I’ve been listening to a lot of blues lately… and spent some time today getting deep into Lightnin’ Hopkins’ music.
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I can never say enough good words about Wes Montgomery.
This has been popular lately across the blogosphere.. So I tuned my ear in for a listen and was pleasantly surprised to find it suited my day perfectly.
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Black Box No.51 – We Kick off the new half century with a bunch of Jazz and Blues. We get deep with Coleman, Coltrane and Ellington before letting our hair down for a load of heavy blues from the latest release of Rory Gallagher material to hit the shelves… before finishing up with a little [...]
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Black Box No.42 – This week is an altogether Jazzy encounter, and while we have a special on Rory Gallagher 15 years afrter his untimely death, the vibe stays Jazzy with music from Kenny Dorham, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cinematic orchestra and others… we also check out the Havana Cultura Remix album, and by the [...]
As we approach the 15th anniversary of the death of a true rock/blue guitar legend I am reminded of how I first found myself becoming immersed in the music of Rory Gallagher at a young age, and how his legacy encouraged me to try and be just as good with six strings between my fingers…. [...]
About this time last year I was sitting on a couch in France listening to Boss Guitar by Wes Montgomery for the millionth time thinking “I should really write a little something about Wes…” I made a short post to that effect as a sort of reminder… needless to say I forgot.
“Oh nice…” said I one day while browsing though the recommended section in the music store. I had of course just stumbled across the latest release from Andrew Bird, an album I vaguely remembered being released and saying to myself “yea… get that” but never did…
As i continue to delve deeper into the seemingly endless chasm of amazing music on Soundcloud I have come across some real gems that I think are worth giving a shout out…
It all comes back in many shades of blue…
- click to listen here We open up with Re: Stacks by Bon Ivor, it was while I was listening to this tune that I came up with the idea for this show. This album, one of those heart wrenching break-up albums that perhaps says way too much and leaves the listener helpless to understand [...]
A …. a little letter to begin the meaningful. Yet we use it, and i wonder how emotions are hidden inside balls of sound.. we look at panes of glass and map out the patterns, and discus the objective of the creator, why we look into these reflections of reality and reality itself. Is [...]
Response to Black Box Radio Show No.2 featured as comment under original Radio Podcast….. ::::::::::::::::: Since the mic broke on me, ill just fill in on what i was going to say bout these songs. I had the pleasure of seeing Chris Cunningham, Pivot, Andrew Weatherall and one of my long time favourite artists [...]
Not going to lie Brought on the old memories and wondering where in the first place Will it not be a good memory? will it not also be bad? Driving slow like a hum across a frosty morning. I remember that same feeling in a moore of south west England I will miss that I [...]
Ill tell you where…just not here, yet! Got you hard between the reciever and the truth and I am shining light into the black slips of money and sound. Then there is none…you threw it away with the most important words and the longest silences…dead sound…send that email….take that chance…forget the consequences they say? [...]
Nothing today was worth the night before… except for the moment before i stopped working on the stringed family member, and the moment i started again today…. everything would have been fine…. it’s just a pity that moment lasted a whole 24hours… Lets hope tomorrow is better… …happiness on my ear as plastic machines shoot [...]
