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Get To Know Doyle Bramhall II

Posted by admin in Wednesday, February 25th 2009   
Topics: Doug Pinnick, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Gales, Marshall, Strat    
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Doyle Bramhall II is one of the best blues guitarists walking around planet Earth. He can play old-school blues and newer-school stuff a la SRV, but to my ears he also does the amazing, which is take this loose, cool, Strat-inflected, semi-psychedelic style and inject it with an original blues-rock, vocal-delivery thing, much like — [...]

Blues Led Zep

Posted by admin in Monday, December 1st 2008   
Topics: Derek Trucks, Eric Gales, Jimmy Page/Zep, Joe Bonamassa, Pat Travers    
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I was wandering through Wal-Mart’s music section the other day, trying to politely refused my son’s repeated requests for a Def Leppard DVD, and found a couple of Zep tribute discs. The first one I listed to was “Contemporary Blues Interpret Led Zeppelin,” put out this year.
It’s cool. Some of it is about what you’d [...]