The Band: I Shall Be Released

By |2016-10-24T00:05:30+00:00October 24th, 2016||

One can only imagine what it would have been like to sit in the basement of Big Pink while Dylan and The Band recorded Basement Tapes sessions in 1967. (By the way, it was written just outside of Saugerties, NY in the Catskill Mountains.) Written that same year by Mr. Zimmerman, ‘I Shall Be Released’ was ...

Henry Thomas: Bull Doze Blues

By |2021-05-06T06:01:56+00:00July 24th, 2016||

It's one of the most recognizable songs in American pop culture, but most people don't know that this tune was originally written in 1927—nearly fifty years before the cover "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat made it internationally famous. Bull Doze Blues was written by Henry Thomas, an American country blues singer ...

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