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 […]
As a teenager in the years when Fleetwood Mac absolutely ruled the airwaves, when “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” were absolutely inescapable, I was fully aware that there had been earlier […]
I was so excited by the little sampling of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation I heard on the Sire “History of the British Blues, Vol. 1” collection that at the same […]
One of the revelations of the great Sire collection “History of British Blues (Volume One)” was several tracks by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. I knew the name of one of […]
Any hope of ever catching up on this blog is disappearing in the mist. I got to the end of the M section and decided to double back and cover […]
The dangers of having a friend who owns a record store, particularly a record store that is in walking distance, and is in fact between my house and nearly everywhere […]
There’s very little of anything that could be considered country in my collection, either on vinyl or CD, and although I like an amount of Johnny Cash’s songs, there’s an […]
As I’ve said before, my weird relationship with The Byrds is: big fan, own almost none of their records. For decades, all I had was one 1967 greatest hits collection […]
This was actually the music that got me started with my relatively recent fascination with all things Al Kooper. While of course I knew his name and some of the […]
This was actually my first Paul Butterfield album, picked up just a year ago as part of my late-blooming Butterfield/Bloomfield/Kooper fascination. This 1969 release is more of the kind of […]