It’s 2013, nearly 43 years since the death of Jimi Hendrix the latest in a long and not-so-glorious line of posthumous releases has arrived. The mid to late 70’s was filled with abhorrent re-recordings of Jimi Hendrix’ studio outtakes like the out of print Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning, and the heavily edited studio jams [...]
Articles By: Jim Kanavy
Devon Allman – Turquoise CD Review
Devon Allman started Honeytribe in the late 90’s and put the band on hiatus to enjoy his son’s formative years in the early 2000’s. By 2005, he put the band back together and hasn’t looked back since. Honeytribe has released two studio albums and toured the world. But Allman didn’t stop there. In 2011 he [...]
Linsey Alexander – Been There Done That CD Review
Linsey Alexander has been a staple of the Chicago blues scene for many years, making his reputation with regular gigs at Kingston Mines, Blue Chicago, and B.L.U.E.S. Linsey Alexander was born on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Holly Springs, MI and moved to Memphis at the age of 12. He sold his first guitar to [...]
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King Get Close To The Bone With New CD
In an interview recently, Joe Kubek noted that their last label wasn’t interested in an all acoustic record from him and his partner in crime Bnois King. I’m sure artists have left labels for less but a more foolish reason to lose such a talented duo is difficult to conjure. Alligator Records’ loss is our [...]
Paul Mark & the Van Dorens – Smartest Man In The Room
Smartest Man In The Room on Radiation Records is the ninth release from Paul Mark & the Van Dorens. Paul Mark is the principal owner of Radiation Records Inc. and his publishing company Last Warning Music. He is a singer, songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire. Paul Mark grew up in Connecticut and has called Manhattan his [...]
Kay Kay Greenwade Passes After Long Illness
A press release from Mark Pucci Media and Cat Food Records announced the passing of Kay Kay Greenwade of Kay Kay & The Rays. The press release is as follows: ODESSA, TX – It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of blues singer Kay Kay Greenwade, who died on Monday, July 9, [...]
Richard Briggs And 15 Years Of The Briggs Farm Blues Festival
Briggs Farm is a 350 acre family-run farm nestled in the small, rural Pennsylvania town of Nescopeck and one weekend every July since 1998 it has been home to blues musicians and fans from around the world as they gather for the Briggs Farm Blues Festival. 2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the Briggs Farm [...]
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials “Jump Start” A Night Of Blues At 2nd Story Blues
2nd Story Blues, near Bethlehem, PA presents the best of the Houserockin’ Blues bands: Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials. The band’s untamed music and Ed’s flying leaps, back bending toe-walking through the audience and sliding across the stage on his knees gets even the most ardent wallflowers moving and feeling rowdy. Lil’ Ed Williams, [...]
Charlie Musselwhite
photo credit © Michael Weintrob 2010 67-year-old Musselwhite is considered by many to be a living legend and is a distinguished master of blues harmonica. He has been on stage and in the studio with an impressive array of performers from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Blind [...]
Cedric Burnside – Three Time BMA Winner Keeps The Hill Country Blues Alive
At last year’s Blast Furnace Blues Festival, Cedric Burnside brought the blues of the North Mississippi Hill Country to the mountains of Pennsylvania. Together with guitarist Trenton Ayers, the duo billed as Cedric Burnside Project, electrified the night from a stage erected in the shadows of the old Bethlehem Steel mill. I was fortunate to [...]
Mac Arnold’s Blues Revival – Live At The Grey Eagle CD Review
Mac Arnold is a veteran musician and the music is in his blood. Mac’s first band back in South Carolina featured a then unknown James Brown on piano. He spent much of the latter half of the 1960’s playing with many of the Chicago Blues legends, most notably Muddy Waters. In the 1970’s he was [...]
Mud Morganfield – Son Of The Seventh Son CD Review
Larry Williams, otherwise known as Mud Morganfield, makes his national label debut with Son Of The Seventh Son on Severn Records. Mud was given his first drum set at the age of seven by his legendary father McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters. Mud later took to playing bass and today uses the instrument for songwriting. [...]
Rocco DeLuca – Drugs ‘N Hymns CD Review
Rocco DeLuca was born in Southern California and is based in Los Angeles but he plays and sings like a man from the 1930’s Mississippi Delta. For the last few years he was leading a loose assemblage of a band called Rocco Deluca & The Burden, a band championed by Kiefer Sutherland and signed to [...]
D’Mar & Gill – Real Good Friend CD Review
D’Mar and Gill Real Friend CD Review Chris Gill and Derrick “D’Mar” Martin are just what the album cover implies – an acoustic guitar and drum duo. The pair recorded Real Good Friend live in the studio for D’Mar’s Airtight Blues label producing a brilliant debut album by these two veterans of the music industry [...]
David “Frankie” Toler – A Year of Tears And A Lifetime Of Music
Drummer David “Frankie” Toler passed away on Saturday, June 4, 2011 in Bradenton, FL. Frankie was in hospice care after prolonged illness and two liver transplants. He was 59. Blues fans may remember him from his tenure in the Allman Brothers Band from 1980 to 1982. Frankie Toler was raised in Connersville, Indiana and got [...]
