“While we’re doing that blues… thing… we’re gonna play an old Bobby Blue Bland song… actually it’s a T-Bone Walker song…” – Duane Allman, introducing “Stormy Monday” on At Fillmore East. So, who was T-Bone Walker? This is what Rolling Stone magazine said (number 67 on … Continue reading T-Bone Walker
Our first of five tunes is by a dude named Victor Wainwright and he is a 37-year-old piano-pumpin’, blues-lovin’ SOB from Memphis Tennessee. In 2013 and 2014, Wainwright won the ‘Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year’ at the Blues Music Award ceremonies. Pinetop – for many years Muddy Waters’ piano … Continue reading New Music Revue – 4.3.18
“The blues is your buddy in good times and your comforter in bad times. It empowers you to keep going. It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It’s music from the heart instead of the head.” – Charlie Musselwhite From blues harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite’s website: … Continue reading Time for A Shot of Blues
I rarely, if ever, do two posts of the same type in a row. I like to mix it up. But I felt lately like I was neglecting the ladies. And as every guy knows, you do so at your own peril. 😂 So here are three … Continue reading Tres Songs
They’ve played with everyone from Muddy Waters & Pinetop Perkins to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. They’re the masters of electric Chicago Blues, Rock and Roll, Soul and Rockabilly, all wrapped up in an unpretentious, red-hot, good-time vibe. —-From the advert … Continue reading Concert Review – Nighthawks – Blues at the Bull Run
(Pictured above, Albert Collins) The late Son Seals started out as a drummer for Robert Nighthawk and later switched to guitar. Arkansas-born, he inevitably gravitated to Chicago and started to jam with people like Albert King and Bobby “Blue” Bland. Seals was discovered in a … Continue reading Time for a Shot of Blues
Note that whenever I do a list I am always careful to say ‘my favorites’ as opposed to ‘the greatest.’ How the hell would I know who’s the greatest? Plus how do you even get consensus on that? It’s far too subjective. So these are … Continue reading My Favorite Singers – Top 25
