Reviews
← All columns Sort by: Newest Title
My Time After A While - Debbie Davies
Davies rise to the upper echelon of blues music started at an early age as she absorbed the music heard constantly in her home. Her (professional) musician parents were either sitting at the piano or spinning discs on…
Continue Reading »It All Comes Back - Jack Starr
It is said that there is no substitute for experience and only those who have been playing guitar for as long as Jack Starr has can attest to that fact. "I am a living connection to the music…
Continue Reading »Rhythm Room Hosting 20th Anniversary Benefit for Paz de Cristo Outreach
BLUES FOR A GREAT CAUSE: For the twentieth consecutive year, Phoenix singer-songwriter Pete Thelen (pictured) hosts a benefit concert at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix for the Paz de Cristo Outreach Center. Thelen's Blues Dinosaurs perform along with…
Continue Reading »Tim Bastmeyer's Self-titled Sophomore Release Getting Great Airplay and Reviews
Tim Bastmeyer's Self-titled Sophomore Release Getting Great Airplay and Reviews "Canadian blues singer/song writer Tim Bastmeyer has put together a CD that is tightly structured musically, and rhythmically. The emphasis being on the song and the lyrics more…
Continue Reading »John Cephas on Playing Skip James
John Cephas was born in Washington D.C. in 1930 into a deeply religious family and raised in Bowling Green Virginia. His first taste of music was gospel, but blues soon became his calling. After learning to play the…
Continue Reading »Rippin' The Blues! - Michael Burks
Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Michael “Iron Man” Burks stands tall as a major contemporary blues figure. With a nickname earned by his hours-long, intensely physical performances, fearsome guitar attack, tough, smoky vocals and the thousands of miles logged behind the wheel…
Continue Reading »Five Long Years - Dog House Blues Band
The Dog House Blues Band has been serving it's potent gumbo of rump rockin' boogie, gut-bucket blues and earth shakin' rawk to the clubs and stages of Long Island for the past 10 years. It's members bring many…
Continue Reading »Im Ready / Little by Little - Dreamboogie
DREAMBOOGIE – formed early in 2010, and named after vintage American jazz/ blues writer Langston Hughes’ famed poem “Dream Boogie”. An act that is determined to create their own voice in Blues music, Dreamboogie brings together musicians Rebecca…
Continue Reading »Lemon Headed Girl - Franc Robert and the Boxcar Tourists
“It all started with hearing Clapton”. Certainly those words have been heard before from many musicians over the years, but it’s rare for one to grow far beyond the seed that germinated one afternoon in 1980. And for…
Continue Reading »Robert Johnson's Shoes - Tim Aves and Wolfpack
A powerful band, fronted by award-winning former Rockin' Armadillos frontman, writer and broadcaster TIM AVES, with erstwhile Armadillos bandmates,ROB BARRY (bass) and PAUL LESTER (drums) and the hottest young guitar talent on the British blues scene today, JOEL…
Continue Reading »