Irma Thomas

Last week was Mardi Gras. If I had thought ahead, I would have done posts on artists from New Orleans. Better late than never, so I am doing that this week.

First up Irma Thomas. I say her perform last summer at the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in DC. She gave an amazing performance and at the same time made it look so effortless. The only problem was that the schedule was running behind, and so her performance was a bit short. She packed a lot into her time, but I hope to get to see her agains sometime so I can see more.

This first song, "Time Is On My Side", has a bit of history. She recorded it in the 1960's and somewhere Mick Jagger saw her performance of it. He copied not only the song, but her delivery of it. At least he copied it as much as he was able to. It when on to become one of the Rollings Stones early hits, but Thomas did not really get any credit for it.



This version of "You Can Have My Husband" is from the same Jools Holland show as the previous video. Jools Holland should probably get a prize for supplying the most videos for this blog.



Finally, here is a song recorded at the funeral of Snooks Eaglin, "Singin' Hallelujah".