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Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes – Selfe-Contained

Checking the Roots Music Report last night I made a short list of some names that looked interesting and gave them a quick listen the album that caught my attention and I ended up putting on the mp3 player was Selfe-Contained by Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes. Self-Contained is the band’s first release. Their most recent release Playing the Game is currently No. 41 on the chart down from 39 last week. It only took listening to the first track on Selfe-Contained an instrumental titled “Messing With A Lion” for me to realize that I was going to like this…

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Folk Monday – Ernest Troost

So you’re an Emmy winning and multi-nominated Emmy composer so what do you do to change things up? You return to your folk and blues roots and put out two well received albums All Boats Are Going to Rise and Resurrection Blues. Resurrection Blues is number five on the Folk DJ Chart for June 2010. That’s what Ernest Troost has done over the last few years!  Here’s what Ernest Says about his return to his roots at his website: “I had been writing a lot of instrumental music over the past few years in many different styles,” says Troost, “everything…

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Prince of Fire – Daniel Silva

So like I said I didn’t put down the Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva yesterday until I finished what is Book 26 of 2010. Obviously like all of Silva’s books this one was a real page turner for me! But I think that in this book more than any of his books Silva based the storyline on the history of the Arab-Isreali conflict and why both sides fight as hard as they do! The enemy that Gabriel Allon faces is Khaled al -Khalifa who is the grandson of  Asad al-Khalifa.  Asad al-Khalifa  fought the Israeli’s and Gabriel’s mentor and…

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Blues Wednesday with some Twang!

So I’ve never been a huge Albert Collins fan. I have a cassette of his album Iceman (1991) which has been converted to mp3s. It’s a great album and I love Albert’s guitar playing.  I obviously also have the album Showdown! (1985)  the album Albert did with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. That album is a favorite. While I knew Albert had died I didn’t know just when so I was surprised to see as I researched this piece that he died in 1993! About his death from Wikipedia: After falling ill at a show in Switzerland in late July…

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Never Look Away – Linwood Barclay

 Never Look Away – Linwood Barclay (Book 24 of 2010)   Ok, so I really did like Linwood Barclay‘s Zack Walker series but once again if he keeps writing books like book number 24 for 2010  Never Look Away I guess I’ll have to forgive him. I think I already mentioned the start of the book which centers around reporter David Harwood who has his life turned upside down and inside out after first his son is abducted at a theme park only to be quickly found and then his wife goes missing! From that point Harwood’s life is shattered…

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Linwood Barclay – Trombone Shorty What a pair!

So tonight I spent most of the nght engrossed in Linwood Barclay;s new book Never Look Away almost half way through and it’s tough to put down! Newspaper reporter David Harwood, his wife Jan and son Ethan are all set to spend a nice family day at the local amusement park Five Mountains. Soon after entering the park David leaves hiswife and son to go get ice cream, Jan looks way for a few minutes and looks back and the stroller and Ethan are gone – frantically Jan and David search the park David finds his son but returning to…

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Baja Florida – Bob Morris

Baja Florida by Bob Morris is the fifth book in the Zack Chastain series and is Book 23 for 2010. This series is always a fun quick read filled with interesting characters including Zack, former Gator, former Dolphin (well at least I can partially root for him), Zack’s wife Barbara and daughter Shula, and his right hand man Taino Shaman Boggy. Zack’s previous adventures have been chronicled in books with titles like Bahamarama, JamaciaMeDead, and Bermuda Schwartz! Some how most of what Zack does always turns out wrong! In this installment, Jack’s longtime friend Mickey Ryser, who is dying  pays…

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The Blues Rolls into Friday – Peter Parcek3

So on Wednesday when I checked the Roots Music Report Chart there at number 15 sat a name I didn’t recognize (what’s new) Peter Parcek and his new CD The Mathematics of Love so as usual I headed over to Rhapsody and they had the album so on to the player it went. It didn’t take long for me to know that this was an album that I was going to like, the opening track “Showbiz Blues” rocked and when the guitar went from one ear to the other I said oh, yeah! Anyway I have listened to the CD…

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The Blues Rolls on into Thursday – Bishop and Parcek

Ok so I don’t know which is moving slower tonight me or the computers! I installed WordPress 3.0 first I lost all my traffic counts for today I know I had more visitors than the 4 it now lists! As for me sometimes a hard run coming after a day of field work knocks me out which is what happened tonight. Anyway I did listen to some blues today! I had put Elvin Bishop‘s new album Red Dog Speaks on the player yesterday. This morning I added The Mathematics of Love by Peter Parcek. Now I’m familiar with Elvin Bishop…

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Book 22 – Bite Me – A Love Story

‘kayso, my new word from Abby Normal – so begins Book 22 for the year Bite Me by Christopher Moore.  In the words of Abby Normal: The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Like You Suck this book is a riot as Abby Normal, Foo Dog and their gay friend Jared are confronted with a vampire cat…

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