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The TSN announcing team commented that it was sad that the Gallagher Brothers couldn’t put aside their differences for one song during “Wonderwall” but no mention was made of Dave Davies during “Waterloo Sunset”. Before the British Tabloids had the Gallagher Brothers to write about they had the Davies Brothers. Dave Davies arguably invented the [...]

Blind Joe Death was the name John Fahey recorded his earliest recordings under. Now a days many musicians use pseudonyms, but in 1959 pretending you were something or someone else while self releasing an album was near unheard of. In addition to self releasing his first album in an extremely limited pressing of only 100 [...]

My cousin in Austria has been on a big Matt Anderson kick, so he and I posted several YouTube videos of Matt playing various original and cover songs on Facebook. I missed out on seeing Matt last time he passed through Vancouver, because my life kinda sucks, or some other lame excuse. While driving to [...]

I do too much thinking. Perhaps I should have been a philosopher, but I don’t want to live in the streets like Diogenes. I need income, quite badly really. So I sometimes wonder if all the time I spend thinking, I should be spending doing something else.  Ditto for blogging. But what? Regardless, over the [...]

Last night I lay in bed and watched a bunch of YouTube videos on my iPhone, mmm hmmm. I started out reading about a few Texas Songwriters and ended up some how learning about this hot shot chick guitarist. Her name is hard to spell, but she’s played with some big names and was supposed [...]