Happy 35th birthday to Stony Plain.

Hey welcome to mid month October, the air is colder, the leaves are changing colour, the Maple Leafs still suck .. So whats new.. nothing. No time to post, no time to research. History behind " It Ain't Easy ", I'd always thought it was a old blues song , who knew. Enjoy..... David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - It Ain't Easy Dave Edmunds - Rockpile - It Ain't Easy Long John Baldry - [...]

Okay here it is almost the end of March, I'm far from sales quota, like 100K, but I going to give myself so family time. if you're not an Ontarian it's March Break and the kids are out of school. So wife has tickets for Jersey Boys tonight, so we are taking the kids going out to dinner and enjoying a musical.. what could be better. It's been a weird few months. I won tickets to the FU Awards , this is back in January. Took my 17 year old son (metal head), it [...]
Over at My MOG , a brief post on Long John Baldry led to a conversation amongst some music heads about all variances of blues rock in the 1970's. From Baldry to Butterfield to Michael Bloomfield , of whom I have a small bit of knowledge. Somewhere in my collection, I have a compilation that Columbia released with cuts that Bloomfield did with a number of artists. My favorite from the group is Stop! , a tune that I'm hoping to track down. In the meantime, here's a big [...]

"It's absurd, you don't really love her. You're just a damned fool!" In a basement flat on the corner of Liverpool Road and Furlong Road in Islington, the freshly monikered Elton John (to his friends and even himself it was still Reg) lived with his writing partner Bernie Taupin and his fiancé Linda Woodrow. On [...]
I was originally turned on to the late British bluesman, Long John Baldry, via his 1971 LP, It Ain't Easy. Initially, it was Baldry's take on The Faces "Flying" that stopped me in my tracks, as, until hearing his reading of the song, I could not imagine anyone else other that Rod Stewart's pipes [...]
"Boogie Woogie: The Warner Bros. Recordings" has finally been released on the exclusive Rhino Handmade label , in individually numbered, limited editions of 2500 copies. These two albums, originally released on Warner Bros. in 1971 and 1972, were produced by Rod Stewart and Elton John, who were both inspired by Long John Baldry's mix of rock and roll, blues, and R&B. The first single to garner attention and airplay in the U.S. was “Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock & Roll†and featured legendary rock and rollers [...]
Last December, I blogged about the Elektra Records label releasing some of their precious archive material. Well, now these lil' gems are finally available on CD! Elektra's label founder, Jac Holzman , has teamed up with Collector's Choice Music again to release yet another round of rarities. These are both classic albums and long lost recordings by Phil Ochs , The Wackers , Joshua Rifkin , Oscar Brand , [...]