At least every third book I read is a music biography. In fact, I have to stop myself from reading them exclusively. I think I’ve mentioned before that Peter Guralnick is – for my money – the best music writer of his generation. I met … Continue reading Book Review – Looking to Get Lost – Peter Guralnick
By late 1967, Bob Dylan had pretty much outgrown his “protest period.” In fact, he’d gone from folk/protest to electric back to folk/rock and country-rock. The album John Wesley Harding comes in between Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline. (Discounting a greatest hits album.) According … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – All Along the Watchtower
The Music Enthusiast likes to mix it up a little, throw down a song’s original, and then a couple of (hopefully) radically different versions. We’ll call this one the international edition for reasons which we shall see.Β Wikipedia: “The Four Seasons are an AmericanΒ rock band … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Beggin’
(Pictured – Eric Johnson) You know how you get in a mood? Musically, that is if not otherwise. For some reason, I keep hearing instrumentals lately and am digging them. Well, I always loved them but lately, I’ve just been in that state of mind. … Continue reading Time For A Couple of Instrumentals
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)
I stumbled on this list o’ some of Plant’s favorite songs. I’m not sure why I thought this would be a good idea for a post. I guess maybe because it’s always interesting to know what musicians say inspired them or what they really like. … Continue reading Robert Plant’s list of (some) favorites
My son told me about the Sound City documentary a while back but I never seemed to find the time to get around to watching it. Finally did this weekend. Glad I did. It’s a tribute not only to a great studio (and soundboard) but … Continue reading Music Documentary – Sound City
One of the things I really like about music is how you can take a song everyone’s familiar with, shake it up a little, change the tempo, change the instrumentation, harmonies, arrangement, etc., and voila! A brand new song. So I periodically like to list … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – The Ballad of John and Yoko
Gary Brooker – who along with Robin Trower was an original founder of Procol Harum – died the other day of cancer at the too-young age of 76. Not only a consummate musician, for my money he had one of the great voices in rock … Continue reading Tres Songs – Procol Harum
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