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nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Fifteen tracks covering the pioneering blues-rock guitarist's '60s work, which was by far his best and most influential. Bloomfield worked with a bunch of bands during the decade, and the compilation flits rather hurriedly from his contributions to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag, to his collaborations with Al Kooper, as well as some late-'60s solo tracks (none of his groundbreaking...
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Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Marvin Gaye - My Love Is Growing from Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) (2001) Mavis Staples - This Little Light from We’ll Never Turn Back (2007) B.B. King - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean from One Kind Favor (2008) Babyface - Whip Appeal from A Collection (2000) Bettye LaVette - Down To Zero from I’ve Got [...]
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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Nicholas George Gravenites (born October 2, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois), known as Nick "The Greek" Gravenites and Gravy, is a blues, rock and folk singer–songwriter and is best known for his work with Janis Joplin and several other greats of the 1960s and 1970s. Nick currently resides in Sebastopol, California. According to author and pop music critic Joel Selvin, Nick Gravenites is "the original San...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
Music News: Band of Gypsys member played with Hendrix -- Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and was best known for the song "Them Changes," died Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas, according to a report on Miles' website.
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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
This disc has so much varied stuff it's hard to know what to think. It has Bloomers by himself with on guitar ("Mr. Johnson & Mr. Dunn", "Efinonna Rag"), sometimes singing ("Frankie & Johnny"), playing accompaniment to Little Brother Montgomery ("Michigan Water Blues", "Pleading Blues" both from 1963), playing with Woody Herman's band ("Hitch-Hike On The Possum Trot Line"), playing with his own cohorts...
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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
Freddie King, hard-riving and perhaps driven, was only 42 when he died on December 28, 1976. The intensity of the performances in this video suggest an artist who burned at full throttle every time he played. Guitarists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Michael Bloomfield and Jerry Garcia have cited King as a formative influence. Most of the clips in this collection come from a unique time warp, a fleeting...
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nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
The brief jump blues craze spearheaded by the Brian Setzer Orchestra petered out in the mid-'90s but someone forgot to tell Canadian guitarist JW Jones. His fourth release is a logical extension of 2004's My Kind of Evil as Jones brings the six-piece Wind-Chill Factor Horns, along with legendary Ray Charles' tenor saxman David "Fathead" Newman, to enliven the proceedings. The result is a nearly-70-minute...
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Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
Last year a few of the doctors here at the asylum took our rock 'n roll stethoscopes to a performance by John Hammond Jr at the New York City Guitar Festival . A solid collection of low down sounds that found us turning the pages back on Hammond's early career. If you have never heard of John Hammond Jr he's the son of famed Columbia record man/producer John Hammond. The man who discovered, Bessie...
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Lost-In-Tyme (Free subscription) | 06/15/2007
Friday, June 15, 2007 01 Peter's Trip (2:38)02 Psyche Soap (:55)03 M-23 (1:14)04 Synesthesia (1:46)05 Hobbit (1:46)06 Fewghh (1:02)07 Green and Gold (2:50)08 Flash, Bam, Pow (1:31)09 Home Room (:53)10 Practice Music (1:27)11 Fine Jung Thing (7:25)12 Senior Citizen (2:57)MusiciansPaul Beaver - synthesizer Michael Bloomfield - guitar Harvey Brooks - bass Marcus Doubleday - trumpet, flugelhorn Barry Goldberg...
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