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
The big news this week is of course Green Day's much-anticipated punk-opera 21st Century Breakdown . Green Day's album is one which is sure to be carefully watched by industry bean-counters. Their last album, American Idiot , was an all too rare modern-day multi-platinum selling
The flamboyant, visionary, and entertaining singer Little Richard was as responsible as anybody for the creation of rock 'n' roll during the 1950s. Mixing boogie-woogie blues and New Orleans-styled R&B...
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
