Live - Iowa State University is a 1987 live album by Blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 singer Long John Baldry

Long John Baldry

John William "Long John" Baldry was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No...

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Album Info

Recorded in 1987 and broadcast on the performance network that year. The concert finally saw a DVD release in 2004. The DVD would be remastered and re-issued in 2008 and finally had a CD release in 2009. Strangely enough the version of "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King of Rock 'n' Roll" featured on the CD has the spoken intro (Conditional Discharge) removed. This intro can be found on both DVD's.

Track listing

1. "Goin' Down Slow" (St. Louis Jimmy Oden
   St. Louis Jimmy Oden
   James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden was an American blues vocalist and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home to go to St. Louis, Missouri where piano-based blues was prominent...
   
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2. "I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
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3. "Everyday (I Have The Blues)"
4. "It Ain't Easy
   It Ain't Easy (song)
   "It Ain't Easy" is a song written and originally recorded by Ron Davies. Davies recorded the song on his 1970 album Silent Song Through the Land...
   
   " (Ron Davies)
5. "Respect"
6. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
   (You Make Me Feel like) a Natural Woman
   " A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her...
   
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7. "Iko Iko
   Iko Iko
   "Iko Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two "tribes" of Mardi Gras Indians. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford in New Orleans. The story tells of a "spy boy" or "spy dog" "Iko Iko" is a...
   
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8. "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie on The King of Rock 'n' Roll" (Jeff Thomas
   Jeff Thomas
   Jeff Thomas is a former British professional boxer from Lytham St. Anne's in Lancashire.Thomas fought at light welterweight and was a challenger for the Irish light welterweight title and the British Masters super featherweight and light welterweight titles.-Background:Thomas was born in...
   
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Personnel

• Long John Baldry
• Kathi McDonald
• Joseph Ingraio
• David Norris-Elye
• David Hutchinson
• Papa John King
• George Sweetnam