The Blues Rock Show: Grammys, Greta Van Fleet, Greatest Hits
On episode 12 of the Blues Rock Show, the guys discuss this year’s Grammy nominations and whether the Grammys are still important in determining the year’s best music for blues and rock. Also discussed is Greta Van Fleet’s upcoming album, The Battle At Garden’s Gate, and whether “Greatest Hits” albums are still relevant and have a place in today’s music scene.
The first time that I heard of Greta Van Fleet was in the Spring of 2017 when one of my son’s friends excitedly showed me a video on You tube of a new band he just discovered. The song was “Highway Tune” and I was impressed. When I got home I Googled the Greta Van Fleet and found out that they were from a city in my Native Michigan that my relatives lived in that I visited many times called Frankenmuth. That was why when they came to Portland, Oregon in 2017 and 2018 I got tickets and a press pass to photograph the show and interview the Drummer Danny Wagner for Blues Rock Review.
I never cease to wonder about all the great music artists that have come out of Michigan since the rock & roll era peaked in the 1960’s. I took it for granted when artists like Marvin Gay and Stevie Wonder would perform at my high school dance or the roller rink with artists like “Question Mark & the Mysterians” and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. I thought that it was coincidental when Wayne Kramer did an MC5 50th Anniversary tour shortly after the Greta Van Fleet. I saw the MC5 multiple times in the 1960’s and was present at the great footage on You Tube of them performing at Tartar Field by Wayne State University.