Category Archives: Albums

Wrapped Up and Ready for your listening pleasure, The Mannish Boys’ latest CD is another winner

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Mike

The blues supergroup known as The Mannish Boys has done some pretty terrific stuff over the years, so to say that their newest CD Wrapped Up and Ready (Delta Groove Music) may just be their best yet is no small … Continue reading →

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2014 brings Good News for Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Mike

A little over a year ago, we just couldn’t say enough positive things about Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters‘ new CD, an almost entirely instrumental masterpiece called Just for Today. The good news for blues fans is that the band’s … Continue reading →

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Royal Southern Brotherhood gives heartsoulblood on sophomore studio release

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Mike

Just a month after picking up its first Blues Music Award for the DVD portion of its live Songs from the Road set, Royal Southern Brotherhood is back with its second studio release from Ruf Records, a little something called … Continue reading →

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Guitarist Walter Trout turns away death, embraces the music with The Blues Came Callin’

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Mike

Blues-rocker Walter Trout certainly has a lot to celebrate these days, with a new album, biography, and documentary all slated for release in the coming weeks as part of a long-planned celebration of Trout’s 25th year as a solo artist, … Continue reading →

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Post-Bluesbreakers, John Mayall still leading A Special Life

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Mike

It’s been five years now since British multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and singer John Mayall broke up his storied Bluesbreakers for good and put together a new five-piece line-up for his 2009 album Tough (which probably describes pretty well the decision to … Continue reading →

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Twenty years on, Kenny Wayne Shepherd still quite at home playing the blues on Goin’ Home

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Mike

Here at The BluesPowR Blog, we like Kenny Wayne Shepherd‘s stuff like “Blue on Black” or “True Lies” just as much as the next guy or gal, but for us, his band has never sounded better than when they’re fully … Continue reading →

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Keb’ Mo’ serves up slice of BLUESAmericana

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Mike

Last week, we gave you something of a preview of singer/songwriter Keb’ Mo’s new album BLUESAmericana (Kind of Blue Music) with a Blues Lyrics of the Week post on the project’s opening track, “The Worst is Yet to Come”. In … Continue reading →

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Harping on the Taboo: Bob Corritore offers up album of blues harmonica instrumentals

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Mike

We’ve written here before about a few projects involving harmonica ace Bob Corritore, including some pretty impressive recent collaborations with the likes of one-time Muddy Waters Band guitarist John Primer (Knockin’ Around These Blues) and veteran blues singer Tail Dragger … Continue reading →

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Canada’s Matt Andersen soars again on Weightless

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Mike

If, as he sings so soulfully on the opening track of his new album Weightless (True North Records), Canadian singer and guitarist Matt Andersen has indeed lost his way, you wouldn’t be able to tell it by this project, which … Continue reading →

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Johnny Winter box set chronicles nearly 50 years of blues rock legend keeping True to the Blues

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Mike

With five decades worth of hard-driving rock and blues under his belt, it’s hard to believe that there hasn’t been a definitive box set of Texas blues-rocker Johnny Winter‘s music before now. Perhaps it was precisely the daunting nature of … Continue reading →

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