tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post7978076063388476344..comments2024-03-28T23:52:01.868+01:00Comments on Don't Ask Me ... I Don't Know: Earl King - Trick BagXyroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951807869475591637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post-42345083309044182172012-09-14T18:14:12.171+02:002012-09-14T18:14:12.171+02:00Great up-hard to find-thanksGreat up-hard to find-thanksi12rokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01280026970387654997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post-73430270380215083882012-05-21T13:03:32.241+02:002012-05-21T13:03:32.241+02:00Come on is not a good hendrix cover (not like the ...Come on is not a good hendrix cover (not like the extended "born under a bad sign" in the blues album, for example), it is not a blues tune and it is played like a 'let's paaarty' thing. Earl King made a kind of 'lesson of life' piece out of it, with a superb sensitive voice; you can listen him feeling what he said. The black guy with the white guitar had to give to the white audience what they paid for, but many studio sessions boots revealed what he really liked to do, and there is a lot of true deep blues into it. As Arthur Big Boy Grudup said to the white talent searcher who stopped him playing 'Oh when the saints', 'Uh, you want the real stuff?"Mouldysauerkrauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916632602145219136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post-62766954604734549122012-05-21T10:16:40.061+02:002012-05-21T10:16:40.061+02:00Glad you both liked the LP. Next to the blues I lo...Glad you both liked the LP. Next to the blues I love Hendrix but I've always had a dislike to his version of Come On, maybe it didn't fit into my idea of a psychedelic guitar freak back in the late 60's.Xyroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951807869475591637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post-86648110268383778562012-05-20T22:48:48.407+02:002012-05-20T22:48:48.407+02:00A great album, with two tracks that hendrix distor...A great album, with two tracks that hendrix distorded in the bridge part for solo fantasy. <br />Trick bag is two funny and rythmicaly impossible to forget, ever. <br />And, like many James Brown records, the album ends with the horrible track for paying taxes, "I love you more than gold".Mouldysauerkrauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916632602145219136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564093350797322784.post-28804424454961138502012-05-20T18:00:00.094+02:002012-05-20T18:00:00.094+02:00Much thank you for this wonderful Earl King album....Much thank you for this wonderful Earl King album. You have a terrific blog and I look forward to visiting often. All best wishes,<br /><br />Yggiiggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943661630697527170noreply@blogger.com