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will take you to something which is equally cool. In fact, EXACTLY equally cool, with appropriate comments.

Sorry, don't mean to be a smartass. :)

Just off the top of my head, but let me see if I can find some others

It isn't a competition though..It is all good.

Whoa there !

Now I know how to get a response. "How quickly they turn" :-)

But I'm still waiting for something cooler. That's the challenge, not the knowledge of blues you all have. Kind of a battle of the bands if you like. There's a similarly cool performance from Junior Wells at this concert. I think it's a German audience, that might explain the tranquilized demeanor of the crowd. I'm going to have to rip the footage myself. I have the video.

Reasons

1. Wrote the music and lyrics, taught himself how to play and sing also, creating his own tone and style.

2. This was his first recording. The impact was huge.

3. The clothes, the hair, the attitude, all genuine. He's not pretending to be a blues singer. This is who he was 24/7.

4. I met him and he was cool to us, anyone that's kind to kids is cool.

5. Pure Chicago

And all mocking and condescension is forgiven, "Lord they know not what they do.........

There are a couple of vids I've seen before on MOG that I thought were cool. I think Ivy put one up

I will continue to search my memory banks

Sorry. Damn MOG wont link to Ivys post http://mog.com/ivylander/blog_post/58166

yep, that's a pretty nice clip!

how about this.

kristiana, that's pretty cool. Out o the box thinking too. The rules said nothing bout the blues being required. Genius

Haha, well, you know me.

I kid. I had to think about it for a coupla minutes - when I think of "cool", who do I think of? Memphis Minnie is pretty freakin' cool too.

2 from Sister Rosetta Tharpe You can see her playin guitar a little better in the second tune

cool! she rocks!

Finally a chance to see Sister Rosetta Tharpe perform. She's so "there," like a twenty-five-year-old, swinging in total command.

Nary a bad item on this post. Let me pull the envelope back into the box that we were thinking inside of earlier, i.e., Otis Rush. I've convinced myself that I had noticed on my own all of the cool things about Otis Rush's video that mousetrapmedia mentioned above, but I hadn't put them into words. Mousetrapmedia must have felt happy to find another Mogger who likes Otis Rush enough to post the video but who understandably was unaware that it had already been posted. MOG is too massive a juggernaut to keep up with.

Otis Rush recorded a number of minor-key songs for the Cobra label, but his last Cobra single, "All My Love (I Miss Loving)" (1958) had a latin beat as well. It also had Ike Turner and His Band as accompaniment, which was state-of-the-art blues musicianship. It's hard to think of any other blues records in the fifties or earlier with a latin beat and a minor key, but there is one from 1957, Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talkin'." Next time I talk to Otis, I'll ask him if Wolf's record inspired him. (I've never met Otis.) It seems safe to assume that Otis Rush's "All My Love" inspired Peter Green (of Fleetwood Mac) to compose "If I Loved Another Woman" (1968) and "Black Magic Woman" (1969), both minor-key latin beat blues. It also sounds as if Rush influenced Green's and John Mayall's singing style.

Thank goodness for Spike.

Something to sink my teeth into round about 2am tonight. If I make it that far.