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Hinkle is one of the most diverse Texas performers currently working in the Blues/Jazz idioms today. Spending his early years with the likes of Marcia Ball, Doyle Bramhall Sr., doing shows with Albert Collins ,John Lee Hooker Sr., Buddy Miles, Stephen Bruton, U.P. Wilson and Fort Worth Blues Legend Robert Ealy we are finally seeing this "new" Texas talent rise up . Hinkle 's latest CD Blues Now Jazz...
Nothing if not eclectic, the Jazzvisions series veers completely away from jazz on its blues installment. The idiom is blues-rock, the headliner is the once and future Eagles star Joe Walsh, and his co-partners are electric bluesman Albert Collins and the indestructible singer Etta James. Within that idiom, though, this is a strong program captained by experts in the arts of blues licks and working...
Collins is backed by a Dutch band on this recording of a December 1978 show in Alkmaar, Holland. Dividing his attention between originals and covers of tunes by the likes of Lowell Fulson and Guitar Slim, it's a typically energetic set with long solos, the backup musicians playing competently, and female singer Tineke Schoemaker taking the vocals on "Blue River Rising." But it's not particularly an...
To evaluate almost a century of blues recordings and narrow it down to thirty albums takes much thought. First and foremost, you must include recordings that were important for their wide influence. Early Delta musicians like Charlie Patton and Son House influenced Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, respectively, who themselves started in the Delta and [...]
Rich and I are both back from a week at Black Hat/Defcon and thankful to be home in one piece. While the event is a ton of fun and educational, it’s also physically and emotionally exhausting. Tonight we talk about some of the talks we attended, what we learned, both in and out [...]
Steven Bryan Johnson, born January 12, 1956, started playing guitar in 1963 after his Uncle Mickey Johnson played his electric guitar for him. Steve played in rock blues bands in California until moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1982. There he met Albert Collins, Willie Dixon, Luther Allison, Duke Robillard, Johnny Winter, and lots of Chicago and Detroit area blues players. He moved to New York City...
Budget-priced 1992 release on Beehive featuring 45 historicblues recordings spread out on three CDs. Contains classicsfrom Buddy Guy, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Albert Collins,Little Milton, John Lee Hooker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, PeterGreen, Big Joe Williams, Junior Wells, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy,Muddy Waters, Charlie Musselwhite & dozens of others! Comesas three standard jewel cased CDs within a slipcase....
All learners should strive to broaden and deepen their understanding, skills and knowledge to become informed and attain the highest possible marks in all subjects, says Education Minister Naledi Pandor.
One of the most satisfying contemporary Brown discs of all for the discerning blues fan. Nothing but swinging, horn-abetted blues adorn this album, as Gate pays tribute to an influence and a protege by covering T-Bone Walker's "Strollin' with Bones" and Albert Collins's "Frosty." Brown's jauntily revives Junior Parker's "I Feel Alright Again" and Percy Mayfield's "Give Me Time to Explain," while his...
Jammed Together is somewhat of a surprise jam disc featuring three musicians with seemingly little in common. Pops Staples, Steve Cropper and Albert King. Pops Staples, the leader of the Staple singers, started his solo career at the ripe age of seventy. Pops played guitar with incredible agility for a man of seventy and his voice has been described as rough and sweet, sometimes wispy but full of soul....
There are many different types of guitar fingerstyles for rock and different for blues and this technique can be best learnt on an acoustic guitar. Mastering diverse fingerstyles will assist you to effectively render blues music and backing tracks.
Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that ended with his premature death on November 24, 1993. He was just 61 years old. The highly influential, totally original Collins, like the late John Campbell, was on the cusp of a much wider worldwide following via his deal with Virgin...
Albert Collins , Lonnie Mack , and Roy Buchanan shared the Carnegie Hall stage on December 6, 1985, and had the legendary joint jumping with Further On Down the Road . This is Late Late Nite FireDogLake , where off topic is the topic...so dive in.
