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Tag Archives: Ronnie Baker Brooks
Second-generation bluesmen Mud Morganfield, Bernard Allison help keep genre groovin’ with stellar new releases
There are few artists we look as forward to hearing new music from as those literal sons and daughters of the blues who have devoted their lives to helping to carry on the music — and thus the legacies — … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Allison, Billy Branch, Billy Flynn, Mike Wheeler, Mud Morganfield, Rick Kreher, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Studebaker John
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R.I.P., guitarist and singer Lonnie Brooks
The music world lost another true father of the blues this weekend with the passing of Chicago blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker, Jr.). We had the pleasure of seeing Lonnie – whose most recognizable songs included the likes … Continue reading
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Tagged Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Wayne Baker Brooks
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Big Head Blues Club returns with tribute to another blues great on Way Down Inside
Recently, we told you about the upcoming release from Big Head Todd & the Monsters’ bluesy side project – what you might call the Dr. Jekyll to their Monster persona – the Big Head Blues Club, a follow-up to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Head Blues Club, Billy Branch, Mud Morganfield, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Willie Dixon
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Go Way Down Inside the blues with new tribute album from Big Head Blues Club, honoring blues legend Willie Dixon
It’s been five years now since we told you about a Robert Johnson tribute album from an outfit calling itself the Big Head Blues Club, consisting of rock/jam band Big Head Todd & the Monsters joined by a rotating roster … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Head Blues Club, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Billy Branch, Mud Morganfield, Ronnie Baker Brooks
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Chicago tribute show, latest album Step Back both good ways to remember blues guitar legend Johnny Winter
If, like us, you weren’t able to make it to Chicago for the Johnny Winter remembrance show that took place at Buddy Guy’s Legends a few weekends back (or to a computer for the accompanying live webstream of the program), … Continue reading
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Tagged Earl Slick, Edgar Winter, Jay Stollman, Johnny Winter, Lonnie Brooks, Mike Zito, Paul Nelson, Ronnie Baker Brooks
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Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater gets Soul Funky on first live album in quarter of a century
We weren’t able to make it to the recent CD release party for Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater‘s new album Soul Funky at Buddy Guy’s Legends, nor have we yet had the chance to check out the video from the show … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Branch, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, Johnny Iguana, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Todd Park Mohr
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New releases: Billy Branch delivers Blues Shock; Damon Fowler shares Sounds of Home
They say we’re in the Year of the Horse, but so far 2014 is looking a lot more like the year of a whole different kind of animal to us, like maybe an Alligator – with the recent release of … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Branch, Damon Fowler, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Tab Benoit
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Generous servings of guitar, family-style blues help define 2012 Heritage BluesFest
There was a whole lot of guitar-slinging in Wheeling a few weekends back, where the annual Heritage Music BluesFest took place – from the solo acoustic sounds of Samuel James and local act Adrian Niles to the triple threat of the Brooks … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Niles, Brighter Side Band, Deanna Bogart, Eugene Hideaway Bridges, Hadden Sayers, Heritage Music BluesFest, Homemade Jamz Blues Band, Izzy and Chris, Joe Krown, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Lonnie Brooks, Nancy McKeen Bluz Machine, Nick Moss, Omar Coleman, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Samuel James, Sean Carney, Tee Dee Young, Trampled Under Foot, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Wayne Baker Brooks
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Chicago Blues: A Living History returns with another blues (R)evolution
You may recall 2009’s much-acclaimed two-disc collection Chicago Blues: A Living History, which featured Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, John Primer, and Billy Boy Arnold performing their interpretations of songs representing the evolution of the Chicago blues, from early 1940s tunes like Sonny Boy Williamson’s “My Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, Buddy Guy, Carlos Johnson, James Cotton, John Primer, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Zora Young
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