This category is for artists whom I thought significant enough to write multiple posts about.
“I saw my rock and roll past flash before my eyes. I saw something else: I saw rock and roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” – Jon Landau in 1974 after seeing Bruce at the (now defunct) Harvard Square Theater Well, clearly Bruce … Continue reading My Musical Journey (final of 4)
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)
“Born under a bad sign I been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have no luck at all” Music, of course, started to expand and change throughout the Sixties. In fact, at least in America, everything started … Continue reading My Musical Journey in 25 Songs (Part 2)
So what is this all about? Well, you know how you might meet somebody and they might ask what you enjoy listening to? And me, I’d always say, Oh, you know, classic rock, blues, jazz, good pop, soul, some classical. Then I might mention a … Continue reading My Musical Journey in 35 Songs (Part 1)
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
I had thought of just doing a two-part series on Big Mac. But Rumours is too impactful an album not to get a post of its own. So here we go. “As Fleetwood Mac inched its way to the summit of the charts, our lives … Continue reading Fleetwood Mac Mark III (Part Two) – Rumours
Back when I was first blogging, I did a piece on the original Fleetwood Mac, a band that was heavily blues-oriented. I reposted it when Peter Green died. A lot of people cannot accept any version of Mac that is not a blues band. But … Continue reading Fleetwood Mac – Mark III (Part One)
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)
From The One: “All these black people were standing around the door waiting to get a seat on the ‘white only’ side. Most of ’em looked like they might be college kids, and there were a few whites with them,” Brown wrote in his autobiography, … Continue reading James Brown – Mr. Dynamite – Final of 3
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