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...
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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...
The guitar hero superman started with Jimi Hendrix and continues today. There is a long list of great ones: Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leslie West...
H/T: Ed A. Anything is complicated if you think about it long enough. Take tribute bands, for instance. In some cases, it’s easy. But what about a...
The New Riders of the Purple Sage were one of the bands that came out of the San Francisco scene in the 1960s. Indeed, Grateful Dead people are all over the...
This is yesterday’s Facebook posting by Neil Ratner, who bills himself as the Rock Doctor. His posting are always fascinating. I knew about the Vivian...
It’s interesting to see the wide divergence of acts with whom talented musicians played during their studio days, if they had any. Little Feat’s...
I didn’t liked Elton John when I was young. Youth defend their cultural choices aggressively, and I was into The Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna and that...
The Roots are busy: They are a very successful hip-hop group and, at the same time, the house band for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” I am not...
The first paragraph of AllMusic’s profile of Mott the Hoople — a band whose name was the title of a 1970s novel by Willard Manus — is a...
