Check the operatic talent of this amazing nine-year-old OK, I’m a few months late getting onto this one, but since this is primarily a blues and rock blog, I’m sure you’ll understand why I missed this amazing piece of television history that took place in December last year. If you missed it too, and…
Down To Friend: party boys from Texas. Check their video link below In the wake of my spiel on Great Blues City No 4, Dallas, Texas, comes news of a hot new alternative band from the home of J.R. Well, they’re new to me anyway: a crazy six-piece outfit from the Dallas suburb of Plano…
Updated: 26th January 2019. It seems only yesterday that the esteemed blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Bonnie Rait, forked out the cash to put a headstone on the unmarked grave of an equally-esteemed female blues artist from earlier times. The headstone was for the great Memphis Minnie (1897 – 1973), that pioneering blues singer-songwriter who could play the guitar as well…
BLUESMUSE52. UPDATED Oct 2, 2021. In my last post, about Louisville’s historic contribution to the development of the blues, I possibly inundated you with too much information. But, then again, Louisville had one massive story to tell. If you were overwhelmed by the wordage, however, you might have overlooked the bit about Sylvester Weaver,…
Updated: August 2nd, 2019. “Such a tradition that has been forgotten with different genres. Thank U for what YOU are doing to preserve that, Paul.” Western New York Blues Society (@WNYBluesSociety), March 19, 2014. Most people tend to associate Louisville, Kentucky, with bluegrass music, rather than the blues, but blues has far deeper roots in bluegrass country than…
