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I Ain't Got Time - Doghouse Sam & his Magnatones
Now these guys are something else… Gettin’ back to the bare essentials, they play their blues pure and raw… simply the right way!! And they already did at big festivals as BRBF Peer and Gevarenwinkel blues. Out of…
Continue Reading »Where Is My Good Man At - Jo-Ann Kelly
Jo Ann Kelly (5 January 1944 — 21 October 1990) was an English blues singer and guitarist. "To many American performers", an obituarist wrote, "Jo Ann Kelly was the only British singer to earn their respect for her…
Continue Reading »Kiss The City - Matty Powell - New release Review
I just received the newest release, Kiss The City, from Matty Powell. This is far from a blues recording but as you know I have an open mind. Powell has put together a release of 13 original pop/rock…
Continue Reading »Messin' with the Kid - Larry Miller
After picking up his brother's guitar and writing his first song, he felt his future lay in Rock music, being influenced by some of the guitar greats - Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan and…
Continue Reading »Prog rockers "Caravan" tour the UK from January 8
JANUARY 2013 UK TOUR Plus special guest Garron Frith Tickets on sale Monday June 18th 24hr Box Office: 0844 478 0898 www.eventim.co.uk 40th Anniversary tour of their seminal 1973 album "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night"…
Continue Reading »Mush Mouth - GEEZIL MINERVE, Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra
Harold "Geezil" Minerve (January 3, 1922 - June 4, 1992) was a Cuban-born jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. Minerve was raised in Florida and began playing music at age 12. He played with Ida Cox early in his…
Continue Reading »Good Morning Little School Girl - Ten Years After w/ Chick Churchill
Chick Churchill (born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England) is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band, Ten Years After. Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six…
Continue Reading »I Wonder Who - Ron Sayer Jr and Paddy Maguire
Ron began playing guitar at seven, was gigging by the time he was 10 and never really wanted to do anything else. Taking the rocky road from Hank Marvin to Robert Johnson and stopping off pretty much everywhere…
Continue Reading »One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Alexis Korner and Steve Marriott
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British…
Continue Reading »Cement Mixer - Slim Gaillard
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout". (In addition to speaking 8…
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