Missing Friday nights at the Southgate Club listening to the great bands playing at St Harmonica's? Well, we can't do anything about the lockdown, but we can do our best to recreate St Harmonica's in the comfort of your own home. So pour yourself a glass of beer, move the furniture aside to make yourself a dance floor, click on the first of the music videos below and start a text conversation with some of the people you usually meet up with at the club.Little Junior Parker - Feeling Good
My first ever hard bopper, as a teenager at rockin' clubs I would pound the dancefloor in an almost religious fervour to this.
Willis "Gatortail" Jackson - Later for the Gator
Play it loud and I dare you not to move.
Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues
A display of complete synchronicity between singer and guitar. A true example of the troubadour work of early "Country Blues" songsters.
Son House - Death Letter Blues
Quite simply - Blues.
Muddy Waters - Mean Red Spider
Muddy Waters 1946, simple, sparse and as hard as mountain side.
Allen Bunn (Tarheel Slim) - Too Much Competition
My first ever Blues single. A deceptively relaxed yet seductive tempo that just grabs you
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you
Live in Granada studios. You'll drop that chip butty and watch the jaw-dropping originator of this oft covered, never bettered belter.
Sonny Boy Williamson - Polly Put Your Kettle On (Blues Bopper)
This is John Lee, the original Sonny Boy Williamson - though some of the photos are of Rice Miller/Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Not a nursery rhyme.
Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
Über Blues.
Junior Wells - Good Morning Schoolgirl
I don't think there is anyone with a tougher sound than Jr.
Dr Ross - Good Morning Little School Girl
Two tracks with the same title but far apart in style. Dr Ross is a superb solo artist, not represented here with his whole one man band set up.
Junior Wells - You Don't Love Me
Funky and driving. His solo after " Now dig this" is 24 bars of perfection for me.
