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Grateful Dead: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice)

On July 13, 1973, “Warner Bros” label released “History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice)”, the fourth Grateful Dead live album (the ninth Grateful Dead album overall). It was recorded in February 1970, and was produced by Owsley Stanley.

Personnel:

  • Jerry Garcia –vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, lead guitar
  • Ron “Pigpen” McKernan – vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, percussion, harmonica
  • Bob Weir – vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric guitar
  • Phil Lesh – vocals, bass guitar
  • Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
  • Peter McQuaid – executive production 

Track listing:

  1. Katie Mae – Lightnin’ Hopkins
  2. Dark Hollow – Bill Browning
  3. I’ve Been All Around This World – traditional
  4. Wake Up Little Susie – Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  5. Black Peter – Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter
  6. Smokestack Lightning – Howlin Wolf
  7. Hard to Handle – Al Bell, Allen Jones, Otis Redding
  8. Good Lovin’ – Rudy Clark. Arthur Resnick
  9. Big Boss Man – Al Smith, Luther Dixon
  10. Smokestack Lightning – Howlin’ Wolf
  11. Sitting on the Top of the World – Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson

The Yardbirds: Five Live Yardbirds

On December 4, 1964, “Columbia” label released “Five Live Yardbirds”, the debut Yardbirds (The) album. It was recorded in March 1964, at “Marquee Club” in London, and was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky.

Personnel:

  • Keith Relf – lead vocals, harmonica, maracas
  • Eric “Slowhand” Clapton – co-led vocals, lead guitar
  • Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
  • Paul “Sam” Samwell-Smith – co-lead vocals, bass guitar
  • Jim McCarty – drums
  • Phillip Wood – engineer, sound effects engineer
  • Richard Rosser – photography
  • Giorgio Gomelsky – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry
  2. I Got Love If You Want It – James Moore (a.k.a. Slim Harpo)
  3. Smokestack Lightnin’ – Howlin’ Wolf
  4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl – Don Level, Bob Love
  5. Respectable – O’Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley
  6. Five Long Years – Eddie Boyd
  7. Pretty Girl – Ellas McDaniel (a.k.a. Bo Didley)
  8. Louise – John Lee Hooker
  9. I’m a Man – Ellas McDaniel
  10. Here ‘Tis – Ellas McDaniel

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble: In Step

On June 6, 1989, “Epic” label released “In Step”, the fourth Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble studio album. It was recorded January – March 1989, at “Kiva Studios” in Memphis, Tennessee, “Sound Castle” and “Summa Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jim Gaines, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Wynans, Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton.

Personnel:

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan – vocals, guitar
  • Reese Wynans – keyboards
  • Tommy Shannon – bass guitar
  • Chris Layton – drums, percussion

Texacali Horns:

  • Joe Sublett – saxophone
  • Darrell Leonard – trumpet

Track listing:

  1. The House Is Rockin’ – Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan
  2. Crossfire – Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, Reese Wynans, Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth
  3. Tightrope – Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughn
  4.  Let Me Love You Baby – Willie Dixon
  5. Leave My Girl Alone – Buddy Guy
  6. Travis Walk – Stevie Ray Vaughn
  7. Wall of Denial – Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan
  8. Scratch-N-Sniff – Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan
  9. Love Me Darlin’ – Howlin’ Wolf
  10. Riviera Paradise – Stevie Ray Vaughn

Henry Gray

On February 2010, Henry Gray died aged 95. He was musician (piano) and singer, credited as one of the creators of the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano. In his seven decades long career he performed with many artists including Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, Morris Pejoe and The Rolling Stones. As leader Gray released more than 50 albums. In 2017, he was inducted into the “Blues Hall of Fame”.

Howlin’ Wolf

On January 1976, Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf died aged 65. He was musician (guitar, harmonica), singer, and songwriter, one of best known Chicago blues artists. Some of his songs have like “Spoonful”, “Smokestack Lightnin’”, and “Killing Floor”, become standards, and have been recorded and performed by many blues and rock musicians. In 2011, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked Wolf at number 54 on its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”. As a leader he released 22 albums.