Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?
Updated July 28 2019.
Updated July 28 2019.
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…
We dont need know educaishon STOP PRESS 25 July 2014. Weird Al Yankovic’s “Mandatory Fun” is the first comedy album to top Billboard’s album chart since 1963. Here was I, thinking correct written English was passé, when up pops America’s music parody ace, Weird Al Yankovic, with his latest pastiche, ‘Word Crimes’. The track’s a…
Dave “I invented the big beat” Bartholomew 1918-2019. Born Davis Bartholomew in Louisiana in 1918, Dave helped write and record some of early rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring hits, including ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ for Lloyd Price in 1952, ‘Ain’t That a Shame’ in 1955 and ‘Blueberry Hill’ in 1956 for Fats Domino, and ‘I Hear…
UPDATED 27 July 2017. “Great piece on Alexis Korner. I personally didn’t know he was born in France. You learn something every day!” Paul Corry @thebluesfreak, London, England. 5 February 2014. BLUESMUSE 30 As a young lad, probably too young to drink, if the truth be known, I used to luxuriate in the bath listening to the chocolate-brown tones of Alexis…
London’s Garrick Theatre UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2016. Anyone familiar with London’s West End theatre district will know the Garrick Theatre in Charing Cross Road. Yet who would know there’s a connection between David Garrick, the famous eighteenth century actor whom the theatre’s named after, and the blues? I’d venture that only rabid blues scholars or those…
Updated 13 March 2019 BluesMuse15 As America wound down after World War Two, white Chicago blues pioneer, Lester Melrose, still hadn’t finished tinkering with the development of the blues (see BluesMuse8). Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup He didn’t know it then, but Lester was busy helping create rock & roll. Albert Ammons, also from Chicago, had…