The three Kings part two
“The Velvet Bulldozer” Albert King.Albert King was probably the first of the “Three Kings” I got into, it was after hearing his classic signature track “Born Under A Bad Sign”.It was then a matter of...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1947, Keith Moon is born in Wembley, England … though he is often remembered for his hard boozing, drum-kit smashing, and general hooliganism, Moon was...
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I’ll name that porn track
in one.Well the latest addition to the Toxic pedal board, though there isn’t an actual board involved yet, just lends itself to some porn style soundtrack music it is of course an auto-wah, more...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1920, bebop innovator and consummate alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker is born …1955, Elvis buys his mama a pink Cadillac …1956, Elvis begins...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1824, one of the world’s best-loved pieces of music, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, is performed for the first time …1911, Robert Johnson is born in...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1824, one of the world’s best-loved pieces of music, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, is performed for the first time …1891, romantic era rocker Pyotr Ilych...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1958, Eddie Cochran’s biggest hit, “Summertime Blues,” enters Billboard magazine’s Top 100, where it will peak at #18 and sell over a million copies … it...
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by the drop.Texas drummer and songwriter Doyle Bramhall died on Sunday aged 62. A fixture in the Austin music scene, he wrote or co-wrote a number of tracks for Stevie Ray Vaughan, including “The House...
View ArticleR.I.P. Riley “Blues Boy” B.B. King
the last King of the Blues.Sad, sad news this morning that B.B. King has passed away aged 89 the last of the three Kings of the Blues.It shouldn’t have come as such a great surprise after his recent...
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one of the last.Sad news that blues legend Otis Rush has passed away, aged 83, over the weekend.Posted some time back, hell looking it’s over a decade ago, that along with the Three Kings – Albert,...
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