Treehugger (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
photo Gribiche @ flickr The HoveFestival – a rock event in late June that featured Beck, Duffy and rapper Jay-Z, and the jazz and blues festival Canal Street going on this week with acts such as John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and the Waterboys, both signed on to UNEP's Climate Neutral Network to make their events, well, climate neutral. Climate neutral concerts, UNEP style The band Coldplay has...
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Without Alexis Korner, there still might have been a British blues scene in the early 1960s, but chances are that it would have been very different from the one that spawned the Rolling Stones, nurtured the early talents of Eric Clapton and made it possible for figures such as John Mayall to reach an audience. In 1981, Korner formed the last and greatest "supergroup" of his career, Rocket 88, featuring...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
John Mayall had a reputation for being a rebel long before 1969. How else to explain his single-minded devotion to the blues in the face of Beatlemania? Still, in dispensing with a drummer and including no lead electric guitarist in the band he formed for The Turning Point (Polydor, 1969), Mayall was going against the very grain of the blues movement he had helped to establish alongside his illustrious...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Colin Cooper was the lead singer on "Couldn't Get It Right", the radio-friendly 1976 single by the Climax Blues Band and their sole hit in their native Britain. The group came up with the song after Miles Copeland, their manager, said he couldn't hear any hits amongst the tracks recorded for their ninth album, Gold Plated.
Argentina's Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The 22nd Atlantic Jazz Festival began on July 11th in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was opened by Argentina’s Orquesta Tipica Imperial. This great jazz festival, known for bringing the best in jazz together every year, is expanding to include different types of music such as avant-garde, world, pop, folk, and fusion. Tango music may not [...]
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It was way back in 1972 when this live concert was taped. 1972 was the jumping off point of the Prog Rock movement, and elements of the genre can be found in this album. Don “Sugar Cane” Harris is probably a name you have heard of before, but can’t quite place where. Well the answer [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Chuck Berry remains the Saturday headliner, and festival also features Pinetop Perkins, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Roy Rogers, Ana Popovic and more. LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Blues and world music legend Taj Mahal and Booker T. Jones will co-headline the Sunday, August 31 show of the Long Beach Blues Festival. In addition, Stax soul veteran Eddie Floyd has been added to the...
death from below (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
John Mayall "Don't Waste My Time"
Argentina's Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are a beloved band in Argentina, and today they placed for the first time in six years to a screaming crowd in Palmero. This band is considered to be one of the most important rock bands of the last twenty years. Formed in 1985, they have released an impressive 15 albums, [...]
Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
“Feature length DVD film, over 140 mins. Including live performance footage of: Oh Well, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Man of the World, and many more. Over two hours of incredible, honest and under the skin footage shot as a feature and delivering a definitive insight into the life of Peter Green and [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
UNDISPUTED blues legend Buddy Guy comes to Liverpool this weekend, playing the Philharmonic Hall on Sunday night, just a day after he will have wowed the crowds at the Glastonbury festival.
Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The FREDRIK STRAND HALLAND Band will be performing at The Osøren Blues & Jazz Festival June 29th 2008…For the English version click on this link: Orsoren Blues The show has two headliners. The main headliner for the show is none other then John Mayall with his BluesBreakers and The other Headliner is Bertine Zetlitz. [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
UNDISPUTED blues legend Buddy Guy comes to Liverpool this weekend, playing the Philharmonic Hall on Sunday night, just a day after he will have wowed the crowds at the Glastonbury festival.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Eddie Boyd & His Blues Band : Tony McPhee (guitar); John Mayall (harmonica); Harry Klein (baritone saxophone); Albert Hall (trumpet); Rex Morris, Bob Efford (tenor horn); Eddie Boyd (piano); John McVie (bass guitar); Aynsley Dunbar (drums). Additional personnel : Peter Green (guitar). UK reissue of Mississippi-born Chicago blues pianist's second album, originally released in 1967 on Decca, features...
