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New Release: JT Coldfire - Always and Never - Review
I'm sitting here listening to the new recording, Always and Never, by JT Coldfire and it's a real blisterer! This cd is to hit the street on April 4, 2012.... get ready! Get It On is a country…
Continue Reading »Six Strings Down - Jimmie Vaughan
James Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan (born March 20, 1951) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. A significant influence on Jimmie Vaughan's…
Continue Reading »Bluesin' In Wisconsin: Howard & The White Boys 2 Big Milwaukee Area Shows!
"Chicago's Hardest-Working Blues Band...For Over Two Decades!" "In these days when it seems that most every CD I receive to consider for review is produced by the hands of yet another non-shaving aged guitar prodigy with visions of…
Continue Reading »Sam Lay Blues Band
Sam Lay (born March 20, 1935, Birmingham, Alabama, United States) is an American drummer and vocalist, who has been performing since the late 1950s. Lay began his career in 1957, as the drummer for the Original Thunderbirds, and…
Continue Reading »Love My Baby - Frank Edwards
Like quite a few country blues performers, Frank Edwards could not be said to have consistent gigging and recording opportunities during his nearly 80 years in the music business. His recording career began in the early '40s on…
Continue Reading »Everybody's Looking For The Same Thing - Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas, United States) is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy…
Continue Reading »That' All - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early…
Continue Reading »Drink This: A Big Shot (of) Reub & The Reloaders At The Whisky A Go-Go!!
The Buzz On Big Shot Reub And the Reloaders' "Roundhouse Blues" "Reuben Vigil is the Real Deal." SAN DIEGO ACOUSTIC "However you may think a guitar hero should look, in this case he looks very much like Reuben…
Continue Reading »Love With A Feeling - Tampa Red
Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician. Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who…
Continue Reading »Ten Years To Life - Bee Houston
Guitarist/vocalist Edward Wilson "Bee" Houston's an exciting performer whose style blends elements of Texas shuffle blues and Southern gospel-tinged soul. Houston played in a high school drum and bugle corps as a youngster in San Antonio, and played…
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