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by Doug Collette
The fundamental appeal of the blues lies largely in its simplicity of form and humor of expression. The elasticity of its format carries intrinsic drama, the suspense resolved within each verse, with a cumulative effect carrying over to the end of the given performance. It is a rare creature indeed that can muster the patience and discipline necessary to touch and hold the essence of the blues, thus the preponderance of posers who adopt the superficials, but ultimately never grasp ...
read moreJohn Mayall's Bluesbreakers: Live In 1967 - Volume Three
by Doug Collette
Perhaps it is just the cumulative effect of what this title represents as the third and last release in a series of similarly- designated editions, but a dramatic sense of history arises from mere perusal of the artwork adorning John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers' Live in 1967 -Volume Three. The black and white graphic design is the antithesis of the kaleidoscopic color schemes permeating the psychedelia of the era. More significantly, however, it is a direct corollary to ...
read moreJohn Mayall: The First Generation 1965-1974
by Maurizio Comandini
Se gli inglesi hanno soprannominato The Godfather of the British Blues" l'imperturbabile John Mayall una ragione ci sarà... La malavita non c'entra nulla, per fortuna, ma c'entra tantissimo la buona musica e la capacità di organizzarla partendo da zero, o quasi. John Mayall è nato a Macclesfield, il 29 novembre del 1933. Siamo nello Cheshire, meno di trenta chilometri a sud di Manchester. Il padre è un chitarrista dilettante, appassionato di jazz e di blues e ...
read morePeter Green's Fleetwood Mac: A Green Sun Sets On The Blue Horizon
by Scott Gudell
There are times when the stars align in a dramatic and symbiotic way. Although Mick Fleetwood had talked about a tribute concert to honor friend and British blues slide guitar giant Peter Green for years, Fleetwood was tenacious and succeeded in bringing together an all-star roster of close to 20 musicians on February 25, 2020, days before the world began to shut down and people were forced to sequester. The event may never have happened if it had been delayed ...
read moreMick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac
by Doug Collette
Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac BMG 2021 Enclosed in a hardbound book format similar to Then Play On -The Celebration Edition (BMG, 2020), this homage to the late Peter Green, British guitarist and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac group, is a formal affair no less deeply felt for the equitable sharing of the spotlight for its duration. Whereas sit-ins have become increasingly common to ...
read moreThe First Generation 1965-1974
by John Kelman
What do guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel and Freddy Robinson, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalists John Almond, Ray Warleigh, Alan Skidmore, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Red Holloway and Ernie Watts, bassists John McVie, Jack Bruce, Andy Fraser, Tony Reeves, Stephen Thompson and Larry Taylor, drummers Mick Fleetwood, Keef Hartley, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman and Collin Allen, trumpeters Henry Lowther and Blue Mitchell, and violinist Don Sugarcane" Harris all share in common? They are but a few of the notable ...
read moreFleetwood Mac: Then Play On - The Celebration Edition
by Doug Collette
Announced for release roughly five weeks prior to the passing of guitarist extraordinaire Peter Green, The Celebration Edition of Fleetwood Mac's Then Play On was originally conceived as a prelude to the Mick Fleetwood And Friends Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green concert film. As fate would have it (fortunately or unfortunately), the ornate CD package appears just one day shy of the fifty-first anniversary of the record's original release date and, as such, serves as yet another fitting memorial ...
read moreBritain Plays the Blues
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
How did all those British rock bands learn to play the blues in the 1960s and why were they so fascinated by the form? What was the unlikely impact of the Yardbirds, the Animals, the Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, John Mayall, Cream and other British bands introducing white audiences to the blues in the U.S.? Most people think their education came from blues records they got their hands on in the U.K. And that playing here was something of an ...
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