silentworker | 11/24/2009
Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so good he could play 4 characters in one three minute song,
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I’ve heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old [...]
Dreamtime - Commentary Inspired By Bob Dylan's Theme... (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
If you hadn't noticed, "Christmas in the Heart" was officially released in the U.S. last Tuesday. Before we overdosed on the nth review that tried to come up with a new analogy for the effect of Dylan's ravaged voice on the listener's ears, Dreamtime skimmed through somewhere around 50 of them... almost all uninspired whether the writer was for the album or ag'in it. In our opinion, one...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
He ignores songs from his new album -- that's nothing new. Neither is his attempt to define himself through his changing set list. He ignores songs from his new album -- that's nothing new. Neither is his attempt to define himself through his changing set list.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
A set list for Bob Dylan's concert Oct. 4, 2009, at Seattle's Moore Theatre. The show started with "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking" and ended with "Jolene."
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....
Hyacinth Losers (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
3:30 am and completely finished with one syllabus and mostly finished with the other two, minus the proofing and the long-overdue proofing for the Fulcrum feature and a review for Douglas Rothchild's Theogony I was supposed to have done by July 15. But I roofed a house and painted a house and a baby room and have shit to show for it. And I'll have shit to show for anything until I show up and teach,...
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
. Drawn from vintage 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s 78s, "Down the Dirt Road" does a wonderful job of presenting Mississippi's country blues tradition on a single disc, with signature songs from Charley Patton ("Down the Dirt Road Blues"), Tommy Johnson ("Canned Heat Blues"), Skip James ("I'm So Glad"), Big Joe Williams ("49 Highway Blues"), and Bukka White...
Dolphin Music - News Feed (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Do you love a good slide guitar? Here's a look at the most influential slide guitar players ever.
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
It was sometime in 1903-04 that William Christopher Handy was first exposed to what he later called "the weirdest music I ever heard." This music was being played for tips by three men with a battered guitar, mandolin and bass in a club in Cleveland, Mississippi. Where the men should have played major notes they played unanticipated minors, so-called "blue notes" that sounded like...
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
CHARLEY PATTON You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die: The Recorded Works Monk FOLK / AMERICANA 4LP
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
The title comes from the song "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead album Blues for Allah. While the late Jerry Garcia's tastes in music were nigh impeccable, the Grateful Dead were invariably at their weakest playing others' songs. This collection of original versions of well-known Dead covers, then, pays the debt with a gracious tip of the ol' high hat. The vast sonic territory...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
Im not proud of the fact that I have to chase these records down like a maniac, John Heneghan said of his search for rare (and expensive) 78 r.p.m. blues records. JOHN HENEGHAN tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable and gently nudged a needle into place. Behind him, in the corner of his East Village apartment, sat 16 wooden crates, each filled with meticulously...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
BIG JOE WILLIAMS: BJW and the Stars of Mississippi Blues featuring Robert Petway, Tommy McClennan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton, Henry Townsend and David 'Honey Boy' Edwards. [JSP] (born October 16, 1903, Crawford. Miss.; died December 17, 1982, Macon, Ga.) Big Joe Williams , a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, began his recording career in the 1930s with the Bluebird...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Curumin Samba hip-hop percussionist/singer Curumin, a.k.a. Luciano Nakata Albuquerque, a Brazilian native of Japanese and Spanish descent, was born musically advanced. By his teens,...
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silentworker | 11/24/2009
Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so good he could play 4 characters in one three minute song, make them all real...
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