OKAY SMART GUY, WHERE'S EVE?

Man, sometimes the wandering mouse clicks turn up some good shit. You blues fiends may know of Satan and Adam, but I sure didn't. Now I do. And now the list is longer. I'd given up on hearing anything interesting in blues, semi-recent blues, in years. Too much twelve bar hooey, all sounding the same, most with too much Blues Hammer. A seemingly easy music to play often makes for too little imagination. Not expecting to hear anything I'd like, particularly because the accompanying photo was of an old black guy and a much younger white dude. Looked like a kid dangling from a coattail. But "Satan and Adam"? Yeah, the name alone made me click.

Satan and Adam were an unlikely pair. Satan, real name Sterling Magee, was fifty something, playing on the street when he met Adam Gussow, a twenty something fellow busker. Somehow, the two clicked and a twenty two year friendship began. They were playing on the street when a film crew following U2 around New York (for the film Rattle and Hum) snagged a clip that was not left on the cutting room floor. After that they got noticed, got signed, toured, and stayed in touch. Their last LP Back In the Game was released in 2011. Seven years later, I took a chance and clicked. Catchy names work.

The two songs at Rollo and Grady are a good place to start. After you check those out, check YouTube for a shitload more, including a few earlier records by Sterling Magee. Oh yeah, he recorded for, among others, Ray Charles's Tangerine Records. No hack, this Satan.

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Listen:
Satan and Adam - Mother Mojo mp3 at Rollo and Grady Go there to get it.
Satan and Adam - Ride the Wind mp3 at Rollo and Grady Ditto above.
Sterling Magee - I Still Believe in You (streaming) at YouTube
Visit:
Satan and Adam at Wikipedia