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If you have ever wondered how John picked his Songfacts moniker, after listening to his playlists (there are two, a YouTube and some additional songs on Grooveshark; which takes a bit of time to load, be patient) you will have no more questions. So, get your mind ready to get down lower than low and then be delightfully entertained by his further eclectic selections during

Bluesboy's Top Ten Selections:

All Your Love ( I Miss Loving) - Melvin Taylor

As Long As I Have You - Led Zeppelin (medley not on any official release and only played in concert '68 & '69)

Back On the Streets Again - Tower of Power

Blue - LeAnn Rimes

Blue Ridge Cabin Home - Flatt & Scruggs

Bob Away My Blues - Marshall Tucker Band

Boogie Chillen # 2 - Hooker 'n' Heat (John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat)

But Not For Me - Chet Baker

Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell (the defining snapshot of the late '60's --> early '70s)

Church Street Blues - Norman Blake

Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles

Corcovado - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto

Desafinado - Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto

Don't Know Why I Love You - The Persuasions

Driving Wheel - Little Junior Parker

Every Beat of My Heart - James Brown

Green Dolphin Street - Maynard Ferguson Orchestra

Hello - Lee Michaels

I Don't Know What You've Got, But it's Got Me - Little Richard

In a Sentimental Mood - George Robert & the Metropole Orchestra

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

Just One of Those Things - Ella Fitzgerald

Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday

Keep On Lovin' Me Baby - Magic Sam

Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf

Laughing - David Crosby (great collaboration from the San Francisco scene)

Leave It With Me - Blodwyn Pig (unique jazz, blues and rock with Jack Lancaster on flute / Mick Abrahams guitar)

Love For Sale - Buddy Rich Big Band

Low Society - Lowell Fulson

Mama, What About Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir

Mo Ti Mo - King Sunny Adé & His African Beats

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra

Pharoah's Tune (The Journey) / Echoes - Leon Thomas with Oliver Nelson

Pickin' Up the Pieces - Poco

Red Red Wine - Tony Tribe

Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever

Salt Creek - Norman Blake / Tony Rice / Doc Watson

Searching For My Baby - Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces

Shall We Dance? - Stacey Kent

She - Gram Parsons

Since I Fell For You - Dinah Washington

So Hard To Share - John Mayall (Johnny Almond on alto sax)

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Allegro con fuoco (popularly known as the New World Symphony composed by Antonín Dvořák / listening sample = 4th Movement)

That Old Feeling - Frank Sinatra

Wild Horses - Old & In the Way

Winin' Boy Blues - Hot Tuna

Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1st Lead Guitar, Mike Bloomfield / 2nd Lead, Elvin Bishop)

You'll Need Another Favor - Little Johnny Taylor

Your Love is Real - William Clarke

Thanks in advance for listening & voting on the songs. - BB

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Thanks Ron for the great intro !!

A few more notes on some of the selections...

Old & in the Way was a bluegrass supergroup from the mid 1970's with

Jerry Garcia on banjo

David Grisman on mandolin

Peter Rowan on guitar

and

Vassar Clements on fiddle

Return to Forever was a jazz supergroup during the mid '70s whose members all went on to successful solo careers after leaving this group

Stanley Clarke on bass

Lenny White on drums

Al Di Meola on guitar

and of course

Chick Corea on keyboards continuing his projects

That's a dynamite muted trumpet solo by Harry "Sweets" Edison on Billie Holiday's Just One of Those Things.

I still can't find any audio for Melvin Taylor's version of All Your Love( I Miss Loving) and I hesitate to put up a 30 second link from amazon and such. I had it up on youtube for awhile before "they" took it down.

I've included a live version of Led Zep's Nobody's Fault But Mine only because the microphone was so close to Bonham's drums. :)

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I'm enjpying you list very muck Blusey :D I love the Blues it is one of my favorite genre's.

I don't think I know any of the songs but I do know a lot of the artists. I love Paul Butterfield. 'It All Comes Back", is one of my all time favorite songs ever. I think it was on my last PTT but I had to remove it.

I was very disappointed you didn't play the first time around. Glad you are this time :D

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1. Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

2. Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra

3. Just One of Those Things - Ella Fitzgerald

4. That Old Feeling - Frank Sinatra

5. Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Allegro con fuoco (popularly known as the New World Symphony composed by Antonín Dvořák / listening sample = 4th Movement)

6. Since I Fell For You - Dinah Washington

7. Every Beat of My Heart - James Brown

8. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles (I prefer Sinatra's version, myself)

9. Blue - LeAnn Rimes

10. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf

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1. Corcovado - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto "Quiet nights and quiet stars .." Until you've walked on a Rio beach at night, glanced back over your shoulder at vaulting Corcovado peak, you've little to know how impressive this song is. It IS Rio!

2. Every Beat of My Heart - James Brown Hearing this reminded me how I had become forgetful that not only was he a masterful stage performer, but Brown may have been an even better musician and band leader, on a par with Goodman and Ellington.

