Vox Mobile Catalog Review
I was toodling around the iTunes App store this morning, and when I did a search for “guitar amps,” I discovered the “Vox Mobile Catalog” for my iPhone and I was hooked the moment after the free download.
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Boles Blues Review in the iTunes App Store!
We love the Guitar World Lick of the Day and, this week, that keen program is the “iPad App of the Week” in the iTunes store.
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The Living Proof of Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy is 74-years-old and his latest album — Living Proof — dropped today and that collection of gut and grit is, without a doubt, spectacular. Buddy Guy is one of our greatest American Blues Heroes. He has transformed his talent into something bright, white-hot, and unbending.
The Andy Poxon Band Red Roots Review
When we are met with the abject Blues failures of fail-safe luminaries like Eric Clapton and Cyndi Lauper — getting a fresh breath of the Blues with 16-year-old Andy Poxon — is just the tonic we need to keep on skiffling.
The Clapton Review: Waiting Four Years for Mediocrity
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.
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Gregor Hilden Plays the YouTube Blues
Gregor Hilden is one of those Bluesman who — once you hear a single chord he plays — forever owns your sense of what’s good and your definition of what makes The Blues intrinsically real and beautifully human. I’ve never met Greg proper, but I feel as if I’ve known him forever — merely because I drink in his daily GregsGuitars videos on YouTube. Four days ago, I couldn’t bear my secret delight in his talent any longer, and I posted my very first comment on a video in my long history of using YouTube:
Tom Petty Finds his Blues Mojo
We’re in the high season for new Blues album releases from the old music guard. This week we have new Blues albums from Steve Miller and Tom Petty. On Tuesday, Cyndi Lauper will drop “Memphis Blues” for our listening pleasure. What is is about the Blues that brings us back to the center of our shared experiences? How does music bind us into contextual places that have memeingful resonances? With the release of — Mojo — Tom Petty endeavors to answer those ethereal musical conundrums.
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