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Friday night: RIP "Duck" Dunn
Bass player Donald “Duck” Dunn passed away last Sunday at the age of 70. The list of Top 40 hits he played on is a long one but it all…
Friday night
Are you ready to party on a Friday night? ‘Cos I’m going to begin the set with a song about dying. That said, it’s a rather more upbeat version than…
Friday night Crossroads blogging
Eric Clapton started the Crossroads Guitar Festival series both to showcase guitar players and to benefit a drug treatment center called the Crossroads Centre. All three of tonight’s clips are…
Friday night
Good evening. Have some blues. As Chris Smither mentions in his intro, Statesboro Blues was originally written and recorded by Blind Willie McTell. The opening bars of this tune put…
Friday night: RIP Levon Helm
Levon Helm, best known as the drummer for The Band, passed away yesterday from “complications of cancer.” He had already come back from throat cancer once to resume recording and…
Friday night
Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign Sitting there by the left turn line Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze One leg missing, both hands free No one’s paying…
Friday night
This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was…
Friday night
This evening I think we’ll do them in chronological order. This is The Fabulous Thunderbirds performing on Austin City Limits in 1986. Look At That, Look At That. Rebecca was…
Friday night
Good evening. Try to think of this as music to forget budgets by. Maybe it’ll work. This is John Campbell’s version of When the Levee Breaks. This is a long,…
Friday night
Delbert McClinton’s going to start things off with some help from Bekka Bramlett on She’s Livin’ It Up (And I’m Tryin’ To Live It Down). If you’re wondering… yes, Bekka…
Friday night
Tonight’s offering is a traditional blues blogging set. We begin by watching Roy Rogers get his audience dancing with an instrumental called Avalanche. This is Lurrie Bell (son of Carey…
Friday night Music Fog sampler
I was in the mood to sample some tunes I hadn’t heard before so I went wandering through the Music Fog collection on YouTube and picked out a few to…
Friday night
With a shout out to Moose at Classic Blues Videos, we begin with a little instrumental goodness from Gatemouth Brown. And go go dancers! (It was 1966. Everything called for…
Old fashioned Friday night blues blogging
Want Ad Blues, which is the real title, was written and recorded by John Lee Hooker. This is Rory Gallagher flying solo on what appears to be an original National…
Sunday afternoon
Because I forgot to do it on Sunday morning.
Friday night
Is this a somewhat unlikely combination? The opening piece is a return visit by Lincoln Durham, who popped up on my own radar a couple of weeks ago. He’s an…
Friday night
Good evening. I think it’s time for some tunes. Let’s start with Ray Wylie Hubbard on Wanna Rock and Roll. I believe the lead guitarist is his son and I’m…
Friday night
Blame Twitter. Someone was tweeting about a musician named Lincoln Durham the other day and when he included the magic words — slide guitar — I went off to see…