Blues Guitar legend Hubert Sumlin, whose signature scream and snarl defined Howlin’ Wolf’s sound, died in Wayne, New Jersey this week at the age of 80. A highly underrated guitar pioneer in the Chicago “Electric Blues” scene of the late 1940’s- to late 50’s, Mr. Sumlin is revered in the music, directly influencing musicians such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, […]
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Chicago Blues Guitar Icon, Hubert Sumlin Passes at 80
Posted: 10th December 2011 by Dion in Music, News, ObituariesTags: Chess Records, Cream, David Johansen, Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Muddy Waters, Obituaries, Robbie Krieger, Robbie Robertson, The Blues, The Delta, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Willie Dixon
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The Doors performing “Reading Rainbow”?!
Posted: 14th November 2011 by Dion in Music, NewsTags: Jimmy Fallon, Reading Rainbow, The Doors
The Doors on Jimmy Fallon performing Reading Rainbow. I couldn’t stop laughing…. Click the “reading rainbow” link if video box doesn’t work-
The Doors Live in Vancouver, 1970
Posted: 31st October 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Albert King, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Blues, Bo Diddley, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Peggy Lee, Porgy and Bess, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Vancouver, Vince Treanor, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) We have Vince Treanor to thank for being able to listen to The Doors’ performance in Vancouver on June 6th, 1970. Treanor was the band’s road manager from 1967 until the end in 1972, when the band, post Morrison’s […]
The Doors Live in New York at the Felt Forum, Boxset
Posted: 31st October 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Blues, Bo Diddley, Bobby Bland, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jim Morrison, John Lee Hooker, John Sebastion, Kurt Weill, The Beatles, The Black Plague, The Doors, The Felt Fourm, Van Morrison, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) For hardcore Doors fans, attempting to locate a live recording of the band, aside from the official releases like “Alive She Cried” or “Absolutely Live”, (both which begot the double disc release of “The Doors, In Concert”), was next to […]