Gov’t Mule recently releases a new archival album, The Tel-Star Sessions. The album features songs taken from the group’s June 1994 demo sessions at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, FL. The sessions with Allman Brothers Band sound man Bud Snyder feature the original lineup of Haynes, Allen Woody and Matt Abts. They were intended to be the Mule’s debut […]
SRV has played a large role throughout my career. Though I never interviewed him because he passed away before I started working for Guitar World, I have written many, many articles about Stevie, including a massive oral history which led me to interview almost everyone involved with his music. Without that, I might never have […]
This week in 1970, Eric Clapton and Duane Allman and the rest of Derek and the Dominos recorded Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs in Miami. Here’s the story of that landmark album, in an excerpt from One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. Copyright 2014 — Alan Paul. ** With their second album […]
Bob Weir has a new solo album coming. It’s called Blue Mountain and I’ve been hearing very good things about it. Here’s a first taste, the single “Only A River.” You can preorder the album on Amazon right here. From the video post: Before he co-founded the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir spent a summer working and living […]
Phil Lynott formed Thin Lizzy in 1970 when he was 21. Though he had only just learned to play bass, the Dublin, Ireland band recorded their self-titled debut album within a year. They released six more albums over the following five years, gaining moderate success in Ireland and England as Lynott honed his songwriting. In […]
Great news that Les Brers has added a bunch of tour dates and will perform two East Coast swings, one in September and one in October. The dates are below. For more details and ticket-buying links, visit the band’s website here. Les Brers features five former members of the Allman Brothers Band — Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Marc […]
With Chinese cupping in the news thanks to the strange circular black and blue marks on Michael Phelps and other US swimmers, I thought I’d share my own experience with the procedure. My The Expat Life column from WSJ.com from almost a decade ago: Massage in China is plentiful and fairly cheap — anywhere from […]
What better way to celebrate what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 74th birthday with some newly discovered soundboard recordings courtesy of our friends at Jambase. Scott Bernstein writes, “Nearly a dozen rare recordings from Garcia’s time in the Grateful Dead as well as performances with keyboardist Merl Saunders have been shared via Bit Torrent […]
In 1973, the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band and The Band teamed up for the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York’s Finger Lakes Region. It was the largest music festival ever, drawing about 650,000 people — nearly twice as many as Woodstock four years earlier. The one-day festival was planned by the Dead’s Sam […]