A Celebration of Life, Love and Ambition that Outlasts Obstacles
I’ve been enjoying the latest Los Lobos release “Tin Can Trust” quiet a bit. It’s got everything you could want in a new record from American’s most versatile rock band. A Cesar ballad, a power three guitar attack track, some great Hidalgo accordion, and some near perfect Hidalgo guitar solo’s. I love the groove they [...]
Since it is the blogs birthday I thought it would be appropriate to go to the man that inspired its beginning, Derek Trucks. This is the new band I mentioned earlier that Derek was forming. Alas the lineup, listed below, is a little different from the one I envisioned. I am pretty fired up that [...]
“Feel good music, I’ve been told / Is good for your body, and is good for your soul.” It’s time for some feel good music, New Orleans style, to celebrate Fat Tuesday. If this doesn’t get you moving, then I’m not sure what will. This outstanding recording is from right before The Meters broke up [...]
This is a happy birthday post to my good mate, Vincent Valentine. Have a good one, Vince! For all you lovers out there this is the green light to put on a little mood music to get things moving in the right direction. To that end there is no better that Al Green. Happy Valentines [...]
This post is a belated birthday present for a very generous internet buddy of mine, Steffan Antonas. He was at this one and when he mentioned that it was a 3 hour solo show I recalled that I had it somewhere in the archive. Took me a while to track it down thought. You should [...]
Happy Australia Day to all my countrymen today. And if you don’t have the day off to celebrate (like me), feel free to pop a few tins at knock off. Good onya! Also, big shout out to one of my favorite writers, Seth Godin, for today’s launch of his new his new book Linchpin. [...]
My heart goes out to the people in Haiti after such an awful tragedy. This is a crazy messed up world that we live in. It’s hard to watch on the tele, I can’t imagine what it must be like to go through that. I urge you to do what ever you can to help [...]
2009 was a great year for The Derek Trucks Band. They released the album Already Free, recorded in Derek’s home studio, and played some smoking shows. In April I saw them play at The Park West in Chicago and it inspired me to start this blog. In 2010 the band is taking a hiatus from [...]
This is some feel good music right here. Don’t know about you, but it’s just what I need right now. Jon Cleary is so damn good, looking forward to seeing him live sometime. I first learned of Jon Cleary from his playing on the fantastic Taj Mahal record Senor Blues. He brought out a live [...]
Some of the best times in college for me was heading down to New Orleans for the Widespread Panic Halloween shows. The band would put on an epic trio of shows, dropping plenty of cover tunes and having guests sit in. 1998, the first year we went, was adequately described by my friend Megan’s ecstatic words [...]