The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
A backstage pass is one of the most sought-after totems in rock—but it’s also one of the more overrated. You expect tables laden with food, liquor flowing freely, and dissipated rock stars cavorting with scantily clad groupies. Maybe that happens with acts like the Stones or Van Halen, but in my experience, backstage is mostly [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
To quote Richard M. Nixon (it seems appropriate for the era), “let me make one thing perfectly clear” — There is no Jefferson Airplane without singer Marty Balin, anymore than there’s a Beach Boys without Dennis and Carl Wilson. It’s not that any of them were the the whole show, but they were all [...]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
DAVE PERKINS - PISTOL CITY HOLINESS Dave Perkins is an artist whose musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. Perkins’ work as a guitarist includes playing bluegrass and swing with fiddle-great Vassar Clements, Texas renegade-country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, alternative rock with Chagall Guevara, Americana with Guy Clark, blues and jazz with...
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 20/05/2009
Keb’ Mo’, aka Kevin Moore, is widely considered one of the leading modern interpreters of Delta blues, but he got there via an unusual path: Compton, and then Los Angeles, in Southern California, not Southern Mississippi. Music started for the talented songwriter and singer at Rosencrantz Elementary School in Compton, where he started on trumpet. He [...]
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 25/04/2009
I feel like an old man trying to do a young man’s job. Jazz Fest today was great. But dang! I’m tired. I got to the Blues Tent fairly early: around 12:45 p.m., for Rockin’ Tabby Thomas’s set. I wasn’t...
All Free Download Links (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Keb’ Mo’ - Peace…Back By Popular Demand Blues | FLAC | 00:39:48 | 224.10 MB 1. For what it’s worth 2. Wake up everybody
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Absentee - Bitchstealer from Victory Shorts (2008) Aaron Beaumont - Julia from Nothing’s Forever (Not Even Goodbye) (2007) Nikka Costa - Stuck to You from Pebble to a Pearl (2008) The Dig - She’s Gonna Kill That Boy from Demo (2008) Dancer vs Politician - Justin Fairborn from A City Half-Lost (2007) ScribbleMonster - With A Smile from Songs with [...]
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Listen to Papa John Creach performed at Bottom Line on September 20, 1977
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Your birthday today: You are ambitious. You are self-satisfied and determined, sometimes stubborn. You like social life, especially in a circle above your own, and can readily adapt yourself to it. Your home is very dear to you ; you constantly make sacrifices and spare no expense to make it better and happier. In your social circle you may find 1926 leola mae oberman, written into the book as sharing...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 22/09/2007
Bernie Pearl's second solo CD Somebody Got To Do It! finds the blues guitarist returning for another live acoustic set recorded at Boulevard Music in Culver City, California. Taught by the blues masters themselves - Mississippi Fred MacDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin' Hopkins - when you listen to Bernie play you know you are hearing the musicians' personal music stamps intertwined with his unique...
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