The videos of the great Aretha Franklin that have been posted at various places since her passing last week tell a fascinating story. The videos are great...
Tag - blues music
“Pulling your coat” is to point out something good or interesting to somebody else. I believe the phrase originated with jazz musicians suggesting...
It was hard for blues players in the south. If it wasn’t, after all, these folks wouldn’t have had to invent the blues. It no doubt was doubly hard...
One of the most influential blues players of the last century was Sam Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’. The first paragraph of his profile at AllMusic...
One of the most influential blues players of the last century was Sam Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’. The first paragraph of his profile at AllMusic...
Perhaps nothing is as soothing and peaceful as cool saxophone music, and Gene Ammons was a master. Ammons, known as “The Boss” decades before...
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...
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...
