THE MARY STOKES BAND Play The Cork Jazz Festival 2 shows 4pm & 10pm 26th-27th-28th Oct.
The Mary Stokes Band are returning the world famous Cork Jazz Festival for another weekend run at the legendary Counihan’s Pub, Pembroke St. Joining Mary on stage in Cork will be Andrea Rodo on guitar, Brian Palm, harmonica, Steve Tierney, bass and Lee Boylan on...
128 Records artist:Claude Hay – I Love Hate You – New Release Review
I just received a copy of I Love Hate You, the newest release from Australian singer/guitarist Claude Hay. The opening track, I Love Hate You, is a very stripped down modern blues track a la White Stripes/Black Keys which actually quite cool. Next up is Good Times...
Total Destruction To Your Mind
new digital single Total Destruction To Your Mind out Nov. 30th DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW on CD Digipak, Vinyl & Download (Cover photo taken at Imagination Station in Detroit by Jerry Paffendorf) Following the critical success of their debut album, There Is A Bomb In...
Steve Strongman, Shakura S’Aida, Paul Reddick and MonkeyJunk lead Maple Blues Award Nominations
(October 26, 2012) Toronto, ON - The Toronto Blues Society will be celebrating its 16th annual Maple Blues Awards by honouring nationally and internationally recognized Canadian Blues artists from across the country on January 21, 2013. The nominees are recognized...
Rock Me Baby – Shirley King
Shirley King "High energy, get down, get funky, jump up and jiggle your business Chicago blues." Being the blues singing daughter of B.B. King has earned Shirley King the title “Daughter of the Blues,” but she is an outstanding singer and performer in her own right....
Hot Pants Baby / I Got Money – Detroit Jr.
Emery "Detroit Junior" Williams, Jr. (October 26, 1931 – August 9, 2005) was an American Chicago blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is known for songs such as "So Unhappy", "Call My Job", "If I Hadn't Been High", "Ella" and "Money Tree". His songs have been...
Sunny – Bootsy Collins with James Brown
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and...
Bow legged daddy – Willis ‘Gator Tail’ Jackson
Willis "Gator" Jackson (April 25, 1932 – October 25, 1987) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Miami, Florida, Jackson joined Duke Ellington alumnus Cootie Williams's band in 1949 as a teenager, after being discovered by Eddie Vinson. During the 1950s he...
Red Nigger – Cleo Page
Born May 25, 1928 in Shamrock, LA Died February 19, 1979 in California Very much one of the mystery men of the blues, this singer/guitarist caused a minor stir in the 70s with his powerful, raw blues records which were issued on small Los Angeles labels including...
MOVE YOUR BODY – POINT BLANK
Point Blank, probably, the first real blues band in former Yugoslavia, enough honest and brave to dive deep into the blues idiom at the time which was over piled with music so much different from blues, as well as fighting against, for so, so long, firmly established...