Monday, April 28, 2014

Jonny Lang @ Olympia, Paris - April 28, 2014


Jonny Lang, like Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Joe Bonamassa and tonight's headliner Derek Trucks, was a nineties blues-rock child prodigy who released his first album at the age of fourteen and hit it big on the circuit two years later with Lie To Me. After an appearance in the Blues Brothers sequel, it seemed like he was on his way to superstardom.

The Tedeschi/Trucks Band @ Olympia, Paris - April 28, 2014


At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Derek Trucks is the greatest rock guitarist of the pat twenty years. And the band he and his wife have formed by fusing their bands together plays the most beautiful music ever created: a fusion of rock, soul, blues and jazz in the style of great seventies bands like the Allman Brothers Band, Santana, Blood Sweat & Tears, Derek & the Dominos, Mad Dogs & Englishmen...

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine @ 104, Paris - April 23, 2014


The records Jello has been cutting with his new band the Guantanamo School of Medicine are probably the best since his days as the lead agitator of seminal band Dead Kennedys. A mix of trashy surf-a-billy, spy movie themes on steroids and punk-rock barre chords, the new material stands proudly alongside old classics like California Über Alles, Holiday In Cambodia and Police Truck.


Thursday, April 10, 2014

Wishbone Ash @ Divan du Monde, Paris - April 10, 2014


Road warriors Wishbone Ash are touring behind an excellent new record titled Blue Horizon, and they played a few excerpts last night but the bulk of the set was their performance of the classic live album Live Dates in its entirety and in sequence.