by Bman | Jul 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
I just received the newest release (July 8, 2016), A Night On The Sunset Strip, from Eric Gales, and it's really strong. Opening with Make It There, Gales and crew are FUNKY! Backed by Cesar Oviedo on bass who's emphasis is additive and percussive and Nicholas Hayes,...
by Bman | Jan 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just received the newest release, Individually Wrapped, from RC and the Moonpie Band and it's a lot of fun. Opening with F in Funk, Robert "RC" Christian (lead vocal), Robert Marlow (guitar), T Bone Betourney (drums), Mike Logiovino (bass) and Russell Pleasants...
by Bman | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sidney Selby is a true blues man. He also goes by 'Bone Crusher' and 'Guitar Crusher', names he earned throughout his career. Born in rural Hyde County N.C. in 1931 during the height of the Depression, he toiled in the cotton fields during his youth but set aside...
by Bman | Apr 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of the last links to the prewar African-American string band tradition, banjo player Odell Thompson was born on August 9, 1911, the son of John Arch Thompson, who was also a pretty fair banjo player. Thompson was raised in the northeastern part of Orange County in...
by Bman | Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Billy Bland (born 5 April 1932, Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American R&B singer and songwriter. Bland first sang professionally in the 1940s in New York, and sang with a group called The Four Bees in the 1950s on New Orleans's Imperial Records. He left the...
