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"Black Betty"
Ram Jam (1977)
Hard driving rock at it's finest! Somehow I missed this when it first came out, but thanks to the interweb, I'm all smiles now.
According to an article on Wikipedia, Black Betty is "is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him." I found a 1933 recording from a group led by James Iron Head Baker on YouTube.
Members of Ram Jam tell how they got the song in the short documentary below made by Top 2000 a gogo (Dutch Public TV, 2007).
Wow! Dirty Revival got themselves a crazy good vocalist.
an attempt to make up for even mentioning billie eilish
since i saw the New Dune movie (international release)…
two for one special…
“The Sun” by Nael Haim (Qobuz) on my new B&O EQ buds
Every breath
Sting, Christina Aguilera, Sisqo, D’Angelo, Enrique Iglesias, Backstreet Boys & Tom Jones!
Play it loud…
In Denmark, you will know when your time on the job are over. 
Hall & Oates Fronting the Grateful Dead
Madison Square Garden, NYC, September 24, 1988
Question: What can you do when your one of your main singers loses his voice?
Answer: Make lemonade!
The band is playing good, you can hear that right off the bat. "Iko Iko," the concert opener, already has everybody dancin'. But Jerry's lost his voice. WTF.
So during the set break, the show gets reorganized, and the guests who were scheduled to make brief appearances (and some who weren't) are suddenly pushed to the front.
Mick Taylor, on "Little Red Rooster," and Hall & Oates, on the Marvin Gaye classic "What's Goin' On?" play great. Suzanne Vega, not so much. But what the heck, on this day, they all got to front the Grateful Dead! Also present were Bruce Hornsby, who would later join the band, and Jack Casady, bassist for Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane.
In general, 1987-89 were good years for the Dead. Jerry was clean, and the shows were consistently hot. Although this is probably not their best performance of the period, it is a unique one, worth a listen just to hear Hall & Oates front the band.
Good Ol' Grateful Dead
"Iko Iko" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=11s
Mick Taylor
"West LA Fadeaway" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=16m03s
"Little Red Rooster" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=24m16s
Hall & Oates
"Every Time You Go Away" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=1h27m13s
"What's Goin' On?" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w9NjroByE&t=1h33m54s