Today I feel in the mood for some Beach Boys.

I finally got around too listening to pet sounds this week. In the RS 500 greatest albums book I got a couple Christmases ago it ranked number two beating out heavyweights like Exile on Main Street, Hard Days Night, Are You Experienced and Thriller. The Beach Boys are good but they are no Rolling Stones.

Happy Birthday Carl Perkins

 On this day we celebrate and remember Carl Perkins on what would have been his 80th birthday.

I Pity the Fool who has never listened to the Lion of The Blues.

This week while trying to expose myself to more blues musicians I decided to checkout Bobby Blue Bland aka The Lion of the Blues. I had herd his name before but had not herd any of his music.  Bobby Bland was born on January 27, 1930 and at 82

he is one of the last great blues and soul musicians alive today being that most of his contemporaries Ray Charles, Etta James and Sam Cooke have since passed on. His soulful voice and bluesy style did earn him some success on the R&B charts but he did not achieve much mainstream success like those listed above. Over the years Bland has maintained a friendship with B.B. King and they have recorded two live albums together,  Together for the First Time... Live in 1974 and Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live in 1976. 

Going to see James Cotton on the 29th.

Famous Daves Blues Fest 2012 lineup.

On this date back in 58 Chuck Berry’s Sweet Little Sixteen is No. 1 US R&B charts.

Happy 70th birthday to Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the raiders.