Jorma Kaukonen – Too Many Years
I’ve already written about how late I was to the Jorma Kaukonen party, despite having been a huge fan of Jefferson Airplane for decades. I only ventured into Hot Tuna […]
I’ve already written about how late I was to the Jorma Kaukonen party, despite having been a huge fan of Jefferson Airplane for decades. I only ventured into Hot Tuna […]
Can you even imagine what San Francisco was like as a creative environment in the early ’60s? The Beat Generation leading into the hippies and the Summer of Love? The […]
I’ve already written about how my first impressions of Elmore James actually came through a song by Eric Burdon from his solo career, in which he bemoans the loss of […]
I said last time that I’m more of a fan of John Lee Hooker solo than with other players. And I’ve said before that I’m not really a fan of […]
Do you have a record dealer who will literally chase you down the street with something he thinks you need to see? I do, and I’m not complaining. I was […]
The last few years have been just remarkable for a number of seriously mature (as they used to say, superannuated) artists who have been getting the respect and opportunities they […]
When “Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues” came out on CD in 1991, Buddy Guy’s first album in nine years, it kinda took the (blues) world by storm, saying Buddy […]
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 don’t do Spotify, or stream at all. One year a decade ago I used Pandora. I don’t tend to jump on to whatever’s popular, and I don’t necessarily need […]
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 […]