Updated 3 April 2017. BluesMuse27 Long ago, when I played rugby, there was an old guy we nicknamed Daddy Stovepipe. Daddy was a human dynamo, still turning out for the seconds or thirds every week and tackling, ferociously, anything that moved in shorts. Daddy did this well into his late 50s before arthritis cut short his career and confined…

MORE PICS THAN YOU CAN POKE A STICK AT Hot on the heels of HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume One comes HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two, finished in bordello red so you can distinguish between the two. Like Vol 1, packed with photographs. Packed with photographs, just like Volume One, HOW BLUES EVOLVED Volume Two takes…

BLUESMUSE26. Just like Eddie. There are two answers, really, because the first recording of an electric blues guitar was for demonstration purposes only. It was during the days when Rickenbacker was testing out the first electric guitar which guitar geeks (sorry, aficionados) will know was nicknamed the frying pan. In 1932, a 28-year old white band leader and Hawaiian guitarist…

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…