by Paul Bourgeois When the Second World War was over everybody returned home from fighting and had babies. And then when the Sixties came along you had a great surplus of people. A big wave of surplus people. I was one of those surplus people. I… more »

by Paul Bourgeois Find an album named “Bach. Art of the Fugue” by Glenn Gould and try to tell me there isn’t something bigger than ourselves. The Creative State has, after all, been described as a “fugue state” where you become… more »

By Paul Bourgeois I was born in 1964, at Midnight on April 31st, and I grew up on my mother’s record collection.  I remember listening to Paul Whiteman’s orchestration with Gershwin on piano, cover all blues and modern art, a copy of the… more »

By Edward Lapple Reverb is the stuff of legends. It makes you seem bigger than you really are. The truth be told, almost all musicians like the sound of reverb. One trick that every recording engineer knows is, “Verb In The Cans.”… more »

From the story of Robert Johnson to groups like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica, Black Label Society and Anthrax, there is a line. I’m not really a metal-head.   Eventually we will get around to Leadbelly, Howling Wolf and Chess Records,… more »

by Paul Bourgeois Dan Grigor, our glorious leader/guitar virtuoso/webmaster has asked me to write some bits for BareFoot Music News. And all I have to do is babble on about stuff. Babble is fine by me. Towers have been built on the stuff, and some great… more »