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Exploring the Music of Albert Castiglia….

Exploring Albert Castiglia’s Living the Music So yesterday was a blues day. I started the day by listening to the latest release by Albert Castiglia  (pronounced “ka-STEEL-ya”)   Living the Dream.  The album was released back in June. I think that it’s been on the Roots Music Blues Chart since it’s release. This week the album is at 46 dropping down from 29!  I first discovered Castiglia’s music back in 2010 when his album Keepin’ On was released, I immediately became a fan. What a great bluesman Albert is! Living the Dream is his third album on Blue Leaf Records…

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Life’s Soundtrack: Another Great Run with some killer harp from The Lamont Cranston Band!

So for most of the summer, I hobbled through my runs and wondered if this is what it’s going to be like from now on… will I ever run as well as I did only a year or two before. But since the summer ended, my times have been steadily dropping and I obviously feel better. The two runs this week have been great Tuesday night was fabulous and last night’s four-miler was almost it’s equal. As it was, last night’s run was the fastest over my four mile out and back course this year (37:28) – 9:22/mile pace! The…

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Edward discovers Jon Lord – Oh My!

Hum, so how can I plead this? I’m old and out of touch with rock music? Since I really didn’t really like the bands of the 80’s and 90’s including groups like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Aerosmith, most of my music listening was directed toward folk, blues, and bluegrass? I guess there some legitimate reasons for not recognizing the name Jon Lord when I saw the Jon Lord Blues Project-Live on the Roots Music Report Blues chart the other day! But one listen to the first track Jimmy Smith’s “Back at the Chicken Shack” and I knew that Jon Lord played…

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Today in Music History – The Birthday of Sonny Terry!!

    So today is the 101st birthday of one of my favorite acoustic blues musicians Sonny Terry. Sonny was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and started his blues career playing in the trio of Blind Boy Fuller. He played with Fuller until Fuller’s death in 1941. After Fuller died Terry began playing with Brownie McGhee and as they say the rest is folk history!! Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911 – 11 March 1986[2]) was a blind American Piedmont blues musician.[1] He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal…

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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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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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