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by guest writer Obadiah Wildblood IMAGE: Ralph Stanley performs April 20, 2008, The Granada Theater, Dallas, Texas. I have been on a musical reading jag of late. I have recently finished Ralph Stanley's autobiography, "Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times" - very timely, as my sweet bride's Christmas gift to me was tickets to see Ralph and the Clinch Mountain Boys at the Birchmere a...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Unlike his ex- Rolling Stones buddies, Mick Taylor never associated fame with talent nor celebrity with artistic merit. His aristocratic attitude and manners obscured the fact that he was the only authentic working class guitar hero of the bunch - largely responsible for the unmistakable Stones' rugged musical elegance.
captains dead (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
man its been a little slow going down here in the crescent city. things gotta a bit outta hand last night and im certainly feeling my age today. when i say outta hand, i mean i probably had 3/4 more beers than i should have. so, it really didnt get that outta hand, at least [...]
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
Bob Dylan recorded the song Death Is Not the End at the time that he was working on his 1983 album, Infidels. That’s one of my favorite Dylan albums, despite the fact that many knock it for not including Blind Willie McTell and some other songs that leaked out later. Personally, I don’t think it [...]
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 12/19/2009
Blind Lemon Jefferson died 80 years ago today. I've posted a short piece about him today here on my other blog Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes , but here is the entry on him from The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia : Jefferson, Blind Lemon [1894 - 1929] A great blues singer, also a guitarist and composer, born on October 26, 1894 (given until recently as September 26, 1893) in Wortham, Texas, about 60 miles south...
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
When Antony Hegarty appeared in 2005 his voice seemed a true one-off. Now it's all over the place. Well, maybe not all over, but Bath's Chris Turpin does a fair version of his lowing caw and doesn't even feel the need to showboat with it. The clue, however, is in the name - Kill It Kid are named after a Blind Willie McTell song, and their sound is appropriately raw delta blues, transported from Alan...
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Leadbelly died 60 years ago today. Here's his entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, but if this were being written now it would add that there is a recent Leadbelly biography, published in the States, co-compiled by John Reynolds - the man who rescued the classic shot of Blind Willie McTell from a pile of trash back at the beginning of the 1960s, and without whom we simply would not have that crucial...
Visions of Dylan (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Check out a review Art On Art for the new/latest book on Dylan. This time it’s graphic interpretations of the songs, such as Blind Willie McTell, Lay Lady Lay and Knockin On Heaven’s Door.
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Skip James - Hard Time Killin Floor Blues Blind Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine Elmore James - I Need You Lucille Bogan - The Tricks ain't Walkin No More Carter Family - John Hardy was a Desperate Little Man Fred Williams and the Jewels Band - Tell Her Bob Dylan - Ballad of Hollis Brown John Prine - Rocky Mountain Time Tom Waits - Train Song Tom Waits 9th and Hennepin Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Disc 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?uhdznnkm0d5 Disc 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?mytwn2ntr0z Disc 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?2jm1nz2ymmz 74 tracks recorded by Willie McTell between 1927 and 1935, superbly remastered. Several of these songs, particularly on disc 2, feature McTell only as a sideman accompanying other vocalists. However, Blind Willie McTell was a fine, expressive singer and a terrific...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As much travelogue through history as it is a biography, Gray's search for Blind Willie McTell provides a fascinating and elegaic portrait of the South. Sponsored Topics: Michael Gray - Blind Willie McTell - Shopping - Clothing - Biography
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
I don't think I can recommend this mp3 album more enthusiastically. I love it, and think that fans of the blues, folk music, and gospel music will too. Just check out the various artist who are included here. The cool part about mp3 albums is that you only have to buy the tracks that you like, but in this case each track is a keeper. Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will The Circle Be Unbroken click image...
STEVENHARTSITE (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
At the start of his book Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell, Michael Gray name-checks V.S. Naipaul’s cultural travelogue A Turn in the South, and the association is more than apt. Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes is not a conventional biography of Georgia’s preeminent bluesman; indeed, one of the book’s [...]
Discotheke (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Álbum recopilatorio del músico estadounidense Bob Dylan. Disco 1 1. Song To Woody 2. Blowin' In The Wind 3. Masters Of War 4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6. The Times They Are A-Changin' 7. All I Really Want To 8. My Back Pages 9. It Ain't Me, Babe 10. Subterranean Homesick Blues 11. Mr. Tambourine Man 12. Maggie's Farm 13. Like A Rolling Stone 14....
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
A post in honor of this great musician.
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