"Just let me hear some of that Rock And Roll Music, Any old way you choose it;
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it, Any old time you use it.
It's gotta be Rock And Roll Music, If you want to dance with me."

I can't remember a time in my life when music wasn't all around me. I feel as if I was born into the midst of a chorus of "Dance With Me Henry" playing in the background. Or maybe it was just the musicians in my head that made me think there was always music. Like some people hear voices in their heads, I heard percussion; I was a rock 'n roll girl.

Some of my FAVE GUITARS belong to:

(Yea yea yea, I know, some of these guitars are playing in another dimension -- Don't bother me with details!)

Leslie West Eric Clapton George Thorogood
Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Alvin Lee
Jimmy Paige Buddy Guy George Harrison
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jimmie Vaughan Les Paul
Mark Knopfler Cub Koda (ever hear "Henrietta"?)
Joe Satriani Carlos Santana Steve Cropper
Danny Gatton Roy Buchanan Chet Atkins

Being a Jersey Girl growing up in boomer time when Rock 'n Roll was morphing from Rhythm & Blues, it was pretty easy to think the only music in existence was "our music, the music that permeated the Jersey waves" - both on the beach and in the air, so I guess I'd have to say I morphed, too, from doo-wop to hard-to-remember top 40 to Motown to psychedlic to hard&glam and then almost like the rpm speed of the old vinyl records, I came right back around to rhythm and blues again, only now it's guitars and saxophones, lots of horns, lots of drums.

Some of my FAVE BANDS include:
Little Feat
Allman Brothers Bruce & the E Street Band
subdudes Destroyers
ZZ TOP
Double Trouble
Rolling Stones
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Mike Morgan & the Crawl
Kenny Acosta & the House Reckers
Aerosmith
Angola State Prison Band (Stax at its best....Let the jailhouse rock! :)

And of course there's "DA BLOOS"

"When Adam & Eve ate from the apple
They became confused
And since that time
Everybody's had

Wanna hear the blues? You don't have to be in the Washington, DC listening area to listen to the Gator Show & the Bama Hour @ WPFW FM (89.3) from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 1 p.m. weekdays for the Bill Wax "Blue Plate Special" show. Now you can just log on...

Or try the best little radio station this side of the Mason-Dixon line, WRNR FM (103.1), you'll hear the best mix of just about every musical variation and inspiration you can imagine. The station's sound is like a musical stream of consciousness; one song segues into the next. WRNR has no formal playlists and is a virtual musical garden of sounds! Free-form progressive radio and now you can stream it from the 'net anytime day or nite, and on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. Damien plays the bloos there too.
OR
Listen to the greatest little radio station out of my beloved Weezieanna!


My ULTIMATE favorite BLOOS lady is, simply, Etta James.

Some other BLOOS greats, in my opinion, include:
M Z Jones Blue Sister
Mike Morgan & the Crawl (with Lee McBee) Johnny Lang
Parliament Funkadelics w/Bootsy and George
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Johnny Copeland
Ten Years After Delbert McClinton

And Who Could Possibly Forget...
The Band with the Fewest Living Drummers
And Maybe The Loudest Band in History?

Often imitated but never duplicated

I guess I should probably confess that there's some honky-tonk country stuff that I listen to, not the mainstream but the likes of Dwight Yoakam, the Tractors, the Mavericks, Prairie Oyster, LeeAnn Rimes (I practically need a revival meeting every time I hear "Blue"), Patsy Cline & George Strait.

Blues Festivals
Blues Access Sun Studios, Memphis


Layla

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, and drycleaners depressed?

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