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Bad Day
It doesn’t matter what kind of day it’s been so far, it will only get better once you’re listening to this latest edition of our BluesPowR Radio Hour, which, we think you’ll agree, has lots of soul with music from … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Price, Buddy Gu, Corey Dennison Band, Danielle Nicole, Johnny Chops & the Razors, Kelly Finnigan, Little Freddie King, Nancy Wright, The Proven Ones, Too Slim & the Taildraggers
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Delmark Records celebrates 65th anniversary with album paying Tribute to label’s past artists
Recently, we told you about the latest album from Lurrie Bell, on which he and brothers Steve, James and Tyson (dubbing themselves The Bell Dynasty) paid tribute to their late, harmonica-blowing father Carey Bell. Now that same record label celebrates … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Joe Williams, Big Time Sarah, Billy Flynn, Bonnie Lee, Carey Bell, Corey Dennison Band, Dave Specter, Dave Weld, Delmark Records, Demetria Taylor, Eddie Taylor Jr., Gerry Hundt, J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Burns, Jimmy Dawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Junior Wells, Ken Saydak, Lil' Ed, Linsey Alexander, Lurrie Bell, Magic Sam, Mike Wheeler, Omar Coleman, Otis Rush, Roosevelt "Mad Hatter" Purifoy, Roosevelt Sykes, Shirley Johnson, Sleepy John Estes
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Columbus’ Project Blues Review attracts dollars, starpower as Eric Clapton joins headliner Jimmie Vaughan onstage
We’ve talked here before about the Project Blues Review fundraiser that takes place each summer in Columbus, Ohio, which has provided a few of the most memorable shows we’ve had the pleasure of seeing, first, a 2014 Tribute to Muddy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Margolin, Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, Jonn Del Toro Richardson, Project Blues, Sean Carney, the Texas Horns
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Matt Andersen & The Mellotones team for Live at Olympic Hall
Early last year, we told you how good Canadian guitarist and singer Matt Andersen can be live. If you still haven’t gotten the chance to experience that for yourself, you no longer have to take our word for it, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Matt Andersen, The Mellotones
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Lurrie Bell and brothers celebrate harpmaster father on Tribute to Carey Bell
Nearly 30 years after playing together with their father, harmonica ace Carey Bell, on the 1990 Dynasty! album, brothers Lurrie, James, Steve, and Tyson Bell are continuing to carry on their dad’s legacy as Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Branch, Carey Bell, Charlie Musselwhite, Eddie Taylor Jr., James Bell, Lurrie Bell, Steve Bell, The Bell Dynasty, Tyson Bell
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Harp ace Bob Corritore & friends blow through the crossroads with Don’t Let the Devil Ride!
We’ve talked here before about some of the terrific collaborations of which harmonica master Bob Corritore has been a part over the years, including recordings with the likes of piano great Henry Gray, guitarist John Primer, and Chicago bluesman Tail … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Mike, Big Jon Atkinson, Bob Corritore, Bob Stroger, Bob Welch, Chris James, Henry Gray, Oscar Wilson, Patrick Rynn, Sugaray Rayford, Tail Dragger, Willie Buck
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Blues supergroup The Proven Ones proves its mettle on Wild Again debut
With each person having already distinguished himself as an individual performer, sideman, or member of such accomplished blues bands as The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, The Mannish Boys, and Sugar Ray & the Bluetones, it should come … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Geraci, Brian Templeton, Jimi Bott, Kid Ramos, The Proven Ones, Willie Campbell
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Buddy Guy proves The Blues is Alive and Well on latest album
With mentors like Memphis Slim and Muddy Waters and contemporaries like B.B. King all having moved on to a better place, blues legend Buddy Guy is fully aware of the role he plays in music today, having been charged by … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Muscle Shoals Horns, the McCrary Sisters, Tom Hambridge
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Award-winning bassist-singer Danielle Nicole gives much to smile about with Cry No More
We can’t recall why exactly we never got around to telling you about Danielle Nicole‘s 2015 debut solo album Wolf Den, but it’s certainly one worth checking out if you haven’t done so. Whether you like what you heard there … Continue reading
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Tagged Danielle Nicole, Johnny Lee Schell, Kelly Finnigan, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Luther Dickinson, Mike Finnigan, Monster Mike Welch, Nick Schnebelen, Sonny Landreth, Tony Braunagel, Trampled Under Foot, Walter Trout
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