Alex Maryol – In The Meantime (Live from Studio II)

The Summer of Love gave birth to me.  And I don’t mean just figuratively.  I was born in July of 1967 to what could have been the straightest of straight-laced couples.  Still, there was definitely something in the air.  I’d be more inclined to believe in a zodiac sign of the freewheeling hippie than any of the Eastern or Western signs I’m supposed to have been born under.  When I listen to the music of the era, it feels like … Read More

Blues is the name given to the musical form and the music genre that emerged from the African-American communities and the black cultural melting pot of the American South of the 1890’s, drawing on a fascinating mixture of African-American spirituals, traditional songs, work songs of the slaves, field hollers, shouts and chants, folk ballads, European hymns, contemporary dance music and rhymed simple narrative ballads. During their back-breaking toil in the fields of the Southern plantations, black slaves developed a “call and response” way … Read More

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