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Mason Rack
Mason Rack Band breaks beyond Blues with harder Alt-Rock and Roots. Singer/ songwriter Mason Rack (son of Jazzman Billy Rack) from Gold Coast, Qld Australia, was raised on Jazz, Rock and surfing. Performing since the age of 6,…
Continue Reading »Mason-Dixon Blues - Birleanna Blanks and Fletcher Henderson
Birleanna Blanks was born February 18, 1889 in Iowa and died August 12, 1968 in New York. She was one of the first African Americans to star in musical comedy theater. In the 1920s, she toured vaudeville in…
Continue Reading »Massa John - Alexander's Realtimeband
Alan Alexander III is a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist with numerous credits. As a performing musician he has toured internationally (US, Europe, the Caribbean and Japan), headlining and opening for artists like UB40, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley,…
Continue Reading »Master slide guitarist and songwriter John Campbelljohn releases 'Chin Up'
Release date: March 10, 2015 Multiple award winning East Coast blues guitarist John Campbelljohn is set to release his 12th album, titled Chin Up on March 10, 2015. A master slide guitarist and songwriter, Campbelljohn hails from Cape…
Continue Reading »Master Storyteller David Olney Stacks the Deck on New Studio Album, "When the Deal Goes Down," Coming July 8 on Deadbeet Records
Master Storyteller David Olney Stacks the Deck on New Studio Album, When the Deal Goes Down, Coming July 8 on Deadbeet Records Singer/Songwriter Will Celebrate New Disc with Grimey’s Too/Howlin’ Books In-Store on July 8 and Special CD…
Continue Reading »Matay Records artist: Dione Taylor - Spirits In The Water - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Spirits In The Water, from Dione Taylor and it's a mix of pop, blues and rock. Opening with Water, a pop oriented track with blues roots, Dione…
Continue Reading »Match Box Blues - Daniel Castro Band
The Blues....... It's embedded in every note Daniel Castro plays. And he’s spread the gospel all over — from festivals like The San Jose Fountain Blues Festival and Sonora Fire On The Mountain to The Winthrop Rhythm &…
Continue Reading »Matchbox - Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes". According…
Continue Reading »Matchbox Blues - Melvin Taylor
Melvin Taylor (born March 13, 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist, based in Chicago, Illinois. Born in Mississippi, Taylor relocated to Chicago in 1962. In his adolescence, Taylor joined The Transistors, a…
Continue Reading »Matchbox Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
Sonny Boy Nelson (December 23, 1908 – November 4, 1998) was an American blues musician. He was born Eugene Powell, in Utica, Mississippi, United States, the child of an interracial affair and his white father soon abandoned the…
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