Rickie Lee Jones takes some getting used to, but she is tremendous and unique. Her first album offered her most accessible songs and biggest hit, “Chuck...
Category - Blues
Luther Allison: Livin’ in the House of the Blues/Soul Fixin’ Man Lonnie Brooks: You’re Usin’ Me Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown:...
Ry Cooder mentioned Joseph Spence in an interview I listened to on YouTube. That’s all you need to hear to know that the guy is important. For some...
This clip is incredible though the audio is a bit of balance. Suggest starting somewhere before the 2:42 mark – maybe start from the beginning. Then they...
Lonny Johnson playing “Another Night to Cry,” with an introduction for the ages by Sonny Boy Williamson.
This Day in Music relates that on August 13, 1952 Big Mama Thornton recorded Leiber and Stoller‘s “Hound Dog” which, of course, subsequently...
A Conversation with Doug MacLeod: . In December, I had the pleasure of chatting with blues songwriter and performer Doug MacLeod. Suffice to say, chatting with...
Richard Smith was born in and now lives in Nashville. At least one of Smith’s YouTube videos pays homage to the great Jerry Reed, which whom he clearly...
The last hurrah for the Grateful Dead is set for Chicago in a couple of weeks. One of the standards the band did (at least early on) was a song that it called...
On June 9th, The Daily Music Break posted a poll asking who are the greatest electric blues guitarists. The winner, hands-down, was Rory Gallagher. He received...
