Armik – Beautiful Flamenco Guitar….
2015 Update: This afternoon I was listening to One World the new album from Jesse Cook. Listening brought, thoughts about the flamenco guitar of Armik. So I went to Spotify where I discovered that Armik has released a new album titled Romantic Spanish Guitar Vol. 2. Sound s good to me! I first discovered the music of Armik back in 2010 and since then I occasionally listen to his awesome work! The following is a post I wrote back in 2012 when he released the album Reflections. The new album is playing as I write this and it, like its…
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…
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…
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…
Life’s Soundtrack: A Great Run with a Great Soundtrack from Halestorm!
So the owner of the company that I work has started running, and over the last few weeks we have compared our four mile times. Both of our times have gone down over those weeks. At the end of last week I was feeling good, I came close to breaking 38 minutes over four miles, when I told him, he said “I beat you 37:25!” Of course he concedes that his running may be a little easier because it’s on the treadmill under perfect conditions! Anyway his times have spurred me on and today I ran one of the fastest…
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…
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…
Exploring Prog-Rock and Into the Night with Big Big Train
So my son Andrew came over to me in the market at Target,the other night, when he finished his shift and asked if the track from Big Big Train he had put in my Father’s mix made it to my computer. I told him no, see not all the tracks got transferred to my computer from his thumb drive. He told me that he thought I would like them and that their new album English Electric was getting rave reviews and that it was really good. So last night and today, I have been listening to the album and he was…
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…