Category: blues

  • The Mecca

    These Dead shows from The Mecca in Milwaukee, WI, from April of 1989 are outstanding. Garcia is burning a hole in the atmosphere in “Little Red Rooster”, of all places. This band is Locked. In.

  • The Blogging Hobby

    Blogging is a great hobby – if you have ever thought of just wanting to keep some intellectual interest of yours pinned down a little better than purely in your head, I highly recommend it. Among Blogger’s very limited features – You Get What You Pay For, Corry reminds us, and as a Braudelian he…

  • Race Record Dream

    Rolling Stone has just posted a little gallery of Garcia’s art. Given finity, I will only scratch the surface of the paintings and drawings. But, since race is one of the threads I am trying to weave through my (amateur!) musicological excursions, and it crossed my screen, I thought I’d reproduce it here. This is…