This is a reblog/revisit of one of the very first posts I ever did back in 2015. I’m reposting it for two reasons. One, because I had like, six readers back then and two, because of the recent death of drummer Jim Gordon. If you … Continue reading Featured Album – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek and the Dominos
The Bull Run is a long-standing (mostly) blues club way out in small-town Massachusetts. Have to go there or New Hampshire as the city of Boston – which is actually a fairly cosmopolitan city – has largely abandoned it. They have a House of Blues … Continue reading Popa Chubby Live at the Bull Run
When singer Rita Coolidge attended the premiere of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, the 1971 documentaru that chronicled the Joe Cocker–fronted tour of the same name, the experience was far from celebratory. “I started shaking and crying and it all came back to me,” she says. … Continue reading Mad Dogs and Englishmen – The Joe Cocker/Leon Russell 1970 American Tour
It went, criminally under noticed that Kim Simmonds died on December 13, 2022, of colon cancer. He was a trouper right to the end and I believe he was planning a return visit to the Bull Run where I first saw him and his band. … Continue reading Concert Review – Savoy Brown
The song “Killing Floor” was written by Chester Burnett, aka Howlin’ Wolf. I wrote about Wolf in my review of Peter Guralnick’s Sam Phillips book. There was no artist that Phillips loved more than the Wolf. So, killing floor. What does it mean? Well According … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Killing Floor
Dickey Betts was born on December 12, 1943, in West Palm Beach, Florida. He hasn’t migrated too far from there and has been living in Sarasota, FL for a number of years. In fact, according to Wikipedia, Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Brian Johnson of … Continue reading Happy Belated Birthday Dickey Betts
I was driving home the other night and happened to turn to the Classic Rock channel on Sirius. The DJ was about to play a Fleetwood Mac song and all I caught was “Christine McVie, dead at the age of 79.” Total shock. Not only … Continue reading An ME Tribute to Christine McVie
Back when gas was cheap and people – and by people I mean largely men – didn’t drive like a bunch of aggressive “I own the road” fuckheads, I used to go for drives just to listen to music. I still occasionally do that but … Continue reading Physical Graffiti – A Reappraisal
A while back I did a post on my Desert Island Discs. I was reminded of this recently when fellow blogger Christian did his own interesting series on that. So I thought, time to revisit this. Firstly, what did I drop from the previous list … Continue reading My (Updated) Desert Island Discs
Little Stevie Wonder had hit the scene at the tender age of 13 with a song called “Fingertips – Part 2.” This was an exciting early hit for Motown. But going chronologically from my last post, I’m instead going to go with one of my … Continue reading My Musical Journey in 25 Songs (Part 3)
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