blues

Most people of my age and younger know Fleetwood Mac from the Rumours and later era, so Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks. But that wasn't the original band. Only Mick and John were original members. Today we lost Peter Green, who was the original...

Or, more accurately, Nahre Sol and LA Buckner are. This week's Sound Field is about the blues and its wide-ranging influence on modern popular music from jazz to rock to country. And it's another terrific episode. And, yes, they do take a stab at writing their own blues tune.

On the surface, Postmodern Jukebox is a weird concept. Take a song from one era and rearrange it in the style of another. However, PMJ founder/arranger/pianist has produced some wonderful music and helped promote some wonderful singers using just that concept. I've posted some of the singers who...