Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame member Bo Diddley passed away today at the age of 79. A spokeswoman said that Diddley died of heart failure after suffering a heart attack in August 2007. Three months before that he had suffered a stroke while touring in Iowa.
Elevenses Throws Eleven Quick Questions At Blues Legend Robert Cray and gets Eleven Quick Answers right back...
For thirty-plus years Robert Cray has laid down track after track of good-time, uptown, low-down blues. He's won five Grammys and been nominated for 11 more, inspired critics to praise his soulful vocal and instrumental artistry, earned respect from his peers, and sent young guitarists running back to the woodshed.
‘Seven Moons’ is the album from a new project that borders
on that much overused description of being a ‘supergroup’ - but this time we
have bona fide, genuine legends: Cream’s bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce, and
Procol Harum (plus a 70’s superstar in his own right) six stringer, ol’ Trout
face himself (!) Robin Trower.
Today's Elevenses Throws Eleven Quick Questions At 'Blues Phenomenon' Matt Scholfield!
Inspired by the Blues, infused with the funk rhythms of New Orleans and topped-off by virtuoso musicianship, Matt Schofield is being talked of as the finest Blues guitarist to have emerged in Europe for several generations, perhaps even in the World, and has received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.
Renowned blues guitarist Stephen Dale Petit took to the halls of ACM to share his experience and love of all things blues with guitar students. The Californian born musician and musicologist said; "It's important that students are exposed to raw, deep blues first hand and that they know it's available to them. I love Guilford. It's very fitting that I'm starting my clinic tour in the place that produced so many guitar players, such as Eric Clapton. It's known as the Surrey Delta, like the Mississippi Delta where blues was widely accepted to have originated."
Welsh born Aussie slide guitarist Gwyn Ashton
has played hundreds of gigs all over Europe and built a strong career since
basing himself in the UK.
'Prohibition' is his fourth solo album release and features the venerable
Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Michael Schenker rhythm section comprising
Chris Glen (Bass) and Ted McKenna (drums), as well as current Deep Purple
keyboardist Don Airey.
British Blues ace Ansley Lister has been steadily building a successful career for several years now, and is one of the key members of a new generation of UK blues guitarists. With hundreds of live shows under his belt and five previous albums to his name, the advance publicity on this album was that Ashley was making a real stylistic departure from the more straight ahead blues of his earlier albums.
"... whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass player, came in and said, "You know, Gary, you should make a blues album next. It might be the biggest thing you ever did." I laughed, you know. He laughed, too. But I did, and he was right, and it was." Gary Moore, speaking of a moment leading up to the making of his "Still Got The Blues" album, released in 1990.
Picture a dark, raining, and cold November night and I am heading off to see John Mayall and the Blues Breakers (this time around with Buddy Wittington on Guitar) in Cambridge, UK.
The Corn Exchange is the biggest venue in Cambridge, with a capacity of around 1500-2000, and is not the best for sound being a very tall wooden roofed building - which results often in a lot of muffled tone.
As I arrived John was arranging his latest display of cash bargains: DVD's, CD's, Bookmarks, and assorted paraphernalia. A chance to catch a word with the man himself I thought...
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