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Billy The Kid & The Regulators - I Can't Change - New release review
I just received the newest release, I Can't Change from Billy The Kid & The Regulators and it's quite good! Coming out of the gate with title track, I Can't Change, Billy and the Regulators hit the funky…
Continue Reading »Billy Thompson - BT - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, BT, from Billy Thompson and it's terrific! Opening with Burn It Down, Bernadette, Billy is smoking right out of the can with an extremely funky rocker. leading…
Continue Reading »Bing Futch - Unresolved Blues - New release review
I just received the newest release, Unresolved Blues, from Bing Futch and it's a freewheeling acoustic ride. In 2015, he became the first mountain dulcimer player in the history of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis to advance…
Continue Reading »Bird Song Records artist: Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18 - Soul Shaker - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release (October 15, 2021), Soul Shaker, from Robbin Kapsalis & Vintage #18, and I really like it. Opening with Jr Wells' Shake It Baby, Kapsalis gets into a…
Continue Reading »Bird's Nest - Charlie Parker Quartet
George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 – March 8, 1992) was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for turning down a chance to work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars. Callender was born…
Continue Reading »Birdland Records artist: The Birdland Big Band - Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller - New Release Review
I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller, by The Birdland Big Band and it's rich. Opening with title track, Storybook, an orchestral piece, Chris Smith holds a tight…
Continue Reading »Birmingham Bertha - Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians
Walter Barnes (July 8, 1905 in Vicksburg, Mississippi – April 23, 1940 in Natchez, Mississippi) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader. Barnes grew up in Chicago and studied under Franz Schoepp in addition to attending the…
Continue Reading »Bishopville (My Home Town) - Drink Small
Born January 28, 1933 in Bishopville (Lee County), SC, Drink Small (his real name is South Carolina's last great bluesman. A master of guitar, downhome piano, and basso profundo vocals, Drink Small is the No. 1 blues point…
Continue Reading »Bitch - Girls With Guitars
The name says it all. “Girls with Guitars” – the 2011 Ruf Records Blues Caravan Tour – presents three of the scene’s hottest young female guitar slingers on a single stage.Over the past six years, the Blues Caravan…
Continue Reading »Bite It - Screamin' Jay Hawkins + Juke
Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio — February 12, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances…
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