Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues
I’ve already gushed about how amazing Buddy Guy was, and what my discovery of his music meant to me. There was the first time I saw Buddy Guy, playing a […]
I’ve already gushed about how amazing Buddy Guy was, and what my discovery of his music meant to me. There was the first time I saw Buddy Guy, playing a […]
Okay, I bought this at a yard sale over on Prospect Street a couple of years back, 100% for the FABULOUS cover photo. It’s a beauty. But am I actually […]
This is another record that will be forever associated with my bleakest summer, the summer of ’81. Not quite 21, I was drunk and adrift. I had skipped the previous […]
I first became aware of Elmore James through Eric Burdon, of the Animals. On an odd import soundtrack album by the Eric Burdon Band from 1982, he sings a song […]
I’ll admit that despite having a bit of love for rockabilly, I barely had a sense of Wanda Jackson until relatively recently, probably when she was produced by Jack White […]
Until I bought this record about three years ago – a brand new reissue of his second album, with a gorgeous new cover but no hint of the iconic “rocking […]
As I’ve already said, JLH released and re-released a lot of the same or similar songs – different title, different version, different session. So if you scoop up two different records […]
This is a beautiful Spanish 180 gram reissue of a 1959 Vee Jay release. The tracks are from 1955-59, and, as with the other John Lee Hooker discs, they sound […]
There are very few artists who mean more to me than John Lee Hooker. Ever since I really started to dig down deep, after seeing him perform in Saratoga in […]
Wow, I came close to completely missing this because the box sets are off on another section of the shelves. (In fact, I’ve got to double back and talk about […]