Category Archives: Albums

Jus’ Blues Music Foundation celebrates 25 years with essential anniversary album

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Mike

We haven’t talked about the Jus’ Blues Music Foundation much here over the years, but their 25th anniversary seems as good a time as any to tell you about the organization’s good works, especially when that anniversary is accompanied by … Continue reading →

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Catfish blues: final act from UK blues-rock band concludes masterful run

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Mike

Recently, we spotlighted the video for the title track from the final album from UK blues-rockers Catfish, Time to Fly. Today, we’re here to tell you about the rest of that album, a bittersweet project that stands as another terrific … Continue reading →

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Blues trio GA-20 is no stranger to our playlist with latest single “Stranger Blues” (and rest of their new EP!)

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Mike

Anyone who may have thought that the departure of two-thirds of the original lineup of Boston blues trio GA-20 would set the Matt Stubbs-led band back would have been greatly mistaken, judging by the band’s new four-track EP (EP Volume … Continue reading →

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Every day can sound just like Jazz Fest with new album from Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Mike

We’re down to just two sleeps away from the start of the annual New Orleans Jazz Festival, so if you’re beginning to look ahead for some music to hold you over between your Jazz Festival weekends (besides listening to any … Continue reading →

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Janiva Magness will keep you coming back with latest album Back for Me

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Mike

We recently spotlighted one of the singles off blueswoman Janiva Magness‘ new album Back for Me (Blue Élan Records), “a slinking, edgy, ‘you done lost your good thing now’-kind of track with some gritty vocals, grungy guitar, and terrific grooves” … Continue reading →

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Louisiana neighbors Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush show off their Young Fashioned Ways on superb joint album

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Mike

Recently, we highlighted the lead song off the new album collaboration from blues-rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd and traditional bluesman Bobby Rush, a shuffling number with stinging guitar from Shepherd, gritty vocals and harmonica from Rush, and some swinging horns that, … Continue reading →

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Limited edition LP offers further listen to American Folk Blues Festival’s earliest years with previously unreleased recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker, and more

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Mike

American Folk Blues Festival Live in Paris 1962 • Bremen 1963 (The Lost Recordings) There are, fortunately for us all, a good number of recordings from the American Folk Blues Festival over the years, but we’re certainly not going to … Continue reading →

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Longtime Clapton sideman Andy Fairweather Low sure to get noticed with new album The Invisible Bluesman

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Mike

We wouldn’t say that British blues guitar slinger and vocalist Andy Fairweather Low has exactly been invisible until now, having spent much of the past few decades playing and touring with Eric Clapton. Keener observers among Slowhand fans might, for … Continue reading →

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Tune into the Weekend: British guitarist/singer Mick Clarke still churning out Homework when it comes to the blues

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Mike

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

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Mike

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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