This is a reblog/revisit of one of the very first posts I ever did back in 2015. I’m reposting it for two reasons. One, because I had like, six readers back then and two, because of the recent death of drummer Jim Gordon. If you … Continue reading Featured Album – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek and the Dominos
Pictured: Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor While ME likes a wide variety of music, he always comes back home to the blues and is vaguely suspicions of music lovers who don’t love it and musicians who can’t play it. But, to each his (or her) … Continue reading Time for a Shot of Blues
I‘m stunned as I write these words. The great Jeff Beck has died. He was here in Boston just a couple months ago. I debated and debated going but I didn’t. Damn! Well, I did see him a couple of times and that, alas, will … Continue reading Jeff Beck – The Jackson Pollock of Guitar (Part 1)
A while back I did a post on my Desert Island Discs. I was reminded of this recently when fellow blogger Christian did his own interesting series on that. So I thought, time to revisit this. Firstly, what did I drop from the previous list … Continue reading My (Updated) Desert Island Discs
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)
Wherein I provide three versions of a song to see how it can be (sometimes radically) reinterpreted …. Even though I wrote a series about Ray Charles at the end of last year, I’d somehow gotten it into my head that Willie Nelson wrote this … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Hard Times
Wherein we visit the original tune and a couple of covers to see how other bands mash it up … “Did Blues King Robert Johnson Sell His Soul To The Devil To Become The World’s Greatest Musician?” screams the headline on a blog. Did he? … Continue reading One Song – Three Versions – Stop Breakin’ Down
NOTE – I originally had a post of “Hotel California” on here but the Eagles are so fucking obsessive that whatever server its on they keep taking down. So the song is still listed but no link anywhere. I also changed the cover picture which … Continue reading My Favorite Rock Songs (1) – Top Ten
This is only the second or third time in four years of blogging that I’ve reposted an older blog. But having just learned that Ginger Baker died at 80 years old, I felt compelled to say something. Jack and Ginger are now gone and so … Continue reading Cream – Blues, Ancient and Modern
Yes, yes, children. It is time for that most anticipated and yet largely unloved thing – the “favorite guitarist” list. Now before you dive in and say, “How the fuck could you leave Alex Lifeson (or Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Yngvie Malmsteen, etc.) off … Continue reading My Top Twenty Guitarists of All Time (plus one)
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