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While I’ve done a pretty good job of ignoring things here and getting other things done, a couple of things have come up to nudge me into making some decisions. For one, it’s been a year since this thing started (really?!), so that meant a decision on whether to renew domain names. For another, a [...]

I didn’t see this until after Obama clinched the nomination, which is interesting, considering it was put together to help him in the Puerto Rico primary (in which he got creamed). It’s obviously a take-off on the “Yes I Can” video done earlier by Will.I.Am (seen here).

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Elias McDaniel, aka Bo Diddley, died today at age 79. Rock wouldn’t be rock without him.
Guitarist George Thorogood, a Diddley disciple, put it more bluntly.
“[Chuck Berry's] ‘Maybellene’ is a country song sped up,” Thorogood told Rolling Stone in 2005. ” ‘Johnny B. Goode’ is [...]

I wonder if Hicks is still making time to sit in and jam like this with the big boys? In any case, the youtubular versions were enough to make me look out for this: set for a June 24 release, the 2006 Warren Haynes Xmas Jam DVD.

A lot of the music I like gets its power from innovation and an off-beat groove. A lot of speech we hear, especially in this political season, does what it does by playing fast and lose with ordinary logic and meaning.
So hearing this, by surprise, today, I was hit by the power of familiarity and [...]

Atlanta based blues singer and guitarist, Sean Costello, died yesterday, one day shy of his 29th birthday. This is not right.

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Access Atlanta article: Costello found dead

If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. - Timothy Leary

The news that Castro is stepping down has me thinking about Cuban music. Old movies of old Havana watched years ago, a very little exposure in the meantime, the discovery of an amazing ex-pat bassist working a mundane day job locally, imagined and wished for rhythms and fusions: all these kicked in a craving [...]

A year ago today, Taylor Hicks began his first national tour. And while, the tour technically started in Jacksonville on the 21st, for me, it really started in Coral Springs a day or two later. I wasn’t there for any of the early concerts, but based on the audio around at the time, here’s where [...]

I’m glad I heard Joe Bonamassa’s music before I heard he’d been a child prodigy. He’s 30 now, no kid, but his bio says he started playing at 4 and was opening for BB King by the time he was 12. That stuff is always interesting, but often a childhood blaze doesn’t translate into adult [...]