The Album That Changed the World Below is a terrifically perceptive article just written by my old friend, blues guitarist and songwriter, John Phillpott, for World Music Central, your connection to traditional and contemporary world music. Link to the latest edition of World Music Central here: ARTICLES. Nearly 60 years ago, in the spring of…
Introducing Pete Carroll: hiding his brilliance under a bushel for 37 years. I heard an exquisite new blues track the other day. It’s ‘Going Down (Sell My Soul)’, written and performed by Pete Carroll, a talented composer, vocalist, guitarist and music producer. Based near Lanark, south of Glasgow, Pete deserves greater recognition, especially internationally, for his fabulous…
Meet Laurence Juber, formerly with Paul McCartney and Wings and the greatest rock supergroup of all time. I was humbled recently to receive a five-star review on Amazon Books, from double Grammy winner Laurence Juber, for my paperback, ‘America’s Gift: The Untold Story of how Blues Evolved’. What made it a double whammy is Laurence…
The song that inspired the British musicians who sparked the British invasion. In July, 1955, a London Dixieland/trad jazz guitarist, Lonnie Donegan, recorded a speeded-up version of a 1930s American folk track, ‘Rock Island Line’, made famous by blues icon Lead Belly. Donegan’s ‘Rock Island Line’ directly inspired a generation of British musicians, from the…
If you thought pop and rock’s most recorded session guitarist was the virtuoso who is Jimmy Page, think again. Certainly, Jimmy played guitar on an amazing amount of hits and in great sessions for top bands like the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, Brian Poole and the…
