I got into a traffic jam–a pretty bad one–on The Long Island Expressway earlier today. This came on WBGO, which is the Newark Public Radio station...
Category - Blues
Slim Harpo’s real name was James Isaac Moore. He was born in Lobdell, Louisiana and lived from 1924 to 1970. Here is more: In the large stable of blues...
It’s my birthday, so I checked out This Day in Music, which said that Junior Parker — who wrote “Mystery Train” — was born on...
Folks who like new music — and sort-of-new music — and don’t know quite where to go should stop by www.wfuv.org. Here is more on Lake Street...
Here is more on James Cotton: James Cotton (called Cotton by his friends) was born on the first day of July,1935, in Tunica, Mississippi. He was the youngest...
Here is the beginning of Mississippi Blues Trail’s entry on Otis Rush: The blues form reached both artistic and emotional peaks in the works of Otis...
From Wikipedia: Tampa Red (January 8, 1904[1] – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago...
h/t: WW Gregg Allman pretty much serenades his dog and Dan Rather. The clip is an excerpt for Rather’s program “The Big Interview.”...
We are very lucky that there is a tremendous amount of video of Dr. John on YouTube, and I encourage everyone to check it all out. Most of it is very good...
This is how good Peter Lang is: 1. He recorded for Tacoma Records and 2. One of the projects he was involved in there was a record with two other guitarists:...
