Tag: Eric Clapton

  • The Story Of The Blues (Part One)

    The Story Of The Blues (Part One)

    Keith Richards remembers the first time he heard the blues, because it hit him pretty hard. He recalled the moment in his foreword to Robert Gordon’s “Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters”: “I heard Muddy through Mick Jagger.  I met him on a train around 1961. He had a Chuck Berry…

  • Rock’s Great “Lost” Albums of The Eighties #4: Michael Katon – Proud To Be Loud

    Rock’s Great “Lost” Albums of The Eighties #4: Michael Katon – Proud To Be Loud

    Being born and raised in Hell must be quite a problem. It’s a bad neighbourhood. Your neighbours tend to be the sort that don’t mow their lawn (and store shopping trolleys there), seldom sort the recycling bin bags properly and often start needless and provocative boundary disputes with you. It’s also very very hot, all…