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Highway 49 Blues - Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman (born March 8, 1954, New York) is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. He has performed in a number of styles such as Gypsy jazz, calypso, Blues, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with…
Continue Reading »Baby Please Dont Go - Lightnin Hopkins
Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on…
Continue Reading »Casual Talk between Buddies - Little Smokey Smothers - Pinetop Perkins - Elvin Bishop
Joseph William Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011), known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock and…
Continue Reading »Drown In My Own Tears - Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. One of three noted guitarists, with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds, Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group and…
Continue Reading »Interview with David Bromberg - Drown In My Own Tears
David Bromberg (born September 19, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock & roll equally well. He is known for…
Continue Reading »Drown In My Own Tears - Bettye LaVette
Bettye LaVette (born Betty Haskins on January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise.…
Continue Reading »32 - 20 Blues - Colin Hodgkinson
Bassist/singer Colin Hodgkinson was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He began playing professionally in 1966, initially in a jazz-rock trio, then as a member of Eric Delaney's Showband.He was the leader of the jazz-rock trio Back Door, which…
Continue Reading »Tech Talk - Lectrolab R200 (1953)
* 2 Inputs, one Volume, one Tone control. * The filaments in these tubes are powered by 25 to 50 volts AC. This is in contrast to almost all modern amps which use 6.3 volts. * 50L6 is…
Continue Reading »Dead Shrimp Blues - Clyde Ramsey & Pepper Drive
These guys have filled clubs and rattled the rafters in their previous shows. They shook the moss from the trees at April’s Earth Day Jam and in closing Pat Ramsey’s benefit for the Hospice of the Big Bend…
Continue Reading »James Cotton Blues Band
James Cotton (born July 1, 1935, Tunica, Mississippi), is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to…
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