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October was a pretty great month for Honey, record number of vistiors/downloads and we are still here! The blues lists are coming together, though I’ll have to say it is a lot more fun to put together the reader choice list than it is to finish up my lists.
Lonnie McIntorsh was a memphis gospel singer who did a handful of solo songs as well as a handful of song as part of the Elder McIntorsh. Lonnie has a very tender voice, almost decepitivly so, this song “Sleep On Mother, Sleep On” features some quick instrumentation and Lonnie’s voice is almost too soft to really compete with the playing. It works because the softness of the voice and the crying delivery really plays well with the increasingly quick instrumentation.
Lonnie McIntorsh - Sleep On Mother, Sleep On
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Top More-Than-Ten List – I’m not much for lists
1. Fattening Frogs for Snakes – Sonny Boy Williamson (Animal Category)
2. Hell Hound On My Trail – Robert Johnson (Animal Category)
3. Little Red Rooster – Howlin’ Wolf (Animal Category)
4. Hound Dog – “Big Mama” Thornton (Animal Category)
5. 32-20 Blues – Robert Johnson (Someone Done Somebody Wrong and Now They Gonna’ Suffer Category)
6. Prove It On Me – Ma Rainey
7. Bring It On Home – Sonny Boy Williamson
8. Hot Fingers – Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang
9. Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
10. You Got Something There – Blind Boy Fuller
11. Who Do You Love? – Bo Diddley
12. Stagger Lee – Taj Mahal
13. Southern Rag – Blind Blake
14. Special Stream Line – Bukka White
15. Dust My Broom – Elmore James
16. Little Son, Big Sun – Jimmie Vaughan
17. The Evening Mysteries of Ferry – John Fahey
18. Stackolee – Mississippi John Hurt
19. Miss Maybelle – R. L. Burnside
20. You Can Go Home – Reverend Gary Davis
Thanks, Peter, for this track. I hadn’t heard it before.
It’s a fascinating variation of The Christian’s Good-Night, most commonly known as I Bid You Goodnight, as recorded by Joseph Spence and the Pinder family.
Honey is one of the best things on the web… thanks again.
-Rob
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