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TajMo returns with inviting new single Room on the Porch
We’ve heard some great new blues singles these past few weeks and thought we’d share a few of them with you through a series of quick, no-fuss weekly posts, so that you can get right to enjoying them too! Here’s … Continue reading
Tune into the Weekend: British guitarist/singer Mick Clarke still churning out Homework when it comes to the blues
We’ve come across a few tunes from British blues-rocker Mick Clarke over the decades and must say we’ve always liked what we heard, but, for whatever reason, have never seemed to get around to checking out Clarke’s work more fully. … Continue reading
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Tune into the Weekend: Curtis Salgado’s latest album much more than Fine By Me
There are plenty of things to like about soulman Curtis Salgado‘s latest album Fine By Me (Little Village), with some of the biggest highlights including a swinging, soulful cover of O.V. Wright’s “Gonna Forget About You” that has Salgado joined … Continue reading
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Tagged Anson Funderburgh, Curtis Salgado, Jim Pugh, Kid Andersen, Robert Cray
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Bluesman Lurrie Bell teams with fellow Chicago musician Frank Catalano on liberating Set Me Free
Although we’ve certainly been tempted enough over the decades, we’ve resisted crossing over into the jazzier side of things much on these pages, in part to keep things focused squarely on the blues, since — even during this blog’s heyday … Continue reading
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Blind Pig Records returns with smoking debuts from Jovin Webb and Sonny Gullage
We’re sure we weren’t the only ones disappointed to read the news of the sale of fabled blues record label Blind Pig Records in early 2015, having heard and purchased many of the label’s albums over the years from such … Continue reading
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Tagged Jovin Webb, Kevin "Sonny" Gullage, Tom Hambridge
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Joined by Delmark All-Stars, Willie Buck still sounding great on Live at Buddy Guy’s Legends
There’s not much more we can say about blues veteran Willie Buck than we did in this post on his previous album Willie Buck Way, except that Willie’s latest album Live at Buddy Guy’s Legends (Delmark Records) is the closest … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Flynn, Johnny Iguana, Melvin Smith, Willie Buck, Willie The Touch Hayes
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UK blues band Catfish offers stunning mini-album amid break in touring
We’ve talked here quite a bit before about the extremely talented father/son duo Paul (keyboards and vocals) and Matt (guitar and vocals) Long and their colleagues in the UK blues rock band Catfish. While the band is currently taking a … Continue reading
A bit more on that Three Kings tribute…
Here’s a little videographic evidence of the show we talked about in our last post, a tribute to the Three Kings of the Blues presented by Albert Castiglia, D.K. Harrell and Chris Cain at the recent Heritage Music BluesFest. These … Continue reading
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Albert Castiglia, Chris Cain & D.K. Harrell pay tribute to Three Kings of the Blues during Heritage Music BluesFest
It’s been a minute since we wrote about any live shows here, but we would be remiss if we didn’t tell you about this one to be on the lookout for. This weekend, we got the chance to spend a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, D.K. Harrell, Eden Brent, Heritage Music BluesFest, Matt Schofield, Selwyn Birchwood
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Tune into the Weekend: Everybody Needs Some Blues Like This to Love
Speaking of tributes (as we were in our previous post regarding Misty Blues’ upcoming tribute album to Odetta), here’s one from a recently released Blues Brothers tribute album from another band with which we weren’t familiar until now: the B. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Fig, B. Christopher Band, Bruce Katz, Studebaker John
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