Originally posted 12 January I got hooked on the blues back in the late sixties when I discovered my white heroes (eg Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Johhny Winter) had some very cool black heroes (e.g. Robert Johnson,Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker). In fact, I think John Lee Hooker might just be the coolest guy ever. One brief story. When as an old man, and recently ‘re-discovered’ and...
Aaron Miller The Last Waltz - Done LIVE Sunday, November 22nd Club DeVille ( 900 Red River St ) 7pm, $5 with canned food donation for Cap Area Food bank, $10 otherwise [ info ] Martin Scorsese's classic The Last Waltz has been quite the muse for many, many, many a film-minded musician-artist-type person. Ever since this 35mm beauty debuted back in 1978. The universal appeal of this flick is not just...
Blues rock guitar fanatics were in seventh heaven this past Thursday, November 12th as a plethora of guitar stars turned out for the crowning of Guitar Center's 2009 King Of The Blues winner in front of a capacity crowd at The House Of Blues Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. The culmination of competitions held across the country, it was now down to the final five, Kirby Kelley, Graham Whitford,...
Wikipedia Ian Siegal (born Ian Berry in 1971) is a British blues singer and guitarist, whose style reflects the more rootsy side of the genre, drawing on influences such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Son House, Junior Kimbrough and Tom Waits.
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...
From Wikipedia: Samuel “Magic Sam” Gene Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. He moved th Chicago in 1950 and started playing in the West Side blues clubs. In 1963, he gained national attention for his single “Feelin’ Good (We’re [...]
Part 1 Part 2 75. Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands ( Love Is Hell , 2004) Listen “ God please bring the rain ” is the first line which sets the tone for this this heartbreakingly slow song, best listened to in a dark room with a lot of red wine (or is that the worst way to listen to it'). It’s taken from my favourite Adams album (and there’s a fair few to choose from), and it’s...
Sure, Christopher Owens's life story sounds like a bit much , what with the being raised in a cult, and having a millionaire savior and ending up in one of the most critically hailed and widely embraced bands of the year. Ever the suspicious type, The Village Voice decided to look into the Girls lead singer's claims and the verdict is that Owens is likely telling the truth . The paper found bits of...
I am indebted to my colleague Cllr Tatersall for the report below on a bit of this morning's cabinet meeting. David is a trained journalist-good (Pitman) shorthand and takes an excellent verbatim quote down accurately . I mention this only because we have a certain councillor who has been known to insist that minutes of meetings are changed because they didn't say xxxx. Tiresome when many of us were...
KOCHI: The namesake of the LDF candidate in the Ernakulam byelection did rather well compared to UDF candidate’s namesakes who could mop up only two-digit votes. K.U. Seenulal, who apparently hoped to corner a sizeable chunk of the ...
Rock music is now only really a nostalgia re-packaging industry for… er… the 'increasingly-more mature' adult (who seem to rather fervidly do their utmost to deny the fact of their aging) rather its traditional market of an adolescent fantasy of imagined authenticity. Therefore, in order to keep sales levels up, it has become essential to rewrite many - of what the record industry likes...
Abingdon is rapidly becoming the book signing capital of Europe. Last Saturday... Inspired by the Oxford Canal, D.H. Clacher (on the right) has been writing the Muddy Waters stories and was at The Book Store on Saturday to sign copies. The books about Canal Boats are illustrated by Stephen Preedy (on the left). Meanwhile Mostly Books had a culinary theme to the day with a number of authors. I dropped...
Terry Jean Seligmann (Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law) has posted Muddy Waters: The Supreme Court and the Clear Statement Rule for Spending Clause Legislation (Tulane Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The vital role...
Muddy Waters The Story of Blues (Chapter 15) >>>> Download The Story of Blues (Chapter 15) <<<< artist: Muddy Waters album: The Story of Blues (Chapter 15) Tracklist: 1 Country Blues mp3 2 I Bes Troubled mp3 3 Burr Clover Farm Blues mp3 4 Take A Walk with Me mp3 5 Burr Clover Blues mp3 6 Walkinblues mp3 7 I Can't Be Satisfied mp3 8 Gypsy Woman mp3 9 Mean Red Spider mp3 10 I Feel Like Going Home mp3...
The Muddy Waters Tribute Band You're Gonna Miss Me >>>> Download You're Gonna Miss Me <<<< artist: The Muddy Waters Tribute Band album: You're Gonna Miss Me Tracklist: 1 Trouble No More mp3 2 Clouds in My Heart mp3 3 I Don't Know Why mp3 4 You Can't Lose What You Never Had mp3 5 Don't Go No Further mp3 6 Going to main Street mp3 7 Going Down Slow mp3 8 Blow Wind Blow mp3 9 Honey Bee mp3 10 Sugar Sweet...
Muddy Waters Live in Monthey >>>> Download Live in Monthey <<<< artist: Muddy Waters album: Live in Monthey Tracklist: 1 After Hours mp3 2 Floyds Guitar Bluesblue Lights mp3 3 Boogie Thing mp3 4 Chicken Shack mp3 5 Goin Down Slow mp3 6 Whats the Matter with the Mill mp3 7 Hoochie Coochie Man mp3 8 Howlin Wolf mp3 9 Everythings Gonna Be Alright mp3 10 Theme mp3 11 Dust My Broom mp3 12 You Left Me with...