There are precious few cultural icons as important as McKinley Morganfield, better known to most people as Muddy Waters. A Mississippi Delta sharecropper working on the Stovall Plantation, the thirty-year-old...
Taylor Hicks' new album is a solid mix of rock, soul, and blues that's well worth the listen.
Taylor Hicks’ new album, The Distance is a surprising mix of soul, rock, blues, country and even a little Bossa Nova. The Distance is the first album to be released on Hicks’ own label, Modern Whomp Records. The album features an array of notable musicians who have long history of recording with rock, blues and country artists. ...
Canadian Investors partner with The Blues Hall of Fame to transform the Delta town of Clarksdale Mississippi into a world class tourist destination.
Rock and Roll, it has often been said, is just the blues sped up. You can’t really argue with that statement. Rock, in all its diverse glory owes its existence to the blues. After all, if it weren’t for the blues, the 12 bar chord progressions, the rhythm of drum and guitar, the chanting songs that re-laid the stories and the history of...
Canadian investors partner with The Blues Hall of Fame to transform the Delta town of Clarksdale, Mississippi into a world class tourist destination.
Rock and roll, it has often been said, is just the blues sped up. You can't really argue with that statement. Rock, in all its diverse glory, owes its existence to the blues. After all, if it weren't for the blues, the 12-bar chord progressions, the rhythm of drum and guitar, the chanting songs that re-laid the stories and the history of a people,...
This is a follow-up of sorts to fellow Blogcritic Glen Boyd’s recent “Whatever Happened To The Live Album?” article published on BC a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed Glen’s piece. But there seemed to be an essential element of the Seventies live album absent from his article.
Whatever happened to the drum solo?
When you went to a concert in the Seventies, the drum solo was a given. And it was never really an issue. It simply provided you with an opportunity to reload the bong, or to take a whizz. Kind of an intermission basically. But then someone got the bright idea to include the drum solo in the inevitable double live album, and all hell broke loose.
Blame it on Iron Butterfly, or I. Ron Butterfly as Bart Simpson calls them. At one point their In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was the biggest selling album in Atlantic Records’ history. The centerpiece
