Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio
Elvin Bishop is a bluesman who easily slips into that “old school blues” category, a guy who has been peddling his musical wares for so long it’s hard to wake … Read more
Posted in August, 2018
Premiere: Canadian guitarist Colin James has Miles to Go
Acclaimed guitarist Colin James is heading back to the main roads of the blues, and he’s going first class, on Stony Plain/True North Records. After the success of his Blue Highways … Read more
Chad Elliott & The Redemptions
Iowa suggests such names as Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, and Pieta Brown among others but now singer-songwriter, artist and author, Chad Elliott can join their esteemed company with Rest Heavy. … Read more
Jason Eady
Emerging country singer-songwriter Jason Eady’s stature grows with each release. Eady has shown both a command of blues-infused Americana and classic country with contemporary touches. In his sixth album and … Read more
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
On their best behavior, Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis get some of that old-time religion via their sunny, buoyant gospel stroll down “On the Jericho Road.” Credited to the … Read more
Daphne Lee Martin
Daphne Lee Martin’s love life is an open book on Scared Fearless, the luxuriously furnished fifth album of dark, undulating folk and blues elegance from the Connecticut songstress. Laying bare her … Read more
Exclusive: Beat the heat, help kids
Photos by Laura Carbone To keep music alive, children must put away screens and pick up musical instruments. With the creative process of playing music comes self-esteem, focus and the … Read more
Jack Pearson
To twist a worn-out cliché, if you don’t know Jack Pearson, you don’t know jack—at least as far as consummate guitarists go. Google the YouTube video for Project Yosemite / … Read more
Bruce Katz Band
Keyboardist Bruce Katz defies pigeonholing. The New England Conservatory of Music graduate mixes blues and jazz with adventurous jam-band improvisation. In addition to a six-year stint with the Gregg Allman … Read more
Guadalcanal Diary
Oddballs in a fertile mid-1980s college-rock scene that prized cryptic eccentricity, the wildly original Guadalcanal Diary was largely ignored by the mainstream, unlike fellow Georgians R.E.M. Whatever the reasons why, … Read more
