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If you can’t make it down to Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, bring the festival to you, via pay-per-view online or TV!
We’ve had the pleasure of attending and reporting back on three of Eric Clapton‘s four previous Crossroads Guitar Festivals: the inaugural festival in Dallas in 2004, its 2010 run in Chicago, and the most recent festival in 2013 at Madison Square Garden in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Fairweather Low, Billy Gibbons, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Keb Mo, Marcus King Band, Peter Frampton, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Tedeschi Trucks Band
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Blues Won’t Let Me Take My Rest
What could be better than another edition of our BluesPowR Radio Hour to help keep your holiday season grooving? How about another edition that’s actually two more shows jammed into one?! Here for your listening pleasure is another two hours … Continue reading
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Tagged Arlen Roth, Bob Corritore, Buddy Guy, Colin John, David Gogo, Deb Callahan, Debbie Davies, Gaye Adegbalola, Guy Davis, Henry Gray, James Cotton, Jimmy Burns, John Earl Walker, John Primer, Johnny Winter, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, King King, Long Tall Deb, Lucky Peterson, Mitch Woods, Monkeyjunk, Murali Coryell, Omar Coleman, Rick Vito, Robert Cray, Robin McKelle, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Sam Butler, Sugar Brown, Tad Robinson, The Hurt Project, Zakiya Hooker
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Robert Cray Band celebrates 4 Nights of 40 Years Live on latest CD/DVD offering
Bluesman Robert Cray has been “groovin’ 4 decades” now, so this isn’t of course the first live recording we’ve heard from him, nor is it likely to be the last. But the double CD/DVD set 4 Nights of 40 Years … Continue reading
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Tagged Kim Wilson, Lee Oskar, Robert Cray
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Concert recap: Robert Cray Band, John Hiatt & the Combo at Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead
It’s not often that a stage gets a visit from two such respected names in music as Robert Cray and John Hiatt in one night, much less on the same bill, but that’s exactly what went down Thursday at the Carnegie … Continue reading
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Tagged John Hiatt, Richard Cousins, Robert Cray
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The BluesPowR Radio Hour is back!
Check out the spring edition of our BluesPowR Radio Hour, featuring new music from the likes of Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues, The Robert Cray Band, Downchild, Damon Fowler, Eden Brent, Matt Schofield, … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Damon Fowler, Dan Sowerby, Downchild Blues Band, Eden Brent, James Cotton, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Winter, Josh Hoyer & the Shadowboxers, Lou Pride, Magic Sam, Matt Schofield, Muddy Waters, Nick Moss, Ray Fuller, Robert Cray, Tommy Castro, Trevor Sewell, Ursula Ricks
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Robert Cray Band digs deep on In My Soul
One of the most accomplished blues guitarists over the past three decades, five-time Grammy winner and Blues Hall of Famer Robert Cray sometimes gets a bit of a bad rap. While no one can argue his technical abilities on guitar … Continue reading
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Tagged Richard Cousins, Robert Cray, Steve Jordan
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Coming up on the Crossroads; double DVD, CD sets capture some of world’s best guitarists at Clapton’s fourth Crossroads festival
Having been fortunate enough to attend both nights of Eric Clapton‘s Crossroads Guitar Festival this spring, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the highlights DVD that customarily follows, scheduled for release next Tuesday. For the first time, some of the music will … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, Andy Fairweather Low, B.B. King, Beth Hart, Blake Mills, Booker T., Buddy Guy, Cesar Rosas, Crossroads Guitar Festival, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Gregg Allman, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, John Mayer, Keb Mo, Keith Richards, Keith Urban, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Los Lobos, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Quinn Sullivan, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Steve Cropper, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes
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With fourth guitar festival, Clapton and friends deliver plenty of blues at the Crossroads
Having attended two of the three previous Crossroads Guitar Festivals (the first in Dallas, as well as the most recent in Chicago), we weren’t all that sure what to think about last fall’s announcement of the 2013 installment of the renowned festival. … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, Andy Fairweather Low, B.B. King, Beth Hart, Blake Mills, Booker T., Buddy Guy, Cesar Rosas, Citizen Cope, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Dan Aykroyd, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Gregg Allman, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, John Mayer, Keb Mo, Keith Richards, Keith Urban, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Philip Sayce, Quinn Sullivan, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Steve Cropper, Susan Tedeschi, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes
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The year in re-blues, part 2: presenting the BluesPowR Radio Hour
Just before the new year, you may recall we took a quick look back at some of the best of 2012. But since words themselves don’t always do justice to the great new music we heard and wrote about during … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, Albert Cummings, Buddy Guy, Curtis Salgado, Elmore James Jr., Gary Clark Jr., Gary Hoey, Janiva Magness, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Joe Louis Walker, John Lee Hooker Jr., Liz Mandeville, Mighty Sam McClain, Mud Morganfield, Muddy Waters, Oli Brown, Phantom Blues Band, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Cray, Rolling Stones, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Shemekia Copeland, Taj Mahal, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Nighthawks, Volker Strifler
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2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival Recap
To see more photos from the 2010 Crossroads Festival, please visit our BluesPowR Gallery. Eric Clapton and his friends sure are getting good at putting on a show, as they proved once again Saturday during the third installment of Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival at Chicago’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Bill Murray, Buddy Guy, Cesar Rosas, Crossroads Guitar Festival, David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Honeyboy Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, James Burton, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Johnny Winter, Jonny Lang, Keb Mo, Michael Frank, Pino Daniele, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Ronnie Wood, Sheryl Crow, Sonny Landreth, Stefan Grossman, Steve Winwood, Susan Tedeschi, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, ZZ Top
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