“I don’t play a lot of fancy guitar,” John Lee Hooker once said. “I don’t want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.” “When I was a child,” said Carlos Santana, “he was the first circus I wanted to run … Continue reading John Lee Hooker
This seems like as good a time as any for a blues roundup …. Albert Collins (pictured above) was one of the best blues singer/guitarists ever. I saw him once at a now-defunct mob-owned cavernous shithole in Boston called the Channel. Albert and his band … Continue reading Time for a Shot of Blues
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
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