Favorites of the Day

Compliation of Favorite Images

(found around the web for whatever reason I glommed onto them that day)

Why am I just discovering the Black Keys now?!?
Great Album Covers:
    

A review of Chulahoma on Amazon led me to this guy: Junior Kimbrough and his album:

and this quote from a review by Ted Drozdowski:

     When Junior Kimbrough died in January 1998, part of the spirit of Mississippi hill-country blues went with him. He was a proud musician, aware of his African roots and his artistic singularity--perhaps the last unique voice in the genre. The sound of his bawling singing and unpredictable, serpentine guitar were as eerie as a warm wind humming through a field of tombstones, as hypnotic as the ancient village drum music it was based on, thanks to his complete command of his rhythm sections.
   Ted describes perfectly what comes to my mind when I listen to what I call "dirty" music. It's not clean, not crisp; there's hardship there, there's life there. Delta Blues does that for me. I will listen to more music but I suspect that Junior will do that for me as well.

   Finally, there's:

 

Awesome aren't they?