An unknown name to many rock fans, Michael Bloomfield was the Greatest Rock Guitar Hero. That means Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Beck and all others can step aside….
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In interest of full disclosure here’s the conflict of interest statement Popdose Legal forces us to write on occasions like these: Fellow music critics use my Smithereens addiction as a…
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Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker…
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Each Thanksgiving at the Flucke household, we have a special tradition where we open up the mojo bag and drop in some new gris-gris, playing Dr. John and Professor Longhair…
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Mike Bloomfield’s second album has received the digital reissue treatment, and Mojo Flucke revels in the “classic 1970s R&B and funk stew.”
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Jon Spencer’s the reigning court jester of blues, a smart-aleck white guy who is part clown, part serious musician, part genius, and 100% fan of raunchy electric blues. His joyous,…
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In his latest Cold Shot, Mojo Flucke bids a fond farewell to blues queens Saffire, who are calling it quits next month after a wonderful 22-year career.
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He may have been born under a bad sign, but this week, Albert King gets his due as Mojo Flucke looks back on the life and times of the guitar giant with the Web’s bluesiest pencast.
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One of the many things I love about Popdose is our collective freedom to write different kinds of posts: Sometimes you gets yourself a Cold Shot related to some bit…
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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.
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There’s no ticket from this show to scan; I was just one of the guys on the guest list. Turns out that when this band came to the Iron Horse…
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Mojo Flucke is back, and this week, he’s pouring us a Cold Shot of James Booker. Drink up!
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Mojo Flucke has returned from an unexplained disappearance, still woozy from a cold shot of ’60s blues powerhouse Super Session.
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This week on Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke recalls the beautiful, yet challenging final album by the man known as John Cougar Mellencamp, Big Daddy.
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“Anniversary editions” of an album rarely stand up to the hype. It’s as if the record companies, having run out of new recording formats to remarket to the public, latch…
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
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My fellow New Hampshire resident Mighty Sam McClain will be releasing his latest record, Betcha Didn’t Know, on City Hall Records July 21. It’s been a while in the releasing,…
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A couple years after 12 million buyers signed their name across his heart, Terence Trent D’Arby got sophomore jinxed but good — and in this week’s edition of Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke makes a case for Neither Fish Nor Flesh.
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In this week’s Cold Shot, Mojo Flucke bids a fond farewell to blues legend Koko Taylor.
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For this week’s Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke talks about Madchester, the Stone Roses’ much-loved debut, and one very special denim jacket.
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Sorry mates, don’t mean to confuse y’all. For the record, Ed Murray’s currently writing Lo-Fi Mojos, and this is the normal location for a refreshing, boozy Cold Shot of blues…
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For all the Hammond-deficient Memorial Day barbecues out there, Mojo Flucke has prepared a treat: The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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If I were Allen Toussaint, I’d have taken a decade’s hiatus from making solo records, too. While the great New Orleans pianistÁ¢€”right up there on the city’s piano Mount Rushmore…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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