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Remembering Mike Finnigan
Not just the blues — but the whole music — world lost one of its greatest living musicians last week with the passing of organist and singer Mike Finnigan, whose work we admired not only with bands we’ve reviewed here … Continue reading
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Tagged Kelly Finnigan, Mannish Boys, Mike Finnigan, Phantom Blues Band
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Tune into the Weekend: 2019 International Blues Challenge Solo Act Winner Jon Shain Airs “2020 Blues”
Even with 2020 now well within our rearview mirror, Covid and other events have helped to ensure the year will be long-remembered, and, for many, probably not among the U.S.’ finest days. That’s just one of the issues North Carolina … Continue reading
Eddie 9V sticks with impressing in Paste Studio session
If you still haven’t had a chance to check out young Atlanta soul/bluesman Eddie 9V as we’ve encouraged, or you just want to take in more from him after liking what you’ve heard on either his livestreams during the pandemic … Continue reading
Tune into the Weekend with new single from Blues Music Award emerging artist nominee Jose Ramirez
We haven’t yet had a chance to listen to Costa Rican blues guitarist and singer Jose Ramirez‘s Blues Music Award-nominated debut album Here I Come, but have certainly moved it closer to the top of our pile for checking out … Continue reading
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UK Blues Awards finalists Let the Good Times Roll during online ceremony
The annual UK Blues Awards took place this past Sunday, again virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, with this year’s winners including When Rivers Meet for emerging artist of the year, band of the year, album of the year (We … Continue reading
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Tagged Connor Selby, Dom Martin, Elles Bailey, Emma Wilson, Giles Robson, Kyla Brox, Matt Long, Paul Long, Shemekia Copeland, Toby Lee, When Rivers Meet
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UK guitarist Will Johns rips it up on Bluesdaddy
We’ve talked quite a bit here over the years about some of the second generation blues men and women helping to carry on the tradition of their fathers, including the likes of Bernard Allison (son of Luther), Shemekia Copeland (daughter … Continue reading
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Tune into the Weekend: Mike Ross shakes on down a classic with debut single from new album
We had a chance to catch bluesman Mike Ross along with some other great UK blues artists as part of the Wrotham Arms online blues and roots festival back in February, during which Ross performed a number of songs from … Continue reading
Tune into the Weekend: Guitarists Johnny Burgin, Anson Funderburgh team for Valentine’s Day blues single
We know things have been pretty quiet around here as of late, but what better time than heading into a weekend to start to turn things around?! And those in any stage of a relationship will hopefully already have realized … Continue reading
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Tagged Anson Funderburgh, Johnny Burgin
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Reprise Records takes us back out Riding with the King with expanded, remastered 20th anniversary edition of King/Clapton collaboration
I guess you could say that we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus since the start of this coronavirus lockdown. It’s certainly not that we haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on in the blues world during this … Continue reading
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Tagged B.B. King, Eric Clapton
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11 Guys Quartet delivers big sound on Small Blues and Grooves
While we’re on the topic of great new releases from the VizzTone Label Group, here’s another one well worth checking out. Although their names may not be as familiar as those in the band about which we told you in last week’s post, the members … Continue reading
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Tagged 11 Guys Quartet, Richard Rosenblatt
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