by Paul Merry | Jul 28, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Violent Femme, Brian Ritchie, curates MONA FOMA We were recently in Tasmania, that one-time convict isle at the end of the earth that changed its name from Van Diemen’s Land in 1852 in an attempt to whitewash away the stain of its dark history. Today, Tasmania is home...
by Paul Merry | Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
UPDATED 27 July 2017. “Great piece on Alexis Korner. I personally didn’t know he was born in France. You learn something every day!” Paul Corry @thebluesfreak, London, England. 5 February 2014. BLUESMUSE 30 As a young lad, probably too young to drink, if the...
by Paul Merry | Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BLUESMUSE29. Until the 1890s, when mail order catalogues made them more affordable and improved roads and rail links made musical instruments more accessible, guitars were mainly a preserve of the American middle classes. Most were much smaller than the guitars we...
by Paul Merry | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized |
BLUESMUSE28. How many blues lovers have wondered how this intriguing music of ours first gained its unique sound? As much as I tried, I could never see how the nuances of blues related to the frenetic music of old tribal Africa, no matter how many documentaries and...
by Paul Merry | Jul 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Updated 3 April 2017. BluesMuse27 Long ago, when I played rugby, there was an old guy we nicknamed Daddy Stovepipe. Daddy was a human dynamo, still turning out for the seconds or thirds every week and tackling, ferociously, anything that moved in shorts. Daddy did...
