Tag: blues
member name: Mugg Muggles, "The Man With the Jive"
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June 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
This video was shot on June 11th when I appeared @ a Berkeley "Open Mike". I'm singing my "ode to garlic",
"Papa Pesto Blues" and playing some pretty tasty "Delta Blues" bottleneck . . .
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December 12, 2008 07:05 PM EST --
Here is a relatively lo-fi recording of a beautiful "seasonal" song by the great Charles Brown, who's recordings influenced both Ray Charles and Nat "King" Cole. . . .
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September 06, 2006 03:18 AM EDT --
I've always believed that Big Bill Broozy's later career as a "folk" blues guitarist (as opposed to the urban style he was a master of in the 30s) was pretty much a lucky break for . . .
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February 02, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
I have collected records all my life and I have accumulated around 1100 78 rpm records along with a couple of hundred LPs and maybe 100 45s. Hell, I've even got a few 16 2/3 rpm "talking . . .
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November 22, 2008 11:45 PM EST --
Just a reminder to be sure to *PING* Nippy with Birthday Greetings on Sunday (which also happens to be the same day that William Henry Pratt AKA Boris Karloff was born many years before). . . .
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October 31, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
Here's a treat for you folks, a *RARE* Archival cassette tape recently unearthed in an archaeological "dig" in my storage.
Here, for your listening pleasure, I present the . . .
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November 13, 2008 02:20 AM EST --
Here we go again. Let's start off with Eddie "CleanHead" Vinson's classic concerning male pattern baldness, sung with great conviction by Gather's Favorite Frog, the inimitable . . .
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October 26, 2006 04:24 AM EDT --
I was inspired to write this song by a woman I worked with at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, California. I had the screaming hots for her. It never happened. Ironically I ended up being . . .
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December 15, 2006 12:31 PM EST --
Okay, his name was really Ahmet, but apparently "Omlette" was how he was known to Otis Redding, just one of countless superstars that he recorded on his Atlantic Records label.
I find it bitterly . . .
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December 25, 2006 05:47 PM EST --
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, died Christmas morning of complications from pneumonia.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/obit.brown/
R.I.P. James Brown
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November 18, 2008 10:03 PM EST --
Two shots of Patron Tequilla and 1 and a half India Pale Ales later, I present this guitar instrumental blues in loving memory of El Gato Gordo, the heppest cat to ever grace this dungheap called Gather. . . .
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