The biggest news in the music industry this week is the launch of YouTube Music. The streaming service initially will be available in the U.S., Mexico...
Category - Blues
Folks who like wailing electric blues guitar will love Walter Trout. He really brings it, as they say. The Wikipedia profile says that Trout, who was born in...
One of the most influential blues players of the last century was Sam Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’. The first paragraph of his profile at AllMusic...
One of the most influential blues players of the last century was Sam Hopkins, better known as Lightnin’. The first paragraph of his profile at AllMusic...
Perhaps nothing is as soothing and peaceful as cool saxophone music, and Gene Ammons was a master. Ammons, known as “The Boss” decades before...
HT: SK It can be argued whether the city of New Orleans did the rest of the country, and the world, its greatest favors by creating a relaxed and open...
The Daily Music Break spends a lot of its time discussing musicians who are old and treading on past reputations, retired or no longer among the living. There...
Slowly and inevitably, the rock and roll pioneers are passing away. Chuck Berry died in March and Fats Domino earlier this week. It’s inevitable, natural...
I was putting together his top ten list of Van Morrison songs during the week that Fats Domino passed away. The irony is that the song “Domino” is...
The early rock and rollers faced a bit of a challenge as they aged. The genre inherently is that of young people — or at lest was at its inception. Those...
