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Terraplane Blues - Colin Linden
Of how many artists can it be said that they’re getting better, 33 years into their recording career? Colin Linden can certainly be considered a member of that select club based on From The Water, the 11th solo…
Continue Reading »Homesick - The Steady Rollin' Men
Xavier Berland and Jean-Noël Aunet, friends since their early childhood, start learning the guitar in 2009 at the age of 14, listening to AC/DC. Self taught, they find inspiration later in the music of the greatest artists like…
Continue Reading »New Stop and Listen Blues - Willie Edgar Morris, Dewey Corley
There's not much chance of making jug band music without a jug, although a few have tried. A washtub bass doesn't hurt, either. In fact, one of the main concepts of this tricky, goofy, and spirited style of…
Continue Reading »The Stuff Is Here - Cleo Brown
Cleo Brown, later Cleo Patra Brown (December 8, 1909 – April 15, 1995) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist.Brown was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and sang in church as a child. In 1919 her family…
Continue Reading »The Guy With A "45" - Allen Bunn
Talk about a versatile musician: Alden Bunn (aka Tarheel Slim) recorded in virtually every postwar musical genre imaginable. Lowdown blues, gospel, vocal group R&B, poppish duets, even rockabilly weren't outside the sphere of his musicianship. However, spirituals were…
Continue Reading »Take a Swig - The Pumpers
The Pumpers are a blues band based out of Eastern Iowa and includes multiple members of the Iowa Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame. Collectively the Pumpers have over 170 years…
Continue Reading »Since I've Been Lovin' You - Bare Bones Boogie Band
The Bare Bones Boogie Band are a stripped-down, no nonsense blues band, closest in sound and attitude to the classic British blues boom of the 60s and 70s, when bands like Free, Fleetwood Mac and the Stones were…
Continue Reading »Baby Please Don't Go - Bernie Pearl
The blues is life itself to Bernie Pearl. A guitarist with an upbeat, finger-poppin' picking style he learned at the elbows of bluesmasters Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, and others. Yet, Bernie Pearl is no…
Continue Reading »Hey Joe - Tony Campanella Band
Heavy Electric Blues from the Lou! Since the age of eleven, Tony has been infatuated with the sound and feel of the guitar and the positive vibe that resonates from its strings. He was fed the music of…
Continue Reading »Exclusive With Interview - JW - Jones - VizzTone Artist
Bman: Hi JW. I appreciate you taking the time out from what little time you must have right now to talk with me. You just released your new cd, 'SEVENTH HOUR', on March 27, 2012. I had a…
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