Yeah, he is great. I havent done a post on him yet, but I have long planned to.
(Here's another post on the Cigar Box Guitar. This did not appear on my Instagram page, one reason being that, I don't know how to play YouTube...
LITTLE BOBBY Just Like My Old Man Little Bobby is Bobby Houle, and he is one hell of a good bluesman. What I didn't realize when I first...
And here's a good documentary if you want to learn more: [MEDIA] Quote from this video: "Is the cigar box guitar an art or a craft? (laugh)...
As I posted the previous post this morning, I had to go to YouTube and find the video, as I always do. And I let it play out as I posted it, which...
STEVE ARVEY I'm a Poor Boy/Mississippi Winds Let's take a trip back down to the swamps near the Delta and listen to some good cigar box guitar...
THE CASH BOX KINGS Poison In My Whiskey I previously mentioned, Hubert Sumlin's Iodine in My Coffee, this one is Poison in My Whiskey, which,...
SAVOY BROWN Tell Mama Tell Mama, got a lot of airplay on American rock radio stations in the 70's. If you lived through that period, you should...
JOE BONAMASSA The River I'm sure most of you might remember the Chris Farley sketch on SNL when he plays a motivational speaker who lives in a...
Im gonna have to add that to my YouTube play list----my blues playlist has a good 300 or more songs on it and is growing. I think I've heard of...
ALLY VENABLE Blues is My Best Friend On this day in 1999 (if this day happened to be April 7th, which statistically has a 1/365th chance of it...
Thank you. And it is certainly the offspring of blues.
SEAN CHAMBERS When I Get Lonely There's nothing like a messy and loud slide guitar that screams dirty old juke joint or rough biker roadhouse....
LINSEY ALEXANDER Raffle Ticket Linsey Alexander, the Hoochie Man, was born in Mississippi in 1942. In 1959, he pawned his first guitar to buy a...
GLENN FREY Smuggler's Blues The 1980's TV series, Miami Vice, played some great music including some great blues. In fact, it may have been on...
I couldn't remember anytime that I did it in the wild with my wife, or my ex-wife exactly. I did it in my '70 t-bird at a rest stop on a highway...
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GARY CLARK JR Catfish Blues Gary Clark Jr was born in 1981, but man, you'd think this cat lived through the 60's when you hear him play. He...
JIMMIE VAUGHAN Dengue Woman Blues Ok, I didnt forget, here's something else Texas gave us--Dengue Fever. Just kidding! Texas gave us the...
I have heard that sentiment shared before. Some people have said it is because they were overplayed. It seemed to me, when they first became...
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