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Muddy Waters 100: Muddy Waters 100
by James Nadal
When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this music would take him. By the time he plugged his guitar into an amplifier on Chicago's Southside in 1943, he had become Muddy Waters, ...
La via dei suoni di Luca Aquino
by Luigi Sforza
Poliedrico esploratore di esperienze musicali, adogmatico ascoltatore di musiche, trombettista molto ricercato per la sua tendenza a conciliare in forma sempre originale istanze sonore provenienti da ambiti musicali diversi e spesso lontani tra loro, Luca Aquino incarna l'immagine esemplare dell'esploratore sonoro contemporaneo, che pur rivolgendo lo sguardo ad un ampio panorama musicale -alla storia del jazz ...
B.B. King: Live in Cook County Jail and More…
by C. Michael Bailey
In his ALLMUSIC artist's biography of B.B. King, Bill Dahl states, “Universally hailed as the king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King was without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century." That is hyperbole of the order of Stephen Thomas Erlewine's introduction in the same publication ...
Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band at Club Fox
by Walter Atkins
Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band Club Fox Club Fox Blues Jam Redwood City CA May 13,2015 Seasoned San Francisco Bay Area blues vocalist and bandleader Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC band played an invigorating midweek set at the Club Fox. The intimate venue, part of ...
Mud Morganfield: For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters
by Walter Atkins
For this CD release, Mud Morganfield pays tribute and shows love to his father, the legendary blues artist Muddy Waters. Listening to the Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson disc For Pops | A Tribute To Muddy Waters, the energy of the first track “Gone to Main Street" is impressive. Morganfield's deep bluesy vocals are richly supported ...
George Taylor: TroubleTown
by C. Michael Bailey
On George Taylor's second recording, Rain or Shine (Self Produced, 2014), the guitarist looked oddly like a square accountant. On his first recording, TroubleTown he looks like Texas surfer cleaned up in a blue blazer. On both recordings, Taylor plays some of the freshest throw-back Americana being played. Touted as a “Blues musician," and, while he ...
Kaye Bohler: Handle the Curves
by C. Michael Bailey
"The White Tina Turner." Them is fightin' words. West coast vocalist and composer Kaye Bohler might be better described as Tina Turner covering Etta James at Muscle Shoals. Handle the Curves is a decade of original compositions that span from the Aretha Franklin-inflected “Diggin' on My Man" to the Van Morrison-ish title tune. ...
Gary Clark, Jr.: Live
by Doug Collette
Anyone who's had the privilege to see Gary Clark Jr. in concert knows that his previous recordings, on his own Hotwired Records as well as the two major label titles, are but sketches of how he's progressively forging influences of rock, blues and r&b into a stirring style of his own. Live preserves for posterity a ...
Live From Birmingham: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Danny Bryant & The Delegators
by Martin Longley
The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger The Hare & Hounds September 1, 2014 Sean Lennon expressed seemingly genuine surprise at the room's crowded nature. After all, GOASTT don't really push the knowledge that Lennon is frontman to this deeply psychedelic miasma-orientated combo. The gig's local publicity was extremely ...
Interview: Don Andrews Of Spirojazz
Q: Some people, especially those who familiar with progressive-rock albums from the '70s, would expect Space and Alienation as a science-fiction concept record. But Space and Alienation have a deeper meaning on your album, judging from the emotional tone of certain pieces. Is Space and Alienation what we feel from everyday living? In other words, we ...
