We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
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- Todd Bishop
- July 8, 2016
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An excellent Mississippi Blues documentary featuring Fat Possum artists R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough (my favorite), along with a good fife and drum group, and others. I had a bad VHS dub of this in […]
Groove o’ the day: Jimmy Smith / Midnight Special
- Todd Bishop
- October 11, 2017
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In about 1991 I lived in Eugene, Oregon, and every once in awhile KLCC 87.9 would play something that would send you immediately to Cat’s Meow (the jazz record store that survived for 30 years […]
Groove o’ the day: Al Jackson, Jr. — Crosscut Saw
- Todd Bishop
- December 30, 2014
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Here’s a sort of a blues rhumba groove by Al Jackson, Jr.. The song is Crosscut Saw, from Albert King’s classic album, Born Under A Bad Sign. Play the housetop accents as rim shots. Use […]