After the release being delayed a day, you can now finally purchase the “12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief” album on iTunes. I watched the concert on live television and it’s interesting to see which artists and what songs made the 24 cuts on this memorial hurricane record.
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One year ago today, we published the first BolesBlues.com article called, rightly enough — “What is BolesBlues.com?” — and that article was quickly followed by, “From Old Cooter to Boles Blues” to help explain the provenance of who we are and what we hoped to become in time.
For the past five years, Eric Clapton has hosted a Crossroads Guitar Festival to raise money for his charity: The Crossroads Center of Antigua. This year’s festival — supposedly the last one ever — was held in Chicago on June 26th under a perilous sky and punishing heat. The movie version of the festival is now available for purchase on iTunes for $20.00USD — or your can rent it for $4.00USD. I plucked the purchase route, and I’ve been glorifying in Crossroads 2010 since late last night.
Few people today realize what a great and immense talent Peter Green was when he founded Fleetwood Mac. Forget Mick Fleetwood. Forget John McVie. The original spark of brilliance that started it all for Fleetwood Mac was the composition brilliance of, and singing skills of, Peter Green.
Continue reading → Peter Green: The Green God with the Holy Grail Guitar
Eric Clapton’s new album dropped today — simply titled, “Clapton” — and this is his first album of new songs in over four years and, unfortunately, the record is ashamedly weak and painfully forlorn. See Clapton dully staring back at you from the album cover below? That’s perfectly encapsulates the listening experience of the music. He. Blankly. Stares. At. You. With. A. Dour. Face.
Continue reading → The Clapton Review: Waiting Four Years for Mediocrity
Let me start off this review of the first Black Country Communion album released two days ago by saying I am a big Joe Bonamassa fan — now, we all confess Joe needs to lose the too-tight Preacherman suit and drop the sunglasses in performance — but he is an established and wildly important modern Blues Guitarist. Joe isn’t a great singer, but he makes a fretboard wail with a caustic vibration. Joe’s latest concoction is this Black Country Communion “SuperGroup” he formed — and it is an utter, and vast, failure.
Continue reading → Bored by the Blues: Joe Bonamassa's Black Country Communion Sin
If you want to know what guitar a great guitarist really plays — you need to look beyond what they are playing now — and hearken back to what guitar they were playing when they were poor, unknown, and hungering for fame. I argue today, that the greatest guitarists of our time started off their careers playing the Gibson Les Paul — even though Fender and the Stratocaster and Telecaster were cheaper and beat the Les Paul to market.
Continue reading → The Best Guitarists First Played a Les Paul
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