Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 4th

Now here's a gig somebody shoulda recorded, really -- Classic '70's No. 1 LP -- Born on this date, one artist we could never have done without...

4/04/1968 (48 years ago today) - From the "Can You Even Imagine?" Dept.: Following the news of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, New York City's New Generation Club is the setting for an all-night session of blues, folk and rock featuring Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, and Al Kooper. Yowza, indeed...

4/04/1970 (46 years ago today) - Neil Young's first studio effort with Crosby, Stills and Nash hits pay dirt: "Deja Vu" goes to No. 1 on the Billboard chart; having three Top Ten singles helps -- "Teach Your Children", "Our House" and "Woodstock". Completely amazing this record doesn't sound out-dated at all, that's how good they were, kids...

4/08/1913 - Born on this date, blues legend and American musical icon Muddy Waters. The catalog of recordings that Mr. McKinley Morganfield left behind still astounds (especially from the 1950's): "I Can't Be Satisfied", "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Mannish Boy", "Rollin' And Tumblin'" and too many more to list here. The facts are: (1) His tour of England in 1959 was the inspiration for the whole British R&B movement that followed; (2) The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Cream, The Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Winter et al...would (pretty much) never have existed at all were it not for Muddy Waters. Look it up...

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"Well, if the river was whiskey/And I was a divin' duck/Well, I would dive to the bottom/Never would I come up...", xoxo!