‘One of the top San Francisco bluesrockers during the late 60s’ – www.allmusic.com Awesome San Francisco psych / blues Finally available on CD Two-disc set Includes background notes / rare photos The Steve Miller Band are one of themost legendary of all the acts thatflourished in late 1960s San Francisco.Recorded at the city’s legendaryCarousel Ballroom at the […]
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Elvin Bishop is an icon of blues and Southern Rock with a 50-year performing career and thousands of devoted fans. He was a founding member of the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and later a member of Capricorn Records’ stable of Southern Rock masters, writing and performing the Top 10 hit “Fooled Around And […]
From the first time Walter Trout, as a tormented teenager, heard the haunting guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield he instinctively knew the blues was his calling. 2014 marks the year that Trout looks back at an almost 50-year commitment to playing and singing the blues. The songs on “The Blues Came Callin’” reflect Walter’s thoughts […]
Tell a false fact or a mistruth enough times and people will believe it to be accurate. I wonder if the same thing applies to music and its reproduction. Could it be that with enough repetition the hyper-compressed music of acts like Kanye West and Diddy is how music is supposed to sound? What happens when enough […]
Dave Thomas writes: A 3 disc set. 82 tracks in all. No information other than track listings on my copy – but with a beautiful wood-cut of Lightning on the paper slip-case. (£7.99 from Amazon) Playing these CDs I realised that I’d first heard some of these tracks fifty years ago on the LP […]
Meanwhile ……. “His vocal digs into the lyrics and sets it in the blanket of the deceptively loose barroom-styled accompaniment. The set closes with a deeply emotional read of Rodney Crowell’s “Till I Gain Control Again.” Paul Godden’s lonesome dobro is the engine that guides it emotionally. Bob Loveday’s violins add painterly touches to the […]
A live DVD/Blu-ray package which includes a 30-minute documentary and an exclusive live companion double CD featuring over 100 minutes of music all filmed and recorded at the legendary Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. The sound of Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) is as celebratory as the band name suggests. Spinning a fresh […]
“‘Blues & Ballads’, this acoustic collection of songs interpreted simply, recorded live, solo or with a small group of friends,celebrates my relationship between music, songs, the written word and legacy. ‘Blues & Ballads’ celebrates the American oral tradition of blues and folk songs, not only being passed down and evolving but being transcribed (the […]
“B.B. King was one of America’s few, long-standing musical treasures, whose stature has grown to an unassailable, international level. Despite being 85, King continues to tour, perform and grow in influence, casting a shadow that reaches far beyond the blues scene from whence he first came. His warm, down-home vocal style, his distinctive, talking blues […]
More of mainstream rocker than a true hardcore blueswoman, when Bonnie Raitt cuts loose on her slide-guitar (learned firsthand from Mississippi Fred McDowell), the blues notes fall like rain. Raitt earned her blues pedigree the hard way, performing alongside greats like McDowell, Sippie Wallace, and Howlin’ Wolf, so we’ll cut her some slack ’round these […]
Howlin Wolf was a musical giant, and his influence is still felt far and wide on both Blues and Rock.• Sam Phillips said of his voice “this is where the soul of man never dies.• His compositions have been performed by the royalty of rock and roll including The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Doors, Led […]
“Raven presents Blues at the Fillmore 1968-1969, ten electrifying and rare performances from MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD, NICK GRAVENITES and AL KOOPER, drawn together for the first time on one enthralling release. This remarkable collection of organic electric blues, with added jazz and modal flavours, highlights Bloomfield’s playing in its full radiant glow. The late, great Bloomfield is […]
When Columbia issued the first of the five volumes in Bessie Smith’s complete recordings series in 1991 — as a logical follow-up to 1990’s wildly successful Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings box — they were simply hoping for another hit. As the Smith series continued through to its conclusion in 1996, each volume was […]
The opportunity presented itself in November to attend a performance by blues artist Mose Allison at a jazz club in the Detroit area. This was my first time seeing him perform live, although I had been familiar with his music since youth. I have just recently become reanimated by his music, which has always made […]
Gwyn’s Biography: “Welsh-born Gwyn Ashton migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in the ‘60s, picked up a guitar at 12 and from the age of 16, played every bar, festival and seedy biker show imaginable. Aussie audiences are tough and like their rock & roll […]
by Reverend Keith A. Gordon Updated March 06, 2017 Blues-rock is a legitimate child of the hallowed blues music tradition, and it could be argued that the first wave of British bloozers like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, John Mayall, and their kith and kin did more to bring the blues to white rock audiences […]
Walter Atkins writes ….. Eric Burdon and the Animals Stern Grove Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary San Francisco, CA July 16, 2017 Influential Eric Burdon and the Animals gleefully rocked the Stern Grove Festival on a perfect mid July Sunday afternoon. His lethal band of Animals included: guitarist Johnzo West, keyboardist Davey Allen, bassist Justin […]
by Reverend Keith A. Gordon / Updated February 12, 2017 When American became embroiled in World War II, it served to increase the exodus of African-Americans from the Southern states northward to cities like St. Louis, Detroit, and Chicago. Former sharecroppers were moving out of the rural areas of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to find jobs […]
The Guardian writes ….. The great Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist BB King, was christened Riley B King in 1925, which explains the comic title of this authoritative British documentary on his long, impressive career. BB bore with dignity his …….. MORE
A 6 CD set by the “King of Slide Guitars” – a true Blues legend. A no frills package at a really great price… Disc 1: You Know You’re Wrong, Round House Boogie, Rollin’ & Tumblin’ I Need You, Hawaiian Boogie,Stranger Blues, So Unkind, 1839 Blues, Poor Little Angel Child, Make My Dreams Come True, Dust […]
They tell us….. Tracklist 1. Down On The Farm 2. Self Sufficient Man 3. Keep On Keepin’ On 4. Over You 5. The Way I Do 6. Purple Shadows 7. Freedom Road 8. Home 9. Hope 10. Heavy Weight 11. Coast Is Clear 12. _
DIMITRI KEN: From a fringe musician to a superstar of Hip Hop: Let me tell you about this French guy, I mean, this genius: guy, I mean, this genius: This is Alain Mion, a Jazz Funk pianist. Back in the 70s, he formed a group named Cortex, and they released 3 albums between 1975 and […]