wingsdad
February 20th, 2009, 09:44 AM
...music that inspired millions to pick up a guitar.
The early & legendary Black Blues guitarists, for sure...and sadly, the US of A of the 50's and into the early 60's buried them under the covers, relegating most if not any radio airplay to 'race music' stations.
But let's not forget this guy flashing a Cherry Red Gibson ES345 who was among some of those cats like Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy cutting tracks for Chicago's Chess Records...and like the Bluesmen you've posted thus far, had a huge influence on the young White British players and bands that emerged as the 'British Invasion'.
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And then there was this 'other' Black Music that sprang out of Detroit as the 50's turned into the 60's...powered by a group of studio cats...the Funk Brothers.
This clip's first 10 seconds or so is weird...my French is a bit rusty...but there's subtitles..but hang with it to meet the Funk Brothers original cast and then as they were in 2001...embedding is disabled on this, but here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-PNmGMTD-s
It's taken from this documentary released in 2002...if you've never seen it, rent it, borrow it...I did, and then I just had to buy it to get more as the Deluxe DVD set has a 2nd disc with hours more stuff not in the originally released movie:
http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com/