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Frank Gutch Jr: It’s Gonna Be a Blues, Blues Christmas; A Look Back at Rich McCulley; Plus Notes

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Altered Five Blues Band, Barenaked Ladies, Benny Turner, Bert Berns, Bob Segarini, Bobby Messano, Bongo Boy, Chris Smither, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Fred Cole, Free Beer, Gordon Meier Blues Experience, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Allchin, Jim Guthrie & JJ Ipsen, Jon Spear Band, Karen Lovely, Michael Packer, Michael Veitch, Mindi Abair, music, music videos, radio, Records, rich mcculley, Sonny Smith, Stacy Jones, Sweet Home Oregon, The Boneshakers, The Halley Devestern Band, Todd Herfindal, Waves That Stray on November 14, 2017 by segarini

I’m not a blues guy, really. The closest I come to the real blues is B.B. King, maybe— electric guitar a must. I listened to a little Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee during my college years and there was always John Mayall, who seemed to have the best of the up-and-comers in his band no matter what period. I accepted Cream as blues on certain songs, which probably tells you more about my non-blues background than anything. Loved The Blues Project and Paul Butterfield. Didn’t like Delta Blues. Stevie Ray Vaughn is pretty much the best blues I have heard. That should give you an idea of where I am coming from and where I am going because I am going to review some blues albums I enjoyed this year and tell you why. They will be short and a couple even have stories behind them.

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Roxanne Tellier: The Forgotten Man – Bert Berns

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bert Berns, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, music, music videos, radio, Records, Roxanne Tellier, segarini on February 5, 2017 by segarini

Imagine, if you will … writing not one, not two … but literally dozens of top ten hits, for groups as diverse as The Beatles, Solomon Burke, Edwin Starr, the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Barbara Lewis. Yeah, that’s lightning, baby …

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Doug Thompson: ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE MISSES THE MARK…..AGAIN!

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Rolling Stone Magazine recently released their latest ‘list’, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters” rollingstone.com). Let me repeat that title, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters”. Their descriptive line states “From Brill Building tunesmiths to Punk poets, from Woody Guthrie to Max Martin, the visionaries who defined music history.”