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Category Archives: Rock
Today’s Music: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
From the classic 1965 blues album ‘Hoodoo Man Blues,’ Buddy Guy and Junior Wells at their peak. First up, Kenny Burrell’s signature tune, ‘Chitlin’s Con Carne’ followed by a live performance of ‘Hoodoo Man Blues’ at some music festival:
Today’s Music: Albert Collins, “I Ain’t Drunk”
The Ice Man definitely cometh here, with Albert Collins bearing down on his humbucked, minor-key-tuned Fender Telecaster with nothin’ but the blues. I’m glad I got a chance to hear Albert live down on Lincoln Ave. in Chicago before he passed … Continue reading
Today’s Music: Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Here’s Kim Wilson, the guy Muddy Waters once called the ‘greatest harmonica player since Little Walter,’ tearing it up with his band The Fabulous Thunderbirds which once included Stevie Ray Vaughn’s older brother Jimmie on guitar, playing some of their … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Blues Harp, Jimmie Vaughn, Kim Wilson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
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Etta James, Dead at 73
Yet another great blues/R&B singer has passed. Here’s her obit from the NY Times and a video of her most well-known song, “At Last”:
R&B Godfather Johnny “Hand Jive” Otis Dead at 90
R.I.P., Johnny. Read the Billboard obit here.
Today’s Music: Peter Green’s “Albatross” Plus…
Although he’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, most people these days barely know who influential guitarist Peter Green was or who he played with or that he composed “Black Magic Woman,” Carlos Santana’s calling-card hit. He also … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Albatross, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, JImmy Page, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Peter Green, The Supernatural
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Today’s Music: Sonny Boy Williamson, “Sloppy Drunk”
Sure, you know who the original Sonny Boy Williamson was (there were two) and Aleck Miller, AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II. I have trouble keeping them apart myself, but they were both great musicians who had a vast influence on … Continue reading
Today’s Music: Franny Beecher
Most people have never heard of Franny Beecher, but he was lead guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets, the first hit rock band that promoted itself as a rock band in 1955. Beecher has always been underrated and rarely … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Benny Goodman, Bill Haley, Franny Beecher, Rock Around the Clock
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Today’s Music: Miles Davis “All Blues”
American jazz has travelled a rocky trajectory from the Ragtime of the early 20th century to ’20s Dixieland to the ’30s Big Band Era to post-war Bebop to ’50s Cool Jazz to late ’60s Fusion to Whatever It Is Now. … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged All Blues, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Wayno
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Today’s Music: Eric Burdon Young and Old
Although The Animals had their moment of pop/rock stardom in the mid-1960s with a string of hit records, lead singer Eric Burdon was always underrated as a blues vocalist and had practically faded into obscurity by the 1980s. Now 70, … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Eric Burdon, The Animals, War, We Gotta Get Out of This Place
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