The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
Music News: Band of Gypsys member played with Hendrix -- Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and was best known for the song "Them Changes," died Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas, according to a report on Miles' website.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
This disc has so much varied stuff it's hard to know what to think. It has Bloomers by himself with on guitar ("Mr. Johnson & Mr. Dunn", "Efinonna Rag"), sometimes singing ("Frankie & Johnny"), playing accompaniment to Little Brother Montgomery ("Michigan Water Blues", "Pleading Blues" both from 1963), playing with Woody Herman's band ("Hitch-Hike On The Possum Trot Line"), playing with his own cohorts...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 24/10/2007
Freddie King, hard-riving and perhaps driven, was only 42 when he died on December 28, 1976. The intensity of the performances in this video suggest an artist who burned at full throttle every time he played. Guitarists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Michael Bloomfield and Jerry Garcia have cited King as a formative influence. Most of the clips in this collection come from a unique time warp, a fleeting...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 08/09/2007
The brief jump blues craze spearheaded by the Brian Setzer Orchestra petered out in the mid-'90s but someone forgot to tell Canadian guitarist JW Jones. His fourth release is a logical extension of 2004's My Kind of Evil as Jones brings the six-piece Wind-Chill Factor Horns, along with legendary Ray Charles' tenor saxman David "Fathead" Newman, to enliven the proceedings. The result is a nearly-70-minute...
