Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Judge calls bin Laden driver small player following light sentence. OK, this is it, Clicked is officially moving to. A guitar player will only use musical Andrew labour regan referred to as tabs. Click on text link above to vi. Then select a very basic song that you know well and start to [...]
merinews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, text comments, interactive power tab, looping, frame advance, zoom, and other useful controls. Works on PC or Mac also includes access to Truefire TV
Yankee Pot Roast (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Rachmaninoff; Blind Blake; S. Johnson; A. Gardner. Hurrah!
...an endless banquet (Free subscription) | 26/04/2008
fig. a: what, no keyboardist? I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you --"I Wanna Destroy You," The Soft Boys Skeedle Lee Doo That's all I do --"Skeedle Lee Doo," Blind Blake Then listen now to what I say: Our friend C. once threw the travelin'-band meal to end all travelin'-band meals. A certain band she was fond of was coming to town. She wrote to them and invited...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
He was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century. "The Hook" was a Mississippi native who became the top gent on the Detroit blues circuit in the...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
News that a long-lost blues record by Blind Blake had been unearthed filled me with joy. Which missing recordings would you give your left kidney to possess?
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 22/03/2008
A guy I used to know - a former neighbour - was a Blues obsessive, and a very decent guitar player. On hot summer days when both our back doors were open we'd often hear him banging away on some...
Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
here is a clip, most likely from the late 1960s, of the Reverend Gary Davis with Pete Seeger, Donovan, and Shawn Phillips or whatever the hell his name is: Davis was absolutely the greatest guitarist ever, or, put it another way, there wasn't anybody better. Only Blind Blake comes close. You can find the lyrics to the song here .
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
I was linked to a post with clips of Junior Kimbrough on a site called Diddy Wah run by a pop music maven with quite decent taste and knowledge. Check out Adam Weatherhead's full mp3's and podcasts. Have you ever heard Blind Blake's original "Diddie Wa Diddie" (full .mp3)? There's a great big mystery, and it sure is worrying me This Diddie Wa Diddie Mister Diddie Wa Diddie I wish somebody would
Havering On (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
One name is for many blues record collectors and for fands of the pre war music that was spawned in the Mississippi Delta and then took hold in cities like Chicago and Memphis is Paramount Records. The label was started around 1916 by the New York Recording Laboratory of Port Washington, Wisconsin. The company was a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company, who made not just chairs but also other...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 13/12/2007
The mysterious Blind Blake was a guitar marvel and good singer whose recording career lasted just a few years, 192~ 32. These twenty-three titles on the Paramount label, most of them blessed with clear sound, are as much about his easeful control over picking technique as his emotional outlook. Blake's blues, ragtime, and unclassifiable tunes are interestingly written, with melodies, improvisations,...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
Back in the hoary days of the Depression-era recording industry, records were a bit like toasters: promotional swag given away with consumer purchases. One of the glaring downsides to this practice was that production values were often atrocious. Master...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
It's impossible to fault Kenny Sultan's playing on West Coast Blues -- but it's impossible to get worked up about it, either. The man's a superb instrumentalist, certainly on a technical level, with dazzling fingerwork on a cut like "The Sick Boogie," which is all fingers flying around the fretboard, or the impressionistic "Shangri-La," whose blues connection seems tenuous, at best. But there seems...
AKMA’s Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 09/10/2007
A year or so ago, our friend John was ragging me about my iTunes library. I was scrolling along, looking for songs he might enjoy, when we got to the middle of the B’s. Blind Alfred Reed Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller Blind Joe Reynolds Blind Joe Taggart Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Mamie Forehand Blind Roosevelt Graves Blind Will Dukes Blind Willie Davis Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie McTell John...
