Ramblings about My Records
Way back when, The Blues Brothers declared that in the future blues records would only exist in the classical music section of your public library. It seems like they weren’t terribly wrong. The blues...
This 1974 release from John Mayall (without the band name) was my first foray into Mayall, after years of simply ignoring the band. While considered legendary, given their lack of hits I had truly...
So it happens that I’m touching on this one before I leave the ‘M’ section of my collection, but in fact this begins a long series of “catch-up” entries – the records that I’ve...
I do wish there were some consistency as to whether “Blues Breakers” is one word or two, but perhaps that’s a lot to ask of British musicians. On this album it’s two words, so...
For the longest time, I just paid no attention to John Mayall. My British blues was mostly filtered through The Animals and the like – that particularly British turn on R&B. For my blues,...
I didn’t go into this expecting to defend Manfred Mann. I really thought I was going to be in another Dave Clark Five situation, a band that I once really appreciated that now I...
Incredibly, I only had one Lightnin’ Hopkins album prior to this, a CD titled “The Legacy of the Blues vol. 12,” that I bought back around 1990 or so at the lamented Records ‘n’...
See my last entry on Larkin Poe’s “Self Made Man” for the story of my discovery of Larkin Poe. One of the delights of this pair of sisters is their obvious joy in just...
Listen, when a new artist comes out, everybody says that they’re the latest and greatest, that they’re the heirs to this and that, that they area doing something amazingly new, taking it back to...
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