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New Blues – Dave Fields – Detonation!

I discovered Dave Fields’ music over two years ago, I know I enjoyed his 2007 release Time’s a Wastin’ and wrote a review. Well today  I listened to his latest release Detonation, which debuted at #8 on The Roots Music Report’s  Blues Top 50, and all I can say is wow, I’m a fan and totally agree with G.W. Hill This thing really rocks. Dave Fields is a bluesy rocker, to nail him in a short description, but he’s a lot more, too. There’s some psychedelia along with hard classic rock like Hendrix and Deep Purple. However you describe the mix…

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Life’s Soundtrack – Another strong run with music from Joanne Shaw Taylor!

So I came home a little early tonight so that I could get in a run , before we went to see my mom. I decided to run a nice easy 4 mile out and back. The course is a variation on my regular out and back run, the start of the run is different, so I looked at the course on Runner’s World before i went, to see were the turn around point was, I ran the first mile in 9:28 when I crossed  the second mile  and looked at my watch and saw 20:22, and I knew I…

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A Good Run – No Tunes – Some Reads and Music from Joanne Shaw Taylor!

So today was another nice day for a run. Initially, I thought, ok let’s go for like five miles, then I thought every time I have run three days in a week, after not having run three times in a week, and had my third run be longer, I’ve ended up hurt!  So as I started out today and felt pretty good I said, you know I’d rather run four and a quarter miles and feel good at the end, than run five and feel bad! So I went for the four and a quarter!  I ended up with my…

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After the Vet, a good run – Soundtrack provided by Rick Estrin and the Nightcats!

So tonight after returning from the vet’s office, I really didn’t want to sit around, so I went for a run. Even though the weather was beautiful tonight, low 70s, no humidity, I contemplated not running because my legs were sore, but the earlier happenings helped to push me out the door! Before I started, I said to myself, don’t worry about how fast you run, in the words of Nike “Just Do It”. So the first mile was under 10 minutes per mile. ok, didn’t feel too bad, but we’ll see how it goes going up hill. Up Pancoast…

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Yesterday’s Soundtrack and Morning Blues from Dani Wilde!

So yesterday afternoon, after hearing Marley’s Ghost cover Paul Siebel’s “She Makes Me Lose My Blues”, I went to the original and listened to some of Paul’s music. The first track was the same song, I think Paul was one of the first folkies to have that Western twang in his music! Then came some of the other favorites like “Then Came the Children”, “My Town” and two all time favorites “Louise” and “Long Afternoons”. If you’ve never heard these songs check them out!! After Siebel, I was looking through the playlists on the iPod  and came across an eleven…

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Life’s Soundtrack – Running with some new acoustic blues (to me) from Catfish Keith!

So if you’ve read the post from earlier this evening, you already know that tonight was a running night, what you don’t know is that it almost was a very short run! When I started out my left hamstring about mid way up the back of the thigh felt bad, not bad enough to stop just bad enough to notice and want to stop, and I almost did! Anyway, I just slowed down and it didn’t get any worse so I kept going. I finished the four mile run and the good thing was that the miles were progressively faster!…

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Into the Night with Oli Brown – Here I Am!

So on the way to do some testing down on the Garden State Parkway this morning I listened to British Bluesman Oli Brown’s new album Here I Am and it’s pretty damn good, but then again it should be since it comes from a band that at the 2011 British Blues Music Awards won the following two awards: BEST BAND of the YEAR BEST ALBUM of the YEAR (Heads I Win Tails You Lose) The awards  go alongside his MALE VOCALIST and YOUNG ARTIST of the YEAR awards from 2010 Oli’s drummer, Wayne Proctor, won the BEST DRUMMER of the YEAR…

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Life’s Sountrack – slowly running with new blues from Shawn Starski!

So I decided to run on Monday this week, initially with the idea that I could run again in Williamsburg on Thursday and then again today. My wife reminded me, that I probably wouldn’t want to get up on Thursday morning and run and then spend the day moving, Elizabeth into her dorm room, which is on the third floor with no elevator and no air conditioning! I agreed and thought I would get up on Friday and run, but after a long day moving Lizzie in, when 7:00 am rolled around on Friday morning, the thought of getting up…

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