Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The rather wonderful Doug Sahm died ten years ago today. It's my prejudice that people who talk up the dreary playing on Together Through Life should do themselves the favour of listening to Doug Sahm & Band . It's so beautifully loose and alive, so full and generous spirited and fun. Anyway, here's Doug's entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia: Sahm, Doug [1941 - 1999] Douglas Wayne Sahm was born...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Kirby Kelly Crowned King of the Blues On Thursday November 12th in front of a capacity crowd at House of Blues in Hollywood CA, Kirby Kelly of Sherman, Texas beat out more than 4,000 guitarists to be crowned Guitar Center’s 2009 King of the Blues.
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Eric Clapton: Chapter 24.
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
FilterTV caught up with Jay after he performed at the Howlin’ Wolf: Jay Electronica was recently back in New Orleans performing for the VooDoo Experience Kick-Off Party, also featuring Biz Markie, The Knux, and DJ Soul Sister. VTech and Filter TV bring you this impromptu interview w/ Jay Electronica walking thru the streets of New Orleans alongside [...]
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In his Ash Grove recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however, the club burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California) founded the 250-seat Ash Grove in 1958.
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Radio Dupree (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
On the eve of the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall it is our privilege to present a special almost-middle-of-the-month Here's what the current Top 10 looks like as of today ... and for today. Tomorrow it will have changed: 1. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown - Burnt Weeny Sandwich 2. Mahavishnu Orchestra Open Country Joy - Birds Of Fire 3. Yes Sweetness...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In the history of the blues, it's been important to have a good blues name. There are numerous approaches. One is to have a descriptor tacked on in front of an ordinary name. For instance, who wants to hear a singer named Joe Hunter? Mundane, right? But Ivory Joe Hunter, now that's a whole other ballgame. Naturally Ivory Joe Hunter has to be a piano player because he tickles the ivories. Here's Ivory...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A leading figure of the largely overlooked Nashville blues scene, Johnny Jones was an outstanding guitarist who helped to launch the musical career of Jimi Hendrix. And it was with a Hendrix tune, Purple Haze, that Jones first attracted attention in the UK. He was born in 1936 in the small Tennessee town of Edes to a musical family. His father sang in local gospel groups, and his grandmother had a...
Rockpedia.info (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives unleash four inspired performances from The Doors’ final tour with Live In New York. The latest addition to the band’s acclaimed series of archival concert releases, this six-disc collection contains all four of The Doors’ performances – in their entirety – recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New [...]
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sounds like golden outtakes from lost sessions where James Brown's backing band got together with Booker T and the MGs at the Stax studios with an insanely talented batch of unknown singers. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon: the trifecta of Chicago blues. Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells: also men of stature in the Windy City tradition. Elmore James, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed: the list of...
Monday Artday (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
"Howlin' Wolf" , 2009 Paint & Collage http://clifford-shikler.blogspot.com/ Subscribe in a reader
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I’ve heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old [...]
Earvolution (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
By: David SchultzA dramatized history of Chess Records, Cadillac Records turns out to be a threadbare and homogenized account of the rise of the label’s most well-known stable of stars: Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Etta James. The movie peaks early with its opening scenes ripped from the pages of Can’t Be Satisfied, Robert Gordon’s wonderful biography...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I know it's only Wednesday, but there are some good blues coming our way this week, starting tomorrow night, so I want to get started talking about them. Songstress Candye Kane brings her large voice to the intimate Club Cafe on the South Side Thursday night (10/29), and on Friday night (10/30), we're blessed, or cursed, with the simultaneous riches of Keb Mo at the Palace Theater in Greensburg and...
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