Blues Music Awards for 2010 have been announced. So... blues album of the year is Joe Louis Walker's "Between a Rock and the Blues", quite enjoyable piece of music. And the band of the year is Tommy Castro Band, these are two biggest honours.
Categories are countless and the Blues Foundation seems quite serious about this stuff, so it might be worth takin' a look. In traditional blues categories winners were Duke Robbilard and Debbie Davies for male and female artists of the year and Super Chikan with "Chikadelic" (WTF?) for the best traditional blues album. And Tommy Castro seems to be the biggest winner, taking four awards of four nominations. :)
See this Blues.org website (which sucks by the way because it can't be linked - hey people start building good websites or stay with brochures).
Woody Allen said he isn't interesting in winning, but even less interested in losing :) I don't care about those awards too much anyway, but it's good that something's going on in the little blues world.
17 May 2010
15 May 2010
The Stones' "Following the River" video
Sorry for not writing too much - I've been breathing the blues for some time lately and couldn't get myself together, and furthermore I received an DMCA takedown notice... ABKCO cocksuckers x)
I already have the new deluxe release of "Exile On Main Street" with ten bonus tracks and I will focus on it for the rest of the month :) It's so fucking amazing! Here you can see the "Following the River" video, what a great ballad with awesome lyrics and video, it's so stylish and all. I don't fancy strings that much but once in a time... Also, background vocals are outstanding. The best of all, though, is piano by Nicky Hopkins that drives the song and Mick's vocals. And isn't the light on the video wonderful?
Parts of the lyrics remind me of "Let It Loose"... "You always saw the best of me" line is the best part of the song :) A typical Mick's composition, not better than mentioned above "Let It Loose" or "Moonlight Mile", but luckily too good to be on the mainstream pop radio.
I already have the new deluxe release of "Exile On Main Street" with ten bonus tracks and I will focus on it for the rest of the month :) It's so fucking amazing! Here you can see the "Following the River" video, what a great ballad with awesome lyrics and video, it's so stylish and all. I don't fancy strings that much but once in a time... Also, background vocals are outstanding. The best of all, though, is piano by Nicky Hopkins that drives the song and Mick's vocals. And isn't the light on the video wonderful?
Parts of the lyrics remind me of "Let It Loose"... "You always saw the best of me" line is the best part of the song :) A typical Mick's composition, not better than mentioned above "Let It Loose" or "Moonlight Mile", but luckily too good to be on the mainstream pop radio.
06 May 2010
The Ronnie Wood Show
Every Friday widely featured here guitarist called Ronnie Wood plays an hour long selection of his favorite tracks on Absolute Radio. A painter, lover and drinker: Ronnie played bass in Jeff Beck's band, guitar in the Faces and the Rolling Stones, two most partying bands ever. His playing was truly all about having fun so even though he's not the most talented or able guitarist I can think of, he's certainly in my top ten for his attitude.
That's why the Ronnie Wood Show is something special for me. His made-up stories and exaggerations (no, he wasn't in the last few that saw Jimi Hendrix ^^) make me smile but never let me down. He's so childish, naive and nice ;-) So now every Friday night he chats, plays guitar and tells stories apart from putting on some good old rock and roll! Look here for Strettonbull's posts of his shows and download them.
Ronnie's song selections are quite obvious and too mainstream, but that doesn't bother me. Quite the opposite. I like it very much! I've discovered some new bands thanks to him and wait for more. He's got very similar taste to mine!
That's why the Ronnie Wood Show is something special for me. His made-up stories and exaggerations (no, he wasn't in the last few that saw Jimi Hendrix ^^) make me smile but never let me down. He's so childish, naive and nice ;-) So now every Friday night he chats, plays guitar and tells stories apart from putting on some good old rock and roll! Look here for Strettonbull's posts of his shows and download them.
Ronnie's song selections are quite obvious and too mainstream, but that doesn't bother me. Quite the opposite. I like it very much! I've discovered some new bands thanks to him and wait for more. He's got very similar taste to mine!
05 May 2010
The Rolling Stones - All Down the Line
Some more news concerning the release of deluxe edition of Exile On Main Street, possibly the Stones' best album, arrived. The second single after "Plundered My Soul" has just been released. It's an alternate take of "All Down the Line" and it's great, but not astonishingly different from the version we've known for years. Lots of Mick Taylor's guitar work and the general mess make it work really, really good!
It's got that Chuck Berry-esque vibe and is quite long (over 4 minutes) for a rock and roll song. Vocals are clearly not-yet-developed so Jagger shouts random phrases while the band has lots of time and space to jam over easy chords. It's so relaxed you can tell it wasn't going to be released back then. And again, like on "Plundered My Soul", Nicky Hopkins on piano shines and rolls!
Since Amazon UK is giving the single away for free but the rest of the world have to pay and I don't think it's fair, I put up a download link for free. Unfortunately it's been removed by Blogspot -_- Sorry. You can find it easily for yourself though!
It's got that Chuck Berry-esque vibe and is quite long (over 4 minutes) for a rock and roll song. Vocals are clearly not-yet-developed so Jagger shouts random phrases while the band has lots of time and space to jam over easy chords. It's so relaxed you can tell it wasn't going to be released back then. And again, like on "Plundered My Soul", Nicky Hopkins on piano shines and rolls!
Since Amazon UK is giving the single away for free but the rest of the world have to pay and I don't think it's fair, I put up a download link for free. Unfortunately it's been removed by Blogspot -_- Sorry. You can find it easily for yourself though!
01 May 2010
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Now this is it! Enough bluesy and acceptable dirty. Or at least much more and less (^^) than previously reviewed Brothers album. Ladies & gentlemen... Rubber Factory, the Black Keys' masterpiece from 2004.
Indie sucks. I like DIY attitude but it doesn't have to mean lo-fi sound. However, in this case it suits the blues. It's raw and dirty but easily listenable and catchy, it has everything the new album lacks. "10AM Automatic" is oh so good! That's what I call a rocker. Slow "The Lengths" is a boring ballad but the next one's a hot song - you sure have heard "Grown So Ugly" by Captain Beefheart, huh? - this version is equal.
And they played "Stack Shot Billy" on Letterman. And "Aeroplane Blues" was mighty interesting... Just like the whole album really. Most of those 13 tunes don't have the definitive hook that gets stuck in your head but it's alright with me. It's a 4/5 album that I proudly keep in my collection :) And "Till I Get My Way" was a surprisingly good finale, just when I expected nothing new and was ready to switch the player off.
"What about the night / Makes you change / From sweet to deranged" - "10AM Automatic"...
PS. See their music video to the song "Next Girl" from the Brothers album. Funny. And I really like the girls.
Indie sucks. I like DIY attitude but it doesn't have to mean lo-fi sound. However, in this case it suits the blues. It's raw and dirty but easily listenable and catchy, it has everything the new album lacks. "10AM Automatic" is oh so good! That's what I call a rocker. Slow "The Lengths" is a boring ballad but the next one's a hot song - you sure have heard "Grown So Ugly" by Captain Beefheart, huh? - this version is equal.
And they played "Stack Shot Billy" on Letterman. And "Aeroplane Blues" was mighty interesting... Just like the whole album really. Most of those 13 tunes don't have the definitive hook that gets stuck in your head but it's alright with me. It's a 4/5 album that I proudly keep in my collection :) And "Till I Get My Way" was a surprisingly good finale, just when I expected nothing new and was ready to switch the player off.
"What about the night / Makes you change / From sweet to deranged" - "10AM Automatic"...
PS. See their music video to the song "Next Girl" from the Brothers album. Funny. And I really like the girls.
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