Spring Blues Mixtape (for Signal Subscribers)
Dear Subscribers,
OK…I am going to try something different. Instead of using SPOTIFY to send you a playlist…and I know a few of you don’t use SPOTIFY…I am going to connect you to a Hightail link to download a set of songs. I welcome any feedback around how this works out….if you think there is a better way of getting you the mixtape or if there is a certain kind of music/musician mix you would like to hear. This is all learning for me….
To add to this experiment, I put the sequence number into the title of each track so you will know the proper order in which to listen. The songs on this mixtape are all of the blues persuasion, recorded by Bengt Olsson, mostly in the early 70s.
So here it is, the mixtape I am calling: “Let My Last Day Be My Best”
Bengt Olsson was from Sweden…attracted to the blues during the blues revival of the 60s. He came to America in search of bluesmen to record. And unlike the big names that were searched out by Dick Waterman and friends, Bengt tr…