No place to call home. An appreciation of Allan Holdsworth

by Kenneth Woods | Apr 19, 2017 That Allan Holdsworth died this week in relative poverty and obscurity (at least considering his enormous artistic legacy) is a sad but completely predictable sign of the times.   I first encountered Holdsworth as an ambitious young guitar player. Even then, in what in retrospect was […]

Bo Diddley- the man who really invented rock ‘n’ roll

by Kenneth Woods | Jun 6, 2008 Rest in peace, Bo Diddley, one of the true inventors of rock ‘n’ roll, an original and ingenious guitarist and about the hardest groovin man ever to walk the earth. I saw Bo Diddley in about 1991 at the Madison Rib Fest- not […]

Anatomy of a Song – Dead Line Creek

Dead Line Creek Words and Music ©2023 Kenneth Woods   INTRO Dawn. Once upon a time. Free improv over B pedal and colourful drum/cymbal stuff   MAIN SONG Slow march in E minor (Bass starts) Verse 1  Hell’s Canyon: A place as cruel as its name.  Wild country Without angels, […]