This article originally appeared in Living Blues magazine #205 in February, 2010. I had wanted to write it for years. The recordings made by Marcelle Morgantini in Chicago during the 1970s are a definitive evocation of the real blues of the day. Her recording of The Aces is one of my favourite albums. Chicago Blues…
I dreamed I saw St Augustine
What people don't get about Bob Dylan is that he is a rocker. He started out as a folkie, singing the traditional songs of Pete Seeger and his great idol Woody Guthrie. The earnest folk community adopted him as one of their own and he rose to fame as the great archetypal folk minstrel. Acoustic…
Stuart Maxwell 