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💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Joanna Connor - Live On 11/11
Joanna Connor is an absolute powerhouse on the Chicago scene, widely celebrated as the "Queen of Slide Guitar" for her fierce, lightning-fast fretwork. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Massachusetts, she fell in love with music early through…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: John Primer and Friends - Tribute To Theresa's Lounge
John fell in love with the blues as a child when his father and an older cousin played guitar and sang at night after a hard day in the fields. His mother moved to Chicago to secure a…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Johnny Rawls & Dave Keller - Tribute To Soul
Blues powerhouses Johnny Rawls and Dave Keller just dropped their new collaborative album, Tribute to Soul, out now on Third Street Cigar Records. This 11-track project is a high-energy shoutout to the legends of the chitlin circuit, packed…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Hamar - Musica Callada
If you are looking for an album that completely changes how you think about the double bass, Jon Hamar’s Música Callada is it. Instead of playing the same old classical tracks everyone expects, the Pacific Northwest bassist steps…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Junior Wells & Buddy Guy - New York City Blues - Live 1978 (CD)
The "original Blues Brothers" bring their Windy City blues stylings to NYC on this vintage 1978 concert album!Performing a set of standards, fan favorites and heavily improvised jams, these recordings drip with smoky atmosphere, emotion-packed antics and extremely…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Katie Knipp - Live at Theater 5150
Katie Knipp is a fiercely independent roots-and-blues powerhouse out of Northern California who plays by her own rules. She commands the stage with a wild mix of operatic vocal range, grit-spitting harmonica, and slide resonator guitar, often steering…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Ledbetter Heights (The 30th Anniversary Sessions)
When Ledbetter Heights was first released, it quickly became a breakout success, going Gold within months and earning Platinum certification by early 1996. The album spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, and Guitar…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Lance and Lea - Blues For Breakfast
Lance and Lea are Nashville's ultimate case of an unlikely duo whose wildly different roots give their music its raw, unfiltered edge. LeAnna Kaufman grew up in a strict Amish household in Colorado, finding her voice in quiet…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Leigh Pilzer - Keep Holding On
Get ready to groove with Dr. Leigh Pilzer, the Washington, D.C. baritone sax powerhouse who proves that jazz is meant to be a living, breathing party, not a dusty museum piece. Described as a pure force of nature…
Continue Reading »💿 ALBUM REVIEW: Mark Hummel Allstars - Road Dog
Born in Connecticut but raised on the gritty, sun-drenched sounds of Los Angeles, Hummel has spent the last four decades establishing himself as one of the ultimate torchbearers of West Coast blues—a killer style that seamlessly collapses the…
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