 for Blind Pig Records using a National Steel guitar which was a gift from Pinetop Perkins, “No Consolation” is one of my favorite Margolin-penned tracks.  It is blues to the core and its jagged edges dig deep into the soul. 

Selecting ten songs to sum up fifty years could not have been an easy task, however Margolin takes his choices very seriously.  It is refreshing to hear these songs stripped down to just a man and his guitar.  The background stories behind each of the tracks on Margolin’s website is refreshing and insightful.  They offer a glimpse inside the man who has truly lived the blues.

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For more information about the artist, visit this website : https://bobmargolin.com/

 

 

Monday, May 29, 2023

#616 : Blues Music Awards Showcase - May 10, 2023 (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)



Blues Music Awards Showcase

Presented by BratGirlmedia

Rum Boogie Cafe

Memphis, Tennessee

May 10, 2023

 

Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

 

For many years, I've been wanting to visit Memphis for the Blues Music Awards.  I finally made it down for that this year on May 11.  It was an amazing experience. 

On May 10th, the evening before the BMA's, I attended a music showcase presented by BratgirlMedia at Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale Street.  The event featured a prestigious lineup of blues musicians.  It served as a fund-raiser to benefit John Nemeth who underwent surgery last year to have a tumor removed from his lower jaw.  It was an extraordinary event to say the least.  If heaven has a juke-joint, I imagine it would be a lot like this.

Without camera in tow, I still captured a few photos of this fabulous event on my iPhone.  

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* all photos by Phillip Smith



Jon Hay & Ben Levin

Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin, Rodd Bland, Jon Hay,
Richard Rosenblatt, Ben Levin

Rodd Bland, Jon Hay,
Richard Rosenblatt, Ben Levin

Bob Margolin, Rodd Bland


Lil' Jimmy Reed, Ben Levin

Rodd Bland, Jon Hay, Lil' Jimmy Reed

Dylan Triplett, Bernard Terry

Sean McDonal

Dylan Triplett and band


Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford

Sugaray Rayford, Dylan Triplett


Dylan Triplett

Stephen Hull

Dylan Triplett

Dylan Triplett

Dylan Triplett

Nick Savage, Dylan Triplett,
Sean McDonal, Ryan Marquis


John Primer

John Primer


John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

John Nemeth

Matthew Wilson,Gaye Adegbalola,
Richard Rosenblatt

Bob Margolin

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola, Richard Rosenblatt

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Laura Chavez

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Laura Chavez

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson

Jason Ricci, Kaitlin Dibble, Matthew Wilson

Jason Ricci, Kaitlin Dibble, Matthew Wilson



Paul DesLauriers, Annika Chambers

Gary Davenport

Paul DesLauriers, Annika Chambers

Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Bob Margolin, Matthew Wilson, Jason Ricci,
Dennis Gruenling

Bob Margolin, Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling


Bob Margolin, Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Jason Ricci, Billly Branch,
Matthew Wilson, Dennis Gruenling

Laura Chavez, Chickenbone Slim,
Matthew Wilson

Matthew Wilson