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James Brown - Try Me

Spoonful (Willie Dixon / Cream)

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Sweet Home Chicago (Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin  Jimmie Vaughan)

Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy

Money For Nothing Live in Montserrat
Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Sting & Phil Collins

Legendary band plays - Money For Nothing - Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Sting & Phil Collins

Lee Moses - Hey Joe

Jeff Beck performs 'Superstition' from his 2015 album 'Live+' 

Jeff Beck, 'Superstition' from 'Live+'

John Lee Hooker was a true original, a musical colossus whose compelling and mysterious sound towered over the blues and echoed the very soul of African-American experience. Remastered for unparalleled audio clarity, this collection contains the dynamic early career of a truly unique blues legend.

John Lee Hooker: Dimples

This album features Honeyboy’s old-school guitar and vocals—fresh takes on old gems and the first-time release of historic recordings. New 2007 sessions with harmonica greats Bobby Rush, Billy Branch and Johnny “Yard Dog” Jones, previously unreleased studio recordings of Honeyboy and Big Walter Horton, and circa 1976 concert tracks both solo and with Sugar Blue. Michael Frank, guitarist Paul Kaye, Rick Sherry and Kenny drummer "Beedy Eyes" Smith play on the album on various tracks. Honeyboy and Bobby Rush also tell some short blues tales. This is a concept album to evoke the duets Honeyboy played from the 1930s through 1960s with Sonny Boy
Williamson, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, Carey Bell and other great harp players. This was Honeyboy’s last studio recording.


Maxwell Street Shuffle

Here is the SONS top 10 weekly playlist. Based on the best tracks posted on our facebook page over the past week. www.facebook.com/sonsrecords

Hope you enjoy.

The tracklist:

10. Big Mamma Thornton - Hound Dog
9. Barbara Acklin - Am I The Same Girl
8. JJ Barnes - Just One More Time
7. Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle and Roll
6. Slim Smith - Everybody Needs Love
5. Jackie Edwards - Feel So Bad
4. The Claredonians - Walking Up A One Way Street
3. Pat Kelly - Wonderful World
2. The Moving Finger - Higher and Higher
1. Jackie Wilson - Soul Galore

Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle and Roll

4 Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues

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Bob Seger - Bo Diddley / Rare Track By DJ Mattew

Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B 
vocal group, active during the late 1950s and early 1960s. 
Originally "The (Royal) Charms", the band changed its name 
to "The Gladiolas" in 1957 and then "The Excellos" in 1958, 
before finally settling on "The Zodiacs" in 1959. 

Williams was born April 26th, 1938 in Lancaster, South Carolina. 
He had his first experience with music in the church, where his 
mother and sister both performed. By the time he was six, 
Williams was performing regularly there. With his childhood 
friend Earl Gainey, Williams formed the gospel group...
 'The Junior Harmonizers', but as rock 'n' roll and doo-wop 
became their primary interest, the Junior Harmonizers 
changed their name to 'The Royal Charms'. 

The Royal Charms and The Gladiolas... In addition to Williams 
and Gainey, The Royal Charms were made up of Willie Jones 
(baritone), William Massey (tenor, baritone, trumpet), and 
Norman Wade (bass). In the winter of 1956, while still in high 
school, Williams and his band traveled to Nashville, Tennessee 
to record for the Excello record label. At the time they were 
still going by the name 'The Royal Charms,' but the founder 
of Excello Records, Ernie Young, convinced them to change 
their name to 'The Gladiolas.' At the time, there were at least 
two other bands using the same name. 
The song "Little Darlin'" was a #11 hit on the R&B chart in 
1957, but did not break the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. 
However, when the song was covered by the Canadian 
group 'The Diamonds', it moved up to #2. 

Maurice Williams finished high school and while on the road 
with the band (after their station wagon broke down in 
Bluefield, West Virginia), the band came across a small car 
known as "The Zodiac" and the band changed their name 
-one last time, to, "Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs". 
Shortly thereafter, Henry Gatson replaced Earl Gainey. In the 
spring of 1959, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs performed 
at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. 
Around that time, the group split and reformed. The members 
were then Williams, Gatson, Wiley Bennett, and Charles Thomas. 
Later, Little Willie Morrow along with Albert Hill were added. 
One month later, in the early summer of 1959, the band 
recorded in a Quonset Hut on Shakespeare Road in Columbia... 
The recording engineer, Homer Fesperman, recorded several 
tracks that the band had hoped would fetch them a hit... 

One of the last tracks that they recorded that day was "Stay," 
a song that Williams had written a couple of weeks before. 
After taking the demo of "Stay" to Al Silver at Herald Records 
in New York City, the song was pressed and released in early 1960. 

"Stay" is the shortest recording ever to reach Number One on 
the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States - at 1:39, although 
the label read 1:50. 

Later versions of "Stay" recorded by The Four Seasons (1964), 
and Jackson Browne (1978) also reached the Top 20, each selling 
over one million copies in the United States alone.
At the end of 1963, British band "The Hollies" covered "Stay", which 
gave the group their debut Top Ten hit single in the UK, peaking at #8. 

The inclusion of "Stay" on the soundtrack to the film "Dirty Dancing" 
in 1987 led to the song selling even more records than it had during 
its original release in 1960.

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay (Remember "Dirty Dancing") (MASTER/1962)

James Brown - This Is A Man's World

The Coasters - Down In Mexico

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - Better Things To Do

For the full story see http://bit.ly/XUx2xT

Produced by Tom Hambridge  
Recorded at Sound Stage Studio, Nashville TN  
Engineered by Jim Cooley and Nick Autry  
Mixed &Mastered by Tom Hambridge and Michael Saint-Leon at The Switchyard, Nashville TN
Executive Producer: Bruce Iglauer  

Additional Recording by:  
Shane Baldwin at Elevated Basement, Savannah GA  
Stuart Sullivan at Wire Recording, Austin TX  
Brendan Muldowney at Carriage House, Stamford CT   

Photos by Christopher Durst, christopherdurst.com 
Packaging design by Kevin Niemiec 
Alligator logo by Michael Trossman  

Booking: The Rosebud Agency, www.rosebudus.com 
Management: jacklyn@jamescottonsuperharp.com
jamescottonsuperharp.com  

James Cotton plays and endorses Seydel Harmonicas (seydelusa.com) 
Tom Holland endorses Delaney Guitars (delaneyguitars.com) and GHS Strings (ghsstrings.com) 
Jerry Porter endorses Sabian Cymbals (sabian.com), Smith Drums (myspace.com/smithdrums) and Evans Drumheads (evansdrumheads.com)  

Gregg Allman appears courtesy of Rounder Records 
Joe Bonamassa appears courtesy of J&R Adventures 
Ruthie Foster appears courtesy of Blue Corn Music 
Warren Haynes appears courtesy of Stax Records 
Keb Mo appears courtesy of Yolabelle International/ILG 
Darrell Nulisch appears courtesy of Severn Records

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