Music Review: Eric Clapton and B.B. King - Riding With The King
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Eric Clapton: Chapter 25.
Jimmie Vaughan
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Jimmie Vaughan’s Gulf Coast picking and the best steak frites in Austin
Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From the “life could be worse” department… Last night found me and Tracie B at Austin’s top music destination, Antone’s, for a Doug Sahm tribute (Doug Sahm is considered by many the father of the Central Texas music scene). We were there to see legendary bluesman Jimmie Vaughan. Since I moved to Austin nearly a year [...]
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Rally for the Republic DVD now available in C4L store!
Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
By Matt Hawes At long last, I'm proud to announce that today marks the official release of the Rally for the Republic DVD in the C4L store ! Here's the official product description: "Freedom brings people together." -Congressman Ron Paul On September 2, 2008, the Rally for the Republic brought over 10,000 activists to the Target Center in Minneapolis to proclaim their steadfast belief in...
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Boz Scaggs assembles band for benefit
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Boz Scaggs allowed himself a gratified smile. He had just played the Jimmy Reed blues tune, "Honest I Do," for about a half hour to open his first rehearsal with this year's Blue Velvet Band. "I think we found a groove in there somewhere," he said....
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, FREE, All Ages @ Golden Gate Park (11 AM - 7 PM)
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Fri Oct 2 (10:30am - Noon & 2pm - 7pm) Star Stage 10:30am The Fireants 11:30am MC Hammer Banjo Stage 2:00pm Poor Man’s Whiskey 3:00pm Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman 4:15pm John Prine 5:45pm Lyle Lovett & His Large Band Fri Oct 3 (11:00am - 8pm) Banjo Stage 11:10am Laurie Lewis & The...
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Expanded Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
After nine years, people now schedule their vacations around the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Fans fly from all over the world to attend investment banker Warren Hellman's annual clambake. There is no other music festival like it...
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Friday Night Blues – Duke Robillard
RochesterConservative.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
From wikipedia: Duke Robillard was co-founder of the Roomful of Blues with pianist Al Copley in 1967. He has also been a member of the The Fabulous Thunderbirds which included Kim Wilson, replacing Jimmie Vaughan. Also experienced in Jazz, Swing, Rock and Roll and modern electric blues forms, Robillard is generally regarded as a guitar [...]
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Ron Paul BBQ, TSA Searches my Luggage AGAIN and AGAIN ...Do You Feel Safer?
Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
By RobPepe Like many Americans, my wife and I travel regularly for business, pleasure, and yes, for political activism. Usually, we plan our travel to encompass all three activities, after all, they do go hand-in-hand. This weekend was one of those occasions. Our journey took us to southeastern Texas to the coastal town of Galveston for the Ron Paul BBQ. We left Philadelphia on Thursday, mid-afternoon,...
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Tuff Enuff
KK & R Music Blog (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band, formed in 1974. Their original line up included guitarist Jimmie Vaughan, who is indeed the older brother of the influential electrical blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan
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When Worlds Collide
BandAid's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
It doesn't get much bigger than this!!.................... B.B. King, Robert Cray and his band, Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin and Jimmie Vaughan. Paying The Cost To Be The Boss. Crossroads Guitar Festival, Toyota Park, Chicago, USA 2007 Turn up, chill back and enjoy!
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Eric Johnson Has Completed His Latest Studio Album
Guitar Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Eric Johnson has recently completed tracking for his next studio album, which includes guest appearances from Sonny Landreth, Jimmie Vaughan, and Steve Miller. The album is now ready to be mixed, and he plans to give tracks to engineers George Massenberg, Gary Paczosa and Andy Johns. He’s also planning on doing a mini-tour with Alien Love [...]
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PINETOP PERKINS: Pinetop Perkins And Friends 2008 (Telarc Records 83680)
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
95 Years old and still singing and playing the blues piano better than men a third of his age, or maybe even two of them pressed together. His list of credits and the musicians he has played with are distinguished and a virtual who's who of the blues; from Robert Nighthawk, and Sonny Boy Williamson, guitar acrobat Earl Hooker, and over ten years with Muddy Waters after Otis Spann left. In 1985 he put...
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New Release - James Cotton - Mighty Long Time
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
click image Track Listings 1. Straighten Up Baby 2. Everything Gonna Be Alright 3. Black Nights 4. Blow Wind Blow 5. Sugar Sweet 6. Moanin' At Midnight 7. Baby Please 8. Hold Me In Your Arms 9. Call It Stormy Monday 10. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy 11. Northside Cadillac 12. Mighty Long Time 13. Evan Shuffle According to Amazon.com; Digitally remastered edition of this album from the Blues great, originally...
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Music photos 1998
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This time we have a selection of photos taken in 1998. The first half dozen were on a trip to the US, kicking off with Jimmie Vaughan at the Grant Street Dancehall in Lafayette. This is Mavis Staples pictured in the Gospel Tent at the Jazzfest in New Orleans. Quite a few of us Brits travelled up to Memphis for the Beale Street Festival and the Handy Awards. Here are Woodies John Howard, Lee Wilkinson,...
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Music Review: Matt Schofield - Heads, Tails & Aces
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Heads or tails, this one's definately an ace.