Ploddings

The bluesman who Keith Richards, Clapton, Dylan, and many others credit as a prime influence. The bluesman who initiated the 27 Club, with a mysterious death by poisoning.Where is he buried? It’s a recurring question for so many pre-war blues musicians...

Throughout nearly all music today, the blues has permeated like a vast river over the past decades and centures — creating other child water-streams, which themselves have grown to become vast rivers of their own, with similar branches of child streams...

There are a couple places that lay claim to the spot where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil. One is the intersection of Highway 61 & Highway 49, and another is the intersection of Highway 1 & Highway 8. Both are quite nearby each other, just a short...

In asking what year the blues started, it’s again us humans being probably overly focused on “firsts” — almost looking through history with a kaleidoscope, choosing to see it the way we’d like to see it, as a neat and tidy stream of linear progressions...

One question that comes up from time to time is what form of the blues is most common.As a general note, and a more spiritual level, I’d say the common form of the blues lies in the natural human condition of suffering. I mean this in an honest, everyday type...

On your next deep-south, blues exploration trip, one stop to surely make is at the intersection of Highway 61 & Highway 49 — just south-east of legendary Clarksdale, that epicentre of blues history.Cancel that Disneyland trip you’ve got — hell! cancel your...

Oscar Peterson, the Montreal-born pianist, known for his blistering technique, yet serene touch on the keyboard lived from 1925 to 2008. Through his life, he passed through eras of jazz music that were legendary.. stories traverse from jamming in old ladies...