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Dana Fuchs at Highline Ballroom in NYC
Dana Fuchs and her band rock the Highline Ballroom http://danafuchs.com/ What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! This week I am featuring some photos of Dana Fuchs, a singer that has gathered herself quite a following since arriving in New York some years back at the age of 19. When I went to the Highline Ballroom [...]
ZZ Top: A Tribute From Friends, CD Review
Rock Pays Tribute to ZZ Top (New York, NY) How one chooses what artists/bands are going to be featured on a tribute album honoring one of the industry’s greatest blues-rock acts is a mystery to us laypeople, but 2011’s ZZ TOP: A TRIBUTE FROM FRIENDS marks the second major-label tribute compilation to that “lil’ ol’ [...]
Omar & the Howlers – CD Review – Essential Collection
‘Omar’ Kent Dykes and his band The Howlers have been on my radar since the first time I heard them on the radio in Austin TX way back in the 80′s. After hearing his Texas ‘shouter’ vocal style and the bands powerhouse drive I had to hear more. It wasn’t hard to keep up with [...]
Tedeschi Trucks Band 2012 Grammy Nominees
Tedeschi Trucks 2012 Grammy Nominees After a wet cold morning, The Rock Strong 4 Life Benefit on Saturday turned out to be a perfect evening at Popa John’s Stadium. The sun came out just in time to warm up the 1000 plus audience and The Tedeschi Trucks Bandtook over from there to deliver a performance that may have [...]
Etta James’ The Dreamer, CD Review
Etta James’ Final Album (New York, NY) The world was recently saddened by the loss of a true music legend, Etta James. The singer’s last few years may have been marked with illness and controversial verbal outbursts, but her talent and artistry have insured that she will forever be remembered for her influential contributions to [...]
Kelly Richey Returns from Hiatus Releases New Albums
After a year long hiatus from touring in 2011, Kelly Richey marks 2012 with the release of two albums: “FINDING MY WAY BACK HOME” is a 12-track body of work that contains all original, solo acoustic material. Blending her roots in Blues, Folk, Rock and Americana, she sets down her Stratocaster, picks [...]
Tad Robinson at The Triad in New York
Tad Robinson at The Triad in NYC What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! For my post this week I have some photos of Severn Records recording artist Tad Robinson from his show at The Triad on Sept. 7, 2011. I had not heard of Tad before the show but I did get to catch a [...]
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 [...]
Christine Santelli’s Dragonfly, CD Review
Christine Santelli Flies Completely Solo (New York, NY) In the mid-1990s New Yorker Christine Santelli began touring the world as one of blues’/roots rock’s brightest new stars; sharing stages and concert bills with such respected veterans as Kim Wilson, Eric Burdon, Bonnie Raitt and Steve Cropper. Her ongoing career has been full of critical accolades, loyal [...]
Countdown Top 100 Blues Albums of 2011: Number 1 through 50
The Top 100 Blues Albums of 2011. According to the Roots Music Report, the following CDs are the top 50 CDs listened to in 2011. The RMR charts are compiled from radio airplay data only (# of spins
Oz Noy’s Twisted Blues Vol. 1, CD Review
Oz Noy Puts His Own Twist On The Blues. (New York, NY) Guitarist Oz Noy may be best known for his contributions to the jazz world, but his latest studio effort, the aptly titled TWISTED BLUES VOL. 1, finds the Israeli born virtuoso putting his progressive stamp on the world of blues. With this latest [...]
Quinn Sullivan- 12 year old Bluesman
Quinn Sullivan at the BB King Blues Club in New York City What’s up my fellow Blues lovers! Happy New Year! Hope your entry into the new year was a smooth and enjoyable one. 2011 was a heck of a year but I look forward to all sorts of good things in 2012. In January [...]
The Black Coffee Blues Band Continues an NYC New Year’s Tradition
Popa Chubby & Crew in Brooklyn (New York, NY) 2012 has arrived and those New York blues fans that woke up on Sunday morning (January 1st), perhaps a little worse for the wear and fortunately “in the know” got treated to a wonderful New Year’s Day tradition, Black Coffee Blues Band live at Pete’s Ale [...]
Need an Old Blues Movie?
Blues Music Movies If you love listening to the blues, then you’re sure to enjoy watching blues music movies. Not only have the blues inspired some great records over the years, but it’s also been the driving force behind a number of great movies too – here are just a few of them… Cadillac Records [...]
