Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn providing serious heat on this SBD. These were the days when Stevie was dissolving cocaine in his whiskey for his morning “pick me up”, but the music was never better. Recorded in Morrison, CO — not too far from where the wife and I honeymooned last year. Download 1 Download 2 [...]
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
You know who the Black Keys are? They’re that band. They’re like Led Zeppelin after Jimmy Paige ripped off Jeff Beck’s solo album (Hey, it’s all fair in love and war, man). They sneak in with little bluesy-guitar solos, than smash away at their instruments, attempting prowess echoing as compellingly as that of Stevie Ray Vaughn. They’re pretty damn popular, at least in Lollapalooza-land,...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
It's hard to imagine a more likable rock album than "Forgiven," the third full-length studio effort by the Texas-trio, Los Lonely Boys. The songs graft blues, acid rock and the traditional Tex-Mex border music of conjunto into a sound that's an adult contemporary combination of Los Lobos and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
... I'm right up and down: the playlist spans from Black Dice and Lucky Dragons to Jackie Wilson and Stevie Ray Vaughn, the supplementary quotage is clever and occasionally head-turning. Like when he says John Mayer's lyrics are better than Radiohead's. (SUSPENSE...)
