"Listen, I'm the one you're gonna want in the foxhole with you," advises Janiva Magness, one of the headliners for this weekend's Seventh Annual Nothin' But the Blues Festival.
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The striking depiction of the Weasel by Lucinda Rogers that illuminates this column on a weekly basis is, of course, an impeccably accurate likeness of the author. But if compelled to make a criticism of my likeness I might point out that the specs are wrong. I went through my John Lennon phase over two decades ago. Though fine for the sardonic Scouser's beaky nose, they didn't do much for the
The legendary bluesman demonstrates how it’s done. It’s a classic case of a teacher showing up his students. In Shine A Light, Mick Jagger invites Buddy Guy to “help us out” on the Muddy Waters cut, “Champagne And Reefer.” As he waits for his cue, Guy leers at the band with this mischievous grin – this knowing look – as if to say, ”Let me demonstrate
They are dueling icons locked in a five-decade battle. The Fender Stratocaster is sleek and contoured, and, as Los Lonely Boys Henry Garza says, it fits up against you “like a girl’s body.” Picture Jimi Hendrix with a white Fender Stratocaster, muscling its fret board on “Purple Haze.” The Gibson Les Paul is heavier and curvy, with a fatter sound and a more responsive feel, its look defined by
It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing "Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked. Cooder knew he had to head up to "Big River"
After Major League Baseball trotted out a galaxy of stars, both past and present, at its Midsummer Classic last week at Yankee Stadium, Billy Joel went them one better at Shea Stadium on Friday, July 18 in the final scheduled rock concert at the soon-to-be-demolished venue.
Blues may be an ageless music, but most players ease into old age with relaxed grace. Not Buddy Guy, who sounds as distinctively piercing on Skin Deep as on his classic '60s Chess Records cuts or his early '90s comeback albums.
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