Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for January 11th

Classic guitar lick gets recorded! 90's icons rip it on SNL! Remembering one of the best in blues...

1/11/1967 (49 years ago today) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded "Purple Haze" at London's De Lane Lea studios. Future generations of guitarists will wonder why they're even trying...

1/11/1992 (24 years ago today) - Double-whammy for Nirvana today: their album "Nevermind" hits the No. 1 spot on the U.S. Billboard album chart; later in the evening they appear on "Saturday Night Live" and perform rip-roarin' versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Territorial Pissings", thus (thankfully) effectively ending the careers of Loverboy, Styx, REO Speedwagon, et al...

1/11/1924 - Born on this date, blues legend Slim Harpo, one of The Rolling Stones most revered influences. His real name was James Isaac Moore and he went on to become one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day with the swamp-blues classics "I'm A King Bee" (1957, which the Stones covered on their debut), "Rainin' In My Heart" (1961), and "Baby Scratch My Back" (which got as high as No. 16 on the U.S. charts and which Mick Jagger famously referenced on "Stray Cat Blues" on "Beggar's Banquet" and "Shake Your Hips" from "Exile On Main Street"). Slim was a bona-fide master of the blues harmonica, thus his stage name; wicked authentic stuff, kids...Passed away on January 31, 1970, at age 46.

Share your comments on the Calendar here on our web site and on the WBLM Facebook and Twitter pages with the hashtag #TommysCoffeeBreak.

"Actin' funny/But I don't know why...", xoxo!