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Dee Miller Band - Leopard Print Dress - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Leopard Print Dress, by Dee Miller Band and it a mover. Opening with swinging boogie, Hot And Sweaty, Dee Miller takes the lead on vocal with Craig…
Continue Reading »Deedra Patrick back in the studio!
Powerhouse vocalist Deedra Patrick who recently played the Kern River Rock n Blues Fest is back in the studio and recording after an auto accident sidelined her career temporarily. Ex lead singer for Contra-Band and headliner at the…
Continue Reading »deelagee Records artist: Denise La Grassa - A Crossroads Communion - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, A Crossroads Communion, from Denise La Grassa, and it's a hard driving blues rocker. Opening with Big Bad Dream, Timothy Walker sets a high pace rhythm with…
Continue Reading »Deep Blues - Blues Documentary
This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock…
Continue Reading »Deep Blues - Robert Palmer
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was a 20th century American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer. Robert Palmer is best known for books he authored such as Deep Blues , his…
Continue Reading »Deep Blues Bonus Lonnie Pitchford
Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from…
Continue Reading »DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2014 MOVES TO CLARKSDALE, MS THIS OCTOBER! SPECIAL REUNIONS FROM SOLEDAD BROS, SOUTH FILTHY & MORE!
DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2014 MOVES DOWN SOUTH TO THE CRADLE OF THE BLUES THIS OCTOBER! THREE-DAY FEST IN CLARKSDALE, MS TO FEATURE SPECIAL REUNIONS FROM SOLEDAD BROTHERS & SOUTH FILTHY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER GREAT DEEP BLUES ACTS!…
Continue Reading »DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL HEADS BACK TO CLARKSDALE, MS OCT. 15-18 FOR ITS SECOND YEAR!
DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2015 KICKS OFF ITS SECOND YEAR IN CLARKSDALE, MS THIS OCTOBER! FOUR-DAY FEST TO FEATURE GREAT DEEP BLUES ACTS INCLUDING LEFT LANE CRUISER, SCOTT H. BIRAM, DALE BEAVERS, HENRY'S FUNERAL SHOE, ELEGANZA! AND MANY OTHERS!…
Continue Reading »Deep Ellum Blues - Blackberry Smoke with Billy Gibbons
You can call Blackberry Smoke’s music southern rock and you wouldn’t be wrong. Or you could call it country and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. But you would be selling both the band and its legion of fans…
Continue Reading »Deep Ellum Blues - Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he disavowed the role,…
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