From: The Worcester Observer Worcester Editorial 27th May, 2023 0 Comments ONE OF the county’s most successful festivals has put together a one-off, all-star group to perform at the event The Elgar Festival – which runs from Tuesday (May 30) until Sunday, June 4 this year – will welcome Blue Enigma whose […]
From: The Worcester News 18th May 2023 By Mike Pryce KEN Woods is a real piece of work. To be more precise, a combination of a piece of work by Edward Elgar, a piece of work by Jeff Beck, Buddy Holly and probably Stevie Wonder too. I am not sure […]
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 7, 2012 Hello Vftp readers! I’m writing to you from high above the Atlantic ocean, en route from a tense and nervous Heathrow airport, where the deportation of Abu Hamza has once again convinced those in power that the only thing that can keep us safe from the […]
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 14, 2010 There is a great article in today New York Times on guitar demigod, Jeff Beck. “You look for the guys who can kick you” as a musician, “and Jeff can be filthy, stinky that way,” Mr. Walden said in an interview here. “He’s not just melody, or a […]
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, […]
