Category Archives: Posts with Video
A “This Historic Day In Music” Double Header: Jimmy Raney & John Hiatt
In my small-but-carefully-selected collection of Jazz guitar albums, I have only one by Jimmy Raney. The LP is called Momentum. It showcases Jimmy in a trio with Richard Davis on bass violin and Alan Dawson on drums. Judging by the fact … Continue reading
August Music, So Far
One of the best parts of summer here in Southeastern New Hampshire is the Prescott Park Arts Festival. Prescott Park is located between Portsmouth Harbor and the historic Strawbery Banke Museum district in downtown Portsmouth. Every year since 1974 the … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: A Jazz Guitarist Was Born
A Jazz guitarist was born on this day, July 31, in 1931. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, this Jazz guitarist started to play at the age of 12. He was inspired to play guitar, instead of tenor sax (his … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Charlie Christian
Jazz musician & electric guitarist Charlie Christian was born on this day, July 29, in 1916 in Bonham, Texas. Charlie became a member of the Benny Goodman Quintet on August 16, 1939. Through his resultant 23-month career that included recordings, … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Mississippi John Hurt
This is my third post celebrating the anniversary of the birthday of Mississippi John Hurt. Last year, in my post of July 3, 2011, I included a link to a video of John playing and singing “You Got To Walk … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Big Bill Broonzy
I don’t remember when or where I first heard or read it, but Big Bill Broonzy is a name you don’t forget. Big Bill Broonzy played guitar and sang the Blues. Big Bill’s recording career started in November of 1927. He … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: June 20,1937, The Vitagraph/Warner Brothers Exchange Building, 508 Park Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Even though it was a typically hot middle-of-June Texas afternoon and even though the “recording studio” was a third-floor room in a warehouse/office building in downtown Dallas, Robert Johnson had the most productive day of recording in his career. Johnson cut seventeen … Continue reading
With The Help Of Many Friends…
Here’s something a bit different from my usual sixstr stories fare. I was invited to participate in this project back in April by my friend and colleague, Bob Squires and one of his students, Oscar Dupuy d’Angeac. Oscar came up with the … Continue reading
So Long, Doc
Arthel “Doc” Watson died yesterday, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was 89 years old. Doc Watson played acoustic guitar in both the flat-picking and fingerpicking style. Whether you called it Folk or Country or Bluegrass, the … Continue reading
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