A Little Heart Scare? Not! – Music by Anthony Gomes

Peace, Love and Loud Guitars - Anthony Gomes

The Run – 3.13 Miles  So today was my first run since Thursday the 25th of last month. I took off last week because of a head cold with lots of nasal congestion. Anyway the run was pretty good except for a little heart rate scare that slowed me down. I completed the first mile in 10:50 and was running fairly comfortably. My HR was around 145-147 beats per minute (bpm). The rate dropped a little over the next half-mile and didn’t hit 147 until I got to the top of a short hill near the 1.75 mile mark. I…

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Exploring the Blues of Toronto Born – Anthony Gomes – Rebel Blue!!

One of the blues albums that his been in my music rotation for the last few weeks is Rebel Blue from Anthony Gomes, a seventeen track Best of album! I discovered the Toronto-born Gomes in 2012 via his album Up2Zero, at that point Gomes was 14 years and 8 albums into his career that began back in 1998. In that year Gomes formed his own band after a brief stint as a sideman with Magic Slim and the Teardrops. The band then went out and won the first annual Buddy Guy’s Legends “Best Unsigned Blues Band” competition and later that…

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