Category Archives: Albums

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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Bluesman Lurrie Bell teams with fellow Chicago musician Frank Catalano on liberating Set Me Free

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Mike

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

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Mike

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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Joined by Delmark All-Stars, Willie Buck still sounding great on Live at Buddy Guy’s Legends

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Mike

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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UK blues band Catfish offers stunning mini-album amid break in touring

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Mike

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 →

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