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New Blues Supergroup, Into the Night with the Royal Southern Brotherhood

So a couple of weeks ago a spotted a name of a band on the Roots Music Blues Chart that I didn’t recognize, gave their album a quick listen, put it on the iPod for a more thorough listen, and then forgot about it! I think a track or two may have come up on a shuffle, after that, but I didn’t give the album a long listen. Well yesterday I picked up the July/August issue of  Blues Review and I saw that the band members of that   forgotten band are: Mike Zito, Devon Allman, Cyril Neville, Charlie Wooten…

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Morning Musical Roots – Green Onions – Roy Buchanan

So today fifty years ago in 1962 Booker T. and the MGs released one of my favorite instrumentals of all time “Green Onions”. I love the cover on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. I was originally going to post Booker T’s version but when I went to youtube I saw this cover of the song performed by Roy Buchanan. I was never a big Buchanan fan, he’s probably a victim of too much music too little time! So here’s some background on Roy from Wikipedia. Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an…

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Musical Roots – Happy Birthday, Buddy Guy!

So today is the birthday of one of the Blues Legends George “Buddy” Guy was born July 30, 1936. Now for some reason I never got into Guy’s music until the last few years but his 2010 release Living Proof was of of my favorites that year. I guess I was too busy listening to the guys he influenced like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. From Wikipedia: Buddy Guy In the 1960s Guy was a member of Muddy Waters’ band and as a house guitarist at Chess Records. He can be heard on Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Killing Floor’…

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Into the Night with Booker T.: Road From Memphis and “Born Under a Bad Sign”

So thoughts of Booker T & the MGs sent me to the iPod this afternoon to listen to The Road from Memphis Booker’s latest release, which in fact won a Grammy for Best Pop – Instrumental Performance. So let’s go into the night with a track from that album T, “The Bronx” featuring Lou Reed! and as a bonus here’s the classic “Born Under A Bad Sign” music by Booker T Jones, lyrics by William Bell, made famous by many people!!

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Life’s Soundtrack – A good run with Zac Harmon’s Music is Medicine!

So after last night’s and this morning’s rain the temperatures today were fairly moderate, so I knew I could run this afternoon. This is really the first week in a long time that I’ve gotten three runs in, so I plotted out a flat course that was approximately 5 miles long, but I made it so that if I wanted to cut it short I could. My legs felt pretty good throughout the run and over the first 3 miles I ran at about a 9:50 pace, but on the fourth mile I was gassed so I figured that instead…

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Morning Music and last night’s run with Steve Strongman!

So Wednesday night I was going to run, but it was hot and I decided to eat first and then run, mistake! While it was cooler at 7:45, my old body had shut down by that time and really didn’t feel like starting again. So last night after work it seemed ok, pretty good when the sun was behind the clouds, hot when it was blazing. So I checked the cloud cover which seemed pretty large so I took off! legs seemed really good, not perfect but the best they’ve been in a long while! Thankfully the sun stayed behind…

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Life’s Soundtrack: running with the blues of Poppa Dawg!

So I will say it now I’m a very temperate runner, I don’t like to run in the cold or the heat! Basically, I like to run in the fall and the spring! Anyway, last week was out because it was too hot and for several of the days I was outside most of the day! So today, when the weather was a little cooler I figured I better run. When I was coming home it seemed like it was pretty nice in the shade but forget it when the sun was out in full force. So I tried to…

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New Blues – Backtrack Blues Band – Captured Alive

So Alabama says “If You’ Gonna Play in Texas you gotta have a fiddle in the band” and I agree wholeheartedly and for me ” If you’re gonna have a blues band, you gotta have a harp in the band!” Well, let’s see did Stevie Ray have a harp? Joe Bonamassa? Eric Clapton? Well let’s just say that if you have a good harp, Edward will like it! So when I heard the intro to the first track on the Backtrack Blues Band‘s album Captured Alive, I knew I was going to be a happy camper!! I saw the band’s…

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Life’s Soundtrack – Running and Falling with Walter Trout – Blues for the Modern Daze

So yesterday afternoon we had a thundershower, but by the time I wanted to run the sun was out and the temperature had dropped appreciably. Oh, I should preface this by saying that the morning starting with my wife telling me that son two, Andrew was at Underwood Hospital in terrible pain! By mid-morining we knew that he was ok. It was a gallbladder attack and will require a one day surgery, but at this point the date is unknown! Anyway by 5:15 or so everything was calm so I went for a run, and everything was fine during the…

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