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[f1 fan]

Jeff Beck - Truth

mono

Dave

[f1 fan]

Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green

Dave

[Speakerlabfan]

Cold Blood - First Taste Of Sin
(1972, Reprise) Artisan symbol in the deadwax



a Bay Area R&B band from the late 60s with a strong female vocalist, a great guitarist, and a powerful horn section. If you put Tower of Power together with Janis Joplin, you'd have Cold Blood. This record was produced by Donny Hathaway who plays piano and organ; Paul Beaver is credited with Moog playing. Steve Cropper played with CB in later years but is not credited here.

[Speakerlabfan]

Originally Posted by f1 fan

Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green

Dave

I recalled Joni Mitchell's song about Furry Lewis and Beale Street on Hejira, and I found this article from Rolling Stone magazine in 1977.

Furry Lewis is Furious at Joni

by Mark Seal [Rolling Stone]
February 24, 1977

MEMPHIS - There's an electrical wire hanging down in front of bluesman Furry Lewis' small, olive green duplex. It drapes across his front porch, and Furry is so worried about it he can hardly get drunk and have fun with the people who have come to visit, "Somebody call up the 'lectric department to fix that thing!" he yells, sitting in the bed that has become his stage and pouring a dose of Ten High bourbon into a well-worn shot glass. "l know I've always been a rascal, but I ain't never done nothin' bad enough to be in the 'lectric chair."

Age and cataracts have dulled Furry's eyesight - though not his feisty spirit - and his public appearances have been whittled down to a cherished few, but Furry's still got the world at his bedside. Guests, from young neighborhood kids seeking guitar lessons to celebrities, stream into his three-room flat.

Lewis played his slide-driven, talking guitar blues with the father of the blues, W.C Handy, on Beale Street in the early 1900s. Today, the street is crumbling, and a small statue of Handy toting a horn overlooks the ruins. To Furry Lewis, Beale Street was "where somebody was killed every Saturday night and born every Sunday."

At arm's reach from his bed, Furry's got all his daily necessities: battered Martin electric guitar and small amp, two half gallons of Ten High, a .38 revolver stashed inside a drawer, his walking stick, a teddy bear and a cigar box labeled "Business". "I'm 83 years old half blind and gots a wooden leg," he says. "But I sure gots a lot of friends. "

But Furry's got his problems, too. Just a few weeks ago, he explains, he played at a local club and still hasn't been paid. And then there's "that woman" who recorded a song about him.

The song, "Furry Sings the Blues," is on Joni Mitchell's latest album, Hejira. In it, Mitchell paints Furry "down and out in Memphis, Tennessee," and his music "mostly muttering now and sideshow spiel." She had visited the aging bluesman and the pitiful situation on Beale Street had led her to write:

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[f1 fan]

Speakerlabfan...thanks for the article. Wonder if Joni gave him his due in $$?

Dave

[vintage_tube]

Elton John - GBYBR (Yellow wax)

Bob

[vintage_tube]

Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions

Bob

[f1 fan]

John Lee - Serves You Right To Suffer

Dave

[Nodak]

The Dillards - Tribute to the American Duck

[f1 fan]

Originally Posted by Nodak

The Dillards - Tribute to the American Duck

Dave