C’mon now. You didn’t really think I’d get through the year without an Allmans post. Truthfully, I never even heard of this fucking thing. It came out last November and I stumbled on it. I’ll combine notes from their web site with my own pithy … Continue reading Featured Album – Big Band of Brothers – A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band
NOTE: I’m working on a Stevie Ray Vaughan series but in the meantime …. Brothers Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughn had grown up in Dallas, Texas and developed their blues-playing chops in Austin, 200 miles south. Both went on to fame, Jimmie as a member … Continue reading Featured Album – Family Style – The Vaughan Brothers
Random note: There’s a good documentary on Showtime called Hitsville: The Making of Motown. There’s a lot of good footage. (Stevie Wonder speaks but Diana Ross is conspicuously absent.) But the best part is that Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson return to Detroit and spend … Continue reading Time for a Shot of Blues
So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, and some taste Use all your well-learned politesse Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, So here we are, my fourth (should be fortieth) Rolling Stones concert. I’ve seen two by myself, one with … Continue reading Stones – No Filter Tour – Gillette Stadium, July 7, 2019
In the previous post, I laid out a brief history of the British blues and gave you a few tasty tunes. In this post, I’ll lay out a few more songs as well as a 40-tune Spotify list. And rather than just dump tunes in … Continue reading Jumping at Shadows – An ME Tribute to British (and Some Irish) Blues-rock (part 2 of 2)
(Pictured: Klook’s Kleek which was a jazz and rhythm n’ blues club at the Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, North West London. Anybody who was anybody played there in the early days of British blues.) A while back I wrote about the so-called British Invasion, the … Continue reading An ME Tribute to British (and Some Irish) Blues-rock (part 1 of 2)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law – Aleister Crowley All I know is that [with Crowley] it’s a system that works. If you put all your energies into it there’s no doubt you’ll succeed. Because that’s your true will. – Jimmy … Continue reading Led Zeppelin (Part 4) – Houses of the Unholy
