Johnny Guitar Watson: A Real Mother For Ya

Johnny Guitar Watson and some funky blues.

Rufus Thomas: Breakdown

Ya gotta love Rufus! This is funky blues at its best!

Eddie Campbell: Funky D

Nice video of Eddie C Campbell playing in Brazil.

Freddie King: Big Legged Woman

This is a classic Freddie King clip. King was a master of combining funk and blues. another one of those great blues performers that died way too soon.

Backstage Boogie Band: Strokin

A very short clip of Iowa Blues Hall of Famer Harlan Thomas singing Clarence Carter's Strokin. This video also features the late Jim Faur on bass guitar. much to short of a clip.

Strokin'

Reverend Catfish: What The Funk

Found this video of Reverend Catfish from Iowa. Just a note out there to all the bands on myspace that add me on their friends list. Please post a video to your myspace page, it makes it much easier for me to promote you!

What The Funk!?!

Billy Jones Bluez: Fire

Cool funk tune from Billy Jones Bluez

Taylor Hicks: Soul Thing

If I heard it right on the video Hicks has written a bunch of songs and has a new album coming out. Personally I think it is a good thing that he is doing original material, because you can only go so far singing other peoples songs. This song is a good start.


Soul Thing from Lh1100 on Vimeo.

K T Tunstall: Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

I found another version of this great song done by K T Tunstall. As many readers pointed out the last time I posted this, that this song has a few similarities to Howling Wolf. I can sort of hear it in the whoo hoos, but it is certainly an original song. Plus how she can play that live is pretty incredible. I watched her do it on Letterman one night, and she had a foot pedal that repeated what she did. Pretty cool!!!

KT Tunstall-Black Horse & the CherryTree
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Taylor Hicks: Rockin Pnemonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

Taylor Hicks doing an classic rocking blues tune by Huey "piano" Smith. I know I have another version of this posted, but hey enjoy a different take.

Taj Mahal: Mailbox Blues

Taj knows how to funk up and jazzify the blues! Taj is certainly one of the treasures of the blues that is still out there making music. Go check him out if he is around your area.

Photo Of The Week: Scotty And The Wingtips

One of the longest running blues acts in Des Moines probably is Scotty And The Wingtips. Other bands may have started before them, and reunited, but the Wingtips have been a pretty solid unit for over 20 years. Scott Hartung (drums) has kept a nucleus of Mike Tyler(guitar) and Ernie Terrell (Bass) togethter for most of those years. Scott also helped a lot of Des Moines players get their start. When I got back to Des Moines I hooked up briefly with the Wingtips for a few gigs until I could get my band going. Others top players in Des Moines who played with the Wingtips includes, Jon East, Scott Eagleston, Scott Sutherland, Billy Birch, Jeff Ward, the Luna brothers, and many more. Scott's bands have always provided solid blues, and never disappoint their audience. Scott has had his run ins with the power brokers of the blues pretty much his whole career, but like a true bluesman, he never quits, and you will find him and his band still playing the blues as much as they can.

Richard Carr: Suger

This is from a friend from Myspace named Richard Carr. This is a rock'n song! I think it was originally by Albert King.