I’ve been hobbnobbing with Ethnomusicologists this week. I gave a short devotional talk for the Ethnomusicology and Performing Arts course that is being held here at the moment and then my friends Rob and Lois Baker were around the office after their return from Benin. I’m always fascinated by the work that ethnomusicologists do and […]
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Bo Diddley RIP
For any rock and roll fan of my age the news of Bo Diddley’s death at the age of 79 comes as a great sadness. He didn’t have much direct impact on the pop charts, but his influence on other musicians is huge as you can read in this BBC tribute. That strange square guitar, […]
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Larry Norman (1947-2008)
Back in the 1970s when I became a Christian there was hardly any Christian music scene – but there was an American guy with long blond hair and a raunchy guitar playing style called Larry Norman. OK, the eschatology of I wish we’d all been ready (probably his most famous song) has never really reflected […]
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Chris Whitfield
Sue and I went to a gig at the Talking Heads in Southampton last week. One of the acts was a guitarist called Chris Whitfield and he is absolutely brilliant. He doesn’t have a recording contract yet, but he one day he will. You can listen to a few songs on his MySpace page and […]