JB Lenoir: I Feel So Good

A very cool clip of  the original filmed performance of JB Lenoir,  I Feel So Good.  The clip I posted a few years ago, was edited with another performance by the producers of the Blues film for PBS.   This is the original version, and of course it rocks:-)     JB was the man no doubt about it. 

J B Lenoir And Cassandra Wilson: Slow Down

A nice song written by and performed by J B Lenoir, and then also performed by the lovely Cassandra Wilson. This is from the PBS Blues mini series.

J B Lenoir: God's Word

The amazing J B Lenoir recorded in 1965. It is a brief clip, but one worth watching.

J.B. Lenoir - God's Word
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LB Lenoir: Vietnam Blues

JB was a brave man. Not only did he tackle issues of race in his songs, but he also took on the Viet Nam War. The war was not popular in the African American community due to high percentage of deaths suffered among blacks then the rest of the population. African Americans made up 11% of the population when 15% of the deaths in Viet Nam were black.

JB Lenoir: Alabama Blues

I think this is a fan video, that is taken from the blues series on PBS. This is another great song about conditions in Alabama, before the civil rights era.

JB Lenoir: The Whale Has Swallowed Me

This is from the PBS blues mini series form about five years ago. It captures the world of pre civil rights, and features the haunting music of the great JB Lenoir.

Artist Of The Week JB Lenoir

Artist of the Week is JB Lenoir. Check out the videos available on the sidebar. JB was born in Mississippi in 1929, and ended up in Chicago 20 years later. He recorded for many different blues labels, and had a wonderful mix of delta and boogie type blues. He was known for his wild outfits, and was called Mr. After hours.

There seems to be some confusion over his death. According to the Wim Winders film he died of injuries from an auto accident in after being denied treatment in Champagne Illinois. However on the web site. Blues Online, JB died of a heart attack several months later. Either way JB left us way too soon. Check out all four videos. They may look the same, but they are different songs. The color footage is I Feel So Good, which I did post on the blog a couple of weeks ago.

UPDATE

According to WIKI both are sort of right. Here is the quote from Wikipedia

He died on April 29, 1967 in Urbana, Illinois from a heart attack related to injuries he suffered in a car accident three weeks earlier. His untimely death is lamented by John Mayall in the song, "Death of J. B. Lenoir

The blues online article has the car wreck in 66, however, it was in 67. JB did die from his injuries. The town was Urbana not Champagne. which is probably my bad memory.

I'm an idoit UPDATE

Urbana is a sister city to Champagne, like St. Paul to Minneapolis.

J.B. Lenoir - I Feel So Good

I hope this works. Sometimes I can post this on the blog and sometimes it gets lost in cyberspace. It must get lost in the tubes somewhere:-) Anyway, this tune by JB Lenoir will cheer ya up. JB always makes me smile. He is another one of them that died much too young. He got in a car wreck in 1968 in Champiagn IL. He went to the hospital, and since he was a blackman they sent him home. He died later of internal injuries.

This is a small clip. I am also looking for Vietnam blues that he recorded in 1968. If I can find it I will post it.

Tom