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James Cotton (born July 1, 1935) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who has performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time as well as with his own band. Although he played drums early in his career, Cotton is famous for his work on the harmonica. Cotton began his professional career playing the blues harp in Howlin' Wolf's band in the early 1950s. He made his first recordings in Memphis for Sun Records under the direction of Sam Phillips. In 1955, he was recruited by Muddy Waters to come to Chicago and join Waters' band. Cotton became Muddy's band leader and stayed with Waters' group until 1965. In 1965 he formed the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet, with Otis Spann on piano to record between gigs with Muddy Waters' band and eventually left Waters to form his own full-time touring group. His first full album, on the Verve label, was produced by guitarist Mike Bloomfield and vocalist/songwriter Nick Gravenites, both of whom were later members of the band Electric Flag. In the 1970s, Cotton played harmonica on Muddy Waters' Grammy Award winning 1977 album Hard Again, produced by Johnny Winter.
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter".
Richards was born 18 December 1943 at Livingston Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. He is the only child of Doris M L (née Dupree) and Herbert W Richards. His father was a factory worker who was injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion.
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie style. Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966) – the first being the most popular race record of 1949.
There is some debate as to the year of Hooker's birth in Coahoma County, Mississippi, the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875, date of death unknown); according to his official website, he was born on August 22, 1917.
James Cotton - Slow Blues (Angel Of Mercy / Blues in my sleep)
James Cotton- High Compression ( Full Album)
James Cotton - The Creeper
James COTTON - Dealing With The Devil (1995)
James Cotton Blues Band - Full Concert - 06/15/73 - Winterland (OFFICIAL)
The James Cotton Band - Live & On The Move
Keith Richards & James Cotton Rehearsing
James Cotton - Rocket 88
John lee hooker, james cotton, koko taylor..the living legends of blues - montreal
Muddy Waters & James Cotton- Got My Mojo Working 1966
Actors: Gabrielle Union (actress), Beyoncé Knowles (producer), Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress), Elvis Presley (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Beyoncé Knowles (actress), Mos Def (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Eric Bogosian (actor), Cedric the Entertainer (actor), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Norman Reedus (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Terence Blanchard (composer), Marc Levin (producer),
Plot: In this tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Keywords: 1950s, african-american, african-american-music, arson, band, bankruptcy, bathtub, bigotry, billboard-magazine, blues-musicActors: Norman Macera (actor), David C. Roehm Sr. (actor), John Wooten (actor), Chris Keener (actor), Jessica Graham (actress), Sal Darigo (actor), Dennis Sigmund (actor), Jason F. Gilbert (producer), Jason F. Gilbert (actor), Jason F. Gilbert (director), Jason F. Gilbert (producer), William Schloesser (actor), Emily Vernon (producer), Emily Vernon (actress), Claire Bromwell (actress),
Plot: James Cotton hates his life, job, and girlfriend. In a vain attempt to sober up and make a numb life for himself, he takes a job in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His first day on the job he's placed in the coat room with Claire whose sarcastic and hardened personality manages to pierce James's lifeless veneer. James's budding crush on the young woman is enough to rope him into a series of scams she has planned for the day in order to make enough money to move away. Under an onslaught of odd museum patrons and caricatures of the young and hip art crowd, James is powerless to ease the awful pain of existence in a rhetorical world. Claire's life of impulsive action without thought forces James to confront both her lies and his own. Does James have what it takes to change his life? Can he find a reason to exist in this overwhelmingly futile world?
Keywords: coat-check, coat-room, duchamp, independent-film, philadelphia-museum-of-artEverytime I’m relaxing, the telephone rings
Man, it’s really getting to me, I really hate that thing.
Take a message baby, just tell ‘em I’m not home
Yeah, those telephone people,
They just don’t leave you alone.
It might be the neighbor, the insurance man
It could be the boss man, girl, I just don’t give a damn.
Take a message baby, Tell ‘em all that I’m up to date
I just don’t feel much like talking,
Nobody listens anyway – makes me so mad!
Everytime me and my baby, is getting’ in the groove
The telephone rings and it blows my attitude
Take a message baby, just tell ‘em I’m not here
You can tell ‘em all the same thing
Yeah, when they call back again.
That telephone keeps ringing, If I get one more call
Gonna take my 10-pound hammer, knock it right off the wall.
Take a message baby, just tell ‘em I’m not home
Yeah, the nerve of some people,