Onetime slide guitar prodigy leaves wonder years behind [Derek Trucks]

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Well I never miss an opportunity to talk about Derek Trucks. Even though I didn't get a chance to see him in Richmond last weekend. I have a friend that went who said it was incredible however, considering who he saw how could it not be? I guess I'll have to settle for posting an article about him, in which he says his kids like Otis Redding and that he will never buy his daughter a Britney Spear album; he is a good man.


Baltimore Sun
A mix of gospel, blues and soul, it's comfort music, full of - but not dominated by - down-home grooves and delicious guitar licks, courtesy of Trucks. ...


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Lightnin' Hopkins "Goin Down Slow"

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM

I've been listing to this guy today; that is all.

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Jews with the Blues: A Cultural Look

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM

Okay here is something a little out of the ordinary, an article on Jewish blues musicians and how blues music has spoken culturally to the Jewish people. Well you know the Jewish people have had a lot of suffering and Mike Bloomfield sums it up pretty well....

"It's a natural. Black people suffer externally in this country. Jewish people suffer internally. The suffering's the mutual fulcrum for the blues." – Michael Bloomfield, Jewish Blues Guitarist

Now that I think about it, I have a distant Jewish ancestry. My ancestors fled Spain during the Spanish Inquisition; they couldn't take the heat. No really many were burned it the stake. It was rough but more importantly might this be the root of my Blues obsession? Could be?

Now I feel like watching a Mel Brooks film......He road a blazing saddle.....


Koach College Outreach
Koach College Outreach
Blues music stems from late 19 th century spirituals, gospels and work songs that were sung by African-American field workers and slaves in the United ...

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Sesame Street [B. B. King: The Letter B]

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM

I try to do what I can to find the coolest videos I possibly can but sometimes I find a video that is beyond that. Imagine a video that stands on it's own as the embodiment of greatness; I bring you one such video.



Truth be told one of me secret dreams in life is to be a muppeteer.
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Blues Kept Seasick Steve Out of Prison [300th post]

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM

One quick word; this is my 300th post.

But anyways so before I posted this awesome video of Seasick Steve playing on a one string Diddley Bo which can be seen here. I guess I got so busy lately I forgot my pledge to build one myself but that is beside the point, this post is about Seasick Steve. It turns out their is a pretty bluesy story behind Steve.

"It was a real close thing whether I played music or went to jail. My step father used to beat on me. I got tired of it and thought - I could kill this dude" says Steve recounting how he almost killed his stepfather. However, it never came to that, "But I thought... why should I do prison time? I left home at 13 and lived rough working on farms."

You can read about all that and more, just hit the link below.

California Chronicle, CA
By BILLY SLOAN Steve told me how he was almost driven to shoot his step-dad but chose to get out of the house to pursue his music instead. He said: "It was a real close thing whether I played music or went to jail. My step father used to beat on me.
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Fuck you Stratoblues! [ACME Blues Company]

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 10, 2009 at 11:26 PM

Okay so most of you have no idea who the ACME Blues company is so take notice. First off they're a great local DC blues band that I got to see last November. Second some asshole at Stratoblues has posted a rapid share of one of their albums so people can download it for free. Turns out all this asshole does is post albums for people to download.

This bastard is messing with peoples livelihood; blues musicians who play out of a love for the music and he has screw with one of the few ways that groups can spread their music and make money. Fucking asshole. I don't know what they do in Argentina where this guy lives but in America where the music comes from we try and respect the musicians and pay for their services.

I know I'm fighting a losing battle. I've the only person my age I know that still buys music but I thought that maybe a blues fan would understand how important it is to support artists, I guess I was wrong.
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BB King and Miles Davis

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM

It's no secret the BB King is a self professed Jazz fan. He donated his own personal record collection of over 7000 records to the University of Mississippi’s Centre for the Study of Southern Culture. This is a man with a great reverence for Jazz and while I knew this (as he has said it at his concerts) I had not really seen it, till now.

Here is footage from a 1973 concert where BB shares the stage for the father of "cool" himself, Miles Davis.

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My Buckwheat Zydeco video

Posted by Dan | | Posted On Aug 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM

Hug, so it has been a pain trying to get my videos up on youtube what with it how long it takes and having to edit out the parts where security tells me to put the camera away. But I persevered and here is my first video. I soon have more up and a dedicated youtube channel.

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