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Specialty Records artist: Little Richard - Directly From My Heart: The Best Of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, Directly From My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years from Little Richard and it's a blast! This 3CD set features 64 tracks spanning the mid fifties through the mid…
Continue Reading »Music Theories Recordings artist: Neal Schon - Vortex - New Release Review
I just received the newest release (June 23, 2015), Vortex, from Neal Schon and it's quite good! Opening with Miles Beyond it is immediately recognized that you are listening to something different. With it's heavy bottom, almost like…
Continue Reading »Simi Cajun and Blues Festival - Evelyn the bluezy redhead - Guest Writer
The site of the Simi Cajun and Blues Festival every Memorial Day weekend is a spacious park in the bedroom community of Simi Valley in Ventura County. This festival pays tribute to and honors the men and women…
Continue Reading »WaxEater Records artist: JC Crossfire - AWOL Blues - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, AWOL Blues, from JC Crossfire and it's pretty straightforward and bluesy. Opening with shuffle track, It Is What It Is, Crossfire on vocal and his notoriously snarling guitar tone is joined by…
Continue Reading »13th Almost Annual Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Concert Review - Stilladog - Guest writer
This year’s festival started off under partly cloudy skies with Patty Reese rendering an acapella version of the Star Spangled Banner. As she sang you could gaze out over the Chesapeake Bay and imagine, as I did, the…
Continue Reading »Fish Food/VizzTone artist: Amanda Fish - Down In The Dirt - New release Review
I just received the newest release, Down In The Dirt, from Amanda Fish and it covers a lot of bases. Sister to Samantha Fish, Amanda has joined up with Stone Cutters Union front man Sean McDonnell on slide.…
Continue Reading »Brand new album from Sugaray Rayford
Delta Groove Promotions and Nimoy Sue Records presents "Southside" the brand new album by Mannish Boys' singing sensation, Sugaray Rayford. This is Sugaray Rayford’s third CD release. His 1st release, Blind Alley (2010), was independently released. His 2nd…
Continue Reading »Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers - Ante Up - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, Ante Up from Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers and it's lively. Opening with She's Got Sway, a groovy rocker, D'Amour takes the lead on vocal with Greg Dolan on guitar, Patrick…
Continue Reading »Garage Door Records and Blue Room Management Sign North Georgia-Based Country Group, Smith & Wesley, with New CD Expected for Release in July; Band Set to Play Riverbend Festival on Friday June 12
Garage Door Records and Blue Room Management Sign North Georgia-Based Country Group, Smith & Wesley, with New CD Expected for Release in July Band Set to Play Riverbend Festival on Friday June 12 CHATTANOOGA, TN - Chattanooga-based Garage…
Continue Reading »Indian Hill Music Festival Welcomes Bo & The Bluesdrivers
BO & THE BLUESDRIVERS ARE "SOCAL'S HARDEST-WORKING BLUES BAND"; THEY'RE NOW ON TOUR THROUGHOUT 2015 Performing at Indian Hill Music Festival - Saturday, May 30 (Also playing Dog House Saloon in Tehachapi on Saturday, May 30) (TEHACHAPI, CA)…
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