It occurred to me that I had done a post about jazz but not yet one about blues as a genre. And so let me now rectify that. I mentioned in my first post that I discovered blues the same way so many of my peers … Continue reading The Blues (1)
Category: Folk-rock
Featured Album – Lost on the River (The New Basement Tapes)
With this post I introduce the occasional “Featured Album,” which will discuss albums that are so good they deserve their own write-up. Â And I decided to start with a disc I recently bought, which is a (sort of) tribute to Bob Dylan. Apparently he wrote … Continue reading Featured Album – Lost on the River (The New Basement Tapes)
Bob Dylan (Final of 3 – How Many Roads)
First post here. Youâre gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed Youâre gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But youâre gonna have to serve somebody In the late ’70’s Bob Dylan – who is … Continue reading Bob Dylan (Final of 3 – How Many Roads)
Bob Dylan (2)
First post here: Dylan started out as every bit the folkie. Heavily influenced by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Robert Johnson, he actually visited Woody in the hospital as he lay dying of Huntington’s Disease. But what people sometimes forget – … Continue reading Bob Dylan (2)
Bob Dylan (1)
There is a TV commercial that shows Bob Dylan talking to the IBM Watson computer. (It astonishes me that he would even do a commercial.) The computer tells Dylan that he’s analyzed all his lyrics and most of them are about “the passage of time … Continue reading Bob Dylan (1)
“Race Records”
Wikipedia: âRace records were 78 rpm phonograph records marketed to African-Americans during the 1920âs through the early 1940âs. They primarily contained race music, comprising a variety of African-American musical genres including blues, jazz, and gospel music, though comedy recordings were also produced. These records were, then, the majority of commercial recordings … Continue reading “Race Records”
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