What exactly creates rock and roll? Such a comprehensive question can easily lead to a dead end. Well, let's concretize: what musical instrument can we not do without? Without a voice, it's quite possible to…
The Maple Blues Band – Let’s Go: Maple…
Old people don't belong here. This is a place for mature gentlemen who know their business. Canada is a province torn between two hegemons: the British Crown has formal power over it, and the United…
The Red Strings Club: the strings of your…
Most of us would like to have our favorite bar, where the bartender, your best friend for the evening, will prepare you "the cocktail" that will make you "feel better." And for the pianist to…
Cadillac Records (2008) – A Plastic excursion into…
Cadillac Records (Cadillac Records, 2008) is a movie that came out when I was starting to get interested in the blues. He became my first blues guide: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf,…
Dion – Blues With Friends (2020): one hundred…
Paul McCartney is dead. That's what Tim Harper said in 1969. And even Paul found it difficult to get away with it: there are dozens of proofs of this on the cover of Sergeant Pepper.…
Leadfoot Tea – Grease & Oil (2018), one…
Today I listened to a very recent album, released only a year ago, in 2018. I found it completely by accident: it's just that some sly cats on the same website with grease are selling…
Crossroads (1986) or How to Become a Bluesman
I really like it when in one work of art you can find small references to another creation of mankind - and you walk along them, as if on bread crumbs, from one island of…
Chuck (2017) – Last Greetings from St. Louis
On this day, March 18th, exactly two years ago, Chuck Berry, one of the true icons of classic rock and roll, left us. I don't think anyone needs to be told about his merits and…
Little Willie Littlefield – Houseparty (1982), Piano party
This is the content that I really want to see on this site! Reviews of vinyl records, with music that no one had posted on the Internet before! This is the kind of website I…
The Gun Club – Lucky Jim (1993), a…
The band The Gun Club from Los Angeles is considered to belong to the punk scene. It's also common to think that punks can't play their instruments well, in particular guitars, and in general, if…
Blue & Lonesome (2016) – The Rolling Stones…
I think the Rolling Stones are an overrated band. I think the Beatles are an overrated band. That's the kind of terrible person I am. The best work of these two and many other bands…
The Legendary Shack Shakers – Believe (2004), I…
Why is Believe the best album by Th' Legendary Shack Shakers? It's just gorgeous! It has everything from Americana to Swamp Blues. Harmonica passages by J. D. Wilkes. Some keyboards from him. And the vocals…