Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Hooray for Dial M’s 200,000th hit! On my own side, I just FINISHED revising my book, Chopin’s Polish Ballade, for Oxford University Press. I still have to muck around a bit with the musical examples, printing it out etc. and...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
One of the Stones’ great early blues covers. Written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf, the Stones recorded and released it in 1964 and had quite the little blues/pop hit in Great Britain, reaching #3. Here are the Stones playing at Atlantic City in the late 80’s. Roughly in the same period when [...]
A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Thank you, Jesus for Feel Good Fridays and even more so, thank you for Eric Clapton.
Slushy Gutter Summer (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Eric Clapton's Cocaine (The SG Travis Henry Remix) If you’re not a Bronco, just push that blow; cocaine. If you cant get a first down, tackled on the ground; cocaine. Trav dont lie, he dont lie, he dont lie; cocaine. If you got eight kids, you wanna sell those lids; cocaine. When your career is kaput, you don’t hear “hut hut”; cocaine. Trav dont lie, yo dont lie, yo dont lie; cocaine. Shanny cut you,...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Guitar legend Albert Lee played at Greenwich Dance Agency last week. Lee is best known for his work playing with Emmylou Harris and Eric Clapton. He was born in Shropshire but grew up in South East London. He told last week's South London Press (26 September 2008) that his family were driven out of Greenwich by a V1 rocket bomb in World War Two, but moved back after the war to live in Tunnel Avenue....
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luke Powers is not your ordinary Nashville songwriter. A PhD in English from Vanderbilt University, he writes songs that owe as much to William Blake as Bob
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
I'm going to go ahead and declare a tie from our edition two weeks ago with The Bridge and Mr. Blotto refusing to quit as the votes go higher and higher - so we'll call them both winners from when we looked at covers of Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys . Last week's however has a clear winner, no big surprise here as Jerry Garcia & David Grisman received the majority of votes when we examined covers of...
Cape Argus (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
He is known as "Slowhand", but guitar legend Eric Clapton is quick on the draw when it comes to shooting.
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
B.B.King turns 83 and his brand new record 'One Kind Favor'is destined to become a classic!
PS3 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Filed under: Blu-ray Robert Downey Jr. proves himself a leading man in the early-summer blockbuster Iron Man . Eric Clapton concerts, mediocre made-for-tv movies and documentaries on NASA are some of the other things you can expect. Check out the rest of this week's Blu-ray releases: The 40-Year-Old Virgin Angel in the Family Can't Hardly Wait A Christmas Visitor Daredevil - The Director's Cut Dawn...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
CLEARWATER - The stage set wasn't much to look at – a couple of chairs and tables, speaker cabinets, microphones and guitars.
Operatically Inclined (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
This guitar workshop is a utile acquisition tool that volition aid you widen your repertory of fill ups and salt licks and assist develop your improvisational skills. Standard guitar tablature and musical notational system is used in this book together with championship paths on the cadmium which gives you the opportunity to larn 8 of Clapton's paths note-by-note. Yot can then jam along with a PRO...
Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
“Their fist pumping, balls to the wall, foot stomping tunes are screaming out one simple message…Rock ‘n’ Roll is back!” ROCK RADIO “Wired Desire have an enthusiasm and love for rock that is infectious. They will make you smile.” BBC RADIO 2 “Desire have delivered a lapel-grabbing four-track debut EP that brightens rock’s future to an ever [...]
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Alto saxophonist David Sanborn has played with some of the best and best-known musicians on the planet. Saturday, you can catch him at Covington's Madison Theater.
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Originally recorded on Bob Marley’s 1972 album Burnin’, “I Shot The Sheriff” was promptly recorded by Eric Clapton and became his first #1 hit in 1974. The song caused quite the stir with its lyrics that told of an obviously disgruntled civilian that is constantly hounded by the local fuzz and inevitably shoots and kills [...]
