Word: bluesman
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...Rush, but when it works, it means that Guitar Wizard David Bromberg, for example, doesn't just appear, do a three- song Bromberg bubble unrelated to anything else and then vanish. Instead he may back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...
...with startling blue eyes, and with him was a friend, Ira Hudson, who volunteered, "I'm doing fine for a 75-year-old pap." Owens got out his twelve string Silvertone guitar from Sears, Roebuck, and you could see dust buildup on all the lower frets that a bluesman never fingers. Spires accepted an A harp from Owens, removed a wooden kitchen match from his mouth and began to blow...
...group began to move away from R and B after 1965, but those first three years produced a musical foundation on which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British...
...trailing in her wake; Heart by Heart, a mix of live hits and new studio-recorded songs by Seattle's contribution to womanly rock & roll, All Shook Up from Cheap Trick, who recently left baseball-stadium-sized audiences in Japan in just that condition; a new album from indomitable bluesman Muddy Waters; another from state-of-the-art New Wavers Talking Heads (see On Tour for coverage of their Heatwave Festival appearance); New Directions in Europe, a live one from Jack DeJohnette; Triumph from the Jacksons; plus new albums from Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Butterfield and George Harrison...
...Levy Bluesman Band--Inn Square...