If not exactly a contemporary of British blues-rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, Ireland’s Rory Gallagher came of age in th...

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I’ve written here previously about the musical charms of Preacher Boy (a/k/a Christopher Watkins), a blues poet of no little talent a...

In 2009, George Thorogood and his long-time band the Destroyers put together The Dirty Dozen , an odd album that comprised of a handful of ...

Just about any aging hipster or backwards-gazing youngster with an interest in ‘70s-era underground culture is familiar with the British ban...

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Singer, songwriter, guitar, harmonica wizard…bluesman Jimmy Reed could seemingly do it all. He rode a string of Top Ten-charting R&B hi...