Blind Blake (Book & CD) (Stefan Grossmans Early Masters of American Blues Guitar)
Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 12/22/2009
It wouldn't be Christmas if the 2010 calendar from Blues Images wasn't under my tree. You get a free CD of hokum tunes inside each one. This year the CD features an unreleased Blind Blake song, two Henry Townsend numbers, Frank Palmes, Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ida Cox and more. Plus, lots of interesting blues ad artwork from the 1920's for each month of the year. It's a great deal. LINK:...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Blind Blake is a favourite of mine and Mrs NotaSheep and this song is our current top choice. Listen out for some other tracks by this calypso genius of the early 20th century. If you want a Blind Blake primer try his Bahamian Songs album - pay particular attention to: Love, Love Alone, a pre-Beach Boys version of Sloop John B - John B. Sail (Wreck Of The John B.), Run Come See Jerusalem and Jones...
Take me to the Water Black Grooves (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Title: Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920’s, vol. 7 Artists: Various Format: CD + Calendar (12 x 12) Publisher: Blues Images Date: 2009 John Tefteller has produced another great calendar featuring classic artwork and rare photographs of legendary Blues performers. The 2010 calendar (Vol. 7) is once again accompanied by a not-to-be-missed CD that includes two Henry Townsend songs (newly [...]...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
See the full interview here I started playing in the mid 1970's. I was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1962. When I was six or so my family moved to Davenport, Iowa. That's where I grew up, mostly. None of the other kids at school were into what I was; you may remember this was the era of disco and heavy metal, nobody I knew was really into blues or folk music. I was always fascinated by acoustic...
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
We are alive. Still listening to blues. I’m pretty bad at self-promotion, among other things as readers of this oft lapsed blog might have noticed. I wrote a piece for a book called Hang The DJ about female murder blues ballads. You can pick it up at Amazon now! I did a reading of it [...]
Virtual Lancaster News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Here's the line up of folk music at Lancaster's Robert Gillow pub for November courtesy of local musician about town, Tony Cooke, which includes appearances by the superb Graham Robinson , pictured above. Thursday 5 November: Simon Nicholls Simon lives in Rugby and is a singer and guitarist of great repute who makes regular tours of Great Britain. A set from Simon will typically contain both traditional...
Who Walk In Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour; if we could find a way to get inside each other’s mind; if you could see me through your eyes instead of your ego; I believe you’d be surprised to see that you’d been blind. Walk a mile in my shoes, walk [...]
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to Merle Travis performed at Ash Grove on November 21, 1965
ShadowPlay (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
“There is no bank on Wall Street that belonged to me..” croons Blind Blake , aka Matthew Town, the legendary singer from the Bahamas who was born in 1915 and carved out an illustrious if a little under-recognised career from the 30s through to the 60s. As the leader of the house band at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau in the Bahamas his music combines the glory of ragtime blues, island...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Live Recording Warner Williams is a consummate Piedmont bluesman -- and more. Think of him as a songster, much the way bluesmen in the '20s and '30s were songsters, drawing from all manner of sources for their music, not just blues. With a deceptively easy guitar style, Williams is every bit at home covering Bob Wills' "Bring It on Down to My House" or the standard "Honeysuckle Rose"...
Ripped In Glasgow (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Hi folks - back on task again after a few weeks of madness. Expect plenty of blogging in the foreseeable future as I've got fuck-all money left to do anything else. Just had the holiday of a lifetime in Thailand though, so worth every penny (or baht). Oh aye, Latitude festival was ace as well - musical highlights were Phoenix, Fever Ray, Spiritualized, Nick Cave and a mindblowing audio-visual experience...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
LastFM Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a “scholar” of early jazz and blues , and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano and a husky soulful voice - and with an innate sense of the humour as well as the drama of the music, he keeps traditional blues fresh and alive with his performances....
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
If you are a fan of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, you'll know immediately what the enigmatic title of this post means. If not, you're in for a treat. Lee Child published his first Reacher thriller back in 1997. Somehow I missed it - and the 13 more books that followed - all featuring the enigmatic ex-military cop and drifter Jack Reacher. If I'm ever in danger, Reacher is the first person I'd want...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
JESSE THOMAS: [1993] Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order 1948-1958 [Document] Jesse Thomas recorded sporadically from the late 1920’s through the early 1990’s and despite his longevity didn’t achieve much in the way of success or recognition. In 1929, at 18, Thomas cut four excellent sides for Victor showing a prowess beyond his years. Three of the number are strongly indebted...
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