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Blues on a Thursday – Daddy Mack Blues Band

So it seems that the Memphis Blues scene may not be what it used to be. In reading about the Memphis Blues scene it seems that before Sun Records signed and recorded Elvis Presley in 1954, the Memphis Blues scene was hopping musicians like Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Nix, Ike Turner,…

Hey Cisco, Hey Pancho – Sidekicks in Crime Fiction

So my daughter’s Freshman seminar class at William and Mary this fall was Arthur Conan Doyle fiction. One of the books that they used in the course was titled Read On… Crime Fiction Reading Lists For Every Taste. The reading list that appears in the title of this post is…

The First Rule – Robert Crais

Book 28 of 2010 is the second book by Robert Crais that features Joe Pike as the lead character, The First Rule. Crais usual lead character is Pike’s partner and the self proclaimed “World’s Greatest Detective” Elvis Cole. There are eleven books in the Elvis Cole series in that series…

Blues Wednesday – Ron Hacker and Arsen Shomakhov

so there’s not a lot of time to write tonight before I conk out so I’ll make this brief and write more later. I have to go to Forked River tomorrow so they’ll be lots of time to listen to and fro’. Anyway there were two names on the Root…

Broken – Karin Slaughter

Book 27 fo 2010 is Broken by Karin Slaughter and is the seventh book in the Grant County series and since Will Trent and Faith Mitchell are in the book I guess it’s kinda the second book in the Georgia series. The Georgia Series combines Slaughter’s two series – the…

Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes – Selfe-Contained

Checking the Roots Music Report last night I made a short list of some names that looked interesting and gave them a quick listen the album that caught my attention and I ended up putting on the mp3 player was Selfe-Contained by Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes. Self-Contained is the…

Folk Monday – Ernest Troost

So you’re an Emmy winning and multi-nominated Emmy composer so what do you do to change things up? You return to your folk and blues roots and put out two well received albums All Boats Are Going to Rise and Resurrection Blues. Resurrection Blues is number five on the Folk…

Prince of Fire – Daniel Silva

So like I said I didn’t put down the Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva yesterday until I finished what is Book 26 of 2010. Obviously like all of Silva’s books this one was a real page turner for me! But I think that in this book more than any…

Daniel Silva – Prince of Fire

The only two good things about this past week were that the weather broke on Tuesday night and the oppressive heat from Monday and Tuesday was gone and I had a chance to read a little during our first break in the morning and at lunch. Oh and once when…

Month: July 2010

Blues on a Thursday – Daddy Mack Blues Band

Hey Cisco, Hey Pancho – Sidekicks in Crime Fiction

The First Rule – Robert Crais

Blues Wednesday – Ron Hacker and Arsen Shomakhov

Broken – Karin Slaughter

Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes – Selfe-Contained

Folk Monday – Ernest Troost

Prince of Fire – Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva – Prince of Fire

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