Friday night blues blogging
This is Lucky Peterson with Noel Johnston on second guitar performing at a jazz festival in Vienna in 2009. The song is Dead Cat on the Line. This one goes…
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Friday night blues blogging
I wanted to note the passing of Pete Seeger earlier this week, but I thought it called for more than just taking a few minutes in the midst of a…
QOTD: On CSEC
Ron Deibert, the cyber-security expert quoted in the CBC story I posted about last night, has an op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail. It’s all worth a read but he…
A trial run
CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada’s electronic…
Friday night blues blogging
It’s Friday evening and Those Delta Rhythm Kings are here to ask the musical question: Let’s Do It Like Monkies. This is Harriet Nelson fronting a German outfit called the…
Friday night blues blogging
Allow me to present Robert Cray performing Love Struck Baby at a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vince Gill brings Keb’ Mo’ to the Grand Ole Opry. The song is…
There’ll be no help from Mary Dawson
Ethics Commissioner Distances Herself From Strahl Complaints Mary Dawson, the Federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner released a statement today distancing herself from recent complaints filed as a result…
Friday night: RIP Phil Everly
Phil Everly, the younger of the two Everly Brothers, who were among the first 10 artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away last…
Friday night blues blogging
Is it Friday again already? This is Slave by Frog & the Beeftones. To slow things down, this is Gary Moore with Still Got the Blues. And to pick things…
Friday night blues blogging
I missed last Friday night for health reasons. I wanted to play catch up on the next couple of evenings but repeated blackouts in this neck of this woods made…
Friday night blues blogging
The members of the Guy Forsyth Band look like they’d already been working hard when they got to this one. It doesn’t slow them down any. The tune is Red…
I think we need a new watchdog
Alison at Creekside picked up on this interesting Globe and Mail piece in which the man charged with oversight on CSEC — Canada’s signals intelligence agency — explained his priorities.…
Friday night solo blues blogging
Rory Block is a country blues guitarist who mixes original material with a lot of covers of traditional blues musicians. Here she is with Robert Johnson’s If I Had Possession…
Friday night blues blogging
The sing was orginally written as Death Don’t Have No Mercy by the Reverend Gary Davis. This is Lucky Peterson. Cindy Cashdollar is joined by Sonny Landreth on an instrumental…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers live in a radio station studio performing an instrumental called Hobart’s Blues. I have no idea who Hobart is. Here’s another “live in…
Friday night blues blogging
It’s Friday night and here to start the party is Angela Strehli with Mean Mistreater. This performance is from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Ceremony. Gary…
Remembrance Day
In the news: Veterans plan silent protests of government policies
Friday night blues blogging
It may not come as much of a surprise to you that I have a few tunes to share. I’ll start with Rory Gallagher covering Blind Boy Fuller’s Rag, Mama,…