Daily Doggy Song – The Black Keys, I Got Mine

Artist: The Black Keys
Location: Akron Ohio

Allmusic bio:The Black Keys is a two-man duo comprising singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, both of whom were in their early twenties when the band’s debut, The Big Come Up, was issued in 2002. Hailing from Akron, OH, they harnessed a close-to-the-bone, raw blues-rock sound on the album, whole sole instruments were Auerbach‘s guitar, Carney‘s drums, and the occasional organ. From the start, Auerbach flaunted a fine, mature, lived-in blues voice for one so young, and the group’s material worked in funk, soul, and rock influences from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, which helped avoid undue repetition of the overdone chord progressions and stock riffs … (read more)

The Black Keys – I Got Mine

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Daily Doggy Song – Lucky Peterson, Tin Pan Alley

Artist: Lucky Peterson
Location: Texas

Allmusic bio: Child-prodigy status is sometimes difficult to overcome upon reaching maturity. Not so for Lucky Peterson — he’s far bigger (in more ways than one) on the contemporary blues circuit than he was at the precocious age of six, when he scored a national R&B hit with the Willie Dixon-produced “1-2-3-4.”  Little Lucky Peterson was lucky to be born into a musical family. His dad, James Peterson, owned the Governor’s Inn, a popular Buffalo, NY, blues nightclub that booked the biggies: Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bill Doggett. The latter’s mighty Hammond B-3 organ fascinated the four-and-a-half-year-old lad, and soon Peterson was on his way under Dixon. (read more)

Lucky Peterson – Tin Pan Alley

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Daily Doggy Song – Blonde Redhead, Falling Man

Artist: Blonde Redhead
Location: New York

Myspace: www.myspace.com/blonderedhead
Website: www.blonde-redhead.com

Allmusic bio: Blonde Redhead’s noisy, dissonant guitars, alternate tunings, and quiet, stilted lyrics have often been compared to early Sonic Youth. After randomly meeting at an Italian restaurant in New York, Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi and Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace formed the band in 1993. The name was taken from a song by the ’80s no wave band DNA. With Makino and Amedeo on guitars and vocals, Simone on drums, and Takahashi on bass, the band’s chaotic, artistic rock caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, who produced and released the band’s debut album (read more)

Blonde Redhead – Falling Man

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Daily Doggy Song – The Wind Cries Mary by Carolyn Wonderland

Artist: Carolyn Wonderland

Location: Austin, TX

Myspace: www.myspace.com/carolynwonderland

Website: www.carolynwonderland.com

Allmusic bio: Blues-rocker Carolyn Wonderland is a singer/songwriter/pianist/ trumpeter/guitarist from Texas. She began performing solo as a teen and then later with her band the Imperial Monkeys. While firmly entrenched in blues-rock, Wonderland and her group sport a diverse range of other influences, from country to zydeco to surf to Latin to boogie, and even jazz. The group has performed and toured with such similarly minded predecessors as B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, the Allman Brothers, Delbert McClinton, and Buddy Miles.  (read more)

Carolyn Wonderland “The Wind Cries Mary”

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Daily Doggy Song: Al Di Meloa, Paco De Lucia and John Mclauglin – Mediterranean Sundance

Wikipedia:

Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez (in Algeciras, Cádiz on December 21, 1947), is a Spanish composer and guitarist. Recognized as a virtuoso flamenco guitarist all over the world, he is a leading proponent of the Modern Flamenco style, and is one of the very few flamenco guitarists who have also successfully crossed over into other genres of music. (read more on Paco)

Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an Italian American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist. In the beginning of his career, as evidenced on his first solo album Land of the Midnight Sun (1976), Di Meola was noted for his technical mastery and extremely fast, complex guitar solos and compositions. But even on his early albums, he had begun to explore Mediterranean cultures and acoustic genres like flamenco. (read more on Al Di Meola)

John McLaughlin (born 4 January, 1942 in Doncaster), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. His 1970s electric band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influences. (read more on John McLaughlin).

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