Just started a blog to share thoughts on anything blues and soul. Blogging from Oz so I might be able to open up some new experiences for others. Haven't really found much on just sharing quick thoughts, ponderings or even long-winded philosophies about the music we love so much. There are a small amount of people around me I can share these thoughts with so I thought I'd try to branch out a little. Drop in and say g'day and share some thoughts of your own:
Hello ! Just a heads up that Montreal Jazz Festival has an amazing set of archives of videos of blues legends. Here is a clip from a show of John Lee Hooker and The Coast to Coast Blues Band.
"...and what makes it so good is that everybody is original, everybody has their own taste of the blues. Their own feeling of the blues. Their own form of the blues. Told in that way, that's what makes it historical - it will never die."
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Watch This Space!
The Cure for The Purist.
WATCH iT!
Bad Luck & Trouble as Travelogue Webcast! W/ yr hosts Jeff Konkel & Roger Stolle, and an array of Who's Who in hard blues!
Truth.
"...authenticity without evolution isn't authenticity, but mimicry. And not terribly authentic or interesting at all." -Ted Drozdowski
Via Folio Weekly Magazine
My 15 Minutes..14...13...
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
"My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song." -Junior Kimbrough
Got this yet? You need two.
Broke & Hungry Records 5 year Retrospective! Must Own.
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hey there mate,
Just started a blog to share thoughts on anything blues and soul. Blogging from Oz so I might be able to open up some new experiences for others. Haven't really found much on just sharing quick thoughts, ponderings or even long-winded philosophies about the music we love so much. There are a small amount of people around me I can share these thoughts with so I thought I'd try to branch out a little. Drop in and say g'day and share some thoughts of your own:
http://banjosoul.blogspot.com/
Thnks for the wonderful birthday posts! It's been a very happy birthday for me! God bless you! Rev KM
If you like Reverend KM Williams, you might be interested in Montreal Jazz Fest's special feature on blues music! Check it out:
http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/artists/features/feature-blues.aspx
Hello ! Just a heads up that Montreal Jazz Festival has an amazing set of archives of videos of blues legends. Here is a clip from a show of John Lee Hooker and The Coast to Coast Blues Band.
Keep on the good blogging!
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