Blues Pinoy

This post may be a bit late but still, let "The King" serenade you with this bluesy tune. Great guitar and blues harp riffs throughout. Hit it!!!

"I hear sleigh bells ringin' But I haven't heard a word from you in years." Heartbroken and lonely on the holidays? Hesitant to sponge up all of that holiday cheer? Legendary bluesman Freddie King is too, and instead of jingling his merry bits and prancing around some spruce tree, he's singing the blues about his Christmas Tears. And he's singing them blues for us. That, my friends, is a gift from on high.

B.B. King gets it done once more with Lucille. "Merry Christmas Baby" is an R & B Christmas standard written by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore. It has been covered by many artists including Otis Redding, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and Hanson.

Another Christmas song from Sam Myers featuring Lowell Fulson. From Wikipedia: Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999[1]) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, Fulson was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.[2]

Here's something to bring some Christmas cheers! A humorous take on Canned Heat's "Christmas Blues," featuring St. Nick on vocals and blues harp and the rest of the gang. Yes, it's Christmastime, everybody!

The title says it all! From YouTube: Sam Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was born in Laurel, Mississippi. Myers appeared as an accompanist on dozens of recordings for blues artists over the past five decades, and fronted one of the top blues bands in the world. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. Myers was in high demand for his authentic delta blues sound. For nearly two decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets.

Here's the late great Ray Charles performing live at The Monastery Of Ettal in Germany in 1979. This is the 'slightly modified' version of Merry Christmas, Baby, written by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore and originally recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1947. "...I just want to tell you honey, you know I haven't had a drink this morning, but guess what, I'm all lit up like a Christmas tree!"