Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Singer Keri Hilson is 27. Singer Little Richard is 77. Guitarist J.J. Cale is 71. Actor Jeroen Krabbe (”The Fugitive”) is 65. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 63. Singer Jim Messina (Loggins and Messina, Poco) is 62. Actress Morgan Brittany (”Dallas”) is 58. Actor Brian Backer (”Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) is 53. Country singer [...]
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Deptford Dame notes that this Thursday the Performing Rights Society are planning to unveil a plaque for Dire Straits on the Crossfields Estate in Deptford to commemorate the band's first gig there back in 1977. Most of Dire Straits actually lived in a flat on the first floor of Farrer House on the estate at the time. At one point in the 1970s it looked as if the estate would be demolished. After...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Curreri accounts for a lot of the musical weight behind Devon Sproule. He is something of a quiet genius, having a gift for skewed, elliptical or downright dutch arrangements of the familiar tropes of American music. His sixth album is an entirely solo record – one of those occasions when the artist records himself playing all the instruments, only allowing the talented wife to plug in cursorily....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Curreri accounts for a lot of the musical weight behind Devon Sproule.
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Eric Clapton: Chapter 26.
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Finlay Morton's website says he sounds a little like a cross between Bob Dylan and J.J. Cale. It didn't occur to me when I heard him but it's true. He's currently on a West Coast radio tour and performed this...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
At this blog, I pride myself on offering not merely entertainment, but anything else you, the esteemed blog reader, might need. I have limits, however. Here’s a short list of six things I’ll do, and four things I won’t. “I’ll Make Love to You Anytime”/Eric Clapton. From Backless, an album that many critics consider lifeless to [...]
KK & R Music Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
J.J. Cale has recorded over 14 studio albums. He released his last studio album, Roll On, in the spring of 2009, while his previous release, The Road To Escondido, was recorded together with Eric Clapton and won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Second Helping is a 1974 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was the band's second album, and featured their biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama". The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping also featured "The Ballad of Curtis Loew," "Don't Ask Me No Questions,"...
IckMusic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
We’ve spent all this time building up our digital music libraries, so why not tinker around with them a bit and have some fun? Last week I explored tunes that clocked in at 2:28. This week, I take it to the streets. The exercise this week is to locate your street songs. I’m not talkin’ [...]
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to Waylon Jennings performed at Albany Palace Theatre on June 10, 1983
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Coming from a farming community in Far North Queensland, 8 Ball Aitken is the oldest son of an impoverished family of twelve children. 8 Ball spent his adolescence on a banana plantation, living in a rough tobacco shed with resident rats, bats, snakes, and spiders as his sleeping companions. He started work as a farm labourer aged fifteen, doing back-breakingly hard work on the mango and banana plantations...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Eric Clapton: Chapter 15.
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Have spent this afternoon beginning the job of wallpapering my daughters bedroom. Will spend all day tomorrow finishing that and then painting the whole bloody thing pink. I've had the ipod on shuffle to help me get the joins straight and, happily, Albert Lee's 'Pink Bedroom' duly popped up. Naturally I now need help from anyone willing to give it in putting together a 'Decorators' playlist on Spotify....
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Ch-ch-ch-check it out… Beautiful Way – Beck Canned Music – Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Sky Bicycle (You’ve Been Ringing) – All Night Radio Bron-Yr-Aur – Led Zeppelin Waltz #1 – Elliott Smith Twice – Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Bliss – Phish Scarborough Fair/Canticle – Simon & Garfunkel St. Judy’s Comet – Paul Simon Harvest...
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