#big mama thorton

[juniestar]

I’m curious

[ttexed]

Big Mama Thornton 

(via Wes Race)

Ball N’ Chain · Big Mama Thornton

[artemismatchalatte]

My favorite genre of country music: YEE HAW, YOU FUCKING CHEATER!!!

bonus if it's sung by an angry woman!

[luizdominguesfan]

https://mkkwebradio.com.br/

Amigos: chegamos animados à 27ª edição do programa "Cabine de Som", via MKK webradio!

Segunda-feira, dia 26 de agosto, a partir das 23 horas, com repetição no sábado (dia 31 de agosto, às 15 horas). Mediante mais duas repetições na segunda (dia 2 de setembro - 23 horas) e sábado, dia 7, às 15 horas.

Na edição 27, eu trago muitas curiosidades sobre o trabalho dos seguintes artistas: Primeiro bloco com duas atrações sensacionais do Rock britânico dos anos sessenta: Small Faces e The Easybeats. No segundo bloco, duas bandas estilo Southern-Rock/Blues-Rock, ambas norte-americanas dos anos setenta e com vocalistas mulheres, incríveis: Mama Lion e Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost. Terceiro bloco com duas divas do Blues: Sister Rosetta Tharpe e Big Mama Thornton. Para encerrar o programa, duas atrações muito melodiosas do cancioneiro norte-americano quarentista: Kitty Kallen e o grupo Doo wop, The Modernairies.

Pauta e locução: Luiz Domingues. Edição e produção: Markko Mendes. Foto: Lincoln Baraccat

[garudabluffs]

A little girl named Nina Simone.

Saw a great documentary about her music and life on netflix

That is a great documentary. She also does a live performance in “Summer of Soul” on Hulu, another doc. I highly recommend!

Willie Mae Thornton was a foremother of rock. These kids carry her legacy forward                             December 11, 2022 

"Willie Mae Thornton was born in Alabama, and at a very young age she went out on the road as a blues singer. She was 14 years old and she really never looked back."

Along with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and LaVern Baker, Mahon says that Thornton was one of the foremothers of rock 'n' roll. "When rock 'n' roll was invented a few years after she got her first recording deal, she didn't affiliate herself with that form. She thought rock 'n' roll was just the blues speeded up, but what's interesting is that the rock 'n' rollers thought she was interesting. She laid a template for a sound and an attitude."

Thornton recorded "Hound Dog" in 1952, four years before Elvis, and she wrote "Ball 'n' Chain," which became a big hit for Janis Joplin in 1968. Mahon says Thornton carried the torch of the blues while refusing to dim her light. "She was a person who was just her own self, unapologetically so. The idea of self-expression is so crucial."

(1965) Blues by Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog and Down Home Shakedow

READ MORE https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1140858096/willie-mae-thornton

[robotpussy]

Disclaimer:

This is part of a series of polls I want to make. This set of musicians are those who were making rock music prior to the late 1970s/1980s, (That is why artists like Prince and Tina Turner are not featured on here). As well as this not including subgenres of rock like punk, metal, funk rock and so forth.

I also just wanted to make this so I could probably get some suggestions on BLACK musicians that made rock music. It's not a contest, I just want to see which musicians some people like and for this to be a way for people to discover them.

Other Polls:

Punk

Metal

Randomly selected musicians in rock

[mutant-what-not]

Big Mama Thorton, with the Muddy Waters blues band, which members, also in the photo, included James Cotton, Otis Spann, Samuel Lawhorn and Luther Johnson. Taken in the Bay Area circa 1965, by local Rock photographer Jim Marshall.

[jungleindierock]

Time Machine - 2024 - No. 1

First in the new Time Machine Playlists for 2024, they will appear once i have 40 songs in each one. Mixed genres of music, from 1950-2022. Already begun No. 2 so could out soon. Enjoy it and share it, might find some bands/artists you like and want to explore their back catalogues!!

I feel 40 is good number of tracks not too long or too short in listening time for your enjoyment. The whole playlist is only two hours and thirty three minutes long.

Reb

Tracklist

Elbow - One Day Like This

The Box Tops - The Letter

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves

Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

Spear Of Destiny - Liberator

The The - The Beat(en) Genration

Kings Of Leon - Talihina Sky

Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not A Love Song

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Imelda May - Johnny Got A Boom Boom

New Order - Ceremony

John Foxx - Underpass

Dandy Livingstone - Suzanne Beware Of The Devil

The National - England

Warpaint - Undertow

The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear

Major Lance - Ain't No Soul (In These Old Shoes)

The Farm - No Man's Land (John Peel BBC Radio Session)

999 - Feelin' Alright With The Crew

Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The wind

Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio

The Colorblind James Experience - Considering A Move To Memphis

Easterhouse - Whistling In The Dark

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

Peter Tosh - Vampire

The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam

John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Beck - Beercan

Toots & the Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads

The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good & Evil

The Unthanks - A Great Northern River

The Cure - 100 Years

Stereophonics - A Thousnad Trees

Big Mama Thorton - Hound Dog

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

The Pogues - Wild Cats Of Kilkenny

The Detroit Cobras - Leave My kitten Alone

Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever

[midnightcircus]

Hi! This is my list of songs I think fit every character, some of then are fun and some of them I think genuinely fit the character and their theme, can ya’ll guess which one is for fun and which one I think is canon? XD (these are songs I think they’d sing or listen to, not exactly canon btww lol)

Also this is not finished! I need to add more songs but this is my list so far :)

FREIGHT

Belle:

The Rockies/Hip Hoppers:

Dustin:

Bad Moon Rising- CCR

Flat Top:

Punk Tactics- Joey Valance

C.B:

Touch Tone Telephone- Lemon Demon

Charlie’s Inferno- That Handsome Devil

Same Man I was Before- Oingo Boingo

COACHES

Pearl:

What Was I Made For?- Billie Eilish

Kokomo- The Beach Boys

Dinah:

You Dont Own Me- Lesley Gore

Kiss Of Fire- Georgia Gibbs

It’s My Party- Lesley Gore

Ashley:

Buffy:

Duvay:

ENGINES

Rusty:

I’m still standing- Elton John

Don’t go Breaking my heart- Elton John

Build me up Buttercup- The Foundations

Electra:

Mount Rageous & Atomic Dog- Trolls 3 & 2

Greaseball:

Push- Ryan Gosling from Barbie (he’s so ken coded)

Trouble- Austin Butler

Nothing Else Matters- Metallica

Poppa:

House of the Rising Sun- Doc & Richard Watson

Aint No Sunshine- Bill Withers

Momma:

Hound Dog- Big Mama Thorton

(I wont do internationals bc i just don’t know that many international songs but if you guys wanna give me songs go ahead)

[namraniilife]

💋

hello, and welcome to my blog. this blog ranges from yapping to blogging, and is just my blog for overall random posting. i do have blogs separate for different things, and they all start with ““namranii”

there they are if you’d like to check them out!:

✩ @namranii: im most active on this one, for fan fiction writing, headcanons and all that jazz. as well as oc writing.

✩ @namraniiart : my art blog

✩ @namraniiverse : all things manifesting and spirituality

✩ @namraniiwrites : my original pieces of writing

im 16 years old and 🇰🇷🇮🇶, but i live in 🇨🇦.

my music taste consists of: lana del rey, elvis presley, paul anka, mac the knife, tom jones, the bully soundtrack, the tf2 soundtrack, big mama thorton, lee hyori, marina, little richard, gorrilaz, your favourite martian, and… pretty much anything in between.

[floggingink]

My beloved @yeats-infection tagged me 2-3 years ago: some songs that come up on shuffle!

“Let’s Stay Together,” Al Green. As perfect an opening 30 seconds as can exist. I really dig his jacket on the cover of this album

“Oh, It Is Love,” Hellogoodbye. The cataclysmic importance of Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! to my high school cultural experience cannot be overstressed. This song feels like shoes squelching on the floor of my first after-school job making smoothies and tastes like the white chocolate mochas WITH EXTRA CHOCOLATE FLAKES that the cute boy at Seattle’s Best made for me at Borders just down the sidewalk! Is it the tiny Italianate guitar? Is it Forrest Kline’s incredibly cute nasal vibrato? Is it the giddy drum explosion of the third act? Whatever else sweet aspects of scene royalty came together here… 🤌 Truly romance peaked in 2006

“Spice Up Your Life,” Spice Girls. The cataclysmic importance of Spice World to my elementary school cultural experience cannot be overstressed. Had a big crush on Posh inside the C on the front of this CD…

“She Plays Bass,” beabadoobee. Ah I heard this on one of yeatsie’s wonderful newsletters!!! How lovely indeed is the girl who plays bass <3

“Give Me the Cure,” Fugazi. LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

“I Wish I Was the Moon Tonight,” Neko Case. I croon along to this alone in the car a lot

“Just One Kiss,” The Red Romance. This really got a hold on me during undergrad—I love a CLAPS ON THE BEAT song! It’s also on my mighty mighty That Chord playlist for the wah-wah-esque keyboard around 2:50. Kind of delectable ☠️💗🎀 vibes on this one…

“Hound Dog,” Big Mama Thorton. Her voice, her voice and that! Electric! Blues! Guitar!

“Rust,” Monolord. Also on That Chord for the frankly sickening gospel organ/heavy metal conglomeration at the end of the first minute. Heard this off the impeccably-named metallic fuckery playlist tits, clits, Satan, curated by the pinup artist who designed my motorcycle ring

“The Fallen,” Franz Ferdinand. The cataclysmic importance of You Could Ha[gunshot] I think about the word “slick” a lot as it’s used to describe some of the licky, jammy music I love from this era—The Strokes were forever “slick” in Spin. The Fratellis were kind of slick! The aughts’ Arctic Monkeys were a bit slick… I think FF firing on all cylinders as they so often are were the slickest! A perfect album.

I respectfully solicit @sullypants, @village-skeptic, @nimmieamee, and @gingertumericlemon

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Music Pioneers 🎵 🎶 🎸🤠

Repost: @bluebeybleed @feminist

Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” shines a spotlight on the often overlooked contributions of Black women in country music and Black Women’s genre-defying contributions in other historically white (and frequently male) dominated genres. From the roots of blues, folk and country music to the electrifying energy of rock & roll, these women have played pivotal roles in shaping and shifting the sound and soul of these genres, yet their influence has frequently been marginalized and erased.

In honor of the release of Cowboy Carter, here are 9 women you need to know:

Big Mama Thorton

Ida Cox

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Elizabeth Cotten

Linda Martell

Algia Mae Hinton

Jessie Mae Hemphill

Memphis Minnie

Ma Rainey

#pioneersofmusic #blackhistory365 #blackwomenhistory365

[stobinesque]

I saw you liked them soooo 🔀 and photocheer? 👀

I saw literally one post about them and went feral. Like forget Eddie being annoyed about having a crush on a cheerleader can you imagine if it was JONATHAN??? Delicious, I'm obsessed.

And...okay...the song that came up was Big Mama Thorton's rendition of "Wade in the Water" 😭 I'm...

Okay, so Jonathan's doing his thing, right? Going around Hawkins and taking pictures of stuff. He's maybe in an adventurous/nature-oriented mood that day, so he's wandering through the woods taking pictures of stuff. And then he winds up out the outskirts of Lover's Lake and sees this girl just absolutely whaling about, splashing in the water and dancing, just full of life and glee (she just dumped Jason). She's yelling with such giddy delight, like she doesn't care about what anyone thinks and is just happy to be. And Jonathan doesn't think he's ever seen anyone with such unrestrained joy before. He doesn't even really think about it, his camera is just up and snapping pictures. (He gets a really good one of Chrissy with her arms outstretched, head tilted up to the sky with a wide smile on her face; splashes of water dancing up around her.) After a couple shots he realizes it's...maybe a little weird that he's hiding in the woods taking pictures of her without her knowing. So he leaves his inadvertent hiding spot and goes up to her, trying not to startle her, because he doesn't want her to lose that un-self-conscious glee. It's only once he gets a little closer that it dawns on him that that's Chrissy Cunningham.

Meanwhile...Chrissy doesn't think she's ever been happier. She's just graduated. She's dumped Jason. She has a job lined up post-graduation and an apartment she's sharing with a friend so she doesn't have to live with her mom anymore, and life can't get much better than this, she thinks. She decides she wants to celebrate. And maybe it's silly, but she has fond memories of going to Lover's Lake with her dad as a kid. So she drives out there, music blasting on the boombox she brought with her, and she just starts dancing. She doesn't even want to swim, really. She's just splashing around in the water like a giddy little kid and nothing's ever felt more perfect. She doesn't hear the person approaching at first, she's so caught up in her own little world. But then someone clears their throat off on the shore, and somehow she doesn't even startle. She turns around to see this awkward stringbean of a man with a camera around his neck waving awkwardly at her. She thinks she recognizes him from school, but she can't place his name at first.

"Hey, I, um...sorry to bother you, just...uh, I saw you dancing and I maybe, um, took a couple pictures? I can totally delete them if you want! I didn't really mean to take them, you just...you looked so happy."

send me a 🔀 and a pairing and I'll shuffle my music and make an au based on the song that comes up

[beardedmrbean]

I said yes the cover can be better than the original because there’s literally cases where the original songwriter/singer literally said “ It’s their song now.” Like Johnny Cash’s cover of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt” and Whitney Huston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You “.

Oh absolutely, I think Smashing Pumpkins album version of "Landslide" is better than the album version by Fleetwood Mac, dixie chicks version is garbage, and I make sure to say Album version because well.

In 1997 they did this, whole concert album is perfection, that is a hill I am prepared to die on.

On the post I made the Elvis crack for a very specific reason.

Meet Big Mama Thorton, the first person to record Hound Dog.

She didn't write it though so the "stolen" bit is BS but people still will do what people do case could be made because it was specifically written FOR her, so it can get muddy.

I would actually say that both recordings of Hound Dog are equally good personally, but it's one that can trigger the discourse™.

If you didn't actually listen to the Hound Dog video up there I strongly suggest you do that, then look up "Sister Rosetta Tharpe" she gets a chunk of the credit for rock music existing, nobody gets all of it, but she gets more than many.

[worthless-weight-in-gold]

spell out your url using song titles. then, tag as many people as there are letters in your url: except my url is so long and this took so long (very fun tho) so i wont be tagging that many people :3c

Tagged by the delightful : @wynterlanding

W orm - Banshee O n Thin Ice - Pinkshift R ule #4 - Fish in a a Birdcage T weyagale - Eddy Kenzo H ijo de la Luna - Stravaganzza L ullaby of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald E rghan Diado (Song of Schopsko) - Bulgarian State Female Choir S OME GUY - XIAO XIAO S treet Power - Ho99o9

W imbledon - Rich White Ladies E res para Mi - Julieta Venegas I dentity - Pallavi aka Fijana G ot To Tell You - Busy Signal H ound Dog - Big Mama Thorton T uktu Strut - Piqsiq

I nn Ann - Daboor, Shabjdeed N unca Tristes (Me Vale Madre) - RENEE

G luttony - Shreea Kaul O kwukwe Na Nchekwube - Celestine Ukwu L a Razon - David Y Fernando D og New Tricks - Garbage

tagging: @mutatedangels @misstruthing @draconisa @hxllblazer @samhlaiocht

[voidwritesstuff]

Fleeting Joys

Cw: mentions of war, alusion to ww2. Military themes and alusions to PTSD. Please let me know if theres anything else I should add to the list.

Summary: Lucas and Alphonso share some Fleeting moments of joy amidst their deployment.

Fandom: in sound mind

A/n: I always felt that Lucas had a father/son relationshipp with Alphonso, this "character study" is Centered around a platonic/familial Bond between two men, do not take it out of context.

->Reblogs and comments are appreciated.

--Lucas! -- alphonso yelled, snapping Lucas out of his trance making him look at the source. A smile appears on the face of the young Man as his older friend approaches-- we gotta move. the hell's takin' ya so long,kiddo?

--I uh,...can't manage to fix my collar in a way its not uncomfortable-- the flordian Man answered, flustered and mildly ashamed. "Way to go,Lucas" he thought.

--Ah I see-- Alphonso replied with a teasing yet lighthearted smirk, stepping a little closer to his friend and extending his hands towards his shirt's collar-- lemme see what I can do -- it takes a little bit of rustling the fabric but he manages to fix it-- there, all good kid.

--Thanks-- Lucas answered a little more cheery-- I think I'm good to go now

--Great!-- the older Man patted his companion's back-- c'mon we gotta go

Both make their way through camp, saying hi to some of his fellow teammates. The air smelled of humidity, dirt and mild B.O. Lucas has seen plenty of military camps, in movies at least, and the pictures his dad had shown him; it was different than what he imagined but..it was his home now, at least until he came back home.

--Good thing I fixed yer collar, or Our c.o would have yer head on a pike-- Alphonso half joked playfully pushing his friend

--Oh most defenetly-- the younger Man answered, following along to his companion's joke-- I still dont know how the hell you managed to save my ass from night watch the other day

--Ah I just talked to 'im. I said that you're just still gettin' used to all this-- Alphonso vaguely gestured at the wide expanse of the camp-- You were just lissenin' to the radio, nothin' much. Hell,yer a radio Man so yer technically doing yer job

Lucas erupts in loud laughter, not noticing his companion's face soften at the joy of his friend, Alphonso knew that in war the moments of happiness were few and far between, and he just wanted to try and return the kid to his parents without that Many scratches on him. -- hell, I reckon I was doing my job-- The young Man replied with a big grin-- but also, they were playing a cover of "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thorton, I had to hear it. It had drums and I.. I guess I just miss playin' 'em

--'m sure you'll have plenty 'o time to play 'em when you get back home kid. Hell, we could even start a band with the rest of the team-- Wheeler answered patting his back.

--I hope so, I miss makin' music. Not radio worth it but..it's therapeutic I guess? -- Lucas added-- I really like the sound of them drums

--I gotcha-- Alphonso reassured-- making music Is fun. Oh hey- we're almost there, hope you don't have a fear of heights

Lucas' eyes filled with excitement-- Don't tell me we're going to fly on a helicopter!

--Yep. It'll drop us close to the objective, but we're still gonna have to walk two days to reach it-- the older Man answered.

--I honestly don't give a crap about walking, It's a freaking helicopter!

Alphonso chuckled at his friend's excitement,he was like a kid in a candy store.-- Alright alright, eager beaver c'mon

After the exciting ride in the helicopter, Alphonso's unit is dropped off. They tredge through thick forests and muddy ground, it had rained the day prior so there was still a mild smell of humidity in the air too. Lucas held on to his rifle just in case, but there was an odd Beauty in the forest. Kinda reminded him of home.

When the night settles in, the unit camps out, they get a small Fire going and some dinner cooked on a stove. Lucas fiddles with his dogtags, unsure of what to help with exactly. His eyes lost in the fire and the dancing flames. Above him the stars shimmer and the moon brings some much needed light to the area, cold air bites at his hands and face, the rest of his body kept warm thanks to his uniform.

--You alright in there kid?-- Alphonso asked patting his back-- ya seem..lost

--What? Oh uhm...'m fine, It's just I dunno what to help with

--Well, maybe ya can just sit here with me n' chat-- Wheeler proposed, he remembers all the jokes he heard about him getting soft over Lucas. The young Man reminded him too much of himself in his golden years, he couldnt help it. But also, he knew the horrors of war and much to his dismay the military ensnared yet another young soul to fight. 

He hoped that if any of them were to make it out alive,it would be Lucas. The boy had his whole life ahead of him, and Wheeler would see it done that the kid would go back home alive.

--Ya sure the other's wont mind?

--It's my damn unit I do what I want-- Alphonso joked, gaining a scoff from his younger companion-- say, ya got anyone waitin' for ya back home?

--My family-- Lucas answered-- n' my dog

--Thats cute. Any girlfriends,boyfriends or partners I need to know about?

Lucas smirked with a blush across his face, he scratched the back of his neck-- not really, haven't had much time to get to know other people, I was the nerd kid in highschool and with boot camp I barely had time to myself, and my drums were my priority. -- then, he processed the rest of his Friend's question-- and what do you mean by "I need to know about"? You plannin somethin'?-- he asked playfully.

--Gotta make a good first impression, y'know? -- Alphonso shrugged with a mischiveous smirk-- plus I want kids to tell my stories to

Lucas almost chokes on his own spit,eyes wide and his blush getting deeper. He looks at his friend and says-- n' ya wonder why people say yer like my dad?

He shrugged-- Guilty, it comes with age I'm afraid -- Wheeler handed him a canteen with water and kept talking-- you'd like to have some mini Lucases runnin' 'round some day?

The younger Man thought for a moment, taking a much needed sip of water. He hands  the canteen back to his Friend and answers-- no clue, I don't personally see the appeal on children but..Maybe It'll change with time, dunno. But I do wanna settle down

-- Watcha thinkin' your ideal Pickett fence life would be like?

--A house, somewhere nice like a lake or a forest-- Lucas started-- a spouse N' a buncha dogs, Good Friends-- he Gently pushed Alphonso-- maybe have my own little band that I get to play with on weekends, and a calm job...Maybe a ranger of some sorts?

Alphonso smiled, making space for another of his teammates to sit with them on the Log. Then he hands lucas the first Plate of their dinner and adds-- ya have it all figured out huh?

The younger Man chuckled under his breath-- not really, but It's a nice thought

Some hours later the unit gets ready to tuck in for the night. Lucas makes himself comfortable on his sleeping bag, turning his back to the Fire,hearing the footsteps of the teammates that were assigned to night watch. He sighs under his breath,missing the comfort of his bed and the weight of his dog against his back, the warm tasty meals and the days spent running around the neighboorhood with his Friends are now Fleeting memories.

--Hey kid?--Alphonso called out taking a Seat beside him, rifle in hand-- everythin' alright?

--Just missin' home-- he whispered back,closing his eyes. The warmth of the Fire soothing his aching bones.

--It'll be alright kid,youll go back home-- he promised, patting his arm-- rest now

--What about you?-- Lucas asked.

--I'll stay up for a little while, don't worry 'bout me-- Alphonso would never admit he was worried like a mother hen. He wanted to make sure the area was safe before he even thought about laying down, he was the captain of this unit for a reason.

Wheeler sees Lucas slowly succumb to sleep and sighs under his breath. "You'll get to go back home kid. I promise" he thought before returning his eyes to the forest around him, in high alert. The only thing soothing him being the shallow breaths and the Rise and fall of his teammates' chests.