4 - Episode 4 - You Better Stop Drinking That Wine, Sonny Boy

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4 - Episode 4 - You Better Stop Drinking That Wine, Sonny Boy

Episode 4 - You Better Stop Drinking That Wine, Sonny Boy For the most part, this episode is about the larger-than-life blues and gospel artists who played the Cavern and made such an impression on the musicians. It deals with the highly unconventional musicians - Sister Rosetta Tharpe (and her husband, Lazy Daddy), John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williams, whose ‘Good Morning Little Schoolgirl’ was a chat-up line. Alexis Korner made a live blues album from the Cavern and when the Animals parked their van, Alan Price asked, “Do you like R&B round here?” he got the reply, “Like it? We invented it.” The Roadrunners, the Almost Blues and, to some extent, the Hideaways played blues at the Cavern, although Billy Butler said it was “exactly the kind of music I didn’t like, slow and gloomy.” Billy, however, was thrilled when he heard the Moody Blues playing the opening notes of their new record, ‘Go Now’, at the Cavern. Mike Brocken points out that it wasn’t down to the city whether it was a blues city or not: it depended on what key club owners wanted. Eric Haydock of the Hollies said that club owners wanted groups that would appeal to the girls as otherwise, “No women, no men”. Paul McCartney complimented a girl by saying she had “child-bearing hips”. Had he picked this up from his mother who was a midwife.

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