Tag: stevie ray vaughan

zztx | Blues music spots (9): European festivals – part 1

In this column: music blues spots, festivals, Europe, National Jazz and Blues Festival London, Reading Festival, Bath Festival of Blues, Led Zeppelin, Puistoblues Järvenpää, John Lee Hooker, The Band, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Pistoia Blues Festival, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins, Rawa Blues Festival Katowice, Koko Taylor, James Blood Ulmer, Blues Peer, Robert Finley, Liri Blues …

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zzvo | Mary had a little lamb

In this column: Mary had a little lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, Tisket-tasket, nursery rhymes, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Spruell, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Earl Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Thomas Edison On the Kokomo Blues pages one of the verses reads: ... Listen now, Mary had a little lamb, I mean, its fleece was white as snow …

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zzwv | Guitarists: Every Day I Have the Blues

In this column: every day i have the blues, Pinetop and Milton Sparks, Memphis Slim, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Albert King, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Jack Pearson with Josh Smith & Kirk Fletcher, Robert J. Lockwood, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac,  Jimmy Burns, Matt Schofield & Henrik Freischlader, Luther Allison with Otis Rush & …

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zzxe | Iconic guitars (4)

In this column: large Gibson hollow bodies (T-Bone Walker), Nancy (Roy Buchanan), Number One (Stevie Tay Vaughan), 1953 Fender Blackguard Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster ('63 body, '62 neck, '59 pickups) T-Bone Walker (Aaron Thibeaux Walker, Dallas Texas) played on different guitars in three eras: 1930-1950 on a Gibson ES-250, 1950-1970 on an ES-5 and from 1970 …

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