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Blues on a Thursday – Daddy Mack Blues Band

So it seems that the Memphis Blues scene may not be what it used to be. In reading about the Memphis Blues scene it seems that before Sun Records signed and recorded Elvis Presley in 1954, the Memphis Blues scene was hopping musicians like Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Nix, Ike Turner, and B.B.King performed on Beale Street and in West Memphis. They recorded some of the classic electric blues, rhythm and blues and rock & roll records. After Presley Sun Records turned it’s attention to a wider white audience. Well today I listened to a band that hails from Memphis and…

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Blues Wednesday – Ron Hacker and Arsen Shomakhov

so there’s not a lot of time to write tonight before I conk out so I’ll make this brief and write more later. I have to go to Forked River tomorrow so they’ll be lots of time to listen to and fro’. Anyway there were two names on the Root Music Report Blues Chart today that were unfamiliar to me and sounded interesting Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws and Arsen Shomakhov. Ron Hacker’s album is called Burnin‘ and I really liked it, some nice guitar and the vocals were different and good. Arsen’s album Dangerous was more of a jazz…

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Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes – Selfe-Contained

Checking the Roots Music Report last night I made a short list of some names that looked interesting and gave them a quick listen the album that caught my attention and I ended up putting on the mp3 player was Selfe-Contained by Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes. Self-Contained is the band’s first release. Their most recent release Playing the Game is currently No. 41 on the chart down from 39 last week. It only took listening to the first track on Selfe-Contained an instrumental titled “Messing With A Lion” for me to realize that I was going to like this…

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Folk Monday – Ernest Troost

So you’re an Emmy winning and multi-nominated Emmy composer so what do you do to change things up? You return to your folk and blues roots and put out two well received albums All Boats Are Going to Rise and Resurrection Blues. Resurrection Blues is number five on the Folk DJ Chart for June 2010. That’s what Ernest Troost has done over the last few years!  Here’s what Ernest Says about his return to his roots at his website: “I had been writing a lot of instrumental music over the past few years in many different styles,” says Troost, “everything…

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Twang Tuesday -Thursday – The Devil Makes Three

So the twangy band that I have been listening to this week is The Devil Makes Three and their new album Do Wrong Right. I don’t remember where I came across their name I’m sure it was on some chart.  I had briefly listened to the album a couple of weeks ago and this week I gave it another listen, and I’m glad I did because I really like this album! The music is good and the songwriting is John Prine or Todd Snider like. When the opening song contains the line “The world is a car and your the…

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Blues Wednesday with some Twang!

So I’ve never been a huge Albert Collins fan. I have a cassette of his album Iceman (1991) which has been converted to mp3s. It’s a great album and I love Albert’s guitar playing.  I obviously also have the album Showdown! (1985)  the album Albert did with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. That album is a favorite. While I knew Albert had died I didn’t know just when so I was surprised to see as I researched this piece that he died in 1993! About his death from Wikipedia: After falling ill at a show in Switzerland in late July…

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Linwood Barclay – Trombone Shorty What a pair!

So tonight I spent most of the nght engrossed in Linwood Barclay;s new book Never Look Away almost half way through and it’s tough to put down! Newspaper reporter David Harwood, his wife Jan and son Ethan are all set to spend a nice family day at the local amusement park Five Mountains. Soon after entering the park David leaves hiswife and son to go get ice cream, Jan looks way for a few minutes and looks back and the stroller and Ethan are gone – frantically Jan and David search the park David finds his son but returning to…

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Deirks Bentley – Up On The Ridge

kayso, I am not a fan of mainstream Country Music no Tim McGraw, Faith Hill or Carrie Underwood in my collection. The closest I come are Waylon and Willie, early Hank William, Jr and Merle Haggard. Lately, Jack Ingram and Pat Green have crossed over from Texas Country to more mainstream. I do have Patty Loveless’ first bluegrass album Mountain Soul. So when I saw that Deirks Bentley had a new bluegrass album, I went to Rhapsody and put it on the mp3 player and have been listening to it this week. While Deirks voice may be a little too…

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The Blues Rolls into Friday – Peter Parcek3

So on Wednesday when I checked the Roots Music Report Chart there at number 15 sat a name I didn’t recognize (what’s new) Peter Parcek and his new CD The Mathematics of Love so as usual I headed over to Rhapsody and they had the album so on to the player it went. It didn’t take long for me to know that this was an album that I was going to like, the opening track “Showbiz Blues” rocked and when the guitar went from one ear to the other I said oh, yeah! Anyway I have listened to the CD…

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The Blues Rolls on into Thursday – Bishop and Parcek

Ok so I don’t know which is moving slower tonight me or the computers! I installed WordPress 3.0 first I lost all my traffic counts for today I know I had more visitors than the 4 it now lists! As for me sometimes a hard run coming after a day of field work knocks me out which is what happened tonight. Anyway I did listen to some blues today! I had put Elvin Bishop‘s new album Red Dog Speaks on the player yesterday. This morning I added The Mathematics of Love by Peter Parcek. Now I’m familiar with Elvin Bishop…

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