Month: February 2013
Life’s Soundtrack: A Good Sceond Run with some Great Blues from Kevin Selfe!
Current Reads – Is Five Too Many??
“Into the Night” with the Slide Guitar of Dave Hole!
“Into the Night” as Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers
Ok so before yesterday I did not know much about the tradition of sacred steel in gospel music. A tradition where lap steel guitar replaces the organ. From Wikipedia: Sacred steel is a musical style and African-American gospel tradition that developed in a group of related Pentecostal churches in the…
Book 8 of 2013 – Trust Your Eyes – Linwood Barclay
Musical Roots – Mike Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981)
So yesterday February 15th back in 1981, the music world lost one of its greatest guitarist to heroin addiction, when Michael Bloomfield died. While Bloomfield started with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. I didn’t discover his music until The Electric Flag album “A Long Time Comin’ The album quickly became…
“Into the Morning” with Blues from The Suitcase Brothers!
So finishing second at the International Blues Challenge in the Solo/Duo Category were brothers Pere and Victor Puertas who together form The Suitcase Brothers. They represented the Barcelona Blues Society and boy can they play the blues. I listened tonight to their first album Living with the Blues and I…