David Bowie died as he lived – with great style. Secretly cremated, with no fanfare, fuss, funeral service or even family present, Bowie’s parting gift to the world was the suitably named album, ‘Blackstar’, the name of a hidden planet, cancer lesion, and a song about death by his hero, Elvis, amongst other things. Released on…

Dive straight into the new 12-minute film below. Hit on Freddie King. Four Kings Albert King, B. B. King, Freddie King and who else? Hear some fantastic electric blues guitar and meet the fourth and original King of the blues guitar. They’re all on a podcast I did a year or two ago for Code Zero Radio in the U.S….

This Inner Sleeve album-sleeve, written around 1972, recently turned up. UPDATED January 27 2017  Bob Marley & Johnny Nash: memories from 44 years ago Some time ago, a lady in England tweeted me and asked if I was the author of The Inner Sleeve, a printed record sleeve that promoted CBS and Epic bands and artists. The Inner Sleeve was the…

Updated 22 June 2016 AMERICA’S Gift has 43 chapters, an Epilogue and 20 pages of Index. See what you’re ordering.   Before you order America’s Gift, you’re bound to want to know exactly what’s inside the 390 pages that make up the book. You can even preview the first few America’s Gift chapters, and check out the book’s index, on…

  Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield’s part in the blooming of Bob Dylan and how Bob went electric way before 1965. To folk music fans of yesteryear, this is going to sound like sacrilege; so please excuse me. But I loved it when Bob Dylan went electric. It brought him out of that touchy-feely folky scene and into the…