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Krissy came into the blues four years ago at the age of 11. Now 15 years old Krissy has performed various venues and festivals and managed to perform live on stage with John Mayall, Jeff Healey, Bernie Marsden and Larry Burton, as well as numerous other up and coming stars of the future. Krissy regularly tours in Scandinavia with his three piece rock blues band, which includes father Keith Matthews...
"He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." - B.B. King. Peter Green The Anthology is an exciting 4CD retrospective - set for UK release 27 October, 2008 ...
Wolfgang’s Vault: After spending months touring with Delaney and Bonnie and collaborating with them on his first solo album, Clapton took the nucleus of that band (Whitlock, Radle, and Gordon) and formed Derek and the Dominos. By 1970, Clapton had an impressive catalogue on which to draw, and these musicians gelled in a way that brought [...]
Singer-bassist Jack Bruce was a superstar for just two years — as one-third of Cream, with guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker — from the summer of 1966 until the fall of 1968. But as a solo artist, collaborator and pillar of every rhythm section he has passed through, the Scottish-born Bruce, now 65, [...]
The first World Klezmer Festival, named EMMKA, starts today in Buenos Aires and continues through to the 21st of September. Klezmer music is traditional Yiddish music, According to the official website, KlezFiesta, the festival’s goal is to show that Klezmer music is accessible and enjoyable to people from all traditions and backgrounds. Argentina, with such [...]
This is from John Mayall’s 70th birthday gig a few years ago. Buddy Whittington (from the Bluesbreakers) and Eric Clapton do things to their Fender Stratocasters that mere mortals like us can only dream of. Amazing. And a trombone solo to boot! I just finished Pattie Boyd’s autobiography, and I’m just cracking open Clapton’s. I knew [...]
The blues in Britain has always been derivative. It was appropriated mercilessly in the 60s of course by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Cream, but the innovations of those artists took the music sideways into the kinds of rock stylings that spawned Led Zeppelin and heavy metal ...
In the case of Otis Rush, like many other bluesmen, Mississippi's loss was Chicago's gain. Otis was really instrumental in defining the prototypical Chicago Blues sound. I first got hip to Otis through a searing version on John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' "Beano" album, with the newcomer Eric Clapton on guitar. Let's watch Otis do "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)": Mayall's still doing this
The Soundtrack of My Life: According to Shuffle Usually, if tagged I refuse to do any sort of Meme. However, someone dared me to do this musical Meme. Well, as you can imagine a silly dare will not prompt me...
photo Gribiche @ flickr The HoveFestival – a rock event in late June that featured Beck, Duffy and rapper Jay-Z, and the jazz and blues festival Canal Street going on this week with acts such as John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and the Waterboys, both signed on to UNEP's Climate Neutral Network to make their events, well, climate neutral. Climate neutral concerts, UNEP style The band Coldplay has...
Without Alexis Korner, there still might have been a British blues scene in the early 1960s, but chances are that it would have been very different from the one that spawned the Rolling Stones, nurtured the early talents of Eric Clapton and made it possible for figures such as John Mayall to reach an audience. In 1981, Korner formed the last and greatest "supergroup" of his career, Rocket 88, featuring...
John Mayall had a reputation for being a rebel long before 1969. How else to explain his single-minded devotion to the blues in the face of Beatlemania? Still, in dispensing with a drummer and including no lead electric guitarist in the band he formed for The Turning Point (Polydor, 1969), Mayall was going against the very grain of the blues movement he had helped to establish alongside his illustrious...
