The News Review:
- Wyman brings Blues to the Borders
- Anything But the Blues
- Eric Clapton Looks Back at His Blues Roots
- Philpot’s music mixes Brit rock and American blues
Wyman brings Blues to the Borders
BBC News – Oct 18, 2007
In addition he decided to make a presentation to students from the nine secondary schools across the Borders. His two-hour talk on the Blues proved a hit with pupils most of whom had just been born when the famous bassist quit the Rolling Stones in 1992. His latest work is a music documentary – Bill Wyman’s Blues dyssey – where he follows the historic trail from New rleans to the Mississippi Delta and on to Memphis. ‘Sounded brilliant’He was able to pass on his love of the musical genre to the watching schoolchildren. “I knew nothing about the Blues or the Rolling Stones before today but I thought the talk was very interesting” said Katrina Small 15 from Peebles High. “I’ll definitely be buying some though I thought it sounded brilliant. Jim Ellis 14 from Selkirk was also a convert.
Anything But the Blues
Tucson Weekly – Oct 18, 2007
We’re hardly the traditional urban blue collar town where blues music thrives. Yet for a city made up of students snowbirds immigrants and cross-country transplants–groups that don’t appear to have many common threads–there is something about the blues that manages to excite and bring people together. Since its inception in late 1983 KXCI radio’s Saturday evening Blues Revue has been one of its most popular programs. Its critical acclaim and popularity are consistently reflected in its ability to raise huge sums of money during the station’s pledge drives. A look back at Tucson history will also document scores of great live blues shows: the legendary Willie Dixon in one of his last performances at the Temple of Music and Art; Albert Collins playing his wireless rig out in the middle of Speedway on a Saturday night outside of Terry & Zeke’s; the Statesboro Blues Band coming into its own backing Bo Diddley at a club in the mid-1980s; and Buddy Guy leading a parade of blues headliners to play El Casino Ballroom–all are but some of the great memories Tucson holds within its collective blues consciousness.
Eric Clapton Looks Back at His Blues Roots
NPR – Oct 18, 2007
“It sounded nice but it was just such hard work I gave up. So I started when I was 13 and gave up when I was 13 and a half” he says. Clapton’s introduction to the blues — the music that would forever influence his own work — came from an unlikely source: a children’s radio show in the 1950s and ’60s hosted by “Uncle Mac” (aka Derek McCulloch). The show’s usual fare was novelty children’s music such as “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?”But every now and then Clapton says Uncle Mac would slip in some blues. “I don’t know what this guy was on; I can’t imagine how it would get snuck in whether it was his taste or someone else’s his wife who knows?” Clapton says. ‘I Got What They Were Trying to Do’Clapton even remembers the first blues song he heard on the show: “Whoopin’ the Blues” (full song audio) by harmonica player Sonny Terry and singer and guitarist Brownie McGhee. “That’s where it started for me” he says.
Philpot’s music mixes Brit rock and American blues
courierpress.com – Oct 18, 2007
-based band will play a show Saturday at Ri Ra Irish Pub. From left front row are Arthur Ready Caleb Smith Kenz Ward and Josh Kennedy.