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Artist: Steve Earle
Song: My Old Friend The Blues (Live)
Album: Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark - Together at the Bluebird Café
One of my all time favorites.
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Dear ATLiens,
I made you “Peace Up A-town Down” desktop backgrounds, because you’re beautiful and fabulous and you deserve it. Click through to download the large versions, and enjoy!
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My current guilty pleasure now that’s been released on DVD. It’s kind of embarrassing since the intro makes it seem like a softcore gay porn with the shots of a shirtless Lorenzo Lamas pouring a jug of water on himself. Even bounty hunters need to cool down in the desert heat!
Dog ain’t got nothing on Reno Raines.
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Artist: Blackberry Smoke
Song: Testify
Album: Bad Luck Ain’t No Crime
I got to see another great show by Blackberry Smoke at this year’s Big Pig Jig in Vienna, GA.
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As much as I hate getting old(er), I love celebrating my birthday… to excess. This year my birthweek happened to fall at the same time as some of my favorite bands came to the area.
Thursday, Blackberry Smoke played a kick ass show in Auburn at the War Eagle Supper Club that I went up for.
Saturday, The Dirty Guv’nahs played another great show here in Columbus at The Loft.
This Friday, Mayer Hawthorne takes the stage in Atlanta at The Masquerade. I also happened to win 2 tickets and meet & greet passes for this show. Sweet!
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Troy Stone, 2006.
This is written on a bridge on the trans-Canada highway near Sault St. Marie. The land is is on belongs to the Garden River Ojibwe.
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20 years ago today, the world lost one of the best guitar players of all time, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie defined my love of blues music and my passion to spend as many waking hours as I could with a guitar in my hands. I never met him and I never saw him play live, but he changed my life forever. Stevie quite literally gave me a career in music. Today I’m not John Mayer the famous musician, I’m John, the kid from the Connecticut suburbs who discovered a style of music that spoke for me when nothing else did. And I post this in honor of both Stevie and the thousands of undiscovered guitar players who shut the doors to their rooms, dim the lights and play along to the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan and find their escape through a Fender Stratocaster. Please watch this man play “Texas Flood” from his 1983 performance at the El Macambo. Thank you Stevie.
Another John Mayer reblog. Here’s what I wrote on Facebook:
Stevie Ray Vaughan died 20 years ago yesterday. He’ll always be my favorite guitarist/musician ever and the sole reason I started listening to blues music in general.
Check out this video from the “Live at the El Mocambo” DVD of him playing a long version of Texas Flood, recorded in 1983, while touring in support of his first album (of the same name).
I think I’m going to spend the rest of the night watching some of my SRV DVDs with the stereo turned up loud. Sorry, neighbors.
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one forty plus: Intolerance
I feel like anybody who is against the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero isn’t contesting that they’re being intolerant, rather they’re arguing (however spuriously) that they’re being justifiably intolerant. It reminds me of another specious debate, “is waterboarding…
John Mayer is smart.
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I’m excited about going to see Marshall Ruffin tonight. It’s always a pleasure to hear his blues-grunge live. If you’re not currently familiar then you should become so immediately.
28. Columbus, GA. Poker player. Music lover. Pseudo-geek. Mac snob. Awesome.