The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Rick Harvey was an acquaintance of mine and a great guitar player for Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton, and many others, highly respected by his fellow musicians, black and white, and the possessor of a fine, gentle, and kind personality. Here's a picture of Rick Harvey with Stevie Ray Vaughan: Sadly, we lost Rick a few years back, but this video surfaced last month to bring back great memories
Somewhere on A1A (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
1. We Live a Long Time to Get Old… Jimmy Murphy 2. Old Man… Neil Young 3. I Pity the Fool… Bobby Blue Bland 4. Just Across the Borderline… Freddy Fender 5. Please Mr. Postman… [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
in post The Southern Dream of Freedom from An Aquarium Drunkard .
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
One of the greatest soul songs of all time, Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love": You may remember it from the Blues Brothers movie, but that's cool, they had Cropper and Duck behind 'em: Another in the same spirit is Bobby Blue Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light": Let's not forget the biggest root of soul music, black gospel, and one of its foot-in-both-camps exponents, O.V.
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The music business is filled with tragic stories, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of individual tales of opportunities lost and potential unfilled. One of those is the story of Johnny Ace. Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) was a Memphis native and a regular on the local music scene from an early age. A contemporary [...]
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
I’m happy to present So Young, So Cold, So Fair: The Saint James Infirmary Blues, a collection of songs of loss and love regarding The St. James Infirmary. Honey was established over four (!) years ago around the idea that it was too hard actually listen to pre-war blues without buying out of print or [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
IRISH crooners Westlife wowed the adoring crowds last night at the launch of the 2008 Summer Pops.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Ira B. Tucker, lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds, performed a style of gospel music that erased boundaries, between music and movement, praise and performance, style and spirit.For 70 years Tucker and the Hummingbirds gave high-energy, emotion-drenched shows designed to please the Lord and wow audiences.The group influenced a long list of R & B artists and could have crossed over from gospel to...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Watch the video for Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City from Paul Carrack.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Early press raves are in for Mick Hucknall's TRIBUTE TO BOBBY: "Hucknall's covers have a fabulously fresh perspective." --Seattle PI "In 'Tribute to Bobby,' Bland's music blooms fresh in Hucknall's knowing hands." --SF Chronicle "Tribute to Bobby" isn't some clich blues or soul salute, but instead a modern pop album that draws effortlessly from all those sources." --NY Daily News...
The Dry Spot (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Because the NAMM show has returned to Nashvegas, we can expect to see some incredible music in town this coming weekend. And some of it will be in unexpected places. A little birdie (OK, really it was a musician friend of mine) told me about a show on Saturday night that I cannot freakin’ believe. At 9:30 [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Last updated June 17, 2008 10:01 a.m. PTListen Up: 'Mick Hucknall's 'Tribute to Bobby'(Rhino)The Simply Red vocalist turns blue with a tribute to Bobby "Blue" Bland, the enduring Southern soul singer. Bland's voice is at its most dynamic on despondent ballads of rejection. Hucknall's is too sweet, too perfectly pop, to capture Bland's grit, so his covers have a fabulously fresh perspective.The instrumentation...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Simply Red has developed a bad case of the blues, but frontman Mick Hucknall is delighted.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
One of the most distinctive vocalists in Britain tips his hat to one of the greatest from the American South with the June 17 release of Mick Hucknall's TRIBUTE TO BOBBY. The solo debut from the leader of Simply Red features sizzling versions of songs popularized by the great Bobby "Blue" Bland. The first single to radio is the lead track "Farther Up The Road' which debuts at 21* on the R&R Smooth...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
LOS ANGELES -- One of the most distinctive vocalists in Britain tips his hat to one of the greatest from the American South with the June 17 release of Mick Hucknall's Tribute To Bobby. The solo debut from the leader of Simply Red features sizzling versions of songs popularized by the great Bobby "Blue" Bland...
