Recently we had a fascinating interview with Magic Frankie. After several years of silence, he is picking up the threads of his blues life again. There are plenty of plans for a new band, gigs, recording new songs of his own writing, in short he wants to get back into the spotlight on stage. The Gangster of Blues is back in full force. His first single ever is “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang. This record actually contains everything: R&B, Soul, HipHop, Disco and Rap. Actually, everything is right in this song and it has a great groove. But finally everything falls into place when he sees a program on TV about the origins of the blues in which an American man and woman perform. This performance comes in like a thump, as raw as it sounds. Frankie is totally in shock, his love for the blues is born and will never leave him. In record stores he goes in search of more music. On that search for more wonderful blues music, he discovers James Cotton, a bluesman he had already seen perform in his hometown then, Breda. From this artist he buys the album ‘Live And On The Move’ 1976 (Buddah Records), an album with classic songs like ‘Got My Mojo Workin’, I Don’t Know, ‘Help Me’ and especially the beautiful performance of ‘Blow Wind Blow’ a song by Mc Kinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters. So when we ask Frankie about his album of the month, he doesn’t hesitate for a moment with this album, one of the ones that started it all for him back then.
