A bullet in Jacksonville ended Mac Rebennack’s guitar career at 19 – and sent him back to the piano, the persona, and the half-century reign of the Night Tripper.
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Between Cheap Thrills and Pearl her voice audibly changed – and on her last album, with Paul Rothchild coaching between takes, Joplin was learning restraint just in time. Almost.
Mocked in Port Arthur, profiled as the girl who ‘dares to be different’, then put on a fraternity’s ‘Ugliest Man’ ballot – the Texas years that forged Janis Joplin’s voice.
How a wealthy Chicago kid earned respect in South Side bars, became a protégé of black blues masters and turned their lessons into a lifetime of guitar scholarship.
JJ Cale swore his guitar was “full of mistakes.” Those misfired notes helped invent a genre. Here is how getting it wrong makes your playing right.
The early 1960s saw a wave of young British musicians enamored with the raw power and soul of American blues.…