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...
Around 1964, Gene Roddenberry came up with the now legendary “transporter” effect for Star Trek, mostly out of necessity. I don’t think he believed that teleportation technology would actually exist within 300 years or so, but as a writer’s device, the transporter solved a
Attempting to knock The Answer off the number one spot, and claim the title of "Ireland's Most Exciting New Band."
Whatever they're putting in the water over in Ireland, it seems to be doing the trick. In the long line of new Irish blues/rock bands making their mark outside the Emerald Isle come
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
Joe Bonamassa, the complete blues musician, has arrived.
When talking about major figures in blues, the conversation is almost guaranteed to include such luminaries as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Steve Ray Vaughan, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Koko Taylor and the like. But if you're talking
