Published March 14, 2019 in Warp & Woof Van Slyke Assembly, 1967 Music for the Shop Rat William Sundwick It was a lark. Something to do during college term break. I had just returned from a “career-service” internship experience in Washington, D.C. And, frankly, I was curious about what an auto assembly line was like.Continue reading “Van Slyke Assembly, 1967”
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YouTube video of Bluesers live in ’84
Fantastic video, just discovered — George Thorogood with John Lee Hooker, Elvin Bishop, Willie Dixon, John Hammond — live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ in 1984 — play it, then read my post from February, “Boogie Til You Drop”
Where Did It Come From?
Published February 22, 2018 in Warp & Woof Where Did It Come From? How Delta Blues Morphed into All the Music I Like William Sundwick What is the music I like? I call it “blues-something” or “something-blues” – roots music critics and historians have many names for many variations of blues. But, since the MusicContinue reading “Where Did It Come From?”
Boogie Til You Drop
Published February 15, 2018 in Warp & Woof Boogie Til You Drop John Lee Hooker and Roots Music William Sundwick Nobody knows for sure when or where he was born. We know it was somewhere near Clarksdale, Mississippi, probably in 1917, but it could have been 1912, or even 1920. Poor, illiterate, black sharecropper birthsContinue reading “Boogie Til You Drop”
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