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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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Robert Johnson's Real Voice, Love in Vain
I’m convinced. Slow down his voice, and you hear the real man. Someone on the internet put it much more eloquently than I, that it’s like meeting Robert Johnson again for the first time, and what better thing could there be? I suppose I should explain myself, so I’ll do it as succinctly as possible. …
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Derek and the Dominos, Presence of the Lord, Covered by Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee is an amazing guitar player. Better then amazing actually, a genius. How do I know? Well outside of the fact that he has played lead on a ton of my recordings, including this one, he has just today started making no frills videos showcasing his incredible talent. The video below shows Andrew, matching…
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The Rolling Stones, Some Girls
Some Girls is one of the best Rolling Stones records. It’s sleazy, dirty, punky, and country. It came out in 1978, and has just been reissued it a nice little collectors package. You should get it; I know I will. To celebrate its corporate repackaging, I present to you a thoroughly scandalous fan made music…
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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…