Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Brian Parrish is the DJ of The Casbah, a weekly radio program on KSYM 90.1 FM in San Antonio, featuring surf-instrumentals, garage, soul, blues and more. It's my favorite radio show of all-time and is available in podcast form. 9/13/08 podcast The Royal Coachmen - Loophole The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys Jackie & The Cedrics - Hard Rock Jackie The Yardbirds - Heartful Of Soul The Ramonetures -...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
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...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
New Orleans has always been home to a rich musical heritage, with a history of influence on almost every kind of music, especially jazz and R&B. Among the performers in the latter genre have been an almost endless parade of locally-grown artists, many of whom went on to major stardom. Names like Fats Domino, Lloyd [...]
Radio Dupree (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Where would you find a single CD that brings together 50's rhythm & blues heroes as Howlin' Wolf and Guitar Slim with "serious music" composers as Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky? Well, it can't be nothing else but a collection of the music that inspired rock musician Frank Zappa. http://www.idiotbastard.supanet.com/ reports that this is a release by Chrome Dreams, entitled Frank Zappa’s Jukebox –...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Eep! I only knew 39 of them, although some I had forgotten about until reminded by the article. Some aren't all that obscure, like Lenny Breau, Jan Akkerman, Bumblefoot, Brett Garsed, Guthrie Govan, Wayne Krantz, Shawn Lane, Lonnie Mack, Emily Remler, etc. - or is it just me?Guitar Slim I know because he was one of Zappa's heroes.Steve Hillage? LOL - I was listening to Gong yesterday.Jake E. Lee -...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Recorded between 1956 and 1958. Covering the later years of Guitar Slim's rather short career, this 15-track compilation consists of tracks recorded from 1955 until the bluesman's death in 1959. Though most fans agree that Guitar Slim's earlier sessions for Specialty Records are the high point of his career, THE ATCO SESSIONS cherrypicks the best tunes from his tenure at Atco, leaving aside the misguided...
Said the Gramophone (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Guitar Slim - "The Things That I Used to Do" Guitar plays guitar modestly for a man named Guitar. Aimless in life, he solos aimlessly; with hollow heart, his song’s centre is empty. Between Guitar’s guitar and the piano piano that underlies it – not to mention those lethargic horns – there’s a lacuna a mile wide and rather deep, too – a sonic space that swallows hope but not beauty. Guitar may now...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Alt title: “Carolina Blues And Other Down Home Blues Hits - New York City, 1944” Pure authentic country blues in the East Coast tradition from guitarists and singers Alex Seward and “Fat Boy” Hayes, billed as Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly on these recordings made in the 1950s. The two alternate as vocalists and even trade off verses on some selections. Alex Seward (Guitar Slim), a friend and associate...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
UNDISPUTED blues legend Buddy Guy comes to Liverpool this weekend, playing the Philharmonic Hall on Sunday night, just a day after he will have wowed the crowds at the Glastonbury festival.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
UNDISPUTED blues legend Buddy Guy comes to Liverpool this weekend, playing the Philharmonic Hall on Sunday night, just a day after he will have wowed the crowds at the Glastonbury festival.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
So, I get a press release that yells "GIBSON GUITAR ANNOUNCES JOAN JETT SIGNATURE MELODY MAKER GUITAR!" which, is kinda interesting, but then, it says "Legendary Rock and Roll Icon Joan Jett Makes History as First Female with a Gibson...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Legendary Rock and Roll Icon Joan Jett Makes History as First Female with a Gibson Electric Signature Model NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology, has announced the launch of the Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker guitar, designed and produced in close cooperation with the rock legend herself. The...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
INDIE stalwart John Sayles turns his attention to the American Deep South of the 1950s and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll for Honeydripper , a classy, music-drenched slow-burner that reaps strong rewards for patient viewers. The film focuses on former musician Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover), the owner of the fading Honeydripper Lounge, who is faced with imminent closure unless he can transform the bar’s...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
This 1980 reissue is a hell of a disc. From the opening riffs this disc is crammed with Sahm's typical rompin' and stompin' Texas blues/rhythm & blues mix. This also includes liberal dashes of the Tex-Mex and rockabilly he grew up cutting his teeth on. Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell used to go to his school when Sahm was 11, as legend goes, and pose as his uncle and pull the musical prodigy out of school to...
