by Kenneth Woods | May 5, 2014 It was the most unexpected gift I received this past Christmas- both the nature of the gift and the identity of the givers. Why the nature? Anyone who knows me well, knows how deeply immersed I was in the music of Jimi Hendrix throughout my teens […]
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 30, 2020 I pity pianists and I pity singers. The rest of us have the luxury of choosing the instrument which best allows us to express ourselves. I found my cello, a somewhat motley Italian instrument made in the 1600’s but with a ‘modern’ (ie 100-year-old) top in […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 12, 2020 | rock | 4 comments Like a lot of my friends and contemporaries, the death of Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the band Rush, hit me hard. When I decided I wanted an electric guitar, my parents rightly decided that if it wasn’t to be a faddish thing […]
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, […]
