An album of high quality electric and country blues showing the power of the music to heal

17 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Chicago Style, BLUES: Country Blues

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Doctor Harpâs Medicine Band: Doctor write me a prescription for the blues
Doctor Harpâs Medicine Band

Doctor write me a prescription for the blues

Doctor write me a prescription for the blues is the great new CD from Dr Harpâs Medicine Band who are some of Birmingham and Britainâs finest blues musicians.

The album features international blues and rock and roll stars Big Man Clayton and King Pleasure. The album also features Birmingham blues and jazz scene regulars John McKinley, Patsy Fuller, Dr Johnny and Matt Foundling, Southampton blues legends Magic John Wands and Ronnie Taylor. Dr Harpâs music is driven by Steve Gibbons Band and 44s rhythm section- Howard Smith on drums and Bob Boucher on bass.

The album covers a range of blues styles- acoustic and delta blues, piano blues and boogie woogie and electric Chicago classics and is full of refreshing new takes and surprises.

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Also available on i-tunes along with John F. Wands and Dr Johnnyâs other collection âWands upon a timeâ


Songlist


Juke (Little Walter Jacobs)
Kicking off the set in traditional Chicago style with an instrumental â this is our effort at Little Walterâs number one blues hit of 1952. This song brought amplified harmonica to the fore and made it the hallmark instrument of electric Chicago blues.
Good morning blues (Leadbelly)
Magic John Wands plays homage to Leadbelly, the Nobel laureate of the blues, with his opening monologue about the blues and depression.
One fine day (Traditional arranged Fuller, McKinley)
Patsy Fullerâs version of an old song interpreted by Mississippi Fred MacDowell and Muddy Waters.
It hurts me too (Elmore James)
A song of the injustice of love, unrequited and unconditional devotion beautifully played and sung by John McKinley. Listen and feel the blues.
Every day I have the blues (BBKing)
The plaintiff cathartic blues, listen, enjoy and feel the Pleasure
Baby please donât go (Robert Pete Williams)
Another standard from Muddy Waters and Robert Pete Williams later made popular by Van Morrison, with an unusual brass section of sax and Mississippi saxophone.
Hootchie kootchie man (Willie Dixon)
The classic bluesmanâs bragging song begins a sequence of bad behaviour, male fantasy, addiction songs. Watch out for black cat bone and the mojo tooth â hoodoo potions and remedies to confer sexual prowess and power.
Cocaine Bill (Traditional arranged Wands, Middleton)
The blues holds a love hate relationship with cocaine and booze in songs like Gus Cannonâs âCocaine habitâ, âOne scotch, one bourbon, one beerâ and Sticks Macgheeâs âWine mop mopâ. Cocaine Bill and Cocaine Lil were found dead up on that hill- âSay noâ!
Smack dab in the middle (Charles E. Calhoun)
A male fantasy wish list of good time self-indulgence- with bicarbonate of soda by the pound!
I have had my fun if I donât get well no more (Goinâ down slow) (Traditional arranged McKinley, Wands, Middleton, Boucher, Smith, Taylor)
A great old song done by Lightninâ Hopkins, Dr Ross and many more. The classic illness blues- lying in the hospital -going down slow- from consumption most likely. A cathartic blues seeking reconciliation, redemption, forgiveness for past sins. A particular experience for the blues man but conveying a universal sentiment- when you get to the age of these musicians!
Cornbread, meat and black molasses (Sonny Terry and Brownie Macghee)
Sonny Terry apparently took this song from a prison farm field holler, which told the story of the Goldberger experiment on prisoners to discover the cause of the disease pellagra.
I donât need no doctor (I know whatâs ailing me) (Ashford, Simpson, Armstead)
A great song given the full orchestral arrangement by Ray Charles, lifted here by Ronnie Taylor sax. An anthem to self understanding and self medication. Avoid those anti depressants â you know whatâs ailing you, heal yourself.
Roll âem Matt (after Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson)
Just an excuse for a boogie piano song and a great blues shout.
St James Infirmary blues (Traditional arranged Wands, McKinley, Taylor, Middleton)
Another classic which turns up in the blues folklore as the dying crapshooterâs blues and the gamblerâs blues. Snooks Eaglinâs version got some general exposure on a Budweiser ad in the 90s. Definitely not a song for the hospital radio.
Down to the doctors (Mickey Jupp)
Dr Feelgoodâs great anthem âthe masterpiece of white British punk blues- the blues as metaphor, the musician as the doctor and good time healer.
Doctor, write me a prescription for the blues (Little Brother Montgomery)
A classic blues from the classic blues era- done by Little Brother Montgomery and Ida Cox â another great example of the blues as metaphor for illness.
Easy (Shakey Walter Horton)
Finishing off again with an instrumental â Shakey Walter Hortonâs great Chicago blues choon brought up the minute with the help of some great horn playing.