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Blues Wednesday – Sean Chambers

So for the last couple of weeks I’ve had Sean Chambers second album Humble Spirits on the mp3 player and have enjoyed it. Sean is a Florida bluesman in the mold of Stevie Ray Vaughan, i.e. blues with a rock edge. Humble Spirits, was produced by Bud Snyder (The Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule), and featured featured such special guests as Bernard Allison, Frankie and Dan Toler (The Allman Brothers), Bobby T. Torello (Johnny Winter) and Greg Allman band alumnus Bruce Waibel. Sean has been ranked in the Top 50 blues rock guitarists by Britain’s “Guitarist Magazine” and he…

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Book 18 – Nothing Sacred – Lewis Black

So Book 18 is Lewis Black’s book Nothing Sacred. Even though it’s a short book it’s taken me a while to get through, mainly because I only read it while I’m waiting for the computer in the back room to either boot up or load a webpage something that may take a long time and I need a laugh, and Lewis Black makes me laugh! Whenever I see him on TV either on The Daily Show or his own Comedy Specials, he makes me laugh. I could hear the same stories over and over and I’ll still laugh. Whether he’s…

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Anders Osborne – American Patchwork

Ok so one of the new albums that I downloaded the other day to listen to on Blues Wednesday was American Patchwork by Anders Osborne. Well I just put the album on to listen to it on more time before I wrote this piece forgetting (a) that I ran tonight and (b) that it was nearing 11:00 anyway the album opens with a great song “On the Road to Charlie Parker” …….and then I feel asleep! So Eliot he plays a lot in New Orleans, if you read this is he good!! No seriously this album on Alligator Records is…

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The Blues Wednesday Rolls On……Dave Fields

So the other night I was looking through music at emusic.com and I came across an artist Dave Fields and his 2007 release Time’s a Wastin’. I listened to the first track “Let’s Get Shakin’” the other night and it was a really great jump blues track with some great guitar work so I put the whole album on the mp3 player today and gave it a listen. I will be moving on to listen to his newest album All Wound Up soon ’nuff said! Here’s what some other say about Dave’s guitar playing: .a superb guitarist with an over-the-top…

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Blues Wednesday and an Excursion Down Memory Lane

Ok so, it’s Blues Wednesday and I started by listening to Jonny Lang’s album Live at the Ryman. The last Live at the Ryman album I listened to was Robert Earl Keen so somehow to me blues at the Ryman  just isn’t the way I think of the venue. Anyway the album and Jonny’s guitar wizardry was good!   There were some tracks that really caught my attention but I’ll listen again and write more later. Next I had to change genres because I was writing and I went to Rhapsody and checked out the Blues Jazz artists one that…

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Favorite Series – The Body Farm Books

So I am currently reading The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass. This is the fifth book in The Body Farm series and I have enjoyed everyone of them. Let’s play the if then game. If you like Kathy Reich’s books and the TV show Bones, then you will like the Body Farm Books. The Body Farm is the Forensics Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee where they study decomposition of the human body. The Body Farm was founded in 1970  by one-half of the writing team Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Bass. What others say about the Body Farm and…

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David Brewbaker – A Sign of Life

So for the last month or so an album by friend from the No Depression Community David Brewbaker has been on my mp3 player. The album is A Sign of Life and every time I listen to it and become more familiar with the tunes, I like the album more and more! Brewbaker’s music is a nice mix of blues and jazz and the first artist that I thought of who plays that cross-over type music was Robben Ford and after several listens and hearing the sax work on the album provided by Brain Graham of Sly Chi, Portland Maine’s…

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Blues Wednesday – Part 1 – The Insomniacs

Today I listened to three blues albums that I read about last night in the current issue of Blues Revue Magazine. The three albums are At Least I’m Not With You by The Insomniacs. Sean Chambers 2005 release Humble Spirits and Anders Osborne 2010 release American Patchwork. I enjoyed all three albums with the first two being new favorites and the third only listened to once! First up was The Insomniacs At Least I’m Not With You. The Insomniacs hail from Portland, Oregon and play a vintage blues on vintage instruments from Delta Groves website: They play vintage instruments and…

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Nick Moss – Live at Chan’s – Combo Platter No. 2

So the other day after I listened to Nick Moss’ new CD Privileged I said I was going to go back and listen to some of his other CDs. So today I listened to his album Live at Chan’s – Combo Platter No. 2 and I think I like it more than Privileged. The album is just flat out great! Because the tracks are longer the band gets to stretch a little more and the results are some fantastic tracks, starting with the opening  track “Spare Ribs & Chopsticks” an eight plus minute instrumental featuring the basic band Moss on…

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Book 17 – The Narrows – Michael Connelly

Ok so the last book I read Nowhere to Run by C.J.Box was the 10th book in the Joe Pickett series and now book number 17 The Narrows by Michael Connelly also the 10th book in the series featuring  Harry Bosch only difference is that I have read all the books in the Pickett series and this is my first Harry Bosch book! I had started The Concrete Blonde book # 3 years ago and for one reason or another couldn’t get into it so I never tried to read another Connelly book (the series is now up to 14)….

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