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New Release: Jay Lang and the Devils Due - Review
I just received and had the pleasure to review the newest release by Jay Lang and The The Devil's Due. This is not a straight down the middle "blues" recording (whatever that is) but you know what... it's…
Continue Reading »Carolina Chocolate Drops Releasing Next Album!
Carolina Chocolate Drops releasing Leaving Eden February 28! photo by Crackerfarm Music Maker Next Generation artists the Carolina Chocolate Drops are releasing Leaving Eden on February 28th! The group follows up their 2010 Grammy-winning release, Genuine Negro Jig,…
Continue Reading »NEWS: Ruthie Foster CD out next week, on the road
RUTHIE FOSTER’S LET IT BURN ALBUM SHIPS NEXT WEEK 2012 U.S. tour under way, with Grammy Museum webcast on street date and SXSW appearance. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Ruthie Foster celebrates the release of her new album, Let…
Continue Reading »Hamilton Loomis Tour Schedule
Thanks for making the January tour the best one yet! The new DVD concert video "LIVE AT THE HUB" is NOW AVAILABLE at www.hamiltonloomis.com/merchandise.htm! Hamilton and Band are holding DVD release parties all winter long -- see below…
Continue Reading »Hard Working Woman Blues - Mississippi Matilda
(b-January 27, 1914)and married to Eugene Powell. Four Women Blues is the kind of anthology that would be assembled by a specialty label like Document or Story of the Blues, not a major label like RCA. And yet…
Continue Reading »Brown Liquor - Sweet Betty with Tom Mahon
Could not finf abio or photo on fine piano player Tom Mahon (b- January 27, 1957) Alex Shultz - Guitar John Marx - Guitar Marco Fiume - Guitar Rick Reed - Acoustic an electric bass Johnny Viau -Tenor…
Continue Reading »Good Morning Little School Girl - Smokey Hogg
Smokey Hogg (Guitar & Vocal) Hadda Brooks (Piano) Bill Davis (Bass) Al "Cake" Wichard (drums) Andrew 'Smokey' Hogg (January 27, 1914 - May 1, 1960) was an American post-war Texas and country blues musician. Hogg was born near…
Continue Reading »Blues Medley - Bobby Blue Bland, Johnny Taylor
Robert Calvin Bland (born January 27, 1930) better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion…
Continue Reading »Corrina - Clyde Maxwell
Clyde Maxwell (vocal and guitar) performs "Corrina" as his family and Belton Sutherland listen. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Maxwell's farm, near Canton, Mississippi, September 3, 1978 Write on our Facebook Wall or…
Continue Reading »Take A Little Walk with Me - The Aces
The Aces was one of the earliest and most influential of the electric Chicago blues band in the 1950s. Led by the guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers, natives of Byhalia, Mississippi, the brothers originally performed under the…
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