3. She - Gram Parsons So underrated was this man who left too soon.

4. Bob Away My Blues - Marshall Tucker Band What a great assemblage of talent!

5. Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

6. Salt Creek - Blake/Rice/Doc Watson So nice to see you honor Doc Watson with a selection, BB. One of the best acoustic guitarists ever.

7. Leave It With Me - Blodwyn Pig

8. So Hard To Share - John Mayall

9. Don't Know Why I Love You - The Persuasions

10. Keep On Lovin' Me Baby - Magic Sam

Thanks for all the great music, my man!

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1.Hard To Share - John Mayall

2.Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

3.Low Society - Lowell Fulson

4.Desafinado - Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto

5.In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

6.In a Sentimental Mood - George Robert & the Metropole Orchestra

7.Corcovado - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto

8.Leave It With Me - Blodwyn Pig

9.Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

10.Blue - LeAnn Rimes

Very awesome Bluesboy. I really enjoyed listening to it. I think DH even liked it :D

[smallest]Honorable Mentions :D

Laughing - David Crosby

Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell

Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday

Pharoah's Tune (The Journey) / Echoes - Leon Thomas with Oliver Nelson

Don't Know Why I Love You - The Persuasions

But Not For Me - Chet Baker

Hello - Lee Michaels[/smallest]

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Old & in the Way was a bluegrass supergroup from the mid 1970's...

Return to Forever was a jazz supergroup during the mid '70s whose members all went on to successful solo careers after leaving this group

Funny, I know these bands but I only know some 20 songs from your playlist...

I still can't find any audio for Melvin Taylor's version of All Your Love( I Miss Loving) and I hesitate to put up a 30 second link from amazon and such. I had it up on youtube for awhile before "they" took it down.

If you uploaded it on youtube you should have the mp3 file. Then you could upload it again on some site like www.goear.com

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1. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band ... (This one is on my PTT also)

2. Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

3. Back On the Streets Again - Tower of Power

4. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles

5. She - Gram Parsons

6. Winin' Boy Blues - Hot Tuna

7. Pickin' Up the Pieces - Poco

8. Hello - Lee Michaels

9. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf

10 Laughing - David Crosby

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1> Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

2> Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever (this is a piece I want to learn how to play)

3> Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell

4> Pickin' Up the Pieces - Poco

5> In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

6> Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World"

7> Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

8> As Long As I Have You - Led Zeppelin

9> Laughing - David Crosby

10> You'll Need Another Favor - Little Johnny Taylor

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This one was a challenge for me. Normally I can find at least 15 songs before I listen to new songs. This time I found four I knew and six great songs I didn't already know. Bless your beard for that Bluesy!

1- She - Gram Parsons-Lord Gram just breaks my heart

2- Just One of Those Things - Ella Fitzgerald

3- But Not For Me - Chet Baker-I love Gershwin!

4- Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell-I didn't know this one. I am always happy to discover Joni Mitchell songs.

5- Corcovado - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto

6- Desafinado - Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto

7- Blue - LeAnn Rimes

8- Shall We Dance? - Stacey Kent

9- Pickin' Up the Pieces - Poco

10-Laughing - David Crosby

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Thanks edna!!!

I tried your site edna, but it's in spanish.

Really?? :stars:

try this one... http://littlemp3.com/ (Farin posted it some days ago)

And even if the site I suggested is in Spanish (I tried to change language but it only accepts spanish... strange... :P ) you can just write the name of the song and /or performer in the box where it says "Buscar" (search) and that's all...

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I did some listening this morning... :cool:

Bluesy, you're so so very bluesy... :grin:

1- Blue - LeAnn Rimes

2- She - Gram Parsons

3- Winin' Boy Blues - Hot Tuna

4- Driving Wheel - Little Junior Parker

5- Desafinado - Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto

6- Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday

7- Boogie Chillen # 2 - Hooker 'n' Heat (John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat)

8- Blue Ridge Cabin Home - Flatt & Scruggs

9- Love For Sale - Buddy Rich Big Band

10- Don't Know Why I Love You - The Persuasions

...and quite jazzy too. :cool:

This is the first time I discovered most of the pieces I chosed. I knew three of the songs on my list... and none o them are among the three first ones...

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1. Work Song - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

2. She - Gram Parsons

3. Since I Fell For You - Dinah Washington

4. Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday

5. I Don't Know What You've Got, But it's Got Me - Little Richard

6. Corcovado - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto

7. Leave It With Me - Blodwyn Pig

8. Boogie Chillen # 2 - Hooker 'n' Heat (John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat)

9. All Your Love ( I Miss Loving) - Melvin Taylor

10. That Old Feeling - Frank Sinatra

11. Blue - LeAnn Rimes

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1. Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin

2. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf

3. Driving Wheel - Little Junior Parker

4. Boogie Chillen #2 - Hooker N' Heat

5. Wild Horses - Old & In The Way

6. Leave It With Me - Blodwyn Pig

7. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

8. She - Gram Parsons

9. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles

10. Laughing - David Crosby

Honorable Mention: Buddy Rich, Little Richard, Frank Sinatra, Hot Tuna

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