Monday was a day of anger, sadness and shock. One of the worst mass shootings ever in USA. Another great singer-songwriter left us. More natural disasters and a clueless elected official that…
Category: Record Collecting
B.B. King & the Kings Men – LOUIE distant relative of Week
Did you know that one of B.B. King‘s earliest recordings was with the Kings Men? Absolutely true. In 1954, RPM Records released a recording by B.B. “Blues Boy” King* And The Kings…
FLASHBACK- Christopher Doll’s Unlikely History of Sixties Rock and Roll
I’m a bit swamped by various things going on right now, so I won’t be assemble a fresh blog post this week. Instead, I’ll simply recycle and update a posting from the…
Hadda Brooks’ Bully Wully Boogie – Pre-LOUIE of the week
Here’s a catchy little song by Hadda Brooks that feeds in the LOUIE consciousness as a Pre-LOUIE composition that may or may not have contributed to the inspiration of LOUIE LOUIE. “Bully…
RIP: Billy Miller of Norton Records / A-Bones (with a LOUIE relative of the Week)
In the midst of a week filled with rotten news, things were made even worse when we lost a kindred spirit… Billy Miller was a true champion for the foot-stomping, hip-shaking, soulful…
Happy 90th Birthday Chuck Berry – Pre-LOUIE of the Week
Today, we celebrate Chuck Berry‘s 90th birthday, who’s still rockin’ live for fans all over the world! For the record, Chuck Berry is definitely NOT related to Richard Berry, author of the…
Stella Burns and The Lonesome Rabbits – LOUIE of the Week
This week’s LOUIE comes from Livorno, Italy, courtesy of my friend Caterina Di Biase at Orme Radio: Hello Eric! After the very 1st LL marathon here in a web radio called #OrmeRadio…
RIP: Pete Fountain, jazz clarinetist – LOUIE of the Week
“Pete Fountain, the goateed clarinetist who became a global ambassador of New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound, died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice care in…
RIP: Jim Manolides, legendary musician with Frantics, Dave Lewis, and more….
Jim Manolides has left the land of the living. I asked my friend Barry Curtis of the Kingsmen (now retired) and the Daily Flash, to share a few words.. We are incomplete…
The Pink Chunk / Conrad Uno – LOUIE of the Week
This week’s LOUIE came about via a Facebook post by Art Chantry… Back in the 1970’s, Seattle had it’s fair share of “proto-punk” bands. in the very early part of the decade,…