About 3 years ago I was in Auckland on business and visiting Chris. I took a long weekend and Chris and I spent time driving north, exploring the regional conservation parks and listening to music. We stopped at JB Hifi at the Albany Mall and stocked up on a whole lot of music. We went into the CD Store not having any purchases in particular in mind but when we came out we could not help but notice that a lot of what we bought that day was blues, hip hop or other African based music. We quickly struck a deal and agreed that for one day at least we would not play any white music. That day we played some Gil Scott Heron, The Roots, some Tinariwen and this mighty compilation of Elmore James music.
Elmore James slide guitar was a great influence on early Stones, Fleetwood Mac and other British beat bands of the 60's. Best known for songs The Sky is Crying, Dust my Broom, and Shake Your Moneymaker. At university in 79 when George Thorogood's debut album was all the rage we also became very familiar with Madison Blues which was well paired with John Lee Hooker's One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer.
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