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“This is the first time I really had more control,” Guy says. “Everything in here is new. Most of the other albums have been a few new songs and then back to the older stuff or the covers-which is fine, but you gotta be creative. I would talk to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and [...]

A second instance of “I heard it on the radio”:
I had to break away from the God I was supposed to believe in to find the God I could believe in.
This time, a flip to NPR hit me with this. The lyric begins “I know a woman” but does not go at all where [...]

Slam sampler (link expires 7/3/08): download
And for listening only, Knowles exquisite take on Hendrix’ Redhouse

This is tale of some great music and some clever marketing:

Posting last week on the absolutely fine blues/rock band, Back Door Slam, got me digging through video and generally looking at what’s on-line for these guys. I was really trying to [...]

One Saturday, back in April, I was tooling around getting errands done and heard the last syllables of an interview with some British musicians. Immediate segue into this (only live on radio):

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

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 the childhood blaze doesn’t translate into adult [...]

Help me out. I have need of a mix tape (quaint terminology, isn’t it?) of all instrumental music - no vocals. I’ve got such things in a variety of genres: folk, classical, celtic, “world”, etc, but am wanting one that is rock/blues/funk. I’ve got a start: Maggot Brain (minus the first 30 seconds), Lenny(SRV), Born [...]

For a biz-free weekend: some music, without the packaging.

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(Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks: Old Friend)

You will like the Tommy Castro Band if you like blues guitar and soul. If you like ‘brass with ass.’ If you like that old time rock n’ roll. If you like BB King. If you like Bob Seger. And, as I sit listening to Tommy Castro’s album Painkiller, I realize that most who liked [...]

A couple of days ago we told you about Josh Smith’s upcoming aftershow gig. Well, it came and went Saturday night. “Galaxieman” caught the show and gave us permission to post his recap and pictures. Here’s his thoughts:

I thought I would give you a small recap of Taylor’s stop in South Florida on August 25th. [...]