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Blues fallin’ down like hail

From the cover of King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. III first came across the blues through this image. It was on the front cover of King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II, a collection of...

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Easy pieces

Karen Black and Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970), via BFIThe 1970 film Five Easy Pieces is generally held to be among the best of the classic 70s period of Hollywood cinema. It tells of an oil...

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Island music

Toots and the Maytals (Toots Hibbert right) in The Harder They ComeReggae is island music. It is music that came out of the island of Jamaica, and in its true form could only derive from that place,...

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One chord wonders

Among the notable people whose passing has been marked over the past couple of months, some may have missed the mention given to Dave Bartholomew, who died in June at the age of 100. He was one of the...

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100 guitarists – part 1

Sue Foley , via suefoley.comWhat is it about guitar music that I find so compelling? The interest has been not so much in the guitar as one feature of a group, but as a solo endeavour, where all is...

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100 guitarists – part 2

Jimmie Vaughan, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)As said, over five posts I am listing a top 100 favourite guitarists, from number 100 to number one. All of the pieces I have picked are as much favourites...

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100 guitarists – part 3

Nels Cline, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)Here is part three of a series of five posts listing 100 favourite guitarists of mine, from number 100 to number one. All of the pieces selected are...

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100 guitarists – part 4

Mary Flower, via maryflower.comHere is the fourth of five posts listing a top 100 favourite guitarists of mine, from number 100 to number one. All of the pieces are instrumentals – I decided that there...

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100 guitarists – part 5

Elizabeth Cotten, via BandcampFinally we come to the top 20 of this listing of 100 instrumentals by 100 favourite guitarists of mine. I like lists. They make sense of things.20. Nic Jones, ‘Planxty...

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Recovering Bob

Back in 2017 I produced a post, Covering Bob, on cover versions of Bob Dylan’s songs. It was accompanied by a Spotify list that brought together other people’s versions of Dylan’s songs in...

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