Search Results: Language of the Blues (336)

“She asked me to come to New Orleans as she’d like to help me make the record,”

It’s unfathomable how Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady make each show its own experience, but they do … and effortlessly!

The documentary’s title “On Va Continuer” refers to Lost Bayou Ramblers’ ongoing commitment to performing in Cajun French, propagating French as a living language in Louisiana.

We are saddened to learn that the Mississippi John Hurt Museum (his original home) was burned down early Wednesday morning “only hours after receiving landmark status.”

“At some point you need to put your own mark on the music and say this is my sound and my contribution.”

Despite a star-studded line up which included Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Santana it was the lesser-known provincial blues-rock band Ten Years After who were the real showstoppers.

This is an impressive EP in that Ranky Tanky is able to put across a sound that many of us don’t have a convenient mental shorthand for.

Of Hooker’s innumerable recordings, the Riverside session is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots.

“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”

Dr. John, the King of the Krewes is gone, and the world is a bit more dim and colorless because of it.