Here is a pretty good clip from the Ana Popovic show last weekend that I attended. You can even see me standing in the audience right at the beginning:
Here is a pretty good clip from the Ana Popovic show last weekend that I attended. You can even see me standing in the audience right at the beginning:
How's about "Full Figured Woman" by Glenn Lane?
Jack Broadbent. The guy is amazing. And yes, that's a whiskey flask he's using as a slide....
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
The lyricism in the Mississippi Delta Blues is mystifying. Certain Blues songs are actually haunting to me.
It's impressionable to me that the words written by American Blues masters were based on a real life experience and it impressed me how the stories combined with the music were a reflection of something real...and from a different time period. That haunts the H out of me.
The folklore behind the music is intriguing to me. An on going fable about Robert Johnson where he supposedly made a deal with the devil has been discussed during interviews with Blues masters and several of them insist that Robert Johnson was a horrible guitar player...then he disappeared for 6 months...returned..and was an amazing guitar player. Where are they going with this? Are they insinuating that people were shocked by his new abilities and they made up stories about him? Or because they thought it was supernatural?
The movie Angel Heart depicts the voodoo environment in the Southern U.S. in a very intensified way. It's haunting, creepy...but educational and whoever wrote the script must have researched greatly or actually lived there. Certain Blues songs make reference to Black Magick, Voodoo Hoodoo..spells...actual lyrics about putting a curse on someone or references to protection spells. As if to say I'm protecting my love from evil with my Magick.
Shortly after many British Blues Rock bands recorded hard and heavy versions of these songs..Rock Music was quickly tagged by the old school generation during the 70s as the Devil's Music. 😃 Many people seemed too persistent in believing that the rockers in the 70s created that music and it was outright bad...and that it influenced the minds and mentalities of the youth and often not perceiving that the songs they were complaining about derived from a completely different culture in the 1930's.
^^ Great post. But, I'm pretty sure the Devil's Music mantra began in the 50s.
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The Agren bros.
Slidemaster Jimmy !
Joanne Shaw Taylor anyone?
Not sure why it took me so long to find out about her. Certainly have to make up the lost time of getting to know her music /albums. Seems she went a quite long way up there, from humble beginnings to a "stardom." Already read some reviews comparing early and recent albums and a lot them were in favor of the early ones.
Early stage?:
... and recent one:
Although she still seems to be herself now when live and not recorded for release:
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
I have posted about her earlier on this thread and agree she is great. In fact I just bought tickets earlier this week to see her again in October. I have seen her solo twice and last fall as part of the Allman Family Revival tour. All of her albums are solid too. Anyone into blues should check her out.
Seems my search before posting was not exactly precise. Spitted out threads/posts were irrelevant so after checking a few gave up on it. Thanks for the tip though, I will try to find your post here. Was just amazed I had not heard of her until now.
Anyway, trying to make it up starting with getting her albums. Checked on her tour but unfortunately they are all too far me to go, the one closest to me in Maryland. Hope there will be another chance to catch up with her live. For now YT videos and the latest CD/BR concert (Joanne Shaw Taylor – Blues From The Heart - Live) will have to suffice.
Btw, it looks like she is playing bigger venues now, not the clubs of sorts she can be seen in the 1st YT video posted by me from 2013 in Rochester, NY.
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
I am lucky that she is playing 10 minutes from my house in Kalamazoo Michigan. The size of the venue is a bit deceiving though. It is a 1500 seat theater, but they are only selling the lower section of it and not the balcony so basically only about half of the venue. I believe she plays bigger places in Europe / U.K. than she does in the U.S.
Although she is originally from England she has actually lived in the Detroit area for quite a few years now.
Another one to check out is her "Live From The Road" DVD / CD set. Really good stuff.
Blues. And Chopin at the same time. One of the greatest performances at youtube I've seen.
https://youtu.be/c73403nk248
Holy crap, 10 minutes!? Can only dream of something like this. That's really lucky, happy for you. My hope is that she will venture back to the Rochester, NY or any place not too far form there. That she would have a bigger following in Europe is a bit surprising to me, never would think that's the case. She sounds quite American (if there is something like this) and seems embraces US as well if she lives here.
Yeah, Live From The Road is already on the way to me, in fact should be here by tomorrow (Tuesday). Figured it should be well worth it as it is her early music. Thanks for the tip anyway, makes me this more anxious to play it
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Just curious, when / what year was it? By the name it looks it is a similar place to the one form the Rochester video from 2013. I would think she has made a name for herself to play bigger venues now. But no question, nothing could beat an experience from a small club like the one from 2013.
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
It was February 2011 in the Troy NY Dinosaurs. Basically a multi-room restaurant with a stage in one room. I was in the room next door at one pointe. A young guy at a table next to me liked the music, went to watch for a while, and came back saying in wonder "it's a girl playing!"
^^ Susan Tedeschi
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Listened to Steamhammer today, who started out as a fine blues band and by the time Speech came out, they were a prog band of sorts. The album has three long songs on it.
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