Hang on there buddy, let me qualify that question with a few more questions:
I was listening to "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" on Sirius Blues 74 today on the way back from lunch, and I just had to roll down the driver's side window and turn the volume to 11. That's the good stuff, and it's so great when you find it.
1) Have you ever blown out a stereo speaker in your (or your spouse's) car, because that certain song on that certain album just wouldn't sound right at low volume?
2) Have you ever camped out for tickets?
3) Have you ever waited hours backstage to meet the band?
4) Did you (or do you currently) have concert T-shirts in your regular wardobe rotation?
5) Does Lou Reed come to mind anytime you see velvet?
6) Does Pete Townsend come to mind when you see a windmill?
7) Does Angus Young come to mind when you see a private school kid in uniform?
8) Have you ever seen a band more than two nights in a row, on purpose?
7) Is Almost Famous in your top 25 movies? Top 10?
8) Did you start an air band in elemantary school?
9) Did you hide music under your bed?
10) Do you know what I'm talking about if I say "This one goes to 11"
11) DO YOU LOVE ROCK 'N ROLL?
If you ansered yes to more than 1 of these questions, I salute you. You are probably a rocker from way back in the days when you had a Captain Kool and the Kongs toy drum set. Chances are there's 
not a bunch of hip hop in your music collection, unless it's RUN DMC.
not a bunch of hip hop in your music collection, unless it's RUN DMC.You probably own Exile on Main Street, and you absolutely considered playing "Loving Cup" at your wedding reception for the first dance, if it weren't for Grandma. (She might not have understood)
If you love Rock 'n Roll, you might like blues a little more than you thought. Karl Z (AKA Curly Bones Allison) has turned me on to so much music that I never knew I loved, but it's the roots of the rock that always made me happy.
I never knew these artists were so incredible:
I never knew these artists were so incredible:
Derek and the Dominos (no I'm not talking about Layla), R. L. Burnside, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Muddy Waters, John Mayall, Junior Wells, Paul Butterfield, Mississippi John Hurt, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly... and all their contemporaries - alive and passed on.
I was listening to "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" on Sirius Blues 74 today on the way back from lunch, and I just had to roll down the driver's side window and turn the volume to 11. That's the good stuff, and it's so great when you find it.
Keep listening for it - not with your ears, with your soul.
T
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So, so many yeses, so little time. Good stuff. Amp it up!!
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