Blues Guns A'Blazin: Johnny Main, Tex Nakamura of The 44s Play The VCBS Jam This Wednesday!

Johnny Main (l) and Tex Nakamura (r) of the celebrated blues group The 44s are the very Special Guests at this week's Ventura County Blues Society-sponsored jam, Wed., March 6. JOHNNY MAIN, TEX NAKAMURA OF CELEBRATED SOCAL BLUES…

Rounder Records presents: Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective - New release Review

I have just received the new 7 CD release, Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, documenting Duane Allmans amazing career. I have been a Duane Allman fan since I was a fairly young man and actually learned to play…

Stax/Volt Records artist: Otis Redding - Lonely & Blue - New Release Review

I just received the new release, Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding which is due to be released tomorrow. This is a really cool album of tracks recorded by Redding but not assembled as a…

The WV Blues Man - Nat Reese

Blues musician Nathaniel H. ‘‘Nat’’ Reese (March 4, 1924-June 8, 2012) was born in Salem, Virginia. When he was four, Reese’s family moved to Itmann, Wyoming County, where coal jobs were plentiful. In 1935, the family moved to…

Martin, Bogan & Armstrong

Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (March 4, 1909 – July 30, 2003) was an African American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and also sang. He was also a notable visual artist and…

Little Melvin Underwood

Melvin Underwood was born on December 24, 1935 in a little Mississippi town called Mt. Helen. He was raised under the old time Baptist Church and his mother, who was a sharecropper, moved the family to Vicksburg, where…

Luiz Rocha

Vivendo única e exclusivamente de suas atividades com a harmônica de boca, tais como shows e aulas, Luiz Rocha também comercializa seu próprio método de gaita. Seus dez anos de estrada e seis de carreira solo, renderam-lhe o…

Five Long Years -

Your Imagination - John Primer

John Primer (born March 3, 1945, Camden, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist He played guitar at Theresa's, a club in Chicago, between 1974 and 1980. He was influenced by Muddy Waters'…

Five Long Years - Little Junior Parker

Junior Parker (May 27, 1932 – November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician.Junior Parker was born in either Clarksdale, Mississippi, or West Memphis, Arkansas. He sang in gospel groups as a child, and played…