Picture of the Day : April 26, 2012
Wish I coulda been there.
Wish I coulda been there.
Please click the “Like” button above if you like this post. You can listen along by pressing the green play button at right. Reggae music in all its various forms – ska, rock steady, roots, toasting – is without doubt … Continue reading
“I don’t want him on my show. I don’t care what anyone says about him – how great a talent he is – he just won’t be in my show and that’s that.” – Ed Sullivan. “I want to say … Continue reading
Buddy Holly & Waylon Jennings, circa 1959.
Click on the image at right and listen along. “Not Fade Away : Remembering Buddy Holly,” is an album of Buddy Holly covers by contemporary artists. Sometimes these “tribute” albums work, sometimes they don’t. This one works. Boy, does it … Continue reading
As noted in prior posts, my exquisite taste in music is both a blessing and a curse. Never is this more apparent than during the Holiday Season. I swear to God, if I hear “Christmas in Dixie” by the Oak … Continue reading
A quick Christmas twofer from Uncle Mojo. Enjoy.
I have superb taste in music. Shortly after we first met, my wife once accused me of being a “music snob.” Of course, she was just jealous because her own taste in music was so lame back then (some of … Continue reading
Recognizing that most of the music I listen to (blues, reggae, and what is disturbingly referred to these days as “classic rock”) was recorded decades ago, I decided to lively up myself and check out the current state of popular … Continue reading
Eric Clapton had been busy. He broke into the music scene with the Yardbirds, left in 1965 for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, broke away from the Bluesbreakers in 1966 to form Cream with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, formed Blind Faith … Continue reading