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This month In Blues Legends 10/12

Skip James, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, Peter Green, Son House, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, Bernie Marsden, Eilidh McKellar, Robben Ford, Matt Schofield, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters

Harmonizing veteran David Crosby embark young partners, among them Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy, for another trip toward Woodstock. Your weed or mine?

David Crosby's 'Here If You Listen' is his seventh album recorded with Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy and released on October 26, 2018 by BMG

(Source David Crosby - Here If You Listen | Official Site)

David Crosby

USA Today



At age, 77, David Crosby is a “lion in winter” – sage in the ways of the world he serenades, with leonine hair and a history of stirring up trouble through song

Washington Post



Crosby shows great taste and artistic smarts in giving The Lighthouse Band, as the collective is known, a more prominent presence Billboard

Crosby addresses his own mortality, singing “I've been thinking about dying/ and how to do it well.” It’s a tough subject, but one that he tackles head-on

David Crosby - Here If You Listen

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Released in March 1968, "Song

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Singing (and playing) With B.B. King

Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Ray Charles, U2, Ruth Brown, Richie Sambora, Gary Moore, Tracy Chapman, David Gilmour, Luciano Pavarotti, Gladys Knight, Jerry Reed

For ‘In the Blue Light,’ Paul Simon hires Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and others to revisit several old and more obscure pieces of his catalogue. De(blue)lightful!

Paul Simon's 'In the Blue Light' is his fourteenth solo studio album recorded with among others Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, Bryce Dessner from The National and the yMusic sextet and released on September 7, 2018 by Legacy Recordings.

(Source Paul Simon - In the Blue Light | The Paul Simon Official Site)

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Rolling Stone



But leave it to Simon—who made Nile Rodgers play 90-something guitar takes for one session—to redo songs in ways that don’t exactly overhaul the originals.

The Independent



...they are contemplative and melancholic one moment, silly and absurdist the next The Times

is a strange choice for a songwriter of his stature: a reworking of songs he felt were overlooked or not quite right first time

Paul Simon - In the Blue Light

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Benny Goodman In Japan

Benny Goodman came to Japan three times to perform in concert. In 1957 (or is it 1956?) sponsored by the U.S. State Department / ANTA and with a big band, in 1964 with a small group and in 1980 for the "Aurex Jazz Festival" happening in three cities.

This week In Guitar Virtuosi 31/52

Richie Sambora, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray , Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Carlos Santana, Jerry Garcia , Rich Robinson, Jonny Lang, Stanley Jordan, Alvin Lee , Jimmy Page

We All remember Ella Fitzgerald. ‘Hello Ella’

This day (June 15, 1996), in Beverly Hills, California, died Ella Fitzgerald, an American jazz and song vocalist, also known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella, who had a vocal range spanning three octaves and was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a horn-like improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

Happy Birthday Kenny Wayne Shepherd. ‘Blues Shepherd’

This day (June 12, 1977), in Shreveport, Louisiana, is born Kenny Wayne Shepherd, an American blues artist , guitarist and songwriter

Tracklist :

1 . I want you (2020)

2 . Woman Like You (2019)

3 . Born With A Broken Heart (2018)

4 . Hard Lesson Learned (2017)

5 . While We Cry (2015)

6 . King Bee / Oh Well (2014)

7 . Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (2013)

8 . Shotgun Blues (2011)

9 . While We Cry (2012)

10 . w/ Cootie Stark - U-Haul

11 . True Lies (2008)

12 . Blue on Black (2007)

13 . w/ Noah Hunt - Losing Kind

14 . Slow Ride (1997)

15 . Deja Voodoo (1996)

Tracklist :

Everything Is Broken . Blue on Black . Everybody Gets the Blues . Born With A Broken Heart . Deja Voodoo . Somehow, Somewhere, Someway . True Lies . Never Lookin' Back . King's Highway . Slow Ride .