Guess whose father-in-law was the original King of the Blues Guitar?
Updated July 28 2019.
Updated July 28 2019.
String theory is far too complex for the likes of me. Vibrating strings make up everything, the physicists, say, when it comes to different universes and distant higher dimensions. Please don’t ask me to explain this string theory graphic. However, one physicist from England’s Oxford University has just released a paper explaining a new kind of string…
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 to probably the hippest museum in the…
The fabulous Cream. From left: Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton. UPDATED 17 August 2016 “Fascinating blogs :)” @Henleyguy1, Henley on Thames, England. 19 November 2014. Two years ago, Jack Bruce died. Let’s have a look back at Jack. If you ever listened to my ‘How Blues Evolved’ broadcasts on Code Zero Radio a couple of years ago, you’ll…
Updated 5 August 2016. Full transcript of Iggy’s 66-minute 2014 UK music lecture. The highlight of Britain’s 2014 Radio Festival held in Manchester a couple of years ago was Iggy Pop giving the BBC Music John Peel Lecture. The talk lasted 66 minutes, so it’s a long read. Here’s the full transcript, courtesy of the BBC….
Updated 31 May 2016 Robert Johnson, immaculately-dressed, like all bluesmen back then Robert Johnson was the unluckiest of blues performers. As with other giant talents, ranging from Vincent Van Gogh and Franz Kafka to Galileo and Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Johnson became revered only after his death. That he’s known at all is probably due to the appreciation of Johnson’s…
Before Muddy (Waters), before Buddy (Guy), before even Howlin’ Wolf, there was a white kid from Chicago’s outer suburbs recording electric blues guitar in the Windy City. His name was George Barnes and he was almost certainly the second guitarist ever to record electric blues commercially. And judging from the number of instruction manuals he brought out in…