Musically, a late bloomer (outside of his native Mississippi), little footage and/or recordings exist of R.L. Burnside prior to his ‘discovery’ via the folks at Fat Possum Records in the early 90s. The above video is culled from the “You See Me Laughin’” documentary that highlighted the Mississippi delta & hill country blues players the [...]

Speaking of the late Bobby Byrd, his signature jam, “I Know You Got Soul,” with James and the JBs at his back, will never lose an ounce of its potency. Favorite part: the cymbal crash/drum break at fifteen seconds. MP3: Bobby Byrd :: I Know You Got Soul ——————— + Download Bobby Byrd via eMusic’s [...]

“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.” Truer words have never been spoken. Jerry Lee Lewis said that shit, as writer Mike Edison quotes the Killer kicking off his liner notes for the 2010 reissue of the Blues Explosion’s Orange.  Or should I say [...]

New Orleans: October 13th we are back in town presenting the Vaselines show at One Eyed Jacks. The pair are in the midst of a tour in support of their ‘comeback’ LP, out on Sub Pop, entitled—wait for it—Sex With An X. We have five pairs of tickets for AD readers. Leave a comment below [...]

Self described as a “midnight-hour R&B shake-fest” the self-produced debut of L.A. based Waterhouse, backed by the Turn-Keys, is an eerie R&B rhumba found on the flip with the torrid saxophone of Ira Raibon trading fours with the rest of the group. In short, “Some Place” cooks. Look for the 7′ out this fall. MP3: [...]

While most of the Dylan news of late has surrounded the upcoming, October, release of ninth entry in the official bootleg series (The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964), last month the new Dylan biography Bob Dylan In America was published by Doubleday. We have five copies to give away to AD readers. To enter, leave a comment [...]

Part of the beauty of iTunes (or, rather, any computer based audio software) is the meta data found within each of the tracks file tags. In this case it was Alan Vega. Spurred by a DJ spinning Suicide last week I ripped a CD, and while monkeying around inside the data fields, was reminded of [...]

Here’s one from ye olde AD home office mailbag. I played this jam for a longtime listener/reader on the SIRIUS show last week. Of the myriad of bands that were coming out of the UK, in the mid-sixties, The Attack may not have become a household name in the way, say, the Animals did, but [...]

Coming off the heels of the much delayed, but well-received, Mines, Meonema’s Danny Seim spoke with AD before their recent Los Angeles show. Touching on subjects from the band’s rumored and documented tribulations to the pressure from within and the pressure from without, Seim spoke at length on the recording, touring, and all that pesky [...]

Released in 1969, The House of Blue Lights was Don Covay’s bold, adventurous attempt to reach an underground audience. Here Covay is backed by the white-hot Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, credited on the album jacket. Prior to this LP Don Covay released two of the finest soul/pop albums of the 60′s, Mercy! and See-Saw. The [...]