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Longin´ For Home - Addie Spivey
This blues vocalist from the late '20s and '30s worked under the pseudonym of Sweet Peas, giving shop owners the option of filing her product amongst the frozen foods. With the classic blues style's emphasis on different types…
Continue Reading »Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933) is an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana, United States. Rolling Stone stated, "His music is witty, soulful and ferociously energetic, brimming with novel…
Continue Reading »Lonnie Brooks has passed - My thoughts are with his family
Grammy-nominated Chicago blues icon Lonnie Brooks, whose music Rolling Stone called, "witty, soulful and ferociously energetic...simply astonishing guitar work," died on Saturday, April 1, 2017 in Chicago, according to his son, Ronnie Baker Brooks. He was 83. Guitar…
Continue Reading »Lonsome Blues - Phil Guy
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy. Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in…
Continue Reading »Look At Yourself - Big Bat Blues Band
The Big Bat Blues Band have been on the road for seventeen years now, showing their musical roots from the traditional blues and playing great names from the 40's and 50's, when the genre was going through its…
Continue Reading »Look Out - Terry Hanck - New release review
First let me start off by saying that I am not typically a horn driven band kind of guy, but I can say, this recording is a very enjoyable. I have listened to it a number of times…
Continue Reading »Look out! because Bloodshot artists Scott H. Biram and Lydia Loveless are touring together in 2012. FREE DOWNLOADS
The aptly titled Bad Machine Tour follows the release of outstanding new albums in Biram’s Bad Ingredients and Loveless’ Indestructible Machine and brings together two genre-defining voices, as well as Bloodshot Records label mates. The perfect bluesman for…
Continue Reading »Lookin' At Lucky - Steve Kozak with special guest James Harman - New release review
I just received the newest release, Lookin' at Lucky, by Steve Kozak and it's quite good! This recording is packed with 12 solid tracks, 5 originals by Kozak and the balance by such names as Little Walter, Sonny…
Continue Reading »Lookin' For A Home - Olive Brown
If the blues seems to be the only musical genre named after a color, the performer named Olive Brown represents a small part of the music's unique color wheel. Brown changed her name from Olive Jefferson and apparently…
Continue Reading »Looking For Somebody - Ivan Marcio
Ivan Marcio fell in love with the harmonica when he was 13 and a year later, in 1991, while listening to Elmore James, he fell in love with the blues, which became the unseparable companion of this harmonica…
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