Some random anecdotes about some of the artists on this here comp:
- My dad loved Stevie Ray Vaughan. Along with Clapton and Spanky & Our Gang and Little Feat, SRV & Double Trouble was one of those groups I'll always associate with tooling around the north Atlanta suburbs in my pop's white Audi diesel, windows down, a cold can of beer in the old man's crotch, sweating in the Southern heat as this Texas white boy wailed on the blues.
- I get this flash, every time I think of Albert King, of building out a Stax/Fantasy dump bin in the first record store I worked in. I wasn't ready to hear anything from him until years later; a crucial mistake for how sick some of those Stax sides are. I really missed out on grabbing a master of 60s Memphis blues at 50% off $12.99.
- There was a radio station in Atlanta during the late 80s that would do a Friday wind-down/celebration and would play George Thorogood & the Destroyers' version of "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" on occasion. Pre-teen me thought it was the coolest shit, even though I didn't ever connect that it was, at that time, a 40+ year old blues song from Amos Milburn until years later. I just thought it sounded cool.
- I really don't dig on B.B. King, although I had a few good times over the years at his BBQ restaurant in NYC.
The entire "Blues Masters" series, released by Rhino across 18 volumes from 1992 to 1998, is worth snagging piecemeal whenever you see it. Like so many Rhino releases from this era, they make up a great starting point to check out a genre or era or label. And these, when you do see them, rarely go for over $5.
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