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Koko Taylor: A Daughter’s Pride
On May 10th Koko Taylor was honored with the 118th Brass note on the Walk of Fame in Beale St. when the Memphis Music Foundation and the Blues Foundation held an unveiling ceremony at the Daisy Theater. Attended by family, friends and music industry representatives the blue Memphis sky provided a gentle backdrop for the words of those who had known and loved her.
Dr. John’s Locked Down, CD & Concert Review
For his latest release, LOCKED DOWN, Dr. John teamed up with producer Dan Auerbach (singer/guitarist for The Black Keys).
Mac Arnold’s Blues Revival – Live At The Grey Eagle CD Review
Mac Arnold is a veteran musician and the music is in his blood. Mac’s first band back in South Carolina featured a then unknown James Brown on piano. He spent much of the latter half of the 1960’s playing with many of the Chicago Blues legends, most notably Muddy Waters. In the 1970’s he was [...]
Taylor Hicks at City Winery
Taylor Hicks at City Winery, NY, May 2011 http://www.taylorhicks.com/ Welcome back my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I am featuring some photos of 2006 American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. The photos are from a show at City Winery in New York. This was my first time at this venue and I have [...]
B.B. King’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011, Blu-ray, DVD, CD Review
LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2011, captures the 86 year-old icon once again performing on one of the world’s most celebrated stages.
Walter Trout at Iridium in New York
What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of Walter Trout from a show at Iridium in August 2011. Walter did not have his band with him that evening, instead he came out and jammed with the Les Paul Trio. As you can see from the photos Walter [...]
John Oates’ The Bluesville Sessions, CD Review
John Oates Walks A Mississippi Mile (New York, NY) “The blues,” as it pertains to music, has never been an easy term to define. It can mean almost anything to everyone. For some, it describes a fairly narrow slice of the musical spectrum. For others, the blues is vast field of musical expression; whose boundaries are [...]
Ronnie Earl at B.B. King’s in New York
What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I have some photos of a guitarist that has not played in New York City for about 13 years, Ronnie Earl. Ronnie brought his band, The Broadcasters, to the BB King Blues Club back in February 2012 and it was a packed house of Ronnie Earl fans [...]
The Black Keys Live in NYC
Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney effortlessly assaulted an eager NYC crowd with their personalized brand of riff-heavy blues and R&B fueled retro rock.
110th NAMM Convention-Anaheim, California…It’s A Monster Y’All.
NAMM 2012… 110th Annual….. It’s a monster, Y’All The Anaheim Convention Center was ground zero for the yearly musical expo-losion AKA The National Association of Music Merchants convention or NAMM as we like to know it. Starting on Wednesday January 18 (Media day) and ending on Sunday January 22 the NAMM convention was and has [...]
Eric Gales at BB King’s in NYC
Eric Gales at BB King’s in New York What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I have some photos of fiery guitarist Eric Gales from his July 2011 show at the BB King Blues Club in New York. Joining Eric for this show were Doug Wimbish on bass and Keith LeBlanc on drums. Power [...]
Joe Louis Walker …Blues With Attitude
Last night (3-9-12) Joe Louis Walker set the Arcadia Blues Club ablaze with some of the best damn music I’ve heard in a long while. I know I say that a lot and I suppose at some point I’m gonna have to create a standardized system to rate the players I cover, but not today. Today, the [...]
Tommy Bolin & Friends’ Great Gypsy Soul, CD Review
36 years after Bolin’s tragic death, producers Greg Hampton and Warren Haynes have assembled an all-star group of musicians to pay tribute to the fallen guitar icon.
Mud Morganfield – Son Of The Seventh Son CD Review
Larry Williams, otherwise known as Mud Morganfield, makes his national label debut with Son Of The Seventh Son on Severn Records. Mud was given his first drum set at the age of seven by his legendary father McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters. Mud later took to playing bass and today uses the instrument for songwriting. [...]
