#505:Mike Flanigin/Hammond B3 Legend

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Today on episode #505 of LET THERE BE TALK my guest is Austin legend Mike Flanigin.

Mike 'The Drifter' Flanigin is known as the 'go to' Hammond B3 organist for Lone Star guitar legends Jimmie Vaughan and Billy Gibbons. He has also performed with Steve Miller, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, Gary Clark Jr., Doyle Bramhall II, Charlie Sexton and many others. His 2015 solo release THE DRIFTER reached #1 on the iTunes Blues Chart and was described by Rolling Stone Magazine as a “Road trip-worthy record, with Flanigin creating his own version of atmospheric Americiana.”

I absolutely love this mans playing and it was a honor to sit down with him and get a history lesson on all things Hammond B3 Organ.

I think you guys will really dig this episode.

DDR

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0:00.0	Thanks for tuning into another episode. I'll let to be talked today is Monday,
0:04.6	December, 2nd. This is episode number 505. Fantastic guests today. I'm going to
0:13.5	tell you a little bit about them here in a second. But before I do, I want to
0:17.7	just say this is definitely going to be an excellent lesson in blues music
0:24.9	today and also a lesson in the B3 organ, the Hammond B3. If you've listened to my
0:34.2	show over the years, you know I love B3 players. I've had some great ones on the
0:39.4	the legend himself Ben Montench and there was a time where there was B3 Hammond
0:49.1	organs everywhere. You would see them in people's living rooms. They would just
0:54.7	have them in their house and Sundays they'd sit around and play and sing and
1:01.2	you would see them in churches everywhere. I remember there was a guy in a pizza
1:06.1	parlor would just play one while you were eating pizza. It was it was just a
1:10.4	different time and the the B3 was the reigning king and my guest today is
1:17.7	definitely one of the greatest B3 players of all time. Mike Flanagan out of Austin,
1:24.2	Texas and this guy is first of all I saw him play at sea boys in Austin about a
1:32.7	year ago and I was like I've got to have him on. He was playing with Jimmy Vaughn.
1:37.9	They have a band that plays like every week at this small little club and I was
1:45.7	in there and I was just blown away. It was amazing to sit down and talk to this man.
1:51.1	We go all over the board but he he tells us all about the old days, the great
1:57.8	players. Wild Bill Davis, Big John Patton, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Roach, all these
2:04.7	great B3 players that would have these trios that are just just amazing. When you
2:11.9	hear just go listen to a Big John Patton record. You can hear it on iTunes or
2:17.6	whatever your streaming is and just throw it on. You'll be in heaven and then
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