Mike Bloomfield, Carmelita Skiffle
A bar or two is all it takes recognize the signature sound of Michael Bloomfield, Jew, who exemplifies cultural appropriation at its best. My second guitar hero. My first was Dick Dale who, though not a Jew, gave us a version of Misirlou.
Warren Zevon, Carmelita
Billy Joel, Piano Man
Don MacLean, American Pie
Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Arlo Guthrie, The City of New Orleans
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpets, made of steel.
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born in Chicago
I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty one
I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty one
Well my father told me
Son you had better get a gun.
True then, truer now. Damn you liberals!
Bob Dylan, Just Like a Woman, Cutting Edge take. I'll let the YouTubers gush for me.
Tommy Johnson, Canned Heat Blues, 1928. Interesting guitar work and an eerie falsetto. Sterno may light your fire but don't drink the stuff. And now you know where Canned Heat got their name.
Hank Williams, I Can't Help it if I'm Still in Love with You. The best rendition is 'undoubtedly' that of the great Patsy Cline.