A Shout Out to John Mayall

I find it interesting to follow the genealogy of artists and bands as members move around forming new bands and the occasional supergroup.  It’s fun to see how the music is impacted by bringing disparate musicians together. John Mayall is responsible for giving us some of the best and most …

The Guild of Blues

As mentioned in other posts, I am a fan of the blues.  I was thinking about how best to describe my journey of discovery from the early ’70’s to today,  and I saw it in three phases: the original bluesmen, the adoption of that style by the young (at the …