Category: Americana
Morning Maniac Music – Victor Wainwright and the Wildroots!
So last night on the way home from work at Target, I had a blues shuffle on the iPod that started with a smokin’ track “Bug Out” from Victor Wainwright’s album Piana from Savannah [audio:http://www.memyselfmusicandmysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Victor-Wainwright_10_Bug-Out.mp3|titles=Victor Wainwright_10_Bug Out] So here’s some morning music from Victor and the Wildroots from the album Beale Street to the Bayou “Big Dog Runnin’”
Lunchtime with John Mayall and Albert King
On my way back from renewing my auto registration and taking the car through inspection I put on John Mayall’s classic album Turning Point. I only listened to the first three tracks though and was enjoying them. Those tracks appear on side one of the album, which through the years has been the lesser listened to side. Side 2 contains “Thoughts about Roxanne”, “California” and “Room to Move” three all time favorites. Anyway I was checking out Youtube and this is the first video that caught my eye because it brings together two greats John and Albert King! Here they are performing…
Into the Night with Julian Sas ………………
So today the music of another blues rocker from the Netherlands comprised the soundtrack of my trip to Trenton! I listened to the new album Bound to Roll from Julian Sas and I like everything about it Julian’s vocals are strong as is his guitar playing. I’ll write more about the album later but for now, we go into the night with a performance of “30 days in the Hole”
New to Me Blues Rock: Coen Wolters and Van Wilks
So over the last few weeks I’ve been using MOG and find that the site has a lot of great music almost as much stuff I like as Napster did! I really like the way they post albums for your taste based on what you’ve been listening to and tell you, that you’ll like this because you listened to that. In the last couple of days I’ve found two bands that I really like and had never heard of before. The first one was the Coen Wolters Band. The band hails from the Netherlands and is composed of Coen, Erwin…
Running, Book 2 and 3 and Girls with Guitars!
So let’s do some catching up! Yesterday was a nice day and I was able to live work early since I went in early so I get my runnings shoes on and took off for only the third time this year. It was a good run and I guess it’s better if you thinkk you better slow down rather than need to slow down! Since it was still dark at the end of the run and I couldn’t find it I ran within the iPod so you don’t have to read through my playlist. Anyway I ran 3.2 miles and…
Into the Night…….with Monkey Junk
2011 – A Musicial Year in Review – Part 1
Over the last few nights I’ve been trying to figure out the best albums of the year in all of the genres that I listen to and have been unsuccessful. I’ve reviewed the artists that are on the iPod and listened to many that I listened to throughout the year. Then I think about what to write draw a blank and write nothing!! So here goes. What kind of a year in music was it this year, well I guess pretty damn good! I got to see two of my all-time favorites live! Seeing Jesse Winchester here in Philly and…
New Blues from Savoy Brown – Voodoo Moon
So the soundtrack of the return home from North Brunswick the other night featured the Voodoo Moon the new album from Savoy Brown. Now I have not through the years been a Savoy Brown fan, about the only thing of theirs that’s in my collection is a track or two on a compilation album of British Blues from the early 70s. The band never made a big splash on the US Pop scene like Eric Clapton, Ten Years After or John Mayall, but through the years led by guitarist Kim Simmonds the band has consistently been releasing albums and touring….
Second Generation Bluesmen – Jimmy D Lane and Bernard Allison
So the other night I was all set to write about two blues albums that I’ve been enjoying over the last week. Both albums are by second generation bluesmen. The first was the 2004 release from Jimmy D Lane It’s Time and Bernard Allison’s Live at the Jazzhaus. The reason that I didn’t write about these albums is the James Rollins took me away with his new Sigma Force novel The Devil Colony! Then last night I started this post late because it’s the traditional time at the Karn house for home repair and I was working on tearing down…