Periodically, The Daily Music Break will highlight an important song, Please send candidates to carl@dailymusicbreak.com. Evidence of the importance of...
Tag - American Blues Music Online
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...
There is something profound about the refrain of the song “Jesus on the Mainline.” It is not going to church or synagogue to find god. It is...
They held the Merle Haggard memorial concert last night at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, according to The Tennessean. It was a three hour affair. Keith...
Here are Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lonnie Mack performing “Double Whammy.” The site has covered SRV before. Lonnie Mack — who Vaughan cited as...
Guitarist and harmonica player Will Shade was one of the main players of the very important Memphis Jug Band. (Check it out, it’s great stuff)...
Here is Cub Koda, writing at AllMusic, on Jimmy Reed: There’s simply no sound in the blues as easily digestible, accessible, instantly recognizable, and...
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...
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...
