bag of songs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wow, what a week . Where'd all the money go ? 1 : John Lee Hooker - I Need Some Money Buy Very Best Of 2 : Soulsavers - Paper Money Buy It's Not How Far... 3 : Tonewreck - Someone Else's Money Buy Bag Of Songs 4 : Bay City Rollers - Money Honey Buy Dedication 5 : The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) Buy The Flying Lizards
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The blues aren’t dead yet. But, compared to, say, 1971, they’ve got one foot and two thirds of the other in the grave. Let’s admit that. Blues fans haven’t heard as much groundbreaking stuff in recent years as we did in previous decades, when dinosaurs like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker roamed the earth and [...]
The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Hinkle is one of the most diverse Texas performers currently working in the Blues/Jazz idioms today. Spending his early years with the likes of Marcia Ball, Doyle Bramhall Sr., doing shows with Albert Collins ,John Lee Hooker Sr., Buddy Miles, Stephen Bruton, U.P. Wilson and Fort Worth Blues Legend Robert Ealy we are finally seeing this "new" Texas talent rise up . Hinkle 's latest CD Blues Now Jazz...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
MIKE WHELLANS Fired Up And Ready **** Temple Records COND2101, £11.99
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
With new John Lee Hooker songs, new versions of old Hooker songs, four duets with and a new song by Van Morrison, Don't Look Back continues the venerable bluesman's string of excellent albums in his '90s renaissance. Produced by Morrison, it also celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first recording together, as Morrison guested on Hooker's seminal Never Get Out of These Blues Alive in 1972. Don't...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Bruce Cockburn, Ian Tamblyn, and other Canadian folk and blues legends have just released a new album that pays tribute to Ottawa taxi driver, poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
More than a half-century after B.B. King left Indianola in search of fame, the $15 million B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretative Center has opened in his hometown and is as much a tribute to him and his blues music as the culture that inspired it.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
MIKE Whellans tends to be billed as “the one-man blues band”, but forget any images of some kaboomsh-ching-bang clown with pots and pans tied to his knees. Imagine instead a
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
I’m not much of a modern blues guy; in fact a lot of my pals like to refer to me as a crusty-old, close-minded, purist curmudgeon. ‘Tis true, I’d much rather listen to old Chuck Berry blues instrumentals, ancient John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, early ’70s blues-funk throwdowns from Albert and B.B. King, or even [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
That New Orleans R&B is among the most significant influences in American music is a given. Precisely where it ranks among the other influencers is subject to long and entertaining debate. Beyond argument, however, is the influence Allen Toussaint has had on New Orleans R&B over the past 50 years. His fingerprints are all over it.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
It's well-established that the blues, an art form born out of the Mississippi Delta cotton fields in the early 1900s, is a root of all forms of popular music: rock, pop, jazz, funk and even hip-hop. The man known as Riley B. King was born in the environment of that Delta, and has since become the most recognized name in blues--and perhaps, the most influential as well: B.B. King...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
A great regular compilation with all the essential artists of the modern era of blues. A great introduction for the newbies and a pleasure for the veterans... ENJOY!! Tracks CD 1 1. Recession Blues - B.B. King / 2. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters / 3. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker / 4. Dust My Broom - Elmore James / 5. Shame, Shame, Shame - Jimmy Reed / 6. Little Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Like most people who value all things good and right in the world, I don't much like jam bands. I do make one well-deserved exception, however. That would be for Endless Boogie, a New York quartet whose guitar noodling is...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
An old John Lee Hooker song, The Doors played this song early in their career together and then pulled it out, dusted it off and recorded it for their last album, L.A. Woman. This song showcases Mr. Mojo Risin’ at his bluesy best with snakey guitar wails from Robby Krieger and tasteful, swaggering drumming provided [...]
