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05 Mar

Posted at 16:06h in

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05 Mar

Posted at 15:58h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1074" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Bill Perry ranks among the best of a new generation of blues performers.  He’s a stunning guitar master, or, as Guitar One put it, a “six-string superman more powerful...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:35h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1076" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Who would have thought the Man from the North was a highly sensitive soul ? This is the major revelation from the Norwegian bluesman’s 10th album. Throughout Fretwork, Bjørn Berge...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:31h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1077" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Swinging the beat, swinging from the heels and coming out from the corner swinging: Each meaning applies to the brilliant new record from the volcanic force of nature that...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:22h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1078" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Born two years ago of the reunion in North Carolina of three young African-American players (the oldest member of the trio just turned thirty), the Carolina Chocolate Drops are...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:15h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1079" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Duke Robillard : A guitar master’s constant commitment to roots music and blues. Here’s a quick quiz : What do Bob Dylan, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond,...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:01h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1695" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] 'This strange time had me thinking and putting everything into perspective. And I said to myself, enough of the superfluous, if this is my last album, I don't want...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:51h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1318" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Billy Price was the featured vocalist with the Roy Buchanan band for many years, winning over audiences everywhere with his soul-drenched blues tenor. A studio album recently chronicled his...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:42h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1083" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Decades after their inspired beginnings in the segregated Old South, between the world wars, and famous for propelling the religious music of African Americans into the musical mainstream, Elvis...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:20h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1085" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] A studio album from Ian Siegal is always a seismic event. Recent times have seen this award-winning British songwriter put untold miles on the clock, with the spit-and-grit of...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:14h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1086" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] They are back! The Imperial Crowns proudly introduce to you their fifth album and are ready to take Spain, Holland and France by storm, November 2016! Deemed "one of...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:09h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1321" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] The idea for this Modern INDIAN RESERVATION BLUES and more… was born after we started working with Pura Fé three years ago. The first two Dixiefrog folk-blues and protest...

05 Mar

Posted at 13:58h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1087" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] He falls in love with the harmonica in the sixties after listening to the records of various folk and rock artists (Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones). A trip to...

05 Mar

Posted at 13:38h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1088" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] The former lead guitarist with the Nighthawks is an undisputed master of the 6-strings. This live set, recorded in Detroit, showcases his distinctive style as his axe roars and...

05 Mar

Posted at 12:26h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1411" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Growing up on Long Island, Lee Rocker, the son of two internationally acclaimed musicians, and his pals, Brian Setzer and "Slim" Jim Phantom, did not want anything more than...

05 Mar

Posted at 12:19h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1091" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] In 2011, leaving the grounds of Jazz Fest in New Orleans, I first saw Leyla McCalla on Sauvage Street playing Bach Cello Suite #1 accompanied by two black children that...

05 Mar

Posted at 12:13h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1094" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] For the past three decades, the blues progressively lost their true symbolical meaning. As the white Gods of showbusiness promptly hi-jacked the blues, the black cry inherent in them...

05 Mar

Posted at 11:55h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1098" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Point Blank may not have enjoyed the same level of fame as Lynyrd Skynyrd or Molly Hatchet, but it’s always remained among the top ten celebrated groups of Southern...

05 Mar

Posted at 11:51h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="2458" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Popa Chubby stands before a sold-out crowd in Paris at l’Olympia. The theatre where Hendrix, Miles, The Beatles and so many greats played. He tells the audience: “Je T’aime...

05 Mar

Posted at 11:18h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1100" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] “With her voice soaring, foot stomping, this beautiful songbird transcends time and brings the message of our Ancestors who have sewn this beautiful seed, that makes powerful music”. Taj...