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Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Joni Mitchell
I felt like writing about Joni tonight. I love this song. I really would have preferred to bolg the Hissing of Summer Lawns but I could not find a good video. This is a super band including Jaco…
Continue Reading »Rendezvous With The Blues - Jimmy Hall & The Prisoners Of Love
Jimmy Hall (born April 26, 1949 in Birmingham, Alabama) (Raised in Mobile, Alabama) was the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. He cofounded the band in 1970, which had significant success in…
Continue Reading »Worried Life Blues - Robben Ford
Robben Ford (born December 16, 1951 is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist. Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the…
Continue Reading »SCOTT WEIS BAND - Mike Packer correspondent
So let's groove back to the days when rock music had freedom, the days of The Fillmore, when rock was pure and inovative and the musicality was key. Let us now say we have The Scott Weis Band.…
Continue Reading »Eller Soul Records artist: Andy Poxon - Red Roots - New Release Review
I just received a copy of Andy Poxon's recording Red Roots. Clever title for a kid playing blues roots music with a large red "natural". The recording is comprised of 13 original tunes with a number of different…
Continue Reading »Icon Etta James is now terminally ill - asking for prayers.
Blues/soul icon Etta James, whose health has been fading in recent years, is now terminally ill, and her live-in doctor is asking for prayers. Dr. Elaine James, who isn't related to the 73-year-old Grammy winner and Rock and…
Continue Reading »FILMING CONCLUDES FOR "WE JUKE UP IN HERE" AS ADDITIONAL SPONSORS CLIMB ABOARD
(CLARKSDALE, MS) In 2008, music producers Jeff Konkel and Roger Stolle took viewers on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues in the award-winning film “M For Mississippi.” Now the duo is set to return with…
Continue Reading »Wolfgang's Vault Newsletter
Present of the Year: Baron Wolman Book In 1967, Baron Wolman became principal photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine during its first three years. His latest book "Every Picture Tells a Story, the Rolling Stone Years" celebrates those years…
Continue Reading »Dick Waterman: Focus on the Blues Myths - Michael Limnios
Photographer, agent, manager, producer, promoter, Richard Waterman is the only person inducted in The Blues Hall of Fame who was not either a performing artist or a record company executive. He established himself in the Blues community as…
Continue Reading »Classified - James Booker
James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 - November 8, 1983) was a jazz, New Orleans rhythm and blues and soul musician born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Booker was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers,…
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