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JC Brooks & the Uptown Soung release 7" + new tour dates
JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND RELEASE 7” featuring “I GOT HIGH” b/w “RIVER” NEW TOUR DATES UPDATED INTO OCTOBER Following the release of their Bloodshot Records debut full-length Want More last fall and an amazing performance at…
Continue Reading »Bootleggin' The Blues - Leo Hull - New release Review
I just received a new release, Bootleggin' The Blues from Leo Hull. This is a 9 track all original track release.The recording opens with the title track, Bootleggin' The Blues. This song has a real traditional honky tonk/…
Continue Reading »THE NIGHTHAWKS JOIN FORCES WITH THE FORTY FOURS ON A SERIES OF SPECIAL EAST COAST TOUR DATES
THE NIGHTHAWKS JOIN FORCES WITH THE FORTY FOURS ON A SERIES OF SPECIAL EAST COAST TOUR DATES TO CELEBRATE THE BAND’S NEW CD, DAMN GOOD TIME, THEIR DEBUT RELEASE FOR SEVERN RECORDS WASHINGTON, DC – Severn Records artists…
Continue Reading »Bettye LaVette celebrates 50 years with new album 'Thankful N' Thoughtful'
Celebrates 50 Years in Music New Album: "Thankful N' Thoughtful" UK Release Date: Monday 1st October 2012 December 2012 European Tour Announced R&B legend Bettye LaVette is set to mark her 50th anniversary in the music world with…
Continue Reading »Good Morning Memphis./ Blues Jump a Rabbit - Mose Vinson
Mose Vinson (1917 – November 2002) was an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer. His best known recordings were "Blues With A Feeling" and "Sweet Root Man". Over his lengthy career, Vinson worked with various musicians…
Continue Reading »Railroad Blues - Luckey Roberts
Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts (August 7, 1887 – February 5, 1968) was an American composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles. Luckey Roberts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…
Continue Reading »Stealin' - Denny Freeman
As an adolescent and young teen in Dallas, Texas in the late1950's, Denny Freeman heard on the radio the radical new sounds of people like Little Richard, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Chicago and Louisianna blues artists like…
Continue Reading »Gone After Hours - Frank Floorshow Culley
Born 7 August 1917 or 1918, Salisbury, Maryland Died 15 April 1991, Newark, New Jersey Born in Maryland, but raised in Norfolk, Virginia, Frank Culley was a pioneer of the R&B tenor saxophone in the post-WW II period.…
Continue Reading »Black Rat Swing - Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist Born…
Continue Reading »Why Things Happen To Me - Big Sam
Big Sam Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, on his own label. Big Sam Clark: vocal/piano. The Wonder Boy: guitar Melvin Lee: bass Homer Jackson: drums If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking…
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