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What Have I Done Wrong - Sailor Boy
New Orleans vocalist Alex Spearman cut his first records (under the name Sailor Boy) in California with Johnny Otis while there with the Navy in the mid-50s. By the 60s he was out of the service & back…
Continue Reading »The Voodoo Boogie - LEE PONS
Lee was born into a musical family--dad was a musician playing with big bands such as Harry Belafonte, Duke Ellington and Danny Kaye. At age 16, Lee was already playing in the clubs around town and later he…
Continue Reading »Step It Up And Go - Moses Rascoe
by Jim O'Neal Moses Rascoe got his first guitar in North Carolina at the age of 13 and turned professional in Pennsylvania some 50-odd years later. In between, he traveled the roads as a day laborer and truck…
Continue Reading »I Loved Another Woman - Henrik Freischlader
Henrik Freischlader (born November 3, 1982) is a German blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and autodidactic multi-instrumentalist from Wuppertal, Germany. During his teenage years, he started his career as a blues guitarist and singer in bands such as…
Continue Reading »Minnie Marks
Minnie Marks is a 17 year old singer/songwriter/guitarist from the mid-north coast. Her performance is like a pack of fruit tingles being thrown into a bottle of coke. With a smile as happy as the sunshine, an undeniable…
Continue Reading »Acoustic Blues - Dave Murphy
There will hardly be a musician in New Zealand who has not heard of Dave Murphy. He is legendary for all the right reasons. He draws his inspiration from experience; traveling through the USA, gigging in Chicago, sitting…
Continue Reading »We Juke Up In Here! New Blues Film We Juke Up In Here Set for April Release on Both Big Screen and DVD
Makers of Award-Winning 2008 Film “M For Mississippi” Return with New Documentary on Mississippi Juke Joints (CLARKSDALE, MS) – The hotly anticipated new blues film, “We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads”, (www.wejukeupinhere.com)…
Continue Reading »Gorgeous Tone Records artist: Suzanne and the Blues Church - The Cost of Love - New Release Review
I have been listening to the new release, The Cost Of Love, by Suzanne and The Blues Church. This is a debut effort by singer, guitarist and songwriter Suzanne Thomas who has recently been playing guitar and bass…
Continue Reading »Europe announce "Bag of Bones" November 2012 UK Tour
Academy Events and the DHP in association with The Agency Group are pleased to announce Europe’s Bag of Bones UK Tour 2012. Hot off the heels of last year’s Balls N’ Banners UK Tour and sold out concert…
Continue Reading »I'm So Glad - The Selah Jubilee Singers
The Selah Jubilee Singers was an American gospel vocal quartet, who appeared in public as a gospel group but who also had a successful recording career as a secular group in the 1930s & 1940s. Around 1927, Thermon…
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