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Ruf Records artist: Meena - Try Me - New Release Review
I have been listening to the newest release, Try Me, by Meena. The recording contains 9 original tracks as well as a few classics and Meena is backed by Dave Smith on bass, Steve Potts on drums, Rick…
Continue Reading »Bullfrog Blues - The Russ Tippins Electric Band
The band has been together since October 2009, initially playing Rock & Blues covers around the bar & club circuit in the North-East of England. By Spring 2010, they'd cooked up enough ideas to go and make their…
Continue Reading »Slow Down - Alexis Korner & Steve Marriott
Stephen Peter "Steve" Marriott (30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) was an English musician, songwriter and frontman of several notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two decades. Marriott is remembered for his powerful singing voice which…
Continue Reading »Crossroads - The Jed Rowe Band
The Jed Rowe Band are releasing their 2nd album, The Ember and The Afterglow, through Fuse on July 6th this year. A national tour is planned for Winter 2012 to support the release. Produced by Jeff Lang, one…
Continue Reading »Somethin' Fast - Jonno Zilber
The music industry is a superman style “bizzarro world” full of drunkenness, strange girls, slow cars, anti-Semitic Icelandic fishermen, flying prosthetic legs and poker machines that are louder than the live band on the stage next to them.…
Continue Reading »I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Steve Gannon Band with Mz. Dee
Steve Gannon - gutar/ vocals Willie Riser - bass Kelvin Dixon - drums Herman Eberitsch- keyboards London, England-born guitarist Steve Gannon came to Oakland, California in 1982 and soon became active on the local blues scene. For six…
Continue Reading »Talkin to my Baby - Mississippi Shakedown
Mississippi Shakedown is a Band with a minimum of FUSS and a maximum of EFFECT. A 4-piece unit led by Blues charged SLIDE GUITAR, with a "Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus" attitude! With influence from the…
Continue Reading »Let Me Be Your Romeo - ARSEN SHOMAKHOV
Arsen Shomakhov, Russian singer & guitar player extraordinaire, in the past five years has become a major force as a blues artist, performing for Russian Federal TV, Moscow's legendary BB King Club and blues festivals throughout Russia, Norway,…
Continue Reading »Jimmy Z & Slidin' Slim
About Jimmy Z Born in Sacramento, California, Jimmy ‘Z’ Zavala has been playing music professionally since the 1970’s. After forming a few of his own bands, he moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and began recording and touring…
Continue Reading »Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - The Spencer Davis Group
The Spencer Davis Group are a mid-1960s British beat group from Birmingham, England, formed by Spencer Davis with Steve Winwood and his brother Muff Winwood. Their best known songs include "Somebody Help Me", the UK number one "Keep…
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