Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?
Updated July 28 2019.
Updated July 28 2019.
I’m pleased to report blues and blues-rock is being reasonably well-represented at this year’s “sold How Glastonbury looks from the air. Over 100,000 will attend out” Glastonbury music festival, kicking off tomorrow (Wednesday June 25). Before the festival started in 1970, you might be interested to know Glastonbury’s main claim to fame was the visit…
Updated 18 September 2016 It’s good to hear that Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, has returned to the blues influences he absorbed during his London youth, with his latest album, “Tell ‘Em I’ve Gone”. The son of a Greek restaurateur and Swedish mother, Cat, or as he’s now billed, Cat Stevens/Yusuf, grew up near…
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….
The Move in 1968: L to R: Bev Bevan, Carl Wayne, Roy Wood. Front: Trevor Burton The Move, one of the great English rock bands of the 1960s, spawned Jeff Lynn of the Travelling Wilburys and ELO (Electric Light Orchestra); and Roy Wood co-founder of ELO and Wizzard, just to name two of their illustrious members who went…
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…
UPDATED 19 JULY 2017 Once described as a Mediterranean port transplanted into the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans has always been, and felt, different to the rest of America’s South. As far back as the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when Louisiana was under French and Spanish rule, slaves were allowed to congregate freely in Congo Square, in New Orleans’…