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Shake That Thing For Me - Ash Grunwald
Ash Grunwald’s fifth studio album, HOT MAMA VIBES, is neck-deep in the technological swamp of the 21st Century. It's also the most primal concoction of elemental junkyard soul to stomp through your speakers this year. "Mixing electronica with…
Continue Reading »What You Gonna Do - Mama Paula & The Kasper Jensen Blues Band
Mama Paula has had a long career that has seen her performing in countless venues, including the Royal Albert Hall with Mark Knofler, Van Morrison, and Joe Cocker to name but a few. She has now teamed up…
Continue Reading »Baby Please Don't Go - Thorbjørn Risager
In the blues world, a big voice is often accompanied by a big ego (or at least a medium sized one…) But the Danish singer Thorbjørn Risager, praised for his rough and strong voice by an unanimous choir…
Continue Reading »Ain't Afraid of Crying - Jimi Beavis
I may not be American, or descended from slaves, or have a working class man for a father, or used to work on a banana plantation, but I got the blues so bad, that I got to get…
Continue Reading »Don't You Lie To Me - Karen Carroll
Karen Carroll (born January 30, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Chicago blues singer. She was born to parents Mack Carroll and Alberta Simmons Carroll (stage name: Jeanne Carroll). Her godparents were the jazz guitarist George…
Continue Reading »It's Not Easy - Joe Robinson
Joe Robinson (born 25 May 1991), is an Australian guitar player. Robinson is most famous for his fast-paced fingerpicking style and being the winner of the 2008 series of Australia's Got Talent. Robinson was born in Temagog, New…
Continue Reading »How Blue Can You Get - Summer & the Sinners
From Texas to New Orleans, to Chicago, with a stop in Memphis, Summer and the Sinners take you on a musical tour of Blues, R&B, and Funk. Sliding easily between, “Stax” and “Straight Texas Boogie.” With a great…
Continue Reading »Red Shoe Shuffle - The Chicago Thieves
This line from The Chicago Thieves' "Don't Leave Me" sums up the band's core philosophy and electrifying live performances. The five piece Sussex band has enough energy to power a small fleet of motor vehicles. It's a fuel…
Continue Reading »Rose's Home - Big George & The Business
George Ross Watt (Big George) was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1958 and brought up in the slums which housed the shipyard and engineering workers. It was a beginning that gave him a lust for life and made…
Continue Reading »Journey of the Southern Blues - Chris Finnen
Chris Finnen was joined by Peter Chris (guitar), Lee Nash (bass) and John Alexandrou (drums). Don't know much about these guys except that they are from Adelaide, Australia Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of…
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