Wherein I grab a band and pick six. Not saying they’re the best six. Just saying. “I love their ‘Mr. Blue Skies’ Almost my favorite is ‘Turn to Stone’ And how ’bout ‘Telephone Line?’ I love that E.L.O. —“The Story of a Rock and Roll … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Electric Light Orchestra
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)
(Pictured: Klook’s Kleek which was a jazz and rhythm n’ blues club at the Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, North West London. Anybody who was anybody played there in the early days of British blues.) A while back I wrote about the so-called British Invasion, the … Continue reading An ME Tribute to British (and Some Irish) Blues-rock (part 1 of 2)
As reported earlier, a while back I did a “blogger’s playlist” wherein I requested and compiled a playlist o’ tunes from anybody who wanted to play. We had so much fun with this I decided to do a Volume 2. This one’s got 40 tunes … Continue reading Bowie to Beck – The Blogger’s Playlist (vol. 2) Revealed
Wikipedia: Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is a Bahamian-American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. His “retro” style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk, and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all of the instruments himself when recording. Kravitz was born in New … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Lenny Kravitz
Wherein I feature three songs I dig and play them for you like a DJ. No deep historical analysis or ME’s usual blathering on. Just tunes. In 2009, Rolling Stone said this of the band on the cover: “Kings of Leon: The God-Fearing, Booze-Swilling Rise … Continue reading Tres Songs
I can’t believe that in over three years of blogging I’ve written barely a word about one of the most prominent, significant jazzmen of his generation. Time to correct that. Bio below is based on info from Marsalis’ website and Wikipedia. “Music is music, and … Continue reading Wynton Marsalis
