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Paul McCartney And Carl Perkins, My Old Friend (Documentary)
Every once in a while I stumble across something really beautiful and rare. This is one of those finds. Zod bless YouTube users for cataloging practically everything in filmed existence that would otherwise be lost or inaccessible to mass audiences. This 45 minute documentary features guitar legend Carl Perkins and Beatle legend Paul McCartney just hanging out, strumming, picking…
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Making More Rock And Roll, Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper
Well, I haven’t updated the ole’ website in a good while, and the reason is because I’m still making more rock and roll. The intention of this humble little corner of internet space was never to be a daily rock and roll blog, that happened more or less organically. The site was created to feature…
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Big Mama Thorton, Budddy Guy, Hound Dog
“Hound Dog” is one of the greatest blues rock songs of all time, so it should come as no surprise that this is the third instance of me posting a version of it. The other two occasions involved the King Elvis Presley, but for this time, I have the superior version. Its Big Mama Thorton…
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Up Ahead My Head, and Documentary
Since my last post on the insanely great Sister Rosetta Tharpe, I’ve come to learn a great deal about her thanks to a wonderful hour long documentary on her produced by the BBC. The documentary tracks her sensational life and career in complete loving detail. The main thing you take away from the film is…
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The Unparelled Sister Rosetta Tharpe
For those who have never heard of, or seen Sister Rosetta Tharpe, welcome to your baptism by fire. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is the first superstar of gospel, known as “the original soul sister,” and ever since her life was tragically cut short at the too young age of 58, her feats and persona have never…
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The Black Keys, She Said She Said
The Black Keys are guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. Together they have forged a highly successful blues rock revivalist band that are the darlings of the upper tiers of the indie rock world. I’ve always like them, but have not extensively combed through their catalog. Perhaps I’ve finally found a reason to. The…
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Eric Clapton, Have You Ever Loved a Woman
The incredible and sweaty bluesman you see in the beginning is Freddie King. Don’t be confused, this is a Clapton video, but its culled from a never released Martin Scorsese PBS documentary on Clapton’s heroes called, “Nothing But the Blues.” Well, it was shown, but never released on DVD, one of the mysteries of modern…
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Jimi Hendrix, Hear My Train A Comin'
You’d suspect on a site like mine, there would be no shortage of Jimi Hendrix material to peruse through, but alas, this is the first one I’ve got. It’s not for lack of love for the man, as in fact, I possess great quantities of the emotion for the guy. I sit firmly in the…
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Skip James, Devil Got My Woman
Skip James was one of the original Delta Bluesmen. Like many of these original pioneers, he disappeared into obscurity after his rather obscure debut in the 1930s. The blues rock renaissance in the 1960s rescued him from oblivion, and allowed him one last chance to shine. One of the songs that emerged from his exile…
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The Blues Brothers, Ray Charles, Twist it (Shake Your Tail Feather)
How about that keyboard reflecting in Ray Charles’s sunglasses? That’s rock and roll, or more specifically, the blues. This legendary scene, from the “Blues Brothers” movie, is and irreplaceable document of blues rock awesomeness. The Blues Brothers were a group formed by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, two SNL geniuses who loved the blues and…