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The Very Guest of… Mick Jagger
Perhaps it’s simply that no band — not even the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band — can constrain an ego a talent as great as that which blesses Sir Michael Philip Jagger. Perhaps
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Here’s Something Else!: Kicking It Old School, Sam Cooke Edition
America's first soul singer was lost in 1964 before his abilities as a writer, arranger and defacto producer could become more widely appreciated
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Paul Reddick
The kids are back in school, and Mojo Flucke is taking advantage of the peace and quiet the right way -- by blasting some blues harp with a country/folk bent
Read More »Live Music: Reykjavik Blues Festival, 4/8/09
Wednesday was our last night in Iceland and the second-to-the last night of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. It was a great show to end on, too. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith was hot on harmonica,
Read More »Live Music: Reykjavik Blues Festival, 4/7/09
The Reykjavik Blues Festival was started in 2003 by Halldor Bragason, a blues guitarist from Iceland who studied music in the United States. Halldor has performed with many of the greats, and now that
Read More »Live Music: Reykjavik Blues Festival, 4/6/09
In Icelandic, it’s a klubbar blueshatidar — a blues club — at least for the week of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. The rest of the year, the Cafe Rosenberg is a 100-seat cafe serving
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Left Lane Cruiser
On one hand, Jon Spencer, in my book, has a lot to answer for. The half-baked, half-rehearsed stuff he sometimes releases is offensive to the people who work for a living for actual money
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: John Cephas, 1930-2009
Last summer, I gave y’alls a Cephas & Wiggins Cold Shot that had no news peg, no current-events hook that made it relevant to that time, just a nice little cut to get you
Read More »Lost MP3 of the Week: Muddy Waters, “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had”
Being an obsessive music hoarder has its drawbacks. The questions of, “How often do I really listen to ______ ?” and all those albums that you really mean to get around to listening to,
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