“At some point you need to put your own mark on the music and say this is my sound and my contribution.”
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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.
“I was always a lonely kid. I turned into a lonely adolescent, a deeply troubled teenager and an angry young woman with a lot of justifiable demons.” – Janiva Magness
“Everything that’s happened to me so far, I just can’t believe, and I appreciate more than I can say.” – Toby Lee
“I never once wanted to be the frontman/singer. I never wanted to be the boss and the leader. But it took that for me to do what I really wanted to do.” – Harpdog Brown
JOHN PRINE FEATURED ON “CBS THIS MORNING” NOMINATED FOR THREE GRAMMY AWARDS 2019 SONGWRITERS HALL…