:: Erin Bode , The Little Garden (Native Language) :: George Carlin , It's Bad for Ya (Laugh.com) :: Alice Cooper , Along Came a Spider (Steamhammer/SPV) :: Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere , Nudge It Up A Notch (Stax) :: Johnny Flynn , A Larum (Lost Highway) :: Zach [...]

I have somewhat mixed feelings about this guy I was going to make this a post themed somehow after the notion that -- for achieving momentary rock fame as an, um, albino blues guitar whiz -- Johnny Winter sure seems to have had all the right friends in all the right places. After all, the prevailing rock lore tells us that he had not one, but *two* songs written for and/or about him, by none other than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ("Silver Train") and John Lennon ("Rock and Roll [...]

In the waiting room, while looking for the big red button that doesn't do anything I overheard a couple double crossing time by discussing the blues. The man (we'll call him Blue Bird) was covering the 'true' African American side and the woman (we'll call her Lucille) was supporting white boy blues. Blue Bird's lashing tongue was clearly dominating the conversation. Saying, "The white man can't play the blues. He had the blues part of their soul stolen on the seventh hour, on the seventh day, on the seventh month." I lost the topic soon after, but started [...]