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• “Baby Please Don’t Go” – Big Joe Williams

  Theme of the week: Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go
  And here’s the song that started it all.

  Posted on May 15.09 to Song of the Day   

• “Baby Please Don’t Go” – Them

  Theme of the week: Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go
  Them? I can hear y’all saying, “No… that’s Van Morrison, WTF?” Well, you’re right, it is Van Morrison. In a band. Called Them. This was the A side for their 1964 single. And the B side?
  Gloria.
  It’s been played to death on the radio, but Them’s Baby [...]

  Posted on May 14.09 to Song of the Day   

• “I Wanna Be Your Dog” – The Stooges

  Theme of the week: Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go
  No, we’re still on the theme. Really. I’ll let Denise Sullivan from Crawdaddy.com explain (in a wholly unauthorized quote)…
  Following his youth in an Ypsilanti, Michigan trailer park as Jim Osterberg, and after time done in his pre-Stooges bands, the Iguanas and the Prime Movers (noted as such for [...]

  Posted on May 13.09 to Song of the Day   

• “Baby Please Don’t Go” – Muddy Waters

  Theme of the week: Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go
  Yesterday gave us the man who started it all, and today we’ve got Muddy Waters, whose 1953 Chess recording (Chess single #1542) of Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go was one of the snowflakes that kicked off the British Blues avalanche. Couldn’t find the Chess version online (and I [...]

  Posted on May 12.09 to Song of the Day   

• “Baby Please Don’t Go” – Ray Charles

  Theme of the week: Big Joe Williams’ Baby Please Don’t Go
  Well… that was a nice little vacation from blogging, or whatever you’d call what I do in this place of mine here.  
  Ah, sarcasm abounds, heh. Had a minor burnout on music, to tell the truth. Playing, writing, listening… all of it. Those ol’ Nur Ein [...]

  Posted on May 11.09 to Song of the Day