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Jimmie Lee Robinson
Unlike many of his Chicago blues contemporaries, Jimmie Lee Robinson (Apr 30, 1931 in Chicago, IL - Jul 6, 2002 in Chicago, IL) wasn't a Mississippi Delta emigre. The guitarist was born and raised right in the Windy…
Continue Reading »New Tweed Funk CD
Upcoming Shows and News Tweed Funk has some great shows starting out this Saturday night at the Horny Goat Hideaway in the BFT. BFT stands for the Big Fun Tent and if you have not seen it, you…
Continue Reading »Delmark Records artist: Eddie C. Campbell - Spider Eatin' Preacher - New Release Review
Eddie C. Campbell is back with his new recording, Spider Eatin' Preacher. Campbell has a unique blues style that incorporates the ingredients of a stew of Blues, R&B, Soul, and a number of other other flavors. Campbell wrote…
Continue Reading »Steamy Windows - Shemekia Copeland
At only 19, Shemekia stepped out of her father’s shadow with the Alligator release of 1998 debut recording, Turn the Heat Up!, and the critics raved. The Village Voice called her “nothing short of uncanny,” while the Boston…
Continue Reading »Blind Pig Records: Heaven - Pinetop Perkins- New Release Review
On April 17 Blind Pig Records will offer a previously unreleased set of 1986 "after hours" recordings by Pinetop Perkins called Heaven. Typically I think of posthumous recordings as a bunch of remastered junk that has been put…
Continue Reading »MAGGOT BRAIN - EDDIE HAZEL
Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was a guitarist in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee of the Rock and Roll…
Continue Reading »Chicken In The Rough - Roscoe Gordon & The Red Tops
Rosco Gordon (April 10, 1928 – July 11, 2002) was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1952 #1 R&B hit single, "Booted", and two #2 singles "No More Doggin'" (1952 RPM 350)…
Continue Reading »You Know I Do - Big John Wrencher, SP Leary, Erwin Helfer, John Brim, Tom Buckley
John Brim (April 10, 1922 – October 1, 2003) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. He wrote and recorded the original "Ice Cream Man" that Van Halen covered on their first album and David Lee…
Continue Reading »Open Up Your Heart.Shirley - Ray Agee
Known primarily for his tough 1963 remake of the blues standard "Tin Pan Alley" (featuring the moaning lead guitar of Johnny Heartsman) for the tiny Sahara logo, vocalist Ray Agee recorded for a myriad of labels both large…
Continue Reading »BUS 52 - Alabama Blues Project
"When you feel like you have no way out of a situation that you are in, nine times out of ten, you've heard a blues song that gives you an answer to your situation and you can figure…
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