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Mojo’s Cold Shot: Do We Call What White Rockers Play “Blues?”
Since I started listening to blues, that’s been a hard question for me to answer. It’s important, because it speaks to what blues is, really. Can Clapton play the blues, really? Sure he knows
Read More »Live Music: Booker T., Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry NH, 4/29/09
Full disclosure: I’m a Hammond B-3 soul and soul-jazz freak, so I’m a homer here. My universe aligns around the likes of great players like Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Al Kooper, and
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Happy 70th, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson
This column, sadly, sometimes looks like the blues obituary page. Well, forget that for now! This Shot, we’re celebrating the life Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, a ripping-good Chicago-style guitarist who cut his teeth with
Read More »Popdose Concert Flashback: David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails, 9/16/95
Mojo Flucke caught Bowie with Nine Inch Nails in September of '95 -- and in his latest Concert Flashback, he tells you which half of the double bill gave him an audio root canal
Read More »CD Review: Allen Toussaint, “The Bright Mississippi”
If I were Allen Toussaint, I’d have taken a decade’s hiatus from making solo records, too. While the great New Orleans pianist—right up there on the city’s piano Mount Rushmore with Professor Longhair, James
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
Be still my soul. Lawd have mercy. When soul first came out, so many social issues made so many people so PO’d (civil rights, Vietnam, rioting in seemingly every urban area, drug abuse, the
Read More »The Popdose Interview: Gary “Dream Weaver” Wright
Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has two new EPs out, Waiting To Catch The Light, a set of new-age compositions, and The Light of a Million Suns, several cuts that harken back to 1980s
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Setting the Record Straight on Etta James
To the hardcore fan of 1950s blues, R&B, and soul, Etta James can be vexing. To anyone following the news lately, her calling out of Beyonce for singing “At Last” at an Obama inaugural
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Tin Machine, “Tin Machine”
Tin Machine was flat-out great, featuring fierce guitars, edgy lyrics and even edgier production. The world thought it stunk, and threw stuff at David Bowie and his noisy bandmates when they took the stage
Read More »Popdose Concert Flashback: George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars, 4/22/95
“Incongruous” is the only way to describe this night. First of all, UNH is perhaps the whitest venue in the whitest state in the union. Furthermore, the Godfather of Funk shared a bill with…The
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