Blues - CD Reviews (387)
Pete Herzog's Steel Guitar, A Blues Opera, tells the story of one guitar as it passes through different hands over its lifetime. It's purchased, stolen, won in a card game, and handed down through generations. "I have often thought about vintage instruments I have played and wondered at their history…
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On That's What We Were Born For, veteran British singer Paul Cox teams with young French guitarist Charlie Fabert.
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Chicago guitarist, composer and producer Vince Agwada has worked the Chicago music scene for over 25 years. This heavily blues and rock oriented musician has worked with artists like Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Magic Slim, Otis Rush, Syl Johnson and Sammy Lawhorn, to list but a few. Of his many…
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One of the more delightful bands to come out of Sweden in the most recent past is The Soup. This quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums has a rockabilly type of backbeat that is incredibly infectious. With drummer Tom Steffensen's two-beat dance hall backbeats and Johan Bendrik's B3…
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A girl's gotta have a little pleasure is a fun album full of blues, ballads and even a little humor; all these delivered by the sensual, soulful and powerful voice of Donna Greene. Donna is in good company in this album with veterans musicians with experience in a diversity of…
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True Bliss is the appropriately titled jazzy/funky/bluesy CD by Wild ‘T’ & The Spirit. The band features ex-David Bowie guitarist Tony 'Wild T' Springer with Guen…
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Only in the spheres of the blues and pool could the names "magic" and "slim" go so well together. Born in Mississippi, Midwest-based Magic Slim is one of our day’s primo…
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Carmen McRae says, "Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat." Masterfully versatile and creative guitarist Jeff Golub has followed that opinion, c…
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The big band of Jason Hainsworth swings heavily with soloists that get off the ground and into orbit immediately. An solid example of this is "When I Fall In Love," a be…
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This album falls into the category of experimental blues. Although the Sam Marshall Trio's all acoustic approach puts it on another shelf so to speak, comparisons could …
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Ronnie Horvath didn’t start to play guitar until he was 20 years old. When he saw Muddy Waters play, the blues became his passion. It was Waters who changed his stage na…
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Slide To Freedom 2 (Make A Better World) is the follow-up to the first release by Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt. Bhatt is master of the Indian satvik veena, which is…
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The latest release by Zac Harmon is aptly titled From The Root. Harmon has a wide musical palette and he’s an avid explorer of the blues genre, ranging from the…
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Vocalist and guitarist Mary Flower was nominated for the Acoustic Artist Of The Year award at the 2008 Blues Music Awards and has finished in the top three twice at the …
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With Little Charlie Baty’s touring retirement from the band that bore his name for 30 years or so, the mantle has become front man Rick Estrin’s solely. Rick Estrin and …
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The late Irish blues-rock guitar great Rory Gallagher’s legendary technical acumen and vibrant performing persona is captured on this 1987 live date, recorded in his hom…
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Radam Schwartz has a reputation for making organ-based soul jazz with an aroma that is rooted in America’s South. Tinseled in smooth funk beats and dales of classic bop …
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Kansas native and current New York City-based guitarist and composer Greg Skaff has played with artists like Stanley Turrentine, in whose band he worked for five years, …
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Samuel James is a master of fingerstyle guitar, slide, banjo and piano and is immersed in the traditions of all the elder acoustic bluesmen, Everyone form Charlie Patton…
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For over two decades, Paul Reddick has been forging a unique identity in the blues world, blending pre WW2 acoustic blues with folk music. He takes it to a higher realm …
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