by Paul Merry | Jun 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Charles Matthews BLUESMUSE25 If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you’ll know it was a German who wrote the first African-American-inspired song after hearing slave music in Virginia in 1795; and his English wife who first performed said song in Boston in 1799. Some 20...
by Paul Merry | Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Watch Dumb Ways To Die on the link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw Here’s a link to an interesting jingle aimed at saving young lives. Alternatively, it could be viewed as a waste of dosh by an organization with more money then sense. Whatever...
by Paul Merry | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BLUESMUSE24 In 1928, the former Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie accompanist, Clarence ‘Pinetop’ Smith, recorded his renowned boogie piano track, Pinetop’s ‘Boogie Woogie’. A 24-year old Alabama comedian and piano player, Pinetop enjoyed one of the first-ever...
by Paul Merry | Jun 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
How I remember the Stones UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12 2016 I’ve been around the block so often, it only cost me 7/6 (about 37p or 50c) to watch the original Rolling Stones play in the local cinema. I say watch because, except for Little Red Rooster, (it was 1964, I was but a...
by Paul Merry | Jun 22, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Sorry to impose a plug for my new book on you here, folks, but it’s finally available on the Amazon links below and I can’t contain my excitement. Getting all those old blues photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, into Kindle format, has...
