Well, here's an interesting curiosity. From 1964, and an album recorded on-stage at The Cavern -- yes, THAT Cavern -- in Liverpool, please enjoy Godfather of the British Blues Scene Alexis Korner, doing business with Blues Incorporated, in a live version of the venerable "Kansas City."
To be honest, although I obviously know Korner by reputation, the only music of his I can actually remember listening to heretofore is an amusingly actor-ish cover of "Get Off of My Cloud" he did (with Keith Richards' assistance) in 1975.
As for this track? Not a bad little band, but in the case of this particular club and this particular song, I think The Beatles probably did it better.
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It's better than I expected.
It's actually quite nice in a jazzbo sort of way....
He was sincere.
And I like the gruffness in his voice. His deeper register gives it a nice resonance.
Trey
The bass player is Danny Thompson, later of Pentangle.
Danny Thompson is the bomb.
I guess bomb is kind of like "the final word" or "ultimate" in this case. I could have called him a "monster", or if I was Miles Davis, "a motherfu*ker". All of which are meant to be compliments of the highest order. Anyway sorry about the confusion.
Excellent. Those cats could play.
Big fun, though the drummer ran out of ideas about 2 minutes in.
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