Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues
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Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from the House of Blues is a 1997
1997 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...

 live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live...

. It was recorded at the opening of the House of Blues
House of Blues
House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...

 in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 and is the first recording to feature Zee Blues
James Belushi
James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...

.

Track listing

  1. "Intro"
  2. "Green Onions
    Green Onions
    Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October of 1962. It reached number 33 on the Pop Albums chart in the month of its release...

    "
    • Blues Brothers Band, Paul Shaffer
      Paul Shaffer
      Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...

  3. "Chicken Shack"
    • Blues Brothers Band, Paul Shaffer
  4. "Sweet Home Chicago
    Sweet Home Chicago
    "Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson...

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band
  5. "I Wish You Would
    I Wish You Would
    "I Wish You Would" is a song recorded by Chicago blues musician Billy Boy Arnold in 1955. It was developed while Arnold was performing with Bo Diddley and incorporates a Diddley-style rhythm...

    "
    • Billy Boy Arnold
      Billy Boy Arnold
      Billy Boy Arnold is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.-Biography:...

       & Blues Brothers Band
  6. "Messin' with the Kid
    Messin' With The Kid
    "Messin' with the Kid" is a rhythm and blues-style blues song originally recorded by Junior Wells in 1960. It is credited to Chief Records owner/songwriter/producer Mel London. Considered a blues standard, it "remains Junior Well's best-known song"...

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band, Sergei Varonov
  7. "All My Money Back"
    • Lonnie Brooks
      Lonnie Brooks
      Lonnie Brooks is an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana, United States...

      , Blues Brothers Band
  8. "Born In Chicago"
    • Elwood Blues, Charlie Musselwhite
      Charlie Musselwhite
      Charlie Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman", he claims Native American heritage...

      , Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band
  9. "Blues, Why You Worry Me?"
    • Charlie Musselwhite & Blues Brothers Band
  10. "Groove With Me Tonight"
    • Syl Johnson
      Syl Johnson
      Syl Johnson is an American blues and soul singer and record producer.-Biography:Born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed...

       & Blues Brothers Band
  11. "634-5789"
    • Eddie Floyd
      Eddie Floyd
      Eddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...

       & Blues Brothers Band
  12. "All She Wants to Do Is Rock
    All She Wants to Do Is Rock
    "All She Wants to Do Is Rock" is a 1949 single by Wynonie Harris. The song was the most successful of Wynonie Harris' solo career hitting number one on the U.S. R&B chart. The B-side, "I Want My Fanny Brown" , which made it to number ten on the R&B chart, is an answer song to Roy Brown's, "Miss...

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band, Tommy "Pipes" McDonnell
  13. "Flip, Flop and Fly
    Flip, Flop and Fly
    "Flip, Flop and Fly" is a jump blues-style song recorded by Big Joe Turner in 1955. Called a "prototypical rocker", the song was a hit reaching number two in Billboard magazine's R&B chart...

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band
  14. "Money (That's What I Want)
    Money (That's What I Want)
    "Money " is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records. The song was written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, and became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise....

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Sam Moore
      Sam Moore
      Samuel David Moore is an American Southern Soul and Rhythm & Blues singer who was the tenor vocalist for the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 through 1981...

      , Jeff Baxter
      Jeff Baxter
      Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s...

      , Brother Zee Blues, Paul Shaffer, Tommy "Pipes" McDonnell, Blues Brothers Band
  15. "Viva Las Vegas
    Viva Las Vegas (song)
    "Viva Las Vegas" is a 1964 song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and recorded by Elvis Presley for his Viva Las Vegas film vehicle of that year...

    "
    • Elwood Blues, Brother Zee Blues, Sam Moore, Paul Shaffer, Blues Brothers Band, Jeff Baxter, Tommy "Pipes" McDonnell

Personnel

  • Elwood Blues
    Dan Aykroyd
    Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

     – Vocals, Harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

  • Brother Zee Blues
    James Belushi
    James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...

     – Vocals, Harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

  • Matt "Guitar" Murphy
    Matt Murphy (blues guitarist)
    Matt "Guitar" Murphy is an American blues guitarist.-Life and career:Matt Murphy was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, United States, and was educated in Memphis, where his father worked at the Peabody Hotel...

     – Lead Guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Steve "The Colonel" Cropper
    Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...

     – Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Danny "G-Force" Gottlieb - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Birch "Crimson Slide" Johnson - Trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

  • Lou "Blue Lou" Marini
    Lou Marini
    Lou Marini, Jr. is an American saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz, rock, blues and soul music traditions.-Early life and range of musical experience:...

     – Tenor & Alto Saxophones
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

  • Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin
    Alan Rubin
    Alan Rubin , also known as Mr. Fabulous, was an American musician. He played trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet....

     – Trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Tommy "Pipes" McDonnell - percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , Lead & Background Vocals
  • Paul "The Shiv" Shaffer
    Paul Shaffer
    Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , Background Vocals

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