Unfortunately, the R’n’B club had to fold after about three months, because the club which ran in the venue on a Saturday night - which was nothing to do with us - ran a lax security policy and had lots of fights, so after a stabbing, the police closed everything down. We pleaded with [...]
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T-Bone Walker
23 April, 2009 – 10:49 am
Watch T-Bone Walker perform ‘Call It Stormy Monday’:
Born in Texas in 1920, T-Bone (Aaron Thibeaux) Walker is considered to be the godfather of electric blues guitar, influencing countless players from B.B. King to Eric Clapton and Gary Moore. A showman as well as a unique artist, his stunts such as plucking the strings with his [...]
Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 6
6 April, 2009 – 9:00 am
When I became a professional musician in 1963, there was no real recording industry at the time, but all of a sudden, the recording industry started to buck up and this wave of English music cut across the world. It was absolutely amazing to eventually go to places in Japan and have kids come up [...]