Henry Lowther Band
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.
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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.
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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.
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Could you dismiss Pegi Young as having a charmed musical life?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bluesmaster John Mayall jauntily prances onto the stage of NYC's B.B. King Blues Club needing no introduction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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"...
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It probably goes without saying that, once you found yourself stranded on a distant island, there would be blues.
Read MoreEric Clapton and the British Blues Boom 1965-1970 by Christopher Hjort.
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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.
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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.
Read MoreWe 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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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Can you go into the origins of how Squackett came together?
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He still likes to play his blues straight and to the point and has acquired the status of a respected veteran of the blues.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Even in his formative stages Eric Clapton was earning a rapturous, rabid following and inspiring generations of guitarists to come.
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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.
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Joan, your new album, Bring It On Home , is all blues and soul classics.
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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.
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On this special edition of Something Else!
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George, on your new album Guitar Man , you play the classics.
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A 10 inch LP on the Pye Nixa label from 1956 I bought at a boot sale this weekend for 50p.
Read MoreAll hail Fleetwood Mac 's Rumours , this 1977 paean to Love, American-style — or California-style, anyway.
Read MoreI would love to take this opportunity to introduce you to a fantastic new band from Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a poetic and soulful sound.
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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.
Read MoreLondon's iconic venue The 100 Club is facing imminent closure if a cure for its financial woes cannot be found.
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