I play music for swing dancing – mostly for Lindy Hop and Blues. I started to dance Lindy Hop in 2013, Blues in 2016.
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As I'm a music nerd and I've been a DJ in clubs and bars since 2001 (playing mostly Punk, Indie, Northern Soul, Funk etc.), it was only natural to also dig deeply into music for swing dancing and to play it for dancers. Some dance events that I've been playing music at:
- Stay-at-home blues dance parties (8 editions so far)
- Bei mir bist Du schön (2 editions)
- Hülly Blues
- A Sunday kind of blues
In German: an interesting article about Big Mama Thornton.
Die Musikerin Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton brach Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Genderstereotypen, trug Männerkleidung, wenn sie Lust hatte – und war die ursprüngliche Sängerin des Elvis-Hits Hound Dog.
I want to share this really cool 80%-reggae-20%-blues version of a classic Howlin' Wolf song – recorded by Errol Linton (from Brixton, UK). The whole album "No Entry" is fantastic – so glad I just discovered it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OYyvqUIN8
Howlin' For My Darlin' from New Errol Linton album: No Entry.Digital Release: 11 May 2020http://errollinton.com/ https://www.brassdogrecords.com/
I had a blast playing music with Spicy Ginger for you stay-at-home dancers last night!
Here's what I played:
Dick Lewis & His Harlem Rhythm Boys – Harlem Blues
Robert Johnson – Come On In My Kitchen
NO blues – Nobody's Fault But Mine
The War and Treaty – Set My Soul on Fire
The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Blind Boys of Alabama – Days of Depression
Eric Bibb, Eric Gales – Whole World's Got The Blues
Robert Johnson – Sweet Home Chicago
Nora Jean Wallace – Martell
The Gay Poppers – I Want to Know
Mary Ann Fisher – Put on My Shoes
Angel Face – Listen Baby
Solomon Burke – None Of Us Are Free
Marc Ribot, Tom Waits – Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)
Fanfare Ciocarlia, Iulian Canaf – I Put a Spell on You
Popa Chubby – Sweat (Album Version)
Eugene Johnson & Marquise Knox & Mike Battle & Wayne Sharp – Tears Feel Like Rain
Muddy Waters – The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll
Super Chikan – Hookin' Up
Hudspeth & Taylor – Big Fat Hairy Lie
Miss Ann Fleming – You're Just One Man
Little Milton – Who Can Handle Me Is You
T***s & The Maytals – Sailing On
Two Feet – Love Is a Bitch
Fantastic Negrito – An Honest Man
Swamp Dogg – Lonely
SCARECROW – Left Behind
King Khan And The Shrines – Shivers Down My Spine
Nick Waterhouse – Medicine
Vic Ruggiero and Lauren.napier – nobody knows ya
Jessie Mae Hemphill – Shake Your B***y (Shake It, Baby)
Rusty Warren – Bounce Your Bo***es
Yma Sumac – Goomba Boomba
Charlie Parker 10’’ set for 125€. 😅
Just found this beauty at the local record store 😏
Happy 90th birthday Mr. Cooke! https://youtu.be/FSQxzNuX0bc
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupIf I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) · Sam CookeSam Cooke At the Copa℗ 1964 ABKCO Music & Records Inc.Released on:...
Tanzen ist etwas universal Menschliches. Es schafft Identität und Verbindung und kann als eine der ersten Kommunikationsformen bezeichnet werden. Die Hingabe an Rhythmus und vielleicht sogar Ekstase scheint einem Urbedürfnis zu entsprechen.
Here's what I played at the Christmas Edition of Stay-at-home blues. I hope you enjoyed it!
James Brown – Let's Unite The Whole World At Christmas
Julia Lee – Christmas Spirits
Black Ace – Santa Claus Blues
Seasick Steve – Xmas Prison Blues
Drunken Hearted Men – Shake Me, Baby
Keb' Mo', Melissa Manchester – I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Vic Ruggiero and Lauren.napier – Baby, it's covid outside
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Santa Baby
Ramones – Do You Wanna Dance?
Shemekia Copeland – Stay a Little Longer, Santa
Champion Jack Dupree – Junker's Blues
Howlin' Wolf – Going Back Home
Chuck Berry – Merry Christmas Baby - Single Version
Lightnin' Hopkins – Santa
Toon Vlerick Music – Have You Ever Had A Feeling
The Raggedy Junkers – Nobody's fault but mine
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Silent Night
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
J.B. Lenoir – I Feel So Good
Etta James – I Just Want To Make Love To You
Jade MacRae – I Choose Love
Koko Taylor – Blue Prelude
Bob Dylan – The Christmas Blues
Billie Holiday – Tenderly
Chilly Gonzales, Jarvis Cocker, Feist – Snow Is Falling In Manhattan
Nick Cave, Shane MacGowan – What A Wonderful World
Cat Power – What The World Needs Now
Anna Hauss, Robert Wienröder, William Horberg – I Can't Remember Love
Kevin Johansen – Timing
Tin Pan – Bei Mir
Paolo Nutini – No Other Way
Cats and Dinosaurs – Consensual Blues
AMOS – ###mas
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Nick Waterhouse – Smooth Operator
Black Pumas – Oct 33
Moriarty The Band – Long Live the (D)Evil
Lambchop is a Band – This Corrosion
Rickey Calloway – Shed A Tear
Geater Davis – Long Cold Winter
Bettye LaVette – Wish You Were Here
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Lauren Daigle – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra – New Year Blues
Tocotronic – Hoffnung
Got myself an early Christmas present.
Bremen's blues heroes Drunken Hearted Men released an excellent new song today. Exciting! https://open.spotify.com/track/5SfAzsYzSEd81YwQgn8I0g?si=qp3Oa04KQmCSXf7EMudD7g
Drunken Hearted Men · Song · 2020
If you are on Spotify – as a customer or as an artist – you probably just received your 2020 statistics. While numbers and lists can be fun, I want to take the chance to talk about the stories behind my Top 5 songs. Maybe you don’t know all of them yet and can discover something new.
Black Pumas – OCT 33 (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHB5LrDv0Nk
I heard this song for the first time in early January while sitting at the bar of my favourite restaurant. I instantly fell in love with the song and asked the keeper about it. The sound is a lot like late-60s/early-70s soul – but with a modern touch and not just a 100% sound-a-like. Its melancholic mood and the tempo also makes it a very good song for blues dancing.
Sam Cooke – Summertime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6k2NFXmEY
I was a bit surprised to see this one on #2. While I did listen to Sam Cooke a lot over the last months, I wasn’t expecting this. Maybe it just shows my yearning for summer, the ocean, and travelling.
Cat Power – New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcybnuVH9kM
I own the LP (with a very beautiful silver and mirroring cover) since it was released and listen to it from time to time. When we started our series of Stay-at-home blues online parties, New York was in pretty deep Corona s**t. I wanted to play a song especially for the New Yorkers who visited our party and remembered this one even though it’s not a blues song. Ever since then it’s in heavy rotation again. BTW: the original version was not done by Frank Sinatra but by Liza Minnelli.
Ruth Brown – I don’t know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKYrvxHWOY
Another song that has been around my collection for a long time and got back into heavy rotation. It happened after seeing Holly Golightly live in November 2019. I’m not sure if she played it there or if I discovered her version on her albums before going to see the concert. I love the doubts and uncertainties described in the lyrics and also the desire I hear in the style of singing.
Carsie Blanton – Lovin in easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exv3bUoTgk
That's a feeling I miss a lot in pandemic times: Meeting someone new randomly and falling in love (a little bit). Also, I agree a lot with the rest of the lyrics and the ideal of loving someone without the need to own or control this person and without the demand of the other person loving you back. Sometimes complicated in real life – easy-sounding in this song. Also recommended in this context: Cat Baker’s "I fall in love too easily” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrSoHgAAWo
I‘m glad that it’s Shuggie Otis‘ birthday today and I have a good reason to post one of his songs: https://youtu.be/dBhZNwj5RJQ
AMG: 1972's Freedom Flight is perhaps, in its own way, every bit as adventurous and regal as Shuggie Otis' masterpiece, Inspiration Information. Produced by ...
It would have been Jimi Hendrix's birthday today. Here's his version of (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man – recorded for the BBC in 1967: https://vimeo.com/333589489
This is "Jimi Hendrix - Hoochie Coochie Man" by Oliviero 'Olli' Rocca on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Baby, it‘s covid outside: https://punkrockdoll.bandcamp.com/track/baby-its-covid-outside
By Lauren.napier and Vic Ruggiero.
track by vic ruggiero and lauren.napier
Pre-Covid memories. „Bei mir bist Du schön“ in June 2019 at Bremen‘s No. 1 hairdresser helena francisco, haare & so.
If you dig into black music of the 1940s to 1960s, you’ll meet the term “Popcorn” sooner or later. When I did research for our series of “Stay-at-home blues” parties, the word came up more and more. The mostly medium tempi, the heavy grooves, and the swing of this music are perfect for blues dancers dancing alone at home. Until lately I was not aware where the name of this genre came from. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a discotheque in a small village in Belgium called Popcorn and the local DJs defined this sound between Soul, Jazz, R&B, and a pinch of Ska. So Popcorn is the music that was played at The Popcorn – pretty simple. It reminds me a lot of Northern Soul which got its name from being popular in northern England first.
Here’s a short documentary worth watching: https://vimeo.com/24079101
And more to read: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/feb/05/belgium-popcorn-underground-music-scene-europe-northern-soul - you could listen to this compilation while doing so: https://jazzmanalbums.bandcamp.com/album/follow-me-to-the-popcorn-the-untold-history-of-the-belgium-popcorn-scene
Belgium, 1970. While most radio stations and discotheques are playing the pop and rock hits of the day, a new venue opens in the small village of Vrasene, near Sint-Niklaas.…
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