Please help us in congratulating everyone involved with the Wanee Music Festival who has worked so hard to see this fantastic musical gathering reach its 10th anniversary this year! Since the festival began back in 2005, it has been held at the oh so beautiful and ever so busy Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The Allman Brothers Band will once again be returning as both Wanee’s host and headlining act as the legendary blues rockers have done since the festival first sprouted. With the main days of music spread over three days from April 10th to the 12th, this jam-centric festival will feature a magnitude of genres on…
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Ronnie James Dio Forges Elf

In April of 1972, future heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio recorded the first album of his great career, which would share the name of the blues rock band with whom it was recorded; Elf. The band evolved from the originally titled Ronnie Dio and the Prophets to The Electric Elves in 1967, and shortened to The Elves the next year. By the time the band began recording their debut album, the group was known simply as Elf. The members of Elf included Dio (who was listed by his birth name Ronald Padavona for…
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Freddie King’s All-Star Tribute

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, along with young virtuosos Joe Bonamassa and Derek Trucks, took t he stage of Cleveland’s Public Hall to honor the cherished Freddie King as the late bluesman was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14th, 2012.
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Clapton and Winwood Give New York Some Trouble

Nearly 40 years after the formation and dissolution of their 1969 supergroup, former Blind Faith bandmates Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood united to perform a series of concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden in late February of 2008. The two legends performed songs from Blind Faith’s only album along with selections from each other’s past bands as well as …
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Mountain Erupts At Woodstock

After only a handful of performances together, the freshly molded Mountain, which consisted of Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, N.D. Smart, and Steve Knight, took to the stage of the inaugural Woodstock Music Festival on August 16th, 1969. The influential proto-metal quartet finished off its applauded set with the …
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