Tributes to Sam Lay and to Betty Davis Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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Song was originally recorded by Ann Cole, April 1957; popularized by Muddy Waters, who covered it almost immediately after Cole's version. // Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival.
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original Dutch single with a picture sleeve, released Feb 1966
Time:
12:09
Artist:
Bob Dylan [With The Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooper]
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original Dutch single with a picture sleeve, released Feb 1966
Time:
12:14
Artist:
Bob Dylan [with The Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooper]
Song:
Phantom Engineer [LIVE - early version of 'It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry'*]
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. // * - 3rd track of set
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. // * - Released as a single by that title, early 1961 {Fire Records} /
Click on the Link above, left, to view the original 2-LP set
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. / The original sessions for their debut album // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original CD package
Time:
12:23
Artist:
Paul Butterfield [Billed on cover as 'Walter Horton and Paul Butterfield'*]
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. / Magic Sam's real name: Samuel Gene Maghett / died 1969, age 32 // He first recorded this on his second album, 'Black Magic', in late 1969, as 'You Don't Love Me BABY'.
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. / Click on the Link above, left, to view the album
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival.
Time:
12:48
Artist:
James Cotton [Billed as 'James Cotton Blues Band']
Song:
Off the Wall [Originally by Little Walter, spring 1953]
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. / This may be the best of the batch of "blatant imitation of early electric Dylan" recordings - Campbell was backed here by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, also Peter Cetera, later in Chicago.
Sam Lay died January 29th, 2022 at age 86. He played with Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters, and many other blues greats and was drummer for Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. / Click on the Link above, left, to view the album
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th, 2022, at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. // The British music magazine "The Wire" placed this album in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)" :)) // / Click on the Link above, left, to view the album
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / The album was produced by Greg Errico, the drummer for Sly and the Family Stone.
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / / Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / * - It would've been her 4th LP
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / * - It would've been her 4th LP / / Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / * - It would've been her 4th LP / / Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. Her backing band on this album , "Funkhouse", included her first cousins from North Carolina, drummer Nicky Neal and bassist Larry Johnson.
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. / Click on the Link above, left, to view the origiunal single
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. Her backing band on this album , "Funkhouse", included her first cousins from North Carolina, drummer Nicky Neal and bassist Larry Johnson.
... Betty Davis, born "Betty Gray Mabry", died Feb 9th at age 76. She was briefly married to Miles Davis, from Oct 1968 to 1970. // The album was produced by Greg Errico, the drummer for Sly and the Family Stone.
