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Tag Archives: nick cave
My 100 Essential Albums
My 100 Essential Albums I like Desert Island Disks. For those that do not know this radio show the premiss is very simple. A celebrity is asked to choose just 8 tracks that they would take with them if they were to be marooned on a desert island. Obviously, 8 tracks is a nonsense. That […]
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Tagged as: 100 essential albums, beefheart, blues music, bo diddley, captain beefheart, chuck berry, classic rock music, cream, frank sinatra, frank zappa, George Thorogood, howlin' wolf, its a beautiful day, led zeppelin, lou reed, love rock music, miles davis, mothers of invention, muddy waters, nick cave, patti smith, ray charles, real blues, real rock, real rock and blues, robert johnson, rock music, rolling stones, the adverts, tim fite, tom waits, velvet underground, white denim
Music Really DOES Change Your Brain Chemistry
The strap line on this blog is a quotation from Nick Cave who says that music is the only art form that can change your brain chemistry in 3 minutes. It is true. A programme on BBC Radio 4 was talking about the science behind music and made the very same point. Music affects the […]
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Tagged as: brain chemistry, classic rock music, love rock music, nick cave, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music
On This Day – Stagger Lee (Yet Again)
On this day in 1959 Lloyd Price reached number one in the States with “Stagger Lee”. “Stagger Lee” has been recorded many times under many names by many people. The song has been Bowderized, revised, chewed up and spat out by too many people to mention. Some of whom should have known better and some […]
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Tagged as: Beck, Bill Haley & His Comets, billie holiday, blues music, bob dylan, Cephas & Wiggins, classic rock music, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Dr. John, Duke Ellington, Fats Domino, George Thorogood, Ike and Tina Turner, james brown, Johnny Dodds, Leadbelly, Ma Rainey, Memphis Slim, Mississippi John Hurt, Modern Life is War, muddy waters, Neil Diamond, nick cave, On This Day, Pat Boone, Professor Longhair, rock and blues, Sam the Sham, Sidney Bechet, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Taj Mahal, The Isley Brothers, Tom Rush, Wilson Pickett, Woody Guthrie
Hello world!
A new blog, but not a new site, this is Real Rock and Blues. Originally the site supported a radio programme I did for a community radio station, with the play lists and links to good bands etc. The station died, lack of funds and too many egos…….. and so did the site. But it […]
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Tagged as: blues music, nick cave, real rock and blues, rock music