The Michael Bloomfield story is a six-part video biography created by filmmakers Nick Lerman and Alex Wernquest, and site manager David Dann to celebrate Bloomfield's 67th birthday: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: … [Read more...]
Warren Haynes Interview with Relix
Relix.com recently interviewed Warren Haynes about the upcoming Warren Haynes Band album that he recorded right after recording Gov't Mule's By a Thread. The album will be primarily soul music, which was the first musical style Haynes fell in love with: This is a record I’ve waited my whole life to make because soul music was my first love. Before I ever heard rock and roll … [Read more...]
Jim Campilongo – The Virtual Woodshed Interview
Brian Williams recently interviewed New York-based guitarist Jim Campilongo for Virtual Woodshed. In the interview, Campilongo discusses, among other things, growing up in San Francisco, discovering Roy Buchanan, playing the Telecaster, working with Norah Jones, and he also offers advice for people trying to make it in the music business: I would simply say "learn songs". … [Read more...]
SRV 20th Anniversary Tribute Show
As I mentioned last week, this past Friday marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's tragic and untimely death. To pay tribute to SRV, the members of Double Trouble (Reese Wynans, Chris Layton, and Tommy Shannon) got together at a small club here in Nashville with a number of guitarists and played much of Stevie's recorded catalog of music. I was able to attend the … [Read more...]
Remembering Stevie
This Friday, August 27, marks 20 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan's tragic death. Fender has posted a nice retrospective about SRV with quotes about Stevie from his family and friends, including this quote from Double Trouble drummer Chris "Whipper" Layton: "I didn't meet him that night, but the first time I heard him play was at a place called Soap Creek Saloon in Austin, … [Read more...]