- All Music
- A fantastic music reference source for both new and old albums. You can even get album reviews here and even a list of musicians on the album with links to the musicians. If the info you want isn't here, try ASCAP and BMI.
- ASCAP and BMI
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These two sites will give you all you need to know about any song. BMI alone, for example, contains a searchable database of 3,000,000+ songs. You can find who owns the copyright of a song, who wrote it, and even the name of every group or person that recorded the song. I recently used these sites to answer this question: Who recorded the original version of "Long Black Veil"?
- B.B. Major
- Natchitoches, Louisiana bluesman B.B. Major now has a web site. You can keep up with my favorite Louisiana bluesman via his posted schedule, and you can find ordering info for his CDs.
- Lucky W Amulet Archive and LUCKY MOJO CURIO CO.
- This is a fantastic site with all kinds of folklore stuff of interest to blues folks. Where did the name High John the Conqueror originate? Just what the heck is John the Conqueror? What's a mojo hand? Visit this site and answer those questions. Hey, visit this site and buy those items. You can get a John the Conqueror for $4, and for $12 you can buy a mojo hand specially made for wannabe blues stars.
Got a cowboy on your Christmas gift list? How about a raccoon's penis bone to stick through the brim of his hat? Only $3.50. What a bargain!
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Ain't Nothin' but the blues! If you head for Texas, head here first. It's a San Antonio based site, but it's full of all kinds of Texas blues info--bands, clubs, etc. |
- Merriam-Webster
- You might find, as I do, that it's easier and faster to look up a word on this site than in a dictionary. Also, this site will probably list the word and your dusty old foot-thick dictionary might not. This site has a cool thesaurus, too.
(I belong to the word-a-day club.)
- The Encyclopedia Mythica
- Can't remember the name of the child born when Zeus did the nasty with a swan? Wait a minute. Leda did the nasty. Zeus was the swan, right? Heck, I don't know. Check out this site.
- Mapquest!
- If you've visited any of the places in Junior's Juke Joint, you know the value of Mapquest. Okay, class, pay attention. Get me a map of Tullos, Louisiana.
- US Naval Observatory Time Service
- You can check the time, and you can compare and even set your computer's clock with the Naval Observatory's clock. You will never again be late for beer-30.
- The Louisiana Folklife Center
- There's some blues stuff here, including an article about my bluesbuddy B.B. Major. There's also lots of folklife stuff and anthropology stuff, including stuff by John L. Doughty, Jr., whoever the heck he is, probably a stuffed shirt. Okay, class, define hill country redneck. That's my culture and I'm proud of it. If only it wasn't so damned racist.
- Creole Heritage Center & Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
- Here's two more great sites hosted by my alma mater. Visit them and learn about Creole communities and about folklife and folk artists in north Louisiana.
- Oklahoma Blues Society
- Every state ought to have one. They don't.
- Jerry Lee Lewis ONLINE
- I wish I owned a copy of every one of the more than 1,200 songs Jerry Lee Lewis recorded. My favorite is his version of Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart."
- Delta Boogie Teasers
- Bookmark this site for sure. It's like a Delta and Delta blues magazine filled with all kinds of neat stuff. It's well-written and contains pictures, articles, and festival schedules etc., etc. Best of all, it's free!
You'll find some great photos on this site of the action on Nelson Street and at the Jukehouse Stage during the 1998 Delta Blues Festival in Greenville.
- Crescent City Connection
- Louisiana music and music people, including links to the same.
- David Duke
- Yep, you read it correctly. That's the David Duke's web site. I go to it every once in a while because I like to keep up with what he's saying and doing. I think he's the most dangerous man in America--an intelligent and articulate racist.
- Info Louisiana
- The starting point to find anything about the State of Louisiana.
- Delta Blues Festival
- Always held the 3rd Saturday in September of every year. If you don't see me there it's because I'm dead or in jail.
- Yellow Cat Productions
- If y'all need a production company for a film project large or small, check out these fine folks. They spent a week running around the Delta with me in the Bluesmobile. Y'all, we had a blues-blast.
- JUKE
- This is what me and the Yellow Cat cats did while running around the Delta in the Bluesmobile. (Other than laughin', talkin', dancin' and drinkin' lots of beer.) You can download a cool video clip of John Horton singing "Back Door Man."
- The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
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All you wanna be poets and songwriters out there better bookmark this site for sure. You can use this cool site to get a list of words that rhyme with a certain word, of course, but you can also get words that rhyme with a meaning. For example, let's say you're writing a new blues song and you need a word that rhymes with bat and means small furry animal.
Who you gonna call? Wordbusters? Heck no, you gonna click on that link to the Semantic Rhyming Dictionary.
Another great and free service provided by hungry grad students in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Oh, the word for the new blues song? It's rat. Whoever heard of a blues song about a cat?
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