Harry Belafonte
It’s only right that every boomer and the generations hence feels like Harry Belafonte has always been inspiring them. In 90 glorious years he rose from poverty in Harlem, to … Read more
Album Reviews
Greg Wickham
By the sounds of these songs, you’d never know that Kansas City’s Greg Wickham had been out of the music business so long. If I Left This World is his … Read more
Jimmy Scott
An icon for half a century in the jazz world, Jimmy Scott was virtually unknown to the public at large until David Lynch created a role for him in the … Read more
Tommy Talton
When you write lyrics like “The hands on the clock seem to knock at your door with a message you’ve fallen from grace,” you get Duane Allman banging at your … Read more
Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi
This is a fond look back to the music of the Piedmont blues icons, harmonica ace Sonny Terry and acoustic guitarist Brownie McGhee. As Guy Davis says in the … Read more
Hite
Cabin fever played a role in the making of Light of a Strange Day, the immersive, richly textured debut album from Julia Easterlin’s new experimental folk project, Hite, that was birthed … Read more
Vanessa Collier
Vocalist/saxophonist/songwriter Vanessa Collier has burst onto the blues scene quickly. She is nominated for a Blues Music Award this year in the Instrumentalist –Horn category. This is only her second … Read more
Coco Montoya
Listening to Coco Montoya’s wailing, hard-edged guitar blaze away, you’d never guess that Montoya played primarily as a drummer for the late Albert Collins. Stimulated by an Albert King performance … Read more
Ruthie Foster
I recall seeing Ruthie Foster play, ten years ago or so, in front of 20-30 people on a makeshift stage outdoors at SXSW. Obviously, she’s pretty well known now. Three … Read more
Billy Flynn
At a time when ten songs and one half hour of music is often all an album offers, Billy Flynn weighs in with 17 songs and 70 minutes of music. … Read more
