Last week The Daily Music Break posted about Guy Davis. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes chatting with him. Please check out our...
Category - Blues
Some folks retain their status as great musicians and, at the same time, transcend to another level. That status — call it a national treasure —...
Guy Davis is an actor, writer, modern blues player with a strong sense of history, a great harmonica and acoustic guitar player and a tremendous songwriter...
John Adams (“Sleepy John”) Estes was born in Ripley, Tennessee on January 25th of 1899 or 1900. The earlier date was on his tombstone and the latter on his...
David (Junior) Kimbrough was born on this day in 1930 in Hudsonville, Mississippi. Wikipedia says Kibrough’s two most noteworthy songs are “Keep Your Hands Off...
HT: DW We see history far more fully than we hear it. We have plenty of shots of Abraham Lincoln and know precisely what he looked like from when he was a...
Periodically, The Daily Music Break will highlight an important song, Please send candidates to carl@dailymusicbreak.com. Evidence of the importance of...
TDMB posted yesterday on Leonard Bernstein. In a subsequent conversation on Facebook, I pointed out that he seemed to really like rock and roll. During various...
This post was all ready to go yesterday morning. It wasn’t a good day to highlight a song called “Shotgun,” however, so the birthday note for...
Check out this very insightful and interesting interview in Rolling Stone of Warren Haynes, who was in The Allman Brothers Band for 25 years. (Haynes also is...
