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Welcome to our Jazz Juke Box Jury sessions where you are the jury.
Listen to the track and then say what you think of it by choosing one of the options at the bottom of the page and then clicking on 'Vote'. Your vote is anonymous, and you can only vote once. You can check on how the voting is going during the month by clicking on 'View Results' in the voting panel.
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This month, the track Bad Feeling Blues comes from Ric Lee's Natural Born Swingers album Put A Record On.
Ric Lee's Natural Born Swingers
Bad Feeling Blues
Dave Wiley in Germany wrote to remind us that some good blues bands played the same London venues that jazz bands played in the 60s and 70s. Venues like Cooks Ferry Inn, the Fishmonger's Arms at Wood Green and Eel Pie Island, all of which are featured on this website.
Dave remembers the Blues band Ten Years After and has set up a website about them (click here). He has also stayed in touch with the band and the drummer Ric Lee has now put together a new band Ric Lee's Natural Born Swingers and they have recently released their first album Put A Record On, a mixture of R&B and blues tracks.
The main band members are Danny Handley (guitar/vocals), Bob Hall (keyboard/vocals), Ric Lee (drums/percussion/vocals) and Scott Whitley (bass/vocals) but the album also features Paul Jones (from the Manfreds and the Blues Band) on harmonica, Kim Simmonds and Virgil McMahon (guitar), Son Henry (steel guitar) and Steve Beighton (brass).
Bob Hall writes: 'The Blues, music born around the turn of the 20th century among poor black sharecroppers in the American rural south, somehow resonated with British teenagers in the 1960s and became British blues, or blues-rock. One of the foremost groups to play this 'new' music was Ten Years After, who became part of 
the British Blues Invasion that took America by storm over the next decade. Ten Years After appeared at the legendary Woodstock Festival and had many hits in the succeeding years.'
'When Ric Lee, drummer with Ten Years After, invited pianist and neighbour Bob Hall, a founder member of Savoy Brown, another legendary British Blues Invasion band, to play at a local party, they little realised what was in store..... The music ignited and Ric Lee's Natural Born Swingers was conceived. The band's explosive blend of early Ten Years After swing and shuffle favourites and original material is stirring fond memories among TYA fans, blues fans, and picking up many new friends among the younger, wider public.'
The track by the band that we have chosen for this month’s Juke Box Jury is Bad Feeling Blues. When you have listened to it, cast your vote anonymously in the panel below.
Click here for Ric Lee's Website where you can read more about the band a see videos. Click here to sample other tracks from the album.
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