UPDATED: JULY 11th 2018 Is this a world exclusive? Well, I’d never seen it mentioned when I first wrote this five years ago. And I haven’t seen it mentioned since. BluesMuse46. Nearly 103 years ago, a song was recorded that many blues and jazz traditionalists rate as their genres’ greatest of all time. It was Christmas…
Keith and Mick back in the day Today is not just any old birthday for the esteemed Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, it’s a massive one: a mind-blowing 70, would you believe. Not only that, 18th December is also the day slavery was abolished in the United States, which was 148 years ago in 1865;…
“Hey, Paul, That is the best write up yet!” The Bloody Nerve (@thebloodynerve), Nashville, USA, 15 December 2013. Updated 16 December 2016. Last month (6 November actually) I wrote a post about the scarcity of mixed rock duos these days. Apart from Sweden’s Roxette, I couldn’t think of any other male/female duo to hit the international big-time…
BLUESMUSE45. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, etc. etc. The countdown is on for one of the most important centenaries in the history of the blues. As soon as the year ticks over to 2014, we start celebrating the 100th anniversary of the world’s first blues recording. When I say we, I mean probably just me…
“Always fun reading, Paul. Thanks.” Jason Vivone (@JVivone), leader of the Billy Bats, Kansas City, December 3, 2013. Charlie Patton: taught by Henry Sloan BLUESMUSE44. We ended last week’s post around 1910 on the streets of Dallas, Texas. It was five years before Huddie Ledbetter, also known as Lead Belly, began the first of his…
