Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
~Herb Alpert
Oh, lady be good – Memories of you:
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October 29: Peter Green was born in 1946 Happy Birthday
Peter Green is regarded by some fans as the greatest white blues guitarist ever, Eric Clapton notwithstanding.
~Mark Allan (allmusic.com)
Need Your Love So Bad:
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October 28: Happy 79th birthday Charlie Daniels
I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
~Charlie DanielsI had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did – thank God I did.
~Charlie DanielsA talented and showy fiddler, Charlie Daniels and his band fuse hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock, boogie, and blues. The group — which has had a rotating cast of musicians over the years — has always been known for its instrumental dexterity, but Daniels and company were also notorious for their down-home, good-old-boy attitude..
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)
Charlie Daniels becomes member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008:
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“Devil Went Down to Georgia” | Live at the Grand Ole Opry:
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October 25: Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience was released in 1968
“undoubtedly a rock album, albeit rock on the point of evolving into something else.”
– David Stubbs“one of the greatest double-albums in rock.”
– John Perry
Electric Ladyland is the third and final album of new material by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968 on Reprise Records. It is the only Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks in November 1968.
| Released | October 25, 1968 (some sources says October 16…worth celebrating anyhow) |
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| Recorded | Olympic Studios, London and Record Plant Studios, New York, July and December 1967, January 1968, April–August 1968 |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, blues rock, acid rock, hard rock |
| Length | 75:47 |
| Label | Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor |
| Producer | Jimi Hendrix |
All along the watchtower, the best Dylan cover of all time! (live, Isle of Wight):
This is a perfect Hendrix album. It is poppy and funky and original at the same time, and what a great soul singer Hendrix was! I also think it is very inventive, sonically speaking. Jimi Hendrix really searched for “new sounds” on this record, he produced an album that has stood the test of time marvelously.
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October 23: Dwight Yoakam was born in 1956 – Happy Birthday
The primary purpose in [performing] is to receive that pure inspiration that I derived from it when I was a kid the first time I saw one of those guitar slingers on television cock his leg and throw that guitar down and start doing a song and became completely infatuated with that and the moment that I was able to transport myself to another place, another plane of existence, by doing it alone in a room, you know, and realizing the enormous satisfaction from doing that … I don’t ever want to risk losing that as the primary catalyst for what I do musically.~
~Dwight Yoakam
From Wikipedia:
| Birth name | Dwight David Yoakam |
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| Born | October 23, 1956 (age 59) Pikeville, Kentucky,United States |
| Origin | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Country Rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actor, director |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | Reprise Audium New West Warner Bros. Nashville |
| Associated acts | Buck Owens |
| Website | http://www.dwightyoakam.com/ |
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