HT: SK It can be argued whether the city of New Orleans did the rest of the country, and the world, its greatest favors by creating a relaxed and open...
Category - Blues
The Daily Music Break spends a lot of its time discussing musicians who are old and treading on past reputations, retired or no longer among the living. There...
Slowly and inevitably, the rock and roll pioneers are passing away. Chuck Berry died in March and Fats Domino earlier this week. It’s inevitable, natural...
I was putting together his top ten list of Van Morrison songs during the week that Fats Domino passed away. The irony is that the song “Domino” is...
The early rock and rollers faced a bit of a challenge as they aged. The genre inherently is that of young people — or at lest was at its inception. Those...
Larry Campbell: “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” (with Teresa Williams) and “Texas Crapshooter”
Guitarist Larry Campbell has played with everyone. He was in Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour band, which ran from 1997 through 2004. He has played with Levon...
Tenor sax player Stanley Turrentine, a native of Pittsburgh, lived from 1934 to 2000. Wikipedia’s profile notes that his career began in what it terms...
The guitar hero superman started with Jimi Hendrix and continues today. There is a long list of great ones: Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leslie West...
Sometimes, things come together nicely without an individual trying too hard to do anything. A case in point: A couple of weeks ago, The Daily Music Break...
Sometimes, lesser known musicians are responsible for direction that music takes. Anderson Meade Lewis – better known as Meade Lux Lewis (the “Lux” is a...
