Friday, April 20, 2012

Jazz Guitar Masters Play Rockabilly: The 1950s

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Most of those that follow the blog will have noticed I have been working on guitar players from the 1950's who work in blues, rockabil...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Grady Martin: Decca Rockabilly Session Ace

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His chops still resonate, even when we don't know it's him, from the opening guitar line in Roy Orbison's Oh Pretty Woman and t...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

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Bill Doggett, Billy Butler and Blue Velvet David Lynch's decision to entrust the soundtrack of his film "Blue Velvet" to to t...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Blues Guitar Mastery of Jody Williams: The 1950's

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Bo Diddley's classic 1956 recording "Who Do You Love" recently received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for being a recording of ...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

Ten Rockabilly Classics: 1955-1959

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One could spend literally countless hours pouring over the spate of obscure rockabilly recordings that were recorded from 1954 (after the in...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Three new roots albums

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Roots music fans will be pleased to see the release of three new albums which stay very attuned to roots influences. Ry Cooder 's...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

A Rocket in My Pocket

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I will be initiating a new cycle of posts soon. Sorry the blog has been dormant so long. The roots of I Got a Rocket in My Pocket Most...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Keeping Tab and an update

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I apologize for the extended hiatus but I plan to begin posting again soon. I look forward to renewing my exploration of the seemingly endle...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Two classics by Little Walter

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Almost forty years ago, during the summer of 1973, two friends and I made a trip to Florida and stopped in Memphis on the way home. Being bl...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Goldband Classics from the 1950's

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The success of genre related record labels throughout the 1950's preserve some of the finest American Roots music ever recorded. Well kn...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Few More Roots Gems

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Seeing so much incredible new material find its way to youtube makes me regret not having the time to research and post at the same pace as ...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Roots Guitar Capital: Washington D.C. 1977-80

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In the summer of 1977, a good friend and I trekked to Washington D.C. so that he could accompany the legendary St. Louis bluesman Henry Town...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

RIP Ed Thigpen

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The jazz world lost one of its preeminent percussionists a couple of weeks ago. With the passing of Ed Thigpen , another bridge to the golde...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

New Rockabilly Book

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Rockabilly fanatics will surely applaud the recent publication of a groundbreaking new book devoted to many iconic players and some of the f...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A Few More Roots Gems

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The last month and a half have been hectic and as a result, I have not been able to post as often as I did in previous months. In the coming...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Guitar Slim and the Origins of Electric Blues Guitar

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Sorely missing from a post on New Orleans R&B artists that appeared last summer was the incredible work of Guitar Slim . Although origi...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Echale Salsita: Cuba and the Roots of Salsa

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While the 1920's saw the consolidation of jazz as a true American art form, the musical effervescence of Cuba gave rise to another last...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Forgotten Classics of Arkansas Rockabilly

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As a result of some research on Arkansas rockabilly, a few months back I posted on some of the better known Arkansas rockabilly recording ar...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

News on Two American Legends: James P. Johnson and Thelonious Monk

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The history of American Jazz piano begins in the late nineteenth century with the advent of ragtime pianists, whose initial recordings in th...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Hillbilly Boogie and Western Swing - A Few Classics

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One of the more interesting strains of American Roots Music that advances the genesis of rockabilly is "Hillbilly Boogie." Relate...
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