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Joe Bonamassa – Driving Towards the Daylight!

Joe Bonamassa - Driving toward the Daylight

Ok so the weather was nice today, my legs felt pretty good, so I thought it would be a good day to stretch it out a little and go for a long run. I decided on a 10k course that I laid out last year. It includes a couple of…

Blues – Running and Falling with Walter Trout – Blues for the Modern Daze

So yesterday afternoon we had a thundershower, but by the time I wanted to run the sun was out and the temperature had dropped appreciably. Oh, I should preface this by saying that the morning starting with my wife telling me that son two, Andrew was at Underwood Hospital in…

Joanne Shaw Taylor and Mitch Kashmar with Me On the Road!

Hot! Yes that describes today’s weather. But it also describes the blues that I listened to this morning on my way to and from Cookstown! On the way there the hotness was supplied by British blues guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor and on the way back the warmth was provided by…

Jesse Winchester – Gettin’ Ready for Folk Favorite

Jesse Winchester - Jwssw Winchester album

So the other night I ordered my tickets to go to see Jesse Winchester at The Tin Angel here in Philly. I’ve been a fan of Jesse’s music since my wife introduced his music to me in the early 70’s. “Yankee Lady” was the first song she loved. Through the…

John McCutcheon’s Passage Is Still Powerful on a “Folk Friday

Discovering John McCutcheon’s Passage – 15 Years Later and Still Powerful Back in November 2010, while browsing the Folk DJ Chart, I came across an artist I somehow hadn’t given enough attention to: John McCutcheon. His album Passage was sitting at #19, and I thought: it’s time. So I loaded…

A Sunday Night’s Music Listening Trail! A Beautiful Trail!

This post was originally published in September of 2010 – Updated January 2016 A Rediscovered Listening Trail It all started because I was search for some bluegrass from the 1970s and I went searching for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. What I found was one of those nights where one…