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Sandi Thom announces "Flesh And Blood" album launch party
Sandi Thom releases new album "Flesh and Blood" on September 17th Produced by Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes Featuring duet with the iconic Buffy Sainte-Marie Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sandi Thom, best known for her 2006 No.1…
Continue Reading »The Road Is Rough And Rocky - Archie Edwards
Archie Edwards (September 4, 1918 – June 18, 1998) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades, worked variously with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson.His best known tracks included…
Continue Reading »The Goonmat with Lord Bernardo
These distinguished gentlemen have a problem: The can never agree whether to drink their way through the liquour cabinet from right to left...or vice versa. In between drinking and eying young ladies the way only the French can,…
Continue Reading »INNES SIBUN BAND
Ex- Robert Plant band guitarist who set out on solo career to play blues. Has made seven albums for independent labels including Viceroy, Provogue and ZYX records. Has opened for Johnny Winter,Peter Green, Ronnie Earl, The Fabulous Thunderbirds,…
Continue Reading »Black Betty - Mile Train
Mile Train has been mesmerizing and captivating audiences all over the southeast for years now. The Mile Train family has grown to an unexpected size that spans the world. Their special home brew of Blues Rock and Jazz…
Continue Reading »A Friend In The Blues - Danny Marks - New Release Review
I just received a copy of Danny Marks' newest release, A Friend In The Blues. Marks, a multi instrumentalist, is joines by Alec Fraiser (bass and vocal), Al Cross (drums), Jonathan Goldsmith (piano) and B3), Sherrie Marshall (vocal)…
Continue Reading »Have You Ever Loved A Woman - Freddie King
Freddie was born in Gilmer Texas on September 3 1934 with the given name of Freddy King to Ella May King and J.T. Christian. My father's mother told him that her grandfather ( who was a full-blooded Choctaw…
Continue Reading »I Know The Blues - Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A…
Continue Reading »Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - GUS CANNON
A remarkable musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the gap between early blues and the minstrel and folk styles that preceded it. His band of the '20s and '30s, Cannon's Jug Stompers,…
Continue Reading »No Ridin' Blues - Charley Booker
Charley Booker (September 3, 1925 – September 20, 1989) was a blues singer and guitarist from the Mississippi Delta, who recorded in the early 1950s for Modern Records. Charley Booker was born in 1925 on a plantation between…
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