Tag Archive for: blues

John Mayall to tour as trio for first time

  The following is a press release I thought you might enjoy. I did not write or edit. -AP LOS ANGELES - With a new studio album titled Talk About That in the can for release in early 2017 on Forty Below Records (which includes special…

Jimmy Rogers, 1924-1997

Jimmy Rogers was a seminal guitar player -whether or not you've ever heard of him. I never did a massive interview with him, which is endlessly annoying, because I was supposed to do so several times. Circa 1995, I spoke with him several…
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Albert Collins with the Allman Brothers

The great bluesman Albert "Iceman" Collins' final US tour was opening for the Allman Brothers on a Midwestern swing. Every night he would come out and play with the Brothers. On 7/1/93 at Deer Creek in Indiana, he joined them for their…