Without even a hint of malevolence, a mysterious, well-dressed stranger from Denmark is about to darken America’s doorstep, carrying a guitar and an immaculately packed suitcase of stylish blues perfect … Read more
We’re capping off an exceptionally strong month of blues releases with one of best titled albums, Ice Cream in Hell, another proven winner from venerable guitar slinger and vocalist Tinsley … Read more
True Voices is an honest homage to those iconoclastic artists who have passed away, performed by artists who truly felt the impact of their songwriting. In some cases, the performers … Read more
Neal Francis. Who? You’ve probably not heard of him—yet. In a world filled with young “artists” who sound like they have emphysema, along comes a young man with a deep … Read more
The man and his music in rare photos and recordings This six-CD box set could just as easily be called a book set, for the 272 page coffee table book … Read more
Jethro Tull often gets lumped in with Prog Rockers somewhere between King Crimson and Renaissance, but Tull, at its best, had some hard-driving guitar that set it apart from many … Read more
Harmonicist’s Mark Hummel’s Wayback Machine, true to the title, is an album that could have just as easily come out in the early ‘60s as now. Hummel actually patterned the … Read more
The music of the Allman Brothers Band has been covered in many ways by musicians drawn to bluesy guitar and extended improvisation. The band’s penchant for jams that stretched into … Read more
Going under the hood, Marshall Crenshaw made a few small repairs to 1996’s Miracle of Science. The first of five well-regarded records the bespectacled power-pop wizard released for the Razor … Read more
Today it is rather common for blues and roots artists to have their own record label. Recently we’ve seen blues artists Samantha Fish, Mike Zito, Devon Allman and others go … Read more
