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Larry Garner at Corralejo Blues Festival 2010
19th-27 March 2010, Fuerteventura, Spain. This looks tempting. A blues festival and some sun. Larry Garner, a superb R&B guitarist and story-telling singer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is playing...
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Etta James Spotify playlist
Photo credit: Etta James by slowdevil (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Inspired by Richard Williams‘ article Etta James: 10 classic performances in The Guardian’s Music Blog, I checked out some of Etta’s songs. I’d...
View Article10 standout blues artists summer 2012: Spotify playlist
I’ve made a new blues Spotify playlist of 10 artists I’ve enjoyed listening to this summer: ‘New Horizon’ by Royal Southern Brotherhood ‘Saw My Mama Cryin’ by Walter Trout ‘Jump That Train’ by Joanne...
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Top ten albums of 2012
In the crowd at Little Angels, O2 Glasgow (created with Percolator app) Now is the season of top 10 lists and reviews of the year. I thought I’d throw my favourite albums released in 2012 into the...
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Guitarist looking to join to blues/rock band
One of my resolutions for 2013 is to be back in a band playing guitar live. Ever since I started learning to play 25-odd years ago, playing guitar has been a constant source of happiness, relaxation...
View ArticleLive debut with Rhino & The Ranters at The Candlelit Cellar Club
Last week, I debuted playing guitar in Ryan Webb’s band Rhino & The Ranters, “a full-bodied, flavourful maelstrom of cowpunk gospel blues, roots and rockabilly.” Here’s a video of the track Radio...
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Valve guitar amps for blues rock
Photo: RCA 6L6 GC and 12ax7s in a 1969 Fender Pro Reverb by Bee Collins At the end of 2012 I made a resolution to play guitar in a band regularly by the end of 2013. Four months in and things are...
View ArticleThe First Time I Met The Blues
I’ve made a timeline-based autobiographical story of key moments in discovering blues music and guitars.
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