http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:59:28 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/20/174929.php#comment-219522 Been a Clapton fan for years. However, I do believe these modern blues albums are way "over-produced"..perhaps this music would be better served if the artist recording them would choose a small, back-street venue, a jug of ,say ....Old Grandad , cut down the neck of a beer bottle for a slide, and just play the hell out of the music!! no post production re-masters here!!Get back to the basics,,get back to the BLUES... 219522@blogcritics.org Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:59:28 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/20/174929.php#comment-70332 excellent job Mark, those Polizzottis are writing fools! The Johnson saga holds such fascination because the facts are so compelling and mysterious, AND the music can stand up under the weight of such mythification. I dohn't think you were hard on EC at all. I haven't heard this yet but I would be leery on two fronts: Clapton is now a late-middle-aged man and Johnson's music is very much that of a young man. Part of the music's glory is the juxtaposition of precocious wisdom and experience and the young man's ass-on-fire energy - I can't picture Clapton managing that at this late date. And the other concern is a personal theory that Clapton had some fundamental mojo sucked from him by the earth-shattering experience of yanking Layla from his very soul, and the descent into heroin paralysis that followed. When he came back with 451 Ocean Blvd, he was a different guy, a Martin Guare in a Clapton suit. Thanks again and welcome, Mark! 70332@blogcritics.org Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:14:04 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/20/174929.php#comment-70245 Hubert Sumlin spent maybe 8 months with Muddy Waters band (an interesting account of this is in Robert Gordon's "I Just Can't be Satisfied"), but he was with Howlin' Wolf for years. I'd call him Wolf's longtime sideman. Otherwise, interesting review. Pretty hard on EC. 70245@blogcritics.org Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:00:58 EDT