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Inaugural Lancaster Roots and Blues festival draws impressive crowd of blues artists and fans

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Mike

When we talked with Lancaster Roots and Blues organizer Rich Ruoff a few weeks back by email, he noted that he doesn’t do things halfway. This past weekend, we got to see just what he meant when we and a few thousand … Continue reading →

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Ursula Ricks offers some down-home soul-blues on My Street

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Mike

Okay, we admit it: we hadn’t really heard much about soul/blues singer Ursula Ricks either before receiving a copy of her debut album My Street (Severn Records), despite having spent quite a few years bouncing around the same Baltimore/D.C. suburbs where Ricks has been … Continue reading →

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Bluesman Sugaray Rayford plays it Dangerous on new solo release

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Mike

Last week, we told you about some of the great new blues releases coming out in September, a majority of them hitting the shelves this week. Perhaps our favorite of this most recent bunch comes from one from the best blues singers … Continue reading →

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