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“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song

ZZ Top have recorded some great blues songs over the years – none of them better than the one on which Billy Gibbons played a Stratocaster gifted to him by the most revered guitarist of them all. It ...
American Songwriter

Luther Dickinson Revamps a Grateful Dead Classic with His Rendition of “Minglewood Blues” from His Forthcoming LP, ‘Dead Blues Vol. 1’ (Exclusive Premiere)

Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) will release Dead Blues Vol. 1 on October 17 via Strolling Bones Records. The album features his renditions of blues songs performed and recorded by the ...
American Songwriter

The Doors Releasing Box Set Featuring Blu-ray Versions of Six Classic Albums; Reissuing ‘Greatest Hits’ Comp on 180-Gram Vinyl

The Doors will make their classic first six studio albums available on Blu-ray for the first time ever in a box set titled The Doors – Immersed 1967–1971. The six-disc collection will be released on ...
New Haven Register

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

LONDON (AP) — John Lodge, the singer and bassist of British rock band The Moody Blues for more than 50 years, has died. He was 82. In a statement Friday, his family said "with the deepest sadness” ...