All Entries in the "Blues Bytes" Category
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Spo-Dee-O-Dee 5.11.12
In this week’s “Slipped Discs” column, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz takes us on a visit to the Planet Spo-Dee-o-Dee. See you there!
Blues Bytes – “Me Gotta Go Now” 5.04.12
In this week’s “Slipped Discs” column, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz takes at look at one of the most-covered pop song ever. Do you know what it is?
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – The Fame Studios Story 4.27.12
Once again Rev. Billy C. Wirtz has dug up a box set that you need. Don’t ask why, just read all about it in this week’s “Slipped Discs” column on the Blues Bytes page.
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Take Me To The River 4.20.12
This week Rev. Billy C. Wirtz looks at the musical progeny of Sam Cooke through a release that he says you will “absolutely love.” Find out what it is!
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Sam Cooke Part Two “Live” 4.13.12
In this week’s “Gospel 101,” Rev. Billy C. Wirtz looks “One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club” and why it is important and prophetic.
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers 4.06.12
Virtually every contemporary blues, soul, gospel and even hip-hop artist acknowldge a huge debt to Sam Cooke. Rev. Billy C. Wirtz looks at why.
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Gospel 101 – Jubilation! 3.30.12
In this week’s Slipped Discs column, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz is full of “Jubilation!” Read why in the next edition of “Gospel 101.”
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Gospel 101 Part Five 3.23.12
In Part Five of “Gospel 101,” Rev. Billy C. Wirtz tells us about how the bluesman Georgia Tom Dorsey founded gospel blues.
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Gospel 101 Part Four 3.16.12
In his continuing series Gospel 101, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz looks at the “undeniable ‘Father’ of gospel music, Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey. His journey from the Saturday night blues to the Sunday morning pulpit is the journey of blues to gospel. Read the news!
Blues Bytes – Slipped Discs – Gospel 101 Part Three 03.09.12
Rev. Billy C. Wirtz concludes his Gospel 101 series with a look at “quartet singing,” The Swan Silvertones, and The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi.
