So I was scrolling around the channels a few weeks back when I saw a blipvert for a Rolling Stones documentary called My Life As a Rolling Stone. Wait, what, I thought? Being a consumer of all things Rolling Stones, how do I now know … Continue reading Documentary Review – My Life as a Rolling Stone
A new club opened up in Portsmouth, NH about a year or so ago called Jimmy’s Jazz and Blues Club. Portsmouth is a funky little town located about 57 miles (92km) north of Boston with a lot of good restaurants and nightlife. The guys who … Continue reading Concert Review – Blues Master Eric Gales
Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleedin’ Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind A quick scan of my now almost-seven-year-old blog tells me that while I may have mentioned them once or twice, I’ve never really featured the Doors. Not sure why that is. … Continue reading Featured Album – Morrison Hotel – The Doors
I recently read a book that’s been on my list for a while. It’s called Three Dog Nightmare and it’s about singer Chuck Negron’s descent into hellish drug addiction. It’s also interesting because – and I’m not making this up – his penis split because … Continue reading My Week at Camp – Roots Rock Revival
Like a lot of people from my generation, I have a pile of albums just sitting around never getting played. I was rummaging through them the other day and stumbled on an album (and band) I’d forgotten about. The band is Flamin’ Groovies and the … Continue reading From My Collection – Teenage Head – Flamin’ Groovies
Note – If you’re expecting me to post “I’d Love to Change the World,” or whatever it’s called, look elsewhere. I fucking hate that song and it’s not at all representative of the TYA I know and love.ย You likely all know Ten Years After … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Ten Years After
Wherein I cram the last forty-five years of Mac into one post. By being populated with nothing but Nicks/Buckingham tunes, Spotify’s “This is Fleetwood Mac” is effectively null and void. It should be called “A Fleetwood Mac list compiled by idiots who don’t know shit.” … Continue reading Fleetwood Mac Mark III (final of 3) – You Will Never Break the Chain
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)
Note – this is a repost. It is part one of a 2-part British blues series I did about three years ago. I was listening to this playlist recently and really enjoying it so I thought I’d share it again as I have a fair … Continue reading An ME Tribute to British (and Some Irish) Blues-rock (part 1 of 2)
โThings took a funny turn in the early 70s. It all turned out well when I heard John McLaughlin, because his performance on the Miles Davis Jack Johnson album and with Mahavishnu Orchestra said, โHereโs where you can goโ. And every musician I knew was … Continue reading Jeff Beck – Maestro – (Final of 3)
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