John Mayall News and Photos

Henry Lowther Band

Sat, June 15 2013 11:29pm - Source: Music-News.com

Something that completely left me behind when I first heard it in 1970 I now see the error of my ways � this is a remarkable piece of work; just not Prog as I understood it.

The Byrds go country, Katy Perry ditches Christian music and more

Tue, May 21 2013 6:21pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Prior to the Academy of Country Music Awards show in 2007, Hootie and the Blowfish front man Darius Rucker shared a little secret about himself.

Pegi Young: The TVD Interview

Thu, March 21 2013 6:30pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Could you dismiss Pegi Young as having a charmed musical life?

Dust: Marky Ramone Looks Back at His Heavy Metal Years in Brooklyn With New Reissue (INTERVIEW)

Mon, March 18 2013 8:31pm - Source: Noisecreep

Richie Wise, Kenny Aaronson and Marky Ramone ; three names very synonymous when it comes to the landscape of popular music in the past forty years.

One Track Mind: Boz Scaggs on David Paich, Duane Allman and, yeah, Silk Degrees

Thu, March 14 2013 12:08pm - Source: Something Else!

We took a break from our non-stop heavy rotation of Boz Scaggs' new Top 20 album Memphis to dig further back into his stirring catalog of sophisticated soul, sizzling R&B and gritty blues.

Fleetwood Mac: Searching For Gems Beyond The Hits

Wed, February 13 2013 9:48pm - Source: The Quietus

Danny Kirwan's lead guitar propels 'Trinity', perhaps the greatest Fleetwood Mac track consigned to an outtake, with a reckless intensity, playing like a wayward troubadour testing the limits of a new found toy.

Margie Goldsmith: Bluesmaster John Mayall Rocks NYC

Tue, February 12 2013 10:08pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Bluesmaster John Mayall jauntily prances onto the stage of NYC's B.B. King Blues Club needing no introduction.

Fleetwood Mac: Seaching For Gems Beyond The Hits

Tue, February 12 2013 12:14pm - Source: The Quietus

Fleetwood Mac have brought in 2013 with the reissue of their super-mega hit 1977 album Rumours last month and the announcement that they'll be bringing their world tour to the UK and Ireland later in the year.

Focal Point “First Bite of the Apple”

Mon, February 11 2013 4:26pm - Source: THE RISING STORM

They say it's not what you know but who you know, but sometimes even rubbing shoulders with the absolute royalty of rock can't guarantee you success.

Graded on a Curve: Taj Mahal, Taj Mahal

Thu, February 07 2013 1:42pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Taj Mahal's been at it for longer than some of us (myself included) have been alive, and he doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

New Music Monday: Yo La Tengo, Boz Scaggs, Dylan Ryan Sand, Iron Maiden, Sean Lennon, Erin McKeown

Mon, January 14 2013 1:41pm - Source: Something Else!

2013 is starting to heat up, with hip new stuff from Yo La Tengo and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, along with jazz from Dylan Ryan's Sand. Then again, there's some older stuff worth revisiting, too.

Joan Osborne – Bring It On Home (2012)

Wed, January 09 2013 12:56pm - Source: Something Else!

If you last heard one-hit-wonder Joan Osborne doing "One of Us" in the 1990s, a turn to the blues likely comes as a shock.

Graded on a Curve: What’s Shakin’

Sat, January 05 2013 5:19pm - Source: The Vinyl District

A compilation featuring unreleased tracks from The Lovin' Spoonful, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tom Rush, Al Kooper, and a studio supergroup called Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse?

Binky Philips: More of My Damn Opinions About Guitarists and Guitars

Fri, December 07 2012 6:43pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Much more importantly, it was gratifying to see how many of you care about guitars and those who play them -- although I did get one sarcastic message: "I had no idea guitars are so important"...

Desert Island Discs: Blues and Blues Rock Edition

Tue, October 16 2012 11:22am - Source: Something Else!

It probably goes without saying that, once you found yourself stranded on a distant island, there would be blues.

Before They Were Legends

Mon, October 15 2012 5:43pm - Source: The Hits Just Keep On Comin'

Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom 1965-1970 by Christopher Hjort.

Something Else! Interview: Jeremy Spencer, founding member of Fleetwood Mac

Thu, October 04 2012 1:39pm - Source: Something Else!

Jeremy Spencer, once known as the shaggy-haired slide guitarist in the original lineup of Fleetwood Mac, has returned with a new album that boldly expands his musical reach.

‘I wasn’t looking to duplicate Steve’s voice’: How the Spencer Davis Group carried on without Winwood

Wed, October 03 2012 1:24pm - Source: Something Else!

The Spencer Davis Group was, and remains, more than Steve Winwood – having continued recording and touring into the new millennium under the auspices of its Welsh-born multi-instrumentalist namesake.

Random Universe: A Groovy Date

Thu, September 20 2012 5:38pm - Source: The Hits Just Keep On Comin'

We haven't done a Random Universe post for a while, in which I fire up the laptop music stash (now over 21,000 songs) and write about the first 10 that shuffle out.

Robert Plant: How I got my 'big voice' out again

Wed, August 22 2012 6:35am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

"The whole reason for coming to America right now was that I've been asked a zillion times to play at this festival, and I wanted it to be Africa returning to Africa," he tells me, acknowledging the extraordinary flavours of Space Shifter Juldeh Camara.

Desert Island Discs: Live Album Edition

Tue, July 31 2012 11:25am - Source: Something Else!

Only perhaps on this site could we query folks for Desert Island Live Discs, and find a six-way tie among the responses between the Who, Bill Evans, Little Feat, Kiss, Warren Zevon and the Talking Heads.

Exclusive: Jimi Hendrix's experience - the records that inspired a genius

Sat, July 14 2012 11:26pm - Source: The Independent - Music

The musician, who would have turned 70 this year had he not choked to death on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol when he was just 27, was a voracious collector of vinyl, buying anything and everything that might expand his musical horizons.

Mike Ragogna: Making A Squackett: Conversations with Chris Squire & Steve Hackett, Plus Documentarian John Edginton on Wish You Were Here

Fri, June 29 2012 4:19am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Can you go into the origins of how Squackett came together?

Saturday Night Live at Bodega Bay Grange

Sat, June 23 2012 7:51pm - Source: MOG

He still likes to play his blues straight and to the point and has acquired the status of a respected veteran of the blues.

Fleetwood Mac's Bob Welch commits suicide

Fri, June 08 2012 10:01am - Source: The Independent - Music

Police spokesman Don Aaron said Welch's wife Wendy found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest at their south Nashville home yesterday.

John Mayall “Looking Back”

Fri, April 27 2012 5:50pm - Source: THE RISING STORM

Despite the incredible amount of critical acclaim afforded to John Mayall's mid-sixties recordings with the Bluesbreakers, the mainstream seems to have left him behind by the time 1969 rolled around.

McGough and McGear

Wed, April 18 2012 5:02am - Source: Under The Radar Magazine

Roger McGough and Mike McGear were both members of the music, poetry, and comedy troupe The Scaffold, which had a short string of hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

At The Age Of 59, By Bill Drummond

Tue, April 17 2012 11:07am - Source: The Quietus

A couple of months ago I was asked if I would be interested in curating / presenting a day at the radio station Resonance FM in May this year.

Something Else! Interview: Eric Clapton biographer Chris Welch

Tue, April 03 2012 9:28pm - Source: Something Else!

Even in his formative stages Eric Clapton was earning a rapturous, rabid following and inspiring generations of guitarists to come.

Joan Osborne: Bring it on Home

Mon, April 02 2012 12:36am - Source: Hyperbolium

Joan Osborne's 1995 smash, "One of Us," may be the best thing that ever happened to her commercial fortunes, but her inability to follow-up its chart-topping success is more likely the best thing that ever happened to her artistry.

Mike Ragogna: Bring It On Home: A Conversation With Joan Osborne

Mon, March 19 2012 4:17am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Joan, your new album, Bring It On Home , is all blues and soul classics.

Gimme Five: Recommended Fleetwood Mac, but not from Rumours

Thu, January 26 2012 1:48pm - Source: Something Else!

News that Fleetwood Mac could stage a reunion album and tour this year — after Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham complete their current solo commitments, that is — had me scurrying back to the old records for a refresher.

One Track Mind: Greg Lake on “Lucky Man,” “Court of the Crimson King,” “Touch and Go,” others

Thu, January 05 2012 2:14pm - Source: Something Else!

On this special edition of Something Else!

Mike Ragogna: Chats With George Benson, John McLaughlin, Fred Schneider of The B-52's, and L.A. Guns' Tracii Guns, Plus Lisa Hannigan's New Video

Fri, October 21 2011 4:27am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

George, on your new album Guitar Man , you play the classics.

Eric Clapton – Me and Mr. Johnson (2004)

Thu, September 08 2011 1:00pm - Source: Something Else!

I've never liked British blues all that much.

Chris Barber

Mon, May 09 2011 1:30pm - Source: Boot Sale Sounds

A 10 inch LP on the Pye Nixa label from 1956 I bought at a boot sale this weekend for 50p.

Here’s Something Else!: Recommended Fleetwood Mac, But Not From ‘Rumours’

Tue, March 08 2011 4:27pm - Source: Pop Dose

All hail Fleetwood Mac 's Rumours , this 1977 paean to Love, American-style — or California-style, anyway.

Introducing... RJ Thompson

Tue, January 04 2011 11:54am - Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

I would love to take this opportunity to introduce you to a fantastic new band from Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a poetic and soulful sound.

Win A Copy Of Jimi Henedrix:The Guitar Hero

Fri, December 17 2010 3:53pm - Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

In many ways he wrote the book on the electric guitar, leaving behind an encyclopedia of sounds, riffs and styles that guitarists have been mimicking ever since.

Fundraiser Set to Save London's Iconic 100 Club

Tue, November 09 2010 6:37am - Source: MOG

London's iconic venue The 100 Club is facing imminent closure if a cure for its financial woes cannot be found.

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