Hey, cats! When did blues first appear in the paper? ‘Cats’, too, come to that?

Hey, cats! When did blues first appear in the paper? ‘Cats’, too, come to that?

USA’s first illustrated black paper, The Indianapolis Freeman Any idea when the word “blues” first appeared in print as a description for African-American music? It wasn’t until as late as 1910, would you believe, according to the American academics, Lyn Abbott and Doug Seroff, who discovered the term in The Indianapolis Freeman of 10 April…

Coming soon. Remastered versions of Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin 1V; plus bonus never-heard alternative versions of most tracks

Coming soon. Remastered versions of Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin 1V; plus bonus never-heard alternative versions of most tracks

Remastered: the untitled Led Zeppelin 1V album Blues and rock guitar great, Jimmy Page, as you might know, has in recent years been remastering the entire Led Zeppelin back catalogue. And he’s doing it with a twist. Jimmy’s been searching the vaults for alternative versions of all the band’s classics, to be released as a…

String theory … explaining guitar solos that cry and sing

String theory … explaining guitar solos that cry and sing

String theory is far too complex for the likes of me. Vibrating strings make up everything, the physicists, say, when it comes to different universes and distant higher dimensions. Please don’t ask me to explain this string theory graphic. However, one physicist from England’s Oxford University has just released a paper explaining a new kind of string…

Link here to TEN new broadcasts on great old blues

Link here to TEN new broadcasts on great old blues

“Interesting! I learned some new things from your blog. Thanks!”  Allen Weber (@HtShkBnd) Hot Shock Band. 23 July 2014. Why not take a listen to the ‘How Blues Evolved’ radio show?   Every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday on Iowa’s Code Zero Radio 3pm USA CDT, 9pm UK, 10pm Europe Our ‘How Blues Evolved’ tri-weekly radio series continues,…