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"Blue Guitar" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In 1963, Richard Chamberlain released it as the lead single from his album Twilight of Honor . It was a No. 12 hit on the Easy Listening chart and reached No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The track "Blue Guitar," originally released as a non-album single credited to Hayward and Lodge in September 1975 but performed by Hayward with the band 10cc, with John Lodge on bass guitar, was added to the album upon its re-release on CD in 1987.
Luther Allison Billy Boy Arnold Bobby "Blue" Bland Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 1999 Paul Butterfield at Woodstock Reunion, 1979 Eric Clapton, 2006 Eddie Clearwater in Montreux, 1978 Albert Collins at Long Beach Blues Festival, 1990 Willie Dixon at Monterey Jazz Festival, 1981 Lowell Fulson in Paris, 1980 Buddy Guy, 2008 John Lee Hooker in ...
The eleven separate records which compose "Blue Guitars" could as well stand on their own; in combination, however, they provide a journey through the different epochs of the Blues, showing the various components that have been added to the original African Blues over time, the changes in instrumentation, style, lyrical expression and thematic implications.
Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) [1] was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", [2] he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands.
Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk and gospel, the percussive rhythms of jazz, the lyrics of Tin Pan Alley, and the widespread use of amplification and electric ...
"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, based on material composed by Gordon Jenkins. Written in 1953, [1] it was first recorded and released as a single in 1955, and later included on his debut studio album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957), as the album's eleventh track.
Songs for a Blue Guitar is the fifth studio album by Red House Painters, released on July 22, 1996 in the UK, and a day later in the US.It is effectively a Mark Kozelek solo album, since no other members of the band are listed in the liner notes.