Bell Bottom Blues has remained one of my favorite songs since childhood. I remember a friend’s father had an electric guitar well before I even started playing. I’m talking around the age of 8, just marveling at this thing. His father could play, sort of, “Layla” along with the sheet music, as if one could …
When I moved to Medfield, Massachusetts at the age of 16, it was the dead of summer, from my hometown, the town I grew up in, to a place where I knew no one and had little chance of meeting many people for the rest of the summer — a little town in the woods …
This week’s COtW request, for “Bring it Home to Me,” comes from one of my old childhood friends, Dan DeBruin. Danny and I, along with some of the other old pals mentioned or pictured in this blog were rock & roll buds, discovering old and new music together, learning guitar, swapping tips on gear, forming …
Wake and I rocking Hot Stove Cool Music at Fenway 2005 (photo by Steve Latham) Buff Tom was in the studio this week working on new songs. Work has also been very busy in my day job. I feared not being able to get to the Cover of the Week this week and, while that …
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This is a sad old Hank Williams Song. Johnny Cash also provided an authoritative version. My acoustic was being worked on by the unparalleled Yukon, of the Music Emporium, so I went with very little guitar, some electric. [I added the acoustic in the 2019 remix.] More rambling to come in coming weeks, but been …
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Not much time to ramble on this week, Cutting to the chase, one of my oldest faves, CCR’s Lodi. Here is an old review I wrote of the song, about 8 years ago.
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Florida (mp3) Out on Highway 41, the Tamiami, he pulled into off at a McDonald’s because the boy saw the giant colorful play structure, an arching series of caterpillar-like tubes and slides that made it a human Habitrail. The 4-year-old boy inquired about the “playground at Mickeh Donalz,” as they slowed for the red light, …
Licking the wounds of old high school and college romances, real or imagined, I could often be found in my dorm room at UMass blasting the first album from This Mortal Coil, It’ll End in Tears, the collaborative effort of a bunch of artists from various acts on the 4AD record label circa 1984/1985: Cocteau …
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