The travel channel doesn't know shit about the blues.

As afore mentioned, they need to do some research. While doing a special on barbecue divided into four regions. Texas, Memphis, South Carolina, and Kansas City, Mo. Now, the food part is all good and well (not to mention hungerfying) but the entire show was set to blues or blues rock when the association of blues and barbecue as being the few authentic American invention was made. This is where the shit or brains comes into place. It was ALL Texas and or Delta blues, which is more electric and rocking (almost to the point of blues rock) than all of the other sub-genres of blues.

UPDATE: National Geographic did it too, all of 35 seconds ago, again featuring South Carolina.

Mothership

Led Zeppelin has reformed with Jason Bonham wielding the drum sticks in lue of his father. Originally a one off show at the crappiest arena in Britishland (O2) but now the possibility of a world tour is a serious consideration of the ultimate rock gods, but thats not much to write about.

The real fun stuff is Mothership. Their most popular 26 songs remastered and put on one album. Now, I've heard Led Zeppelin on vinyl, plastic, and digitally. For once the remastered digital tracks sound better than the original vinyl. There are aspects of the music I have never been able to clearly make out until this. Just little details that get glossed over in older recordings explode into their full musical glory. Sounds are inherently difficult to describe with words. I guess the closest parallel I can present is Discovery's planet earth show in High definition versus standard quality. The old style just doesn't stand up.

The mysterious blues travels

Before the great depression, the blues was the predominant music style in the south and numerous recordings were made. These were the days before vinyls and were recorded on either wax cylinders or flattened copper wire, both extremely delicate mediums. When the depression hit, somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of the depression era blues were lost or destroyed due to their fragile nature.

Now, the strange part of this story is that close to 80% of the surviving tenth of depression era Texas/delta blues appeared in England, of all places. And an even more amazing and mysterious feat, is that they ended up in the hands of Rock visionaries, legends, and gods such as Kieth Richards, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. These blossoming musicians were still in their early teens when they somehow acquired/were exposed to these rare recordings. It seems almost an act of God that such fragile and delicate recordings would manage to cross the Atlantic and land in the laps of such talented and gifted musicians, 35 to 40 years after being cut.

Today, the blues rock genre is still alive and well and being continued through bands such as The White Stripes, Wolfmother, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Not to mention the pure electric blues teased out of raw sounding fenders by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Seasick Steve and The North Mississippi All-stars. Maybe their are actual supernatural Rock Gods, not just Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, and Angus Young.

Welcome to my new music blog

This blog is for people who want to discover awesome music and are too lazy to do it themselves. Most of the music I will write about will be very blues oriented. Also, I will cover some indie bands. Real Indie bands, not some crappy band with a falsetto that no one wants to sign because they suck. Standard rock and roll will be frequently discussed also. No emo crap, no crappy coffe house "indie" bands, and "no rage on my guitar strings and roar into a microphone" bands will appear unless being ridiculed.

Rap will never show up here. Rap is not music.