Thank you Gary I will.
That’s was the first of his albums that I have listened to and very nice it was.
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Speaking of acoustic blues. I love the old Muddy Waters, “Folk Singer” album.
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This has just been re-released, great album.
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some more acoustic blues. This is pretty cool album - some great pairings…
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Jimmy Hendrix when discussing his playing the Blues reportedly said that it was interesting to him how many learned to play the songs as he has done, complete with the errors he made.
Released in the United States on March 31, 1958 , as a single (with “The Swag” as a B-side), “Rumble” utilized the techniques of distortion and tremolo, then largely unexplored in rock and roll. The single is the only instrumental ever banned from radio in the United States.
He invented the power chord and an early user of fuzz tone.
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Gregg Allman
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Love this Gregg Allman album. But his first solo album (Laid Back from 1973) is one of my all time favorites.
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As much as I love Jackson Browne’s original, and also Nico’s version, this is my favorite version.
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When this album was released, and Gregg was involved with Janice B. Allman, Rex Reed of Stereo Review said that his voice was like a musical instrument. “These Days” has special meaning for some people (me) since it relates to a specific event.
I also like the arrangement of “All My Friends”. In the final section, a chorus comes in and makes it sound angelic/spiritual.
He did great work, married seven times, never got over Duane’s death, never got over Cher’s rejection of his heroin and alcohol abuse, finally married a girl almost 40 years his junior.
Cher came to his funeral.
His net worth at the time of death was $10 mil. Compare that to overhyped musicians (Eg. McCarney at $1.2 billion…or Herb Alpert at $850k).
Laid Back is among my top albums.
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Just posted this in the main thread, but more suited to here.
Picked up a couple of additional albums from the band and quite happy with them.
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The DVDs are also great.
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Nice selection 
In the pre-BluRay period, if I liked a performer, I would buy their DVD. This actually began with a combination of Pink Floyd’s “Pulse” and watching SRV on Austin City Limits.
Today, many of those things in abbreviated form can be seen on YouTube.
I wonder if others also consider George Thorogood consider him as blues-based rock.
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I have a small collection (30-40) music DVD’s and Bluray’s that are on my Plex server.
Several Pink Floyd’s in there as well and mostly Rock genre
Funnily enough I was thinking of posting George Thorogood in here last week and ended up posting it in the Rock thread as I was not sure what genre people considered his music. I can certainly see it fitting in the Blues-based rock genre.
It is my bias that Rock and Blues are intertwined and overlapping along with Country. So Thorogood is blues based rock to me.
The exceptions emerge with Grunge and Metal.
(It must have been a miserable experience when Metallica first heard Nirvana. It was all but the antithesis of what the former was doing)
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I tend to agree with the reviewer; but what material!
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I was listening to WXRT FM in Chicago when I heard Stevie Ray playing Jimmy Hendrix’s “Little Wing” from this album which had recently been released. I immediately bought the CD. A good friend of mine did the exact same thing. This is an excellent album and “Little Wing” still gives me goose bumps. I just listened to it upon seeing this post.
Thanks
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