Albert Collins

Albert Collins, Duke Robillard, Debbie Davies Frosty...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010

Albert Collins, Duke Robillard, Debbie Davies Frosty

Blues Book: Texas Blues Guitar

SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010

Texas Blues Guitar click image for info Book Description - Musicians Institute instructor Robert Calva covers rhythm and lead guitar in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Albert Collins. He teaches: 24 common blues licks; common blues "box" positions; shuffle blues, slow blues, Latin blues and straight blues; and more. The book includes standard...

Ted the Bull's Scotch and Cigar Club #2

Bad Left Hook (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010

Ted "The Bull" Sares is back for the second Bad Left Hook edition of his Scotch and Cigar Club. Enjoy. * * * * * Welcome to the New Year with the second edition of the Club (14th overall) now being featured in Bad Left Hook. As usual, we have modern jazz, rock, blues, and heavy metal (no Dixieland or New Age is allowed here). Tonight, we feature some smoking guitar work from Ronnie Earl,...

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: 1/01/10, Part 2

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/01/2010

In Part 2 of this week's roundup, we feature music from The Black Keys, Seabear, Charles Mingus and Paris.

• Truckin'.................... - Liberalguy

Blue Monday (Helm on Buchanan)

STEVENHARTSITE (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009

Roy Buchanan was the bluesman’s bluesman, and he could do some pretty amazing things with a Telecaster. In the early Sixties, he briefly joined The Hawks, backing up rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins, and shared the stage with the musicians who would go on to become The Band. He even tutored Robbie Robertson just before Robertson [...]

Coco Montoya hot blues guitar

SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Coco Montoya (b. Henry Montoya, January 1, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is a blues guitarist and former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - his career began in the mid-70s with Albert Collins as a drummer. Some good staples on this album The Essential Coco Montoya The Essential Coco Montoya

That Ever Made A Fool Of Me

darkblack (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Albert Collins , Cold, Cold Feelin' , 1978.

The Ash Grove - Mick Jagger Gets the Blues

The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

In his Ash Grove recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however, the club burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California) founded the 250-seat Ash Grove in 1958.

Jimmie Vaughan’s Gulf Coast picking and the best steak frites in Austin

Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

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 [...]

The Things I Used To Do

SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

" The Things That I Used to Do " is a song written by Guitar Slim (aka Eddie Jones) and his 1953 recording of it in New Orleans, was arranged and produced by a young Ray Charles. It was released on Specialty Records in 1954 to become a bestseller, staying in the rhythm and blues charts for 42 weeks'. I can't find that version but Buddy Guy discusses him here Wikipedia Ray Charles's arrangement...

"I ain't drunk ...

Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

I'm just drinkin'." Heh ... The great Albert Collins: Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk

"The Essential Coco Montoya" is just that

post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

Coco Montoya is a blues player who's has been around for a while, from his inspiration when he first heard Albert King play the blues, to his role as a drummer with Albert Collins , where he made the transformation to a blues guitar man under Collins' expert tutelage. Over the years he's turned into a man with an axe with a fine edge for the blues, both from his sharp guitar and bluesy vocals. And...

Ambridge Blues

Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

Blimey Wayne is educating Fallon on the finer points of Albert Collins' guitar technique and pointing her towards Joni Mitchell for alternative tunings? You just don't expect to hear that on The Archers.

Albert Collins – Two’s A Crowd

Bluesdiary (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009

Albert Collins – Two’s A Crowd Super-Song-Premiere

Albert Collins – Too Many Dirty Dishes

Bluesdiary (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009

Albert Collins – Too Many Dirty Dishes Super-Song-Premiere