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Singer/Guitarist Mike Zito Has Up and Gone to Texas on Label Debut CD for Ruf Records, Coming June 11
Singer/Guitarist Mike Zito Has Up and Gone to Texas on Label Debut CD for Ruf Records, Coming June 11 Royal Southern Brotherhood Member Steps Out on New Solo Album with Special Guests Delbert McClinton, Sonny Landreth, Susan Cowsill…
Continue Reading »Singer/Songwriter Patrick Coman Reflects on the "Tree of Life" with New CD of Blues-Roots Music Coming February 23, Featuring Peter Parcek and Marco Giovino
Singer/Songwriter Patrick Coman Reflects on the Tree of Life with New CD of Blues-Roots Music Coming February 23, Featuring Peter Parcek and Marco Giovino CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Roots-based singer/songwriter Patrick Coman announces a February 23 release date for…
Continue Reading »Singer/Songwriters Marty Atkinson & Katy Boyd Join Forces to Form Blue Cactus Choir & Will Release Their Debut CD, Once in a "Bluegrass Moon", on Porgy Records January 15
Singer/Songwriters Marty Atkinson & Katy Boyd Join Forces to Form Blue Cactus Choir & Will Release Their Debut CD, Once in a Bluegrass Moon, on Porgy Records January 15 MENLO PARK, CA – San Francisco Bay Area-based singer/songwriters…
Continue Reading »Sink 'Em Low - Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers
Bessie Jones leads a work song she first heard as a girl being sung by a road-crew chain gang in North Georgia in the nineteen-teens. With support by Big John Davis, Willis Proctor, and Henry Morrison. The Georgia…
Continue Reading »Sippie Wallace, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers
Sippie Wallace (born as Beulah Thomas, November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over…
Continue Reading »Sippiseekinsaw - Super Chikan & The Fight Cocks
James "Super Chikan" Johnson (born February 16, 1951, Darling, Mississippi) is an American blues musician, based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson. One commentator noted that Super Chikan, along with…
Continue Reading »Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors - Keeping It In The Family - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Keeping It In The Family, by Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors, dedicated to keeping alive the sounds and spirit of blues master Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee.…
Continue Reading »Sirius XM to Air World Premiere Radio Special on New Guy Davis CD, "The ADVENTURES OF FISHY WATERS: IN BED WITH THE BLUES
SIRIUS XM’S B.B. KING’S BLUESVILLE CHANNEL TO PRESENT WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW GUY DAVIS CD, THE ADVENTURES OF FISHY WATERS: IN BED WITH THE BLUES, IN ITS ENTIRETY ON SPECIAL, AIRING FEB. 15, 18 AND 19 SPECIAL INCLUDES…
Continue Reading »Sissy Man Blues - KOKOMO ARNOLD
Kokomo Arnold (February 15, 1901 – November 8, 1968) was an American blues musician. Born as James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, he got his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca label;…
Continue Reading »Sissy Strut - Lil' Buck Sinegal
The Li’l Buck Blues band is a mix of Blues, Soul, Rhythym & Blues, Rock and everything in between, with a distinct SouthWestern Louisiana feel. Longtime, incredible bassist Lee Allen Zeno & guitarist/vocalist Paul ’Lil Buck’ Sinegal have…
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