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Paul Merry Blues and Rock.
Paul Merry Blues and Rock.
Unveiling the mystery of blues and rock history.
  • Coming soon. New Carlos Wilde tracks.

    Coming soon. New Carlos Wilde tracks.

    ByPaul Merry August 4, 2017

    Every now and again, bands or individuals come along who, you feel, have that special something. The Nashville-based blues-rock band, The Bloody Nerve, is one such act, seemingly on the cusp of a deserved breakthrough, but more about them in later posts. Another super-talented blues-rock artist I’ve been keeping an eye on hails from that…

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  • First slide guitar blues. Who, when & where?

    First slide guitar blues. Who, when & where?

    ByPaul Merry June 30, 2017

    Nobody knows for sure when slide-guitar playing first slid silkily onto the world’s music scene. The 26-year-old Kentucky blues guitarist, Sylvester Weaver, was first to record slide-guitar blues, as we know it today, using a knife, in New York City, in November 1923. Louisville blues diva Sarah Martin, 38, had chosen her Louisville compatriot to…

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  • Iconic rock book, but no rock prophesy.

    Iconic rock book, but no rock prophesy.

    ByPaul Merry June 21, 2017

    I’ve just re-read one of the seminal books on the evolution of rock & roll, 47 years after I first obtained it, so if that doesn’t date me, nothing will. Perhaps I was given it by the author. I simply can’t remember. When I say ‘evolution’, I mean the history of rock music from the…

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  • Earliest Electric Guitar Blues.

    Earliest Electric Guitar Blues.

    ByPaul Merry May 2, 2017

    There’s a bit of a misconception about the first electric guitar blues put on vinyl, with ‘Hittin’ the Bottle’ often being put forward as the earliest. This 1935 track featured the Texan multi-instrumentalist, Eddie Durham, playing his blues-nuanced guitar through a home-made guitar amp for saxophonist and swing bandleader, Jimmy Lunceford. Well, such sources are…

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  • When did rock & roll get hip again?

    When did rock & roll get hip again?

    ByPaul Merry April 20, 2017

    UPDATED November 23 2017 The difference between rock ‘n’ roll and rock & roll (or rock and roll)? For a long time now, it’s been fashionable to describe great rock music as rock & roll. But have you ever wondered when this second era of rock & roll began? And have you noticed the general…

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