Mixed musical duos, plus first published blues with vocals.

Mixed musical duos, plus first published blues with vocals.

  “Love your work! Hope you can check out our music video: http://youtu.be/p7p6HjPK3BI Eva Plays Dead (@EvaPlaysDead), Derby, England, November 11, 2013.   “The historical references in the 1st Blues book are great. Had no idea about most of it.” nora j mckiddie (@mckiddie_j), Michigan, USA, November 6, 2013. BluesMuse42. More by accident than design, the last two…

Looking back: a Jools Holland – Dr John boogie duet

Looking back: a Jools Holland – Dr John boogie duet

“Great blog!”  (@Cheers2Cheersn), November 5, 2013, Los Angeles, USA. “Top blues blog here in case anyone’s missed it: paulmerryblues.blogspot.co.uk/ “ Laura Holland Band (@laurahband), London, UK. November 3, 2013. “The Blues are also a great anti- depressant. Also better than Valium. Love the books and blogs.”  nora j mckiddie (@mckiddie_j), Michigan, USA, November 2, 2013…

Getting their kicks pre-66. Drug references in old songs

Getting their kicks pre-66. Drug references in old songs

“Good blog today, Paul. I got the 1st book (How Blues Evolved Ebook Volume 1) this morning. Thanks for all the good info!” nora j mckiddie (@mckiddie_j) Michigan, USA, October 29, 2013. BLUESMUSE 41.   Like many people, you probably thought mentioning drugs in songs started in the sixties, but – no, no, no – drug references…

Are you at an Intense, Contemporary or Sophisticated musical age?

“I’m in the, ‘I can’t get my fingers to do that f——-  F major chord’ phase.”  DJ Bob (@zczbob) October 24, 2013. One of many Heineken posters. When I worked in advertising agencies, we used to refer to market research groups as ‘the ideas abattoir’, our reasoning being that good off-the-wall creative ideas nearly always…