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New release from rising roots music star!
NEW RELEASE FROM VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & THE WILDROOTS! Blind Pig Records has released Boom Town, the latest CD from Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots. Wainwright has been making a name for himself in a big way as one…
Continue Reading »Direct Hit Records artist: Nancy Wright - Putting Down Roots - New release review
I just received the newest release, Putting Down Roots, from Nancy Wright and it has a nice groove. Opening with pop soul track, Sweet Soul Satisfaction, Wright takes the lead on vocal with Lisa Leuschner Andersen on warm…
Continue Reading »R&B Guitar Legend Shuggie Otis Hits The Road For An Extended Summer Tour!
For Immediate Release R&B Guitar Legend Shuggie Otis Hits The Road For An Extended Summer Tour! Los Angeles, CA - After the recent release of his first-ever live album, Live In Williamsburg (available on CD, vinyl and DVD),…
Continue Reading »Spend Father's Day with Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials (VCBS Event)
Little Ed & The Blues Imperials - "a bazooka assault of foot-stompin' blues and slow-burnin' knee-bucklers" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) - appears in concert on Father's Day (Sunday, June 21) at Studio Channels Island Arts Center in Camarillo, in a…
Continue Reading »GRAMMY NOMINATED FUNK COLLECTIVE BLINDDOG SMOKIN’ MAKES HIGH-ENERGY ROOTS MUSIC WITH HUMOR, DEPTH AND SOUL
GRAMMY NOMINATED FUNK COLLECTIVE BLINDDOG SMOKIN’ MAKES HIGH-ENERGY ROOTS MUSIC WITH HUMOR, DEPTH AND SOUL High Steppin’ features wild-man raconteur Carl Gustafson’s epic tales plus eclectic sounds; reunites band with producer Donny Markowitz; set for July 17 release…
Continue Reading »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…
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