Charles Matthews BLUESMUSE25 If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you’ll know it was a German musician who wrote the first African-American-inspired song after hearing slave music in Virginia in 1795. His English wife first performed said song in Boston in 1799. Some 20 years later, another English performer turned up in America and did something that kicked-started the cycle…
Watch Dumb Ways To Die on the link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw Here’s a link to an interesting jingle aimed at saving young lives. Alternatively, it could be viewed as a waste of dosh by an organization with more money then sense. Whatever it is, it’s just another example of how Australia is becoming more and…
BLUESMUSE24 In 1928, the former Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie accompanist, Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith, recorded his renowned boogie piano track, Pinetop’s ‘Boogie Woogie’. A 24-year old Alabama comedian and piano player, Pinetop enjoyed one of the first-ever boogie hits with this number, which was hugely responsible for popularising the style we now know as…
How I remember the Stones UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12 2016 I’ve been around the block so often, it only cost me 7/6 (about 37p or 50c) to watch the original Rolling Stones play in the local cinema. I say watch because, except for Little Red Rooster, (it was 1964, I was but a boy), you couldn’t hear any songs…
Sorry to impose a plug for my new book on you here, folks, but it’s finally available on the Amazon links below and I can’t contain my excitement. Getting all those old blues photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, into Kindle format, has been like trying to stuff an elephant into a mouse…
