by Paul Merry | Dec 13, 2017 | blogs, stories |
If you like your rock hard, you love AC/DC. But how did they get such a punch-in-the-guts sound? Nothing comes from nowhere, does it? Above is a trailer for parts one and two of a superb film that tells all. It’s called “Blood & Thunder: The Sound of...
by Paul Merry | Dec 11, 2017 | blogs, stories |
America’s Gift’s index – A, B and C. In case you think America’s Gift is a stodgy old history book, the eBook version has been described as a lightening read, a bit like the Matrix, I’m told. At 11 inches by eight and a half inches and an inch...
by Paul Merry | Oct 15, 2017 | blogs, stories |
How English convicts from Australia terrorised Gold Rush San Francisco and California. By Paul Merry It’s been two months since my last post, so let me apologise. My excuse is: I’m busy making a film about how English convicts from Australia ran riot in...
by Paul Merry | Aug 16, 2017 | blogs, stories |
My second last post (a great title for a mournful bugle solo, eh?), promised to tell you about the American guitarist, Helen Louise Ferera, who had a hit with ‘Palakiko Blues’, exactly a century ago, in 1917. The track, a Hawaiian guitar duet with Helen Louise’s...
by Paul Merry | Aug 4, 2017 | blogs, stories |
Every now and again, bands or individuals come along who, you feel, have that special something. The Nashville-based blues-rock band, The Bloody Nerve, is one such act, seemingly on the cusp of a deserved breakthrough, but more about them in later posts. Another...
