Melancholic Alcoholic

Howlin' Wolf on Shindig Broadcast Date May 20, 1965

2023-02-17T15:57:00.006-08:00

Shindig clips featuring Howlin' Wolf backed by the Shindig house band featuring Billy Preston on the Piano, Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves and The Wolf is amazing.

https://youtu.be/gWBS0GX1s9o

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

2023-02-11T21:30:00.003-08:00

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

Buddy Guy - "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "One Room Country Shack"

2022-10-22T03:54:00.002-07:00

https://youtu.be/rKT8xfbCALA

Blues Of The Finest, Buddy Guy On The Bluesfestival In Bern 2000 (00:00 Hoochie Coochie Man, 05:34 One Room Country Shack)

Mañana

2022-10-20T23:13:00.000-07:00

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time “ - Will Shakespeare

Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best (Full album)

2022-10-20T18:43:00.000-07:00

https://youtu.be/decVrVwEroY

THE BLUES MASTERS

2022-10-20T17:16:00.001-07:00

https://youtu.be/WbkXwfeIU5o

A remastered edition of a 1966 CBS TV Festival series featuring - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and more . . .

Allman Brothers w/Buddy Guy - The Sky Is Crying

2022-10-02T07:30:00.000-07:00

https://youtu.be/UMTHQmTKBTM

S̲o̲n H̲o̲u̲se̲ - 1965 Greatest Hits - F̲a̲the̲r O̲̲f F̲o̲lk B̲lu̲e̲s

2022-09-15T23:48:00.002-07:00

https://youtu.be/WixA2ovS1hg

1. D̲e̲a̲th L̲e̲tte̲r 2. P̲e̲a̲rli̲ne̲ 3. L̲o̲u̲i̲se̲ M̲cGhe̲e̲ 4. J̲o̲hn T̲he̲ R̲e̲ve̲la̲to̲r 5. E̲̲mpi̲re̲ S̲ta̲te̲ E̲̲xpre̲ss 6. P̲re̲a̲chi̲n' B̲lu̲e̲s 7. G̲ri̲nni̲ng I̲̲n Y̲o̲u̲r F̲a̲ce̲ 8. S̲u̲ndo̲wn

The Guitar Gods - Jeff Beck: "Apache" / "Sleepwalk"

2022-08-30T01:15:00.001-07:00

https://youtu.be/wlyunWX6Y9s

Tracy Chapman and Eric Clapton - Give Me One Reason (1999)

2022-08-27T20:24:00.004-07:00

https://youtu.be/YIXh0JNvuHs

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (Official Music Video)

2022-08-27T20:19:00.002-07:00

https://youtu.be/V6hQ9HSKlIE

Patience And Fortitude

2022-08-21T14:45:00.002-07:00

The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" Marquee Club 1971

2022-08-20T09:49:00.000-07:00

https://youtu.be/G-bBhgMtPsc

The Spider And The Fly (Remastered 2002)

2022-08-20T07:55:00.000-07:00

The Spider And The Fly (Remastered 2002)

https://youtu.be/GsojoK7M3qo

The Spider And The Fly (Remastered 2002) - YouTube

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Lyrics

Sittin', drinkin', sinkin', drinkin'

Wonderin' what I'd do when I'm through tonight

Smokin', mopin', maybe just hopin'

Some little girl will pass on by

Don't wanna be alone but I love my girl at home

I remember what she said (what she said)

She said, "my, my, my, don't tell lies,

Keep fidelity in your head

My my my, don't tell lies,

When you're done you should go to bed

Don't say hi, like a spider to a fly

Jump right ahead and you're dead"

Sit up, fed up, low down, go round

Down to the bar at the place I'm at

Sittin', drinkin', superficially thinkin'

About the rinsed-out blonde on my left

But then I said "hi" like a spider to a fly

Rememberin' what my little girl said

She was common, flirty, she looked about thirty

I would have run away but I was on my own

She told me later she's a machine operator

She said she liked the way I held the microphone

Then I said "hi" like a spider to a fly

Jump right ahead in my web

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Keith Richards / Mick Jagger

The Spider and the Fly lyrics © Abkco Music Inc.

Music should enrich the soul

2022-08-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

“Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise.”
— Bill Evans
b. 16 August 1929

Aretha with King Curtis, Jerry Jemmott, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie

2022-08-18T21:28:00.003-07:00

https://youtu.be/7nQpRhGdPZE

Brendan Behan

2022-08-17T03:16:00.000-07:00

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse ~ Brendan Behan

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

2022-08-17T03:05:00.000-07:00

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of it no less than the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."

"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours."

Be Kind

"We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen."

— The Clown in the Belfry

Listen to Your Life

Enjoy Life

"The world is full of suffering indeed, and to turn our backs on it is to work a terrible unkindness maybe almost more on ourselves than on the world. But life indeed is also to be enjoyed. I suspect that may even be the whole point of it. I more than suspect that is why all the sons of God shouted for joy when he first brought it into being."

"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours."

— Telling Secrets

Listen to Your Life

— Now and Then

Enjoy Life

— Telling Secrets

Be A Good Steward of Your Pain

"Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows."

— The Clown in the Belfry

Jesus Is Crazy as a Coot

"If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business, and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business. The world says, Follow the wisest course and be a success, and Jesus says, Follow me and be crucified. The world says, Drive carefully — the life you save may be your own — and Jesus says, Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The world says, Law and order, and Jesus says, Love. The world says, Get and Jesus says, Give. In terms of the world's sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks he can follow him without being a little crazy too is laboring less under a cross than under a delusion."

— Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner

Pay Attention

"From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein. . .

"Literature, painting, music — the most basic lesson that all art teaches us is to stop, look, and listen to life on this planet, including our own lives, as a vastly richer, deeper, more mysterious business than most of the time it ever occurs to us to suspect as we bumble along from day to day on automatic pilot. In a world that for the most part steers clear of the whole idea of holiness, art is one of the few places left where we can speak to each other of holy things. . .

"And when Jesus comes along saying that the greatest command of all is to love God and to love our neighbor, he too is asking us to pay attention. If we are to love God, we must first stop, look, and listen for him in what is happening around us and inside us. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces, but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Boredom, Should Be a Deadly Sin

"Boredom ought to be one of the seven deadly sins. It deserves the honor.

"You can be bored by virtually anything if you put your mind to it, or choose not to. You can yawn your way through Don Giovanni or a trip to the Grand Canyon or an afternoon with your dearest friend or a sunset. There are doubtless those who nodded off at the coronation of Napoleon or the trial of Joan of Arc or when Shakespeare appeared at the Globe in Hamlet or when Lincoln delivered himself of a few remarks at Gettysburg. The odds are that the Sermon on the Mount had more than a few of the congregation twitchy and glassy-eyed.

"To be bored is to turn down cold whatever life happens to be offering you at the moment. It is to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general, including most of all your own life. You feel nothing is worth getting excited about because you are yourself not worth getting excited about.

"To be bored is a way of making the least of things you often have a sneaking suspicion you need the most."

"To be bored to death is a form of suicide."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Two Kinds of Church

"The visible church is all the people who get together from time to time in God's name. Anybody can find out who they are by going to church to look.

"The invisible church is all the people God uses for his hands and feet in this world. Nobody can find out who they are except God."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Compassion

"Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it's like to live inside somebody else's skin.

"It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Doubts

"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

The Rich Cultural Bond of Movies

"In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Handkerchiefs Called Saints

"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a pocket handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."

— Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

Remembering the writer of Christian devotional literature and ordained Presbyterian minister.

https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/explorations/teachers/view/18/frederick-buechner

Muddy Waters With Buddy Guy + Junior Wells ‎— Messin' With The Blues

2022-08-16T23:25:00.007-07:00

https://youtu.be/IJIFNLjys-Q

Time

2022-08-16T17:24:00.003-07:00

Etta James with Eddie Vinson - Baby What You Want Me To Do

2022-08-16T02:11:00.008-07:00

https://youtu.be/m7QU-NbNPBI

Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved A Woman

2022-08-14T15:28:00.006-07:00

https://youtu.be/mE9H1bW-zQ4

John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake -

2022-08-14T15:16:00.005-07:00

John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake

https://youtu.be/_5keTQ5DU2U

Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightning" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years )

2022-08-14T15:12:00.002-07:00

Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightning" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years )

https://youtu.be/HTDjD_UdJYs

This is the only known filmed version of "Smokestack Lightning" by Howlin' Wolf.

This was shot in England during the famed American Folk Blues Festival tours and features the legendary Hubert Sumlin on guitar.

In addition to other great Howlin' Wolf footage, our archive houses many iconic blues performances from Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, T-Bone Walker and Buddy Guy.

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We have live concerts, TV appearances, interviews, in-studio segments, b-roll and more. In addition to music we have thousands of hours of interviews with the most recognizable celebrities, comedians, politicians, athletes, artists and authors of the 20th Century.

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Lightning Hopkins was a Blue Man who sang the Blues

2022-06-09T08:40:00.001-07:00

https://youtu.be/qtFqyNlsHXU

Melancholic Alcoholic

Howlin' Wolf on Shindig Broadcast Date May 20, 1965

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

Buddy Guy - "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "One Room Country Shack"

Mañana

Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best (Full album)

THE BLUES MASTERS

Allman Brothers w/Buddy Guy - The Sky Is Crying

S̲o̲n H̲o̲u̲se̲ - 1965 Greatest Hits - F̲a̲the̲r O̲̲f F̲o̲lk B̲lu̲e̲s

The Guitar Gods - Jeff Beck: "Apache" / "Sleepwalk"

Tracy Chapman and Eric Clapton - Give Me One Reason (1999)

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (Official Music Video)

Patience And Fortitude

The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" Marquee Club 1971

The Spider And The Fly (Remastered 2002)

Music should enrich the soul

Aretha with King Curtis, Jerry Jemmott, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie

Brendan Behan

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

Muddy Waters With Buddy Guy + Junior Wells ‎— Messin' With The Blues

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Howlin' Wolf on Shindig Broadcast Date May 20, 1965

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

Buddy Guy - "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "One Room Country Shack"

Mañana

Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best (Full album)

THE BLUES MASTERS

Allman Brothers w/Buddy Guy - The Sky Is Crying

S̲o̲n H̲o̲u̲se̲ - 1965 Greatest Hits - F̲a̲the̲r O̲̲f F̲o̲lk B̲lu̲e̲s

The Guitar Gods - Jeff Beck: "Apache" / "Sleepwalk"

Tracy Chapman and Eric Clapton - Give Me One Reason (1999)

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (Official Music Video)

Patience And Fortitude

The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" Marquee Club 1971

The Spider And The Fly (Remastered 2002)

Music should enrich the soul

Aretha with King Curtis, Jerry Jemmott, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie

Brendan Behan

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Etta James with Eddie Vinson - Baby What You Want Me To Do

Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved A Woman

John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake -

Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightning" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years )

Lightning Hopkins was a Blue Man who sang the Blues