Roomful Of Blues - Steppin' Out
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Music is an art form that is never simple to describe; it's a celebration of life, it's creativity, it's light and dark, good times and bad ones and, fundamentally, the soundtrack of everyone's life.
Said soundtracks though may not necessarily come from radio airplays or any media in general, but they might often come unexpectedly from the speaker of a car radio, or when we are at a restaurant, or at a beach, where we wouldn't necessary know the song title or the artist performing it, but we would remember the moment we were living with that song in the background, a song that, for some unknown reasons, never got the necessary attention from the music press it deserved, back then.
Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip - Outtakes
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
One of the most common questions recurring often when analysing the songbook of an artist or of a band, it's the one related to the building of an album's setlist and the decision related to choose some tracks instead of others ending up left out, maybe because the latters were considered unsuited to the idea behind the making of the album in question.
A fan or the music press get to know about those aforementioned tunes only when an artist decides to release a collection of b-sides or outtakes, frequently revealing some hidden gems that, inexplicably, never found space on an official studio album release.
Walter Trout - Sign Of The Times
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
If there is an artist within the Blues-Rock industry in the United States able to be completely honest and truthful to himself, his music and to all his thousands of fans worldwide, that artist is most certainly the American Blues-Rock Titan, Guitar Supremo and singer-songwriter Walter Trout.
Throughout his whole career, might that have been as a solo artist or with Canned Heat or Bluesbreakers, there has always been something completely genuine and real about Trout’s music, no matter whether that was expressed through a guitar solo or the American artist's powerful vocal range, even in what sometimes Trout Himself calls "The Wild Days", referring to a time of his career where this prodigious Guitar Titan was still very successful but not exactly living a very morigerate life.
