Do you ever get the blues?
I’m talking about in a good way.
Tonight we are featuring two mighty men, two TITANS!
This will be a FNCMFPECDAA to tell your Grandkids about.
Tonight we have….
Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf?
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Tags: FNCMFPECDAA, Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversat, Muddy Waters, Wolf
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Oh, so no one has the conch shells to go first… well,
…like you say “Two Titans,” I get a sinking feeling liken Titanic sweating details of how I could possibly distinguish these two in an all out FNCMFPECDAA, you b#$%#$tch Pribek!!!! Damn you!!!!
…there will be no winner here… just a promise of natural phenomena… on a dark, dark night with only a sliver of moon, and a midnight frog gig, catfish wrestle down on the mud banks of the pond… with three bottles of 6 hour aged moon shine… a lantern haloed by frenetic insects, a pistol and a bat.
…two very quiet guys becoming louder and louder until 2 AM when they wander back to the house muddy and joyous, where the midnight ramble begins. All the laid out people rise like Lazarus and start up the party all over again.
One skins the frogs n’ cats, the other stomps, And whatever we bunch of armchair blue curmudgeons say won’t amount to a hill o’ beans at breakfast time.
Howling Wolf. Final Answer. Its Friday, and I’m Pd in Full
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Link | July 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
A friend in college had a deal. You pick an album. He’ll put in disc 1 of the Howlin’ Wolf Chess Box. He never had anyone who didn’t agree that the Wolf was more and better.
However, I haven’t heard much myself. But what I’ve heard is awesome.
Isn’t this close to choosing between your right arm and your left?
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Link | July 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
J wrote,
I like bits and pieces of the new Joe Bonamassa album (Sloe Gin)but it’s not like the albums Wolf or Waters made.
It’s like the John Cage quote: “I have nothing to say and I am saying it.”
Jack’s CD is awesome, though. Buy it.
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Link | July 19th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Mr Sans — that is too funny… Lights are low, Mom and Pop are canoodling on the couch looking a bit randy…
“Hey, [Sans old friend], could we put a little of that We May Never Pass This Way Again Seals and Crofts romanticals on?”
“Sure..” clickety, clickety, squeeky, squeeky.
“BA DA BA DUMpphhh..BOOMp BOOMp…
I wore my .44 so long,
I done made my shoulder sore… Weeeelllll…
I’m wondrin’ everybody, where’d my baby go
… I’m so mad this mornin’, I don’t know where in the world to go
Weeeeelllllll
I’m lookin’ for me some money, pawned gun to have some gold!!”
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Link | July 19th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Some more evidence for the Howlin’ Wolf edge vote… you see, Timmy, I had a couple of Houston football coaches who used to be Howlin’ at me trying to get me to put some mojo into my blockin’.
It’s called inertia… and this is my evidence — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTpICqAem0
Since it is ingrain, my vote for Howlin Wolf is a subjective call on my part… all the way; too much personal history to ignore.
Muddy is fabulous, and as cool as a Frigidaire. He sets the stage perfect and is teacher for Bonamassa.. Duane.. you.. Ron.. the rest.. but my prejudice is always with the atmosphere 80% humidity, 99 degrees, and thunder shower at three.
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Link | July 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Pribek wrote,
Thanks for the plug, J. I always appreciate that.
I can understand the reluctance to debate here for, both are truly the real deal.
A couple of quick thoughts———-
I had a good friend when I was around 16 or so. This was a guy who ran away from home when he was 13 and got a job somewhere out in Oklahoma, washing dishes during the boom. He was a hard character. When he got back to town, married with kid at 17, he was in a different space than most of his former cronies. We talked about music one day and, he told me that he had only one record, a Hank Williams hits thing, and that was all he would ever need because it said all that need to be said.
I took that as a challenge and made him listen to Muddy. I had a 120 minute cassette tape I had put together. I handed it to him and said go listen to this and tell me you don’t like it. I figured that a lot of the elements in Hank’s music that appealed to him were also present in Muddy’s. I was right. He called me the next day and said; “Mud’s the best, fuck all the rest”. The last time I ever saw him, he still had that tape and one of Hank to go along with it. That was all he listened to.
Howling Wolf escaping from his death bed, hospital room window to go play a gig. There you go.
One thing people don’t talk much about is the fact that both these guys were real professionals. They made the gigs on time, made payroll, didn’t tolerate screw-ups. They were businessmen. That was part of what made them successful and part of what brought the music to a wider audience.
Link | July 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm