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Author: JD Nash
JD Nash is the former host of Blues Influence on WREN radio and current editor-in-chief of American Blues Scene.
Released as a single by ABC-Paramount on September 23rd, 1967, the jazz giant’s classic cover still serves as medicine for turbulent times.
With over five decades in the game, there’s a reason Savoy Brown has stood the test of time. ‘Witchy Feelin’ is it.
“This is the song we usually cap off the end of our shows with, and gets the craziest crowd response.”
In the 1960s, most of our music came on 45s, those seven-inch discs that contained one song on each side. 45s were everywhere.
“Nobody know John Lee Hooker. They know as much about my cat as they know about me.”
This is not a party album, nor is it “easy” listening. Migration Blues hit us like a knock-out punch, right in the feels.
“Each song is like a story and I’m performing that story. That’s been forgotten over years because people over-analyze things.” – Van Morrison
Each song on ‘Stompin’ Ground’ shows a slightly different side of his multifaceted musical personality.
Ingram’s masterful guitar work has been sending shivers through concert goers for nearly half his life, and his vocals display a power and maturity far beyond his years.
At times melancholy, and at others celebratory, the first person account apprises the short life of the original Sonny Boy